CONTENT
Number of Players: 1-4
Playing Time: 90 Minutes
Recommended Age: 13+
Mechanisms:
- Area Movement
- Co-operative Play
- Dice Rolling
- Point to Point Movement
- Role Playing
- Storytelling
- Variable Player Powers
DESCRIPTION
A STORYTELLING BOARD GAME SET IN THE 1970s COLD WAR ERA.
SMERSH is a portmanteau of two Russian words that translates to "Death to Spies." It operated as a counter-intelligence agency by the Red Army during the 1940s. Despite having had a large number of paid employees, little was known about the agency until recently when Russia opened their archives.
Agents of SMERSH is a cooperative Storytelling game that pits players as UN Secret Service Spies set in an alternate 1970s timeline against a newly formed and independent SMERSH. Agents of SMERSH includes custom dice to determine success or failure of encounters, and more strategic play from what is typically expected of a Storytelling board game. There are plenty of James Bond gadgets, guns, cars, pop references and detailed artwork - not to mention a touch of humor. The game features the artwork of George Patsouras (The Resistance & Flash Point).
The game is able to accommodate play with either The Encounter Book, which contains over 1500 written encounters with a similar reaction matrix to Tales of the Arabian Nights - or played more simply with only encounter cards with shorter encounters and no matrix.
Awards & Honors
-2013 Golden Geek Best Thematic Board Game Nominee
Sleeve Information:
3 Pack 65x90mm
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1 pack 45x70mm
