TEG (board game)

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TEG
Players	2–6
Age range	8+
Setup time	5–10 minutes
Playing time	1–8 (or more) hours (player dependent)
Random chance	medium
Skills required	Tactics, Strategy, and Negotiation

TEG is an Argentine Risk-based board wargame published in 1976. The name is an acronym of Plan Táctico y Estratégico de la Guerra, Spanish for Plan for War Tactics and Strategy (The P does not stand in the acronym, for a reason yet unknown).

Contents 1 Gameplay 1.1 Goal 1.1.1 Common Objective 1.1.2 Secret Objective 1.2 Board 2 Variants 3 Popular Culture 4 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Common Objective

The Common objective is to conquer 30 countries; this objective is the same for all players.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 60. These countries were randomly selected, and continents are slightly misshapen.

The 60 Countries sorted into their respective continents are the following:

North America Canada Yukon Alaska Greenland Oregon California Mexico New York Terranova Labrador	Europe Great Britain Iceland Spain France Germany Italy Poland Rusia Sweden	Asia Aral China India Tartary Japan Kamchatka Siberia Mongolia Gobi Malasia Turkey Israel
South America Argentina Brazil Peru Colombia Chile Uruguay	Africa Sahara Ethiopia Egypt Madagascar Zaire South Africa
		Australia Sumatra Borneo Java Australia

[edit] 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.

[edit] Popular Culture

The game appeared once in the film Kamchatka, although the film takes place in 1976 and their protagonists (Ricardo Darín 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 advertisment, 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).

[edit] External links

• (Spanish) TEGnet - freeware computer version of TEG.
• (Spanish) Planeta TEG - TEGnet online community.
• (Spanish) Rules for TEG
• Plan Táctico y Estratégico de la Guerra at BoardGameGeek