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Argentine strategy board game

Plan Táctico y Estratégico de la Guerra
Playing TEG
DesignersDavid Jiterman
IllustratorsMaría M. Aramburu
PublishersYetem S.A.
Players2–6
Setup time5–10 minutes
Playing time1–8 (or more) hours (player dependent)
Chancemedium
Age range8+
SkillsTactics, Strategy, and Negotiation

Plan Táctico y Estratégico de la Guerra (commonly referred to as TEG) is an Argentinian strategy board wargame published in 1976, based on the game Risk. The name is Spanish for Tactical and Strategical War Plan.

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 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 six continents which consist of a certain number of countries each; the total number of countries present in the game board is 50. These countries were randomly selected, and continents are slightly misrepresented.

The 50 Countries sorted into their respective continents are the following:

North America Europe Asia
South America Africa
Oceania

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 Darín and Cecilia Roth) are shown playing TEG, the game was still not released for public sale. Kamchatka is the Russian northeastern state which a character uses as his last resort to win the game, thus alluding to the family situation of hiding away from the government.

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).

References

  1. Thomas, Theresa Jo (24 May 2020). "Film and the Culture of Memory in Argentina" (Undergraduate Honors Theses). Undergraduate Honors Theses. San Diego: University of San Diego: 10–11. doi:10.22371/02.2020.007. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2021. The title of the film Kamchatka comes from the board game "Plan Táctico y Estratégico de la Guerra" (T.E.G) ("Tactical and Strategic War Plan")—an Argentine board game based on the board game "Risk". In T.E.G the players compete to conquer countries, and it teaches strategies of diplomacy and alliances. Kamchatka is a peninsula on the eastern edge of Russia, and is shown on the board game in a close up shot while Harry plays T.E.G with his father Thomas 9(1:23:24). T.E.G is a childhood game, yet the concepts of territorial control—including the Kamchatka peninsula—conquests, and conflict may serve as implicit references to the military'scontrol of Argentina during this time and to the many conflicts created by the dictatorship.
  2. Trinity. "Kamchatka". www.eyeforfilm.co.uk. Eye For Film. Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  3. "Mimito ad 1995". YouTube. 8 December 2019. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2023.

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