Historical Board Gaming is proud to present Meltdown 2025 - War in the 21st Century! A severe economic recession among oil producers and manufacturing nations has created instability and fueled ethnic tensions in Russia, China and the Middle East. In a bid to regain control of their economies, China and Russia are about to launch an invasion of unprecedented scale to gobble up markets and raw materials and cripple the West’s ability to intervene. To this end, Russia has been funneling money and weapons to extremist groups in the Middle East. There, a new group of radicals, fueled by foreign money now dominates the region, and parts of Africa. Against this plan for world dominance stands the USA, The European nations (EU and NATO states), and a coalition of Pacific and Indian allies. The dogs of war are about to be unleashed…. —description from the publisher