Description
Designer Eric Lang, known for his “dudes on a map” games, describes The
Godfather: Corleone’s Empire – a standalone big box board game with high-
quality miniatures – as “thugs on a map”. In short, the game is a streamlined,
confrontational worker placement game filled with murder and intrigue. In
long, you play as competing Mafia families who are vying for economic control
of the organized crime networks of New York City, deploying your thugs, your
Don, your wife, and your heir on the board to shake down businesses and engage
in area-control turf wars. Money, rackets, contracts, and special advantages
(such as the union boss) are represented by cards in your hand, and your hand
size is limited, with you choosing which extra cards to pay tribute to the Don
at the end of each of the five rounds. At the end of the game, though, cash is
all that matters, and whoever has the most money wins. The game also features
drive-by shootings in which enemy tokens are removed from the board and placed
face-down in the river. The Don of that family member must play cards to fish
their guys out of the river and return them to duty on the New York
battlefield
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