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. The game will be able to accommodate play with either The Encounter Book that 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. 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).

Microbadges:

- Agents of SMERSH fan - Dr. Lobo
- Agents of SMERSH fan - Logo

COMPONENTS (Including the Kickstarter exclusives)

• Field Manual (16 pages, staple-bound)
• Book of Encounters with over 1600 Encounters (viii+284 pages; 8.5x11 spiral-bound)

(Book may add 30 minutes play time)

• Book of Encounters is now optional to play the game
• Errata and additional components page (single loose leaf, two-sided)
• 5 Henchmen Mats (Pierre, Mr. Big, Fedor Maximov, Darling, Shadow) (5" square)
• 8 Character Mats (Rocko Jurgen, Nika Shizuka, Dexter Kane, Dante Wright, Calli Dagger, Zyler, Dust Flanders, Dread Tod)
• 9 Character punchout tokens in 8 standees (2 female, 6 male, 1 blank)
• 112 assorted tokens
• Group Reaction / Ocean Encounters sheet
• 1 Villain Mat (Dr. Lobo) (10" square)
• Mounted Game Board depicting a world map (approx. 25.5" × 17.5")
• Dice Bag (velvet, draw string)
• 7 Custom six-sided dice
• 1 D6
• 48 white cubes, 4 black cubes, 1 large pawn
• 1 Poker chip
• Over 300 Cards:
  • 22 Top Secret cards (mini-Euro size)
  • 4 Rules Summary cards (63.5×88 mm playing card size)
  • 44 Fate cards (id.)
  • 49 Status cards (id.)
  • 35 Villain cards (id.)
  • 8 Ocean Encounters cards (id.)
  • 30 Africa Encounters cards (id.)
  • 30 Asia Encounters cards (id.)
  • 30 Europe Encounters cards (id.)
  • 30 North America Encounters cards (id.)
  • 30 South America Encounters cards (id.)

• KICKSTARTER* STRETCH REWARDS REACHED
  • TRAVEL DIE - CUSTOM DIE USED TO DETERMINE MOVEMENT POINTS
  • 40K REACHED - TWO MORE CHARACTER CARDS WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS!
  • 5TH HENCHMAN - NEW HENCHMAN CARD REWARD
  • MORE ENCOUNTERS - 100 MORE ENCOUNTERS FOR THE ENCOUNTER BOOK (ALL EDITIONS)
  • POKER CHIP - CUSTOM PRINTED, PROFESSIONAL CLAY POKER CHIP AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE IN THE GAME
  • ENGRAVED DICE - 6 CUSTOM, ENGRAVED 6-SIDED DICE (ALL EDITIONS)