Unboxing Thursdays: The Godfather & King's Life
Thu, Mar 09
|Voss Media
Unboxing Thursdays we open, learn and play games as we add them to our library.
Time & Location
Mar 09, 2023, 6:00 PM
Voss Media, 180 W Michigan Ave Suite D, Galesburg, MI 49053, USA
About the event
Unboxing Thursdays we open, learn and play games as we add them to our library.
This Thursday we are playing and learning The Godfather & King's Life.
The Godfather Corleone's Empire: 7.3
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. 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…