Politburó, Lucha de Poder Board Game | BoardGames.com | Your source for everything to do with Board Games

Description

"Politburo, Lucha de Poder" (Politburo, Power Struggle) is an ironic card game about the struggle happened after the Russian Revolution of 1917, to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party and guide the URRS into a new era.

Players try to guide their three candidates in a dangerous ascension against the Politburo charges, with the aim of become the General Secretary of the Communist Party. The players have to play diferent kind of cards to increase their candidates loyality and health and to decrease their opponents ones.

Players can enjoy role playing their candidate's actions (that results from the cards played), ruining the plans of the other candidates and for example calling them names like "antisovietic" or "traitor" at the same time that you use difamation cards to reduce your opponents loyality and maybe to send them into a Siberian Gulag. You can also use agresion cards to reduce their life points until you kill them.

Everithing is allowed to become the General Secretary of the Party.