LEADERS: The Combined Strategy Game (2013)

About this game

LEADERS: A Combined Game, the first title from rudy games GmbH, combines classic game elements with the opportunities offered by the modern technologies found in smart devices. This strategy game takes up to six players back to the Cold War era, with each player striving to attain world domination. In the game, you'll use skillful diplomacy to forge powerful alliances, research ground-breaking technologies to give yourself the decisive edge, dispatch secret agents to procure classified information about your opponents, participate in missions on behalf of the international community, and demonstrate your military power and conquer new areas. Thanks to the incorporation of a smart device in this design, LEADERS: A Combined Game enables a complex economy, involved research threads, and clandestine interactions with other players such as espionage or sabotage. ATTENTION: The "LEADERS" video game/app is required for playing!

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 6.
• Rules load. At 2.7/5 this is a mid-weight game — expect a proper rules explanation before you start.
• Age. The publisher suggests 13 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.