Simon Hunt
United States
Roseville
California
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I recently acquired a copy of this game - my version is the German release under the title "Agent". I was a little apprehensive about playing this after reading the earlier user reviews, but thought I would give it a go anyway. I finally convinced my wife to sit down and play with me - we played a 2-player game. My wife and I are fairly competitive, and love games where we think we can outwit each other. As it turns out, we had a really good game that lasted around 45 minutes.
Since our home bases were on opposite sides of the board, I started fairly early on putting approx 1500 on one of the agents in her homebase (kind of 'attack from within' strategy) and also a similar amount on an agent in each of the "side" HQs. I tended to try and confuse the situation by moving agents with and without my funding.
I was the first to get an agent (funded) to the file, but then Kris immediately left the city with both agent and file, in the direction of her home city. This was where the first challenge came in, and she folded at just 300, so the move was recinded. At this point I realised that if I had more money invested in this agent I should push the advantage, so moved him from the center towards my own home base, knowing that Kris could not challenge the move. Predictably, she used her next turn to increase her bribe of that agent.
During this middle-game portion, I spent a couple of turns beefing up the payroll of two of the agents I had as yet not bribed. Guessing that Kris had spent a big chunk of her money on the agent with the briefcase, I let her move the agent back towards her home city unchallenged. I used a couple of turns to feint preparation for an attack with an agent I had little financial interest in. It made Kris stop and think - and then increase bribes.
After a little more posturing, the killing started. Once I realised that Kris had way more money on the agent with the briefcase than I was willing to spend, I sent in my assassin and killed that agent, much to my wife's disgust. That's when the killing started in earnest, and within a few turns we had rubbed out half the agents (all the women, if I remember).
In the end, we were down to 3 agents, and Kris won, having a larger controlling interest in the spy that finally made it to her home city.
On examination of the bankbooks after the game was over, it turned out that Kris had committed very little money to the first few agents that were assassinated, whereas I had spent (and thus lost) approximately 5000 on them - half my total budget.
We thoroughly enjoyed the game, and will be playing it again soon. We are also looking forward to introducing it to some of our game playing friends so that we can try the 3 and 4 player games.
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Steve Wagner
United States
Kenesaw
Nebraska
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Re:Session Report
simonh (#58574),
Did the 2 player seem to work good for you? I didn't really think it could work with 2 players, but I'll have to try it sometime.
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