A completely independent title, Vienna Connection, adds a new quality to the Detective line. This is a cooperative spy board game and experience that lets you and your friends take on the role of spies conducting covert operations during the historical era of the Cold War! Vienna Connection features four unique missions that take place across Europe, including Vienna, Prague and Berlin!
In this story-driven game for 1-5 players, you command a team of Cold War CIA operatives as they conduct secret missions in various European cities. It's January 1977. CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia gets wind of Soviet activity in Austria and has no choice but to intervene. The CIA decides to send members of their Special Activities Division (SAD). The game has started.
Vienna Connection is a campaign game that consists of 4 missions. It shines when played as a complete experience. Individual gaming sessions are less interesting if you don't know or experience the whole story.
The game is highly language dependent. You read a lot of maps, reports and files. It's a full-fledged storytelling experience. The box comes with 100 pages of various files and documents!
If you are looking for a spy game and would like to outsmart Soviet agents, Vienna Connection is the game for you.
The Games Friends: " Vienna Connection is so well put together. The story is compelling and strongly written. At the end of each mission you have to indicate what you want to happen next. That is a nice aspect, but it does ensure that It is sometimes difficult to estimate exactly how well you have done. Yet that is the only point we can think of, because this is once again a winner in the Detective series.