When placing pawns on the player board, each of the five Villains has their own areas of expertise and advantage. Controlling each of the areas grants a bonus at the end of each round and opens the doors to completing Secret Plans. The heart of the game’s decision space revolves around this map. When placing pawns on the map, players also place an Agent cube and receive a bonus of some sort, either resources, extra agents, or potential movement up the SPECTRE Track. Each player board also contains anywhere from two to five possible spaces. Each of the map’s seven regions contains a space.
In each round, players have two turns, first to place their Villain pawn, then their Henchman pawn. The progression of play in SPECTRE is anything but rhythmic as several mechanics blend to move the story. Players take the role of a specific villain, complete with unique abilities and four character-specific Schemes for world domination on individual Player Boards. Atop the map, the SPECTRE Track is a constant reminder of the competition at hand as players race their token along. The dominant feature of the SPECTRE board is a world map broken into seven regions. As part of a singular evil entity, they must occasionally work together and avoid 007, who is always in the way, but when the last chip falls, there can be only one victor. SPECTRE puts players in the role of iconic villains from the James Bond franchise as they compete to become Number One in the notorious organization. Modiphius Entertainment ( Thunderbirds, Agatha Christie: Death on the Cards) has teamed up with Kaedama, the design team that includes Antoine Bauza, Corentin Lebrat, Ludovic Maublanc, and Théo Rivière ( Draftosaurus) to unleash the Bond baddies. I cannot imagine the depth of struggle and cost involved in obtaining permissions for the characters and film imagery surrounding SPECTRE: The Board Game. The fifty years in between are more legally tenuous, though Roger Moore had a direct run-in as well. SPECTRE was certainly the thorn in Sean Connery’s side, and eventually became the thorn in Daniel Craig’s rebooted side. The Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, Extortion (SPECTRE) is the perennial thorn in 007’s side-so long as the rights to the criminal organization aren’t enmeshed in intellectual property disputes, that is.
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