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2018 Ranked #15,661

Agents: Sword And Shield

A Cold War area-control game has intelligence agencies spread influence across regions to dominate more territory than rivals. Players seed agents into opponents’ bags and pursue hidden agendas, making each apparent move difficult to interpret.

Political Spies/Secret Agents Area Majority / Influence Deck, Bag, and Pool Building

Players

2-4

Play time

15-60 min

Age

12+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

7.02

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

This is a game about CIA, KGB, MI-6 and Mossad agents who are trying to extend their influence to the world in the conditions of the Cold War.

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This is a game about CIA, KGB, MI-6 and Mossad agents who are trying to extend their influence to the world in the conditions of the Cold War. Main mechanics: Counter bag-building - you put your agents tokens in to opponent's bags instead of your own and by so determine their future actions. Hidden goal (agenda) - each player has a hidden agenda completion of which will advance him in reaching ultimate victory unnoticed. Area control - the main goal is to dominate in more regions then opponents. You need to spread your agents into different regions to accomplish this.

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
3–4
Play time
15–60 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.0/5
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Credits

Designers

2
Yan Yegorov Nikolay Zolotarev

Publishers

1
Zvezda

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