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TEG (board game)
TEG is an Argentine Risk-based board wargame published in 1976. The name is an acronym of Plan Tactico y Estrategico de la Guerra, Spanish for Plan for War Tactics and Strategy; the P does not stand in the acronym, for a reason yet unknown, most likely because TEG is easier to pronounce.
Gameplay
TEG follows a gameplay quite similar to the strategy board game Risk, since it also features a board divided in many different regions and sub-regions along with the implementation of dice to decide battle results.
Goal
The goal of the game is to be the first player to fulfill the requisites of an objective, without mattering whether it is the common objective or the secret objective.
Common Objective
The Common objective is to conquer 30 countries; this objective is the same for all players.
Secret Objective
Apart from the common objective, players have got a secret objective; unlike the common objective, the secret objective is:
Hidden to other players
Unique, it varies per player
Board
The board is divided into 6 continents which consist of a certain amount of countries each; the total number of countries present in the game board is 50. These countries were randomly selected, and continents are slightly misshapen.
The 50 Countries sorted into their respective continents are the following:
Variants
TEG 2 an advanced version of TEG with different types of armies.
TEG: La Revancha an advanced version of TEG with same core rules, but far more countries and the addition of missiles.
Popular Culture
The game appeared once in the film Kamchatka, although the film takes place in 1976 and their protagonists (Ricardo Darin and Cecilia Roth) are shown playing TEG, the game was still not released for public sale.
It has been also referenced in a diapers TV advertisement, in which -among other criteria- the mother and the father play TEG in order to decide who cleans the baby ("China ataca Kamchatka" [China attacks Kamchatka] the woman says).
External links
Tegnerd - TEGnet online community.
TEGnet - freeware computer version of TEG.
Planeta TEG - TEGnet online community.
Rules for TEG
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