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Ooh for asymmetrical stuff, the first thing that always comes to mind is, Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation, dunno if you've heard of that. It's an outrageously well-designed 2 player game, somewhat like stratego, but a million times better than stratego because it's more interesting and somehow much faster than stratego.

Anyway, one player is sauron's side, one player is the fellowship, and both sides have completely different win conditions--fellowship just needs to do whatever it takes to sneak Frodo into the Mordor space (way in the back of the opponent's side), and the other player needs to either kill Frodo OR get 3 pieces into the Shire (way in the back of the fellowship's side).

And not only that, but both sides have completely different pieces too, and every piece in the game has a unique ability as well. The fellowship's pieces are good at retreating from bad situations, or sacrificing themselves for benefits. The sauron pieces are ridiculously strong, but the objective is harder.

(Unrelatedly, it has what I like to cite as one of the greatest rules in a board game ever: you can only move pieces forward, not sideways or back! You literally can't turtle.)
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