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Breaking Bad

Drug gangs vs DEA

Crystal Meth = Blue Sky production in Albuquerque’s underworld, based on the TV show – you are either a criminal or a DEA agent, always with special abilities for your individual character. There are four faction to choose from – three drug gangs (Heisenberg, Los Pollos Hermanos and Juarez-Kartell) and the Drug Enforcement Agency. In a game, there must be minimum three factions, in case of six to eight players, both DEA agents must be in play. You start with life points, cards in hand and a starting amount of Blue Sky.

As a criminal you produce and sell Blue Sky or eliminate your opponents; as agent you raid/take over the illegal laboratories or eliminate/arrest criminals. You have two actions or three per turn, you can do the same one more than once; options are draw or play a card or use special ability. In addition, criminals can also start up a lab, remove a chemist or produce or sell Blue Sky. Cards have varied effects and symbols from threat level to law breaking, from razzia to skirmish or DEA patrol. If you lose your last life marker, you are out of the game and your crystals go to whoever eliminated you; if a team is out of play, its laboratory card does not count towards the winning conditions for the DEA agents.

A game strictly for adults only, and of most interest to fans of the series who not expect too much from the game as regards to mechanics; you play cards as well as you can and have them; you need a bit of luck in drawing them and can communicate with your team about everything but showing cards or giving info on cards and you are not shy about using violence. Exactly! Gangster series flair!

Players: 3-8

Age: 18+

Time: 120+

Designer: Thomas Rofidal, Antoine Morfan

Artist: David Ardila, Louis E. Sanchez

Price: ca. 45 Euro

Publisher: Edge Entertainment / Asmodee 2018

Web: www.asmodee.com

Genre: Faction winning via money or elimination

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de en es fr it pt

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Problematic topic

For adults only

Based on the TV series

Card driven

Compares to:

Games with faction elimination or winning first

Other editions:

Edge Entertainment (en es fr), Galapagos Jogos (pt), Pendragon Game Studio (it)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0