Presentation
City of Spies: Double Agent
Agents in harbor and hotel
Your goal in this game is the best spy network – all players start with an identical set of six spies and send them to various locations to recruit spies with more experience. You put a character tile with a marker on the location board; when all markers are placed, you resolve the location boards in numerical order and in relation to character abilities and special rules for a given location; the most powerful player wins the reward tile. If you then have more than six characters, you reduce your hand to six. After four rounds, you add points accrued from character tiles in hand, completed mission tiles and number of set-down tiles.
The expansion Double Agent offers new options: First of all, there are components for a fifth player; in such a game with five players you lay out eight locations in a 4x2 grid and also five mission boards, each player takes three markers. Hotel Avenida Palace and Alcantara Harbor are introduced as two new location with special rules. Seven new characters, two of them with a new nationality, command the new ability Double Agent. If you activate this ability, you place the marker of this character with a character carrying the marker of an opponent, take over this character and now control both characters; a controlled character cannot use his own Double Agent ability. Agents with a white marker cannot be taken over, they are protected. Two new mission cards demand most Double Agent symbols or the fewest discarded character card.
A nice expansion, well-made and well-working, a sophisticated addition to the base game of City of Spies / Stadt der Spione.
Players: 2-5
Age: 10+
Time: 60+
Designer: Gil d’Orey, Antonio Sousa Lara
Artist: Mihajlo Dimitrjevskj
Price: ca. 35 Euro
Publisher: Stronghold Games 2017
Genre: Agents, placement
Users: With friends
Version: en
Rules: de en es pt pl
In-game text: no
Comments:
Needs City of Spies / Stadt der Spione to play
Double Agent is a sophisticated mechanism
Coproduction with MESAboardgames
Compares to:
City of Spies
Other editions:
MESAboardgames (de es pt), Rebel (pl)
Chance (pink): 0
Tactic (turquoise): 3
Strategy (blue): 1
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 3
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0