The Golden Age of the KGB
This deck building and worker placement game simulates the Soviet foreign intelligence service’s effort to place spies at the highest levels of the British intelligence establishment. The game starts in the 1930s and covers the decades that follow, a period of time in which the KGB managed to infiltrate most of the powerful institutions of Great Britain. This is a video game about the Cambridge Five and the Profumo Affair. You win this game by steadily increasing the level of information that your agents can access and share with you. You must be careful, however. The arrest of a highly placed spy could ruin your entire operation. To be successful, you must keep your agents hidden within the corridors of power, quietly harvesting British secrets. Good luck!
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Interesting! Restarted a couple times as I established my strategy of installing spies in victory point areas, and exfiltrating spies from any areas without them, to avoid having to spend too much time shoring up stealth points.. ended in a Major victory without doing much else.. The idea of embedding spies sounds exciting, but I don't really think I got the vibe of what was at stake.. Perhaps this is because I didn't take advantage of the cards that scored VP points.. I'll give it another shot sometime..
Thanks for playing!
I was really trying to make deck building front and center in this game. If you start aggressively modifying the deck by adding and removing cards, you can start to score 30+ points. If you can get the High Level Mole card to pop up every other turn, you start to score lots of points. You can also get more points for your agents in VP boxes by adding cards to your deck that increase the VP value of the boxes themselves. To get there, you do have to solve some defensive issues first.
Anyway, you ask a great question: what is at stake? Apparently, not much. All these high level moles within the British government do not seem to have provided Moscow with much of value over the years. The UK remained a stalwart member of NATO. The Cambridge Five are, however, a continuing source of inspiration for BBC period costume dramas. The more spies you plant, the more prestige drama you get!