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Famiglia

Accountants, Brutes or Hired guns?

Topic of the game are Mafia bosses who want to hire better henchmen than their opponents to have the better gang at the end of the game. There are members of four different families for hire: The Accountants (for swapping cards from your hands with already used ones), the Brutes (lower the value of cards in the street display), The Hired Guns (work as a joker for any other card) and La Famiglia (valuable at the end of the game, no other special function). Both players start with 4 gangsters of value 0 in Hand, 6 cards from the drawpile are laid out to form the street display.

In your move you can change the street display to make it contain a =, then you can play an accountant to swap cards and following this you can play a Brute to make lower the value of a card from the display and then you can recruit, that is take cards up from the display. Gangsters of value 0 one just picks up, for all other gangsters you need two identical gangsters to pick up the one of next higher level within the same family. One of the two gangsters used goes back in hand, the other into your personal display. When the draw pile is empty for the first time, the discard pile is shuffled and the rules for changing the street display change. When all cards are in play, you win with the highest total from cards in hand and cards in your display.

La Famiglia – either you belong or not. Famiglia – you will love it or not – some believe they are being played, others discover unexpected tactical depths. In any case a game for experienced players and a good game for two, with cute illustrations and many funny innuendos for aficionados.

Players         : 2

Age             : 10+

Duration       : 30+

Designer      : Friedemann Friese

Artist           : Fréderic Bertrand, Maura Kaluska

Price            : ca. 10 Euro

Publisher      : 2F-Spiele 2010

Web             : www.2f-spiele.de

Genre          : Card collecting game

Users           : With friends

Special         : 2 Players

Version        : de

Rules           : de en fr jp nl

In-game text : no

Comments    : Very attractive design and packaging with lots of innuendos on the gangster topic * compact rules * lots of tactical options

Compares to : basically all set collection games, new for this combination of mechanisms

Other editions: at Rio Grande, Arclight, Edge Entertainment, Rocks Games, Lacerta

Chance                1

Tactic                   2

Strategy__          2

Creativity            0

Knowledge          0

Memory               0

Communication   0

Interaction          3

Dexterity             0

Action                  0