The Brotherhood
(1972)
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 10 and up. You can play with 2 to 5 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Area Majority / Influence, Dice Rolling, Negotiation, Paper-and-Pencil, Player Elimination, Secret Unit Deployment und Simultaneous Action Selection...
Game Data
| Average time to play: | 180 |
| Minimum age: | 10 |
| Number of players: | 2 - 5 |
| Publisher: | Conflict Games, Game Designers' Workshop (GDW Games) |
| Designers: | Frank Chadwick, John Harshman, John Hill (I) |
| Artists: | Roy Guzzio, David Martin (II), Chris Purcell |
| Mechanics: | Area Majority / Influence, Dice Rolling, Negotiation, Paper-and-Pencil, Player Elimination, Secret Unit Deployment, Simultaneous Action Selection |
Originally published by Conflict in 1972, then re-published by GDW in 1983.
You are a Godfather of a criminal family struggling to control the city's rackets, winning by amassing the greatest amount of wealth in a year's time. Hire thugs and hit men, control rackets in neighborhoods and bribe judges and politicians to get opposing thugs arrested or their rackets shut down. Placements are done simultaneously by having players write down their purchases. When the shooting starts, it is resolved by the ever-reliable die roll. Random Grand Jury Investigations are always there to upset any plan. Includes negotiation and features nice strategy dilemmas between diversification and concentration and how much one wants to try for the more lucrative but more targeted areas.
Alternative names:
The Brotherhood
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