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La Cosa Nostra

Earn money, invest, make deals ...

You control a gang of gangsters and a few companies. In the course of the game you recruit new gangsters and invest in new businesses or monopolies. Bribing is part of the game, as is drug dealing and prostitution and cooperation with other mafia families, albeit with some reservations. You use cards either for earning money or to attack other players.

In a round you first draw order cards and influence cards. In the planning phase all players in turn always give an order to one of their gangsters, until all are busy – they can either take business card from the market for a buying order or begin an order and put an order card from the hand face-down on the gangster. This is followed by the action phase – in turn you activate any gangster of your choice and his action – a buying order is paid for and put into your personal display, an order is revealed and met or set down again face-down.

On payday all receive their income from business card and monopolies, can buy a gangster and discard cards in excess.

At the end of round four double income is paid out; the player with most active gangsters receives 15.000 bonus, laundered money is doubled and you are paid violence bonuses for eliminated gangsters, depending on their numbers. Then the player with most money wins.

Sounds a bit dry, but is a „juicy“, nasty, evil game with en enormous amount of interaction and thematically suitable actions, cooperation is replaced by conflict and be on your guard, in Mafia circles plans can always go wrong, so planning is good, but flexible tactics and quick adaptation is better! The game has to be seen to be believed, it is that good!

Players: 3-5

Age: 16+

Time: 90+

Designer: Johannes Sich

Artist: Johannes Sich, Daniel Goll

Price: ca. 35 Euro

Publisher: Hard Boiled Games 2014

Web: www.lacosanostra-kartenspiel.de

Genre: Cards, Mafia

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de nl pl

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Fantastic game, nasty, evil, interactive

Age limit appropriate

Lots of fun and high replay value

Compares to:

Card games with Mafia topic

Other editions:

Quined (en), Baldar (pl)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0