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This is like the euroized successor to Twilight Struggle. It extracted some of the key parts that made Twilight so great---in particular the brinksmanship and tense uncertainty. It traded these elements for a game that really focuses on card, tile, and board combos. Imperial Struggle wants you to chain together bonuses and combos in the most efficient way possible, and the possibility space for that in Imperial Struggle is quite large. I can't say for sure yet after five plays or so, but in the process, I'm afraid Imperial took some of the above the board play of Twilight and replaced it with a drier efficiency puzzle. The quality of the efficiency puzzle is yet to be determined.