We Are All Mortal - The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 AD

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 seems almost like “ancient history” now, as we approach it being 60 years after the event. Yet, it marks one of the two or three times the world literally stood on the brink of total annihilation. But the dramatic side of our nature always focuses on the ultimately bad outcome – nuclear devastation on a global scale. When things got hot in Cuba, professional military planners on both sides were preparing for a very different kind of war – an “old fashioned” kind with conventional air, land, and naval units struggling for local supremacy. What if that had happened?

We Are All Mortal gives players a chance to work on both aspects of the confrontation. Full-sized playing cards are used to simulate the diplomatic, intelligence, and pre-invasion deployments of combat forces, and determination of random events once war breaks out.