Spies! (1981)

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Designer	Lenny Glynn John Prados
Artist	Redmond A. Simonsen
Publisher	Hobby Japan SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.) TSR
Year Published	1981
# of Players	2 − 5
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 5 players Recommended with 5 players (2 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	180 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
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Language Dependence	(no votes yet) (0 voters) [poll]
Honors	1981 Charles S. Roberts Best Twentieth Century Game Nominee
Subdomain	(4 voters) [vote]
Category	Negotiation Spies/Secret Agents World War II
Mechanic	Action Point Allowance System Pick-up and Deliver Point to Point Movement
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Spies is a game of espionage and intrigue for up to five players, set in the turbulent European era of 1933-1939. You control the secret service of one of the major powers of that era - Germany, Italy, Russia, France, and Britain - in the constant struggle to gather your opponents secrets and return them safely to your own capital while protecting your own country's secrets.

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0	Rules Events - is there any point?	2012-04-15	fellonmyhead	7
0	Strategy Playing as France	2012-02-23	Baldie	2
0	Rules Extra spy for set-up?	2012-02-19	Rompcat	1
4	General Sid Sackson Connection	2012-02-06	loopoocat	1
0	News BBC: What is it like to keep top state secrets?	2011-09-05	AnalogGamer	0
1	Variants A more random variant	2011-06-06	nyhotep	0
0	Rules Source cost	2011-06-06	nyhotep	1
2	Rules Question on the Rules	2011-06-04	WLMIV	1
0	Variants Helping Russia.	2011-03-14	Mantuanwar	0
2	General Prequel game to WW II	2011-03-14	Mantuanwar	0

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New 2011 version of my variant rules

Added new restrictions when playing with more than one country. Added several new optional rules.

Mantuanwar

2011-03-20

Complete Rules

This file is the complete rules set—basic game and long game—from the 1981 SPI edition.

hojo97

2011-03-04

Spies listing by cities

This is a summary of the event tile awards, including years available, totals by city, and average results. This sucker took quite a while to complete. This should give the casual Spies! player a good idea of where to place your spies for the maximum return.

soltan gris

2009-02-17

Spies 2.2.doc

Variant Rules for "Long Game"

Mantuanwar

2005-01-18

Spies 2.1.doc

Variant rules for Spies.

Mantuanwar

2005-01-18

LongDisplay

Long Game Display

Koldsteel

2005-01-14

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Summary of Errata/Recommendations from Moves #58

http://grognard.com/errata1/spies.txt

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