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Year Published
2003
# of Players:
2 − 5
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 5 players
Recommended with 3, 4, 5 players
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Playing Time
90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
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Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Ideology: The War of Ideas
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From Pyramid's Industry News, October 10, 2003:

Ideology is a 2-5 player game where each player symbolizes one of the 20th Century's most powerful Ideologies -- Capitalism, Islamic Fundamentalism, Imperialism, Communism, or Fascism. Starting with one global region completely under its sway, each Ideology attempts to influence and control the independent regions of the earth.

Each Ideology will use economic, cultural, and military influence to bring countries under control. If a player has influence in a country in which you have influence, you can both engage in economic, cultural, and military conflict (depending on your diplomatic stance toward each other) to knock out your opponent's influence. You can also purchase Advancements like Propaganda, Tactics, etc. to make it harder for an opponent to conflict you or to make it easier for you to influence a country.

The goal is to posses a Global Influence of 12 or more.

Components:
12" × 24" color world paper map (used as reference mostly)
5 Ideology cards
43 Region cards
225 Influence cards
85 Advancement cards
125+ counters

More Information Edit | History

Second edition now available (Z-Man Games)

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8 Ideology 2e Player Aid
Second Edition Player Aid. Phase Summary from the 2e Rulebook on one page with some added highlights.
2009-05-21
2 Tuckboxes for 1st Edition
This file is a collection of three tuckboxes, for the region cards, the advancement cards, and the influence cards. I created one box for all the influence cards so they could fit back into the insert. These boxes were created using cpforbes' tuckbox generator (located at http://www.cpforbes.net/tuckbox/tuckbox.cgi) and the images located here at the Geek.
2008-10-31
2 Ideology_Manifest.zip
Detailed manifest of the components (.ods & .pdf)
2006-03-18
2 Ideology_Rules_Recap.doc
Rules put into an outline format for easier reading
2006-01-23
1 Ideology_Markers.jpg
Replacement Markers (print 200dpi)
2006-01-14
0 Ideology specs.xls
Ideology Traits Summary - ITALIAN translation
2005-10-06
2 ideologypa.JPG
Diplomacy table and turn order track on smaller sheet. Basically the fold-out map without the (mostly unnecessary) map.
2005-06-03
0 Carte_Ideology.doc
Traduzione in Italiano delle carte Advancement.
2005-05-16
0 Ideologie.doc
Traduzione in italiano schede delle Ideologie
2005-05-16
3 Ideology.RTF
Turn Summary/Player Aid
2005-04-05
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