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The Godfather: Corleone’s Empire


60m - 90m

2 - 5 Players

Ages 14+
This mechanic requires you to place a bid, usually monetary, on items in an auction of goods in order to enhance your position in the game. These goods allow players future actions or improve a position. The auction consists of taking turns placing bids on a given item until one winner is established, allowing the winner to take control of the item being bid on. Usually there is a game rule that helps drop the price of the items being bid on if no players are interested in the item at its current price.
Auction/Bidding
Card drafting games are games in which players pick cards from a limited subset, such as a common pool, to gain some advantage (immediate or longterm) or to assemble hands of cards that are used to meet objectives within the game.
Card Drafting
Hand management games are games with cards in them that reward players for playing the cards in certain sequences or groups. The optimal sequence/grouping may vary, depending on board position, cards held and cards played by opponents. Managing your hand means gaining the most value out of available cards under given circumstances. Cards often have multiple uses in the game, further obfuscating an "optimal" sequence.
Hand Management
Variable Player Powers is a mechanic that grants different abilities and/or paths to victory to the players.
Variable Player Powers
This mechanism requires players to select individual actions from a set of actions available to all players. Players generally select actions one-at-a-time and in turn order. There is usually(*) a limit on the number of times a single action may be taken. Actions are commonly selected by the placement of game pieces or tokens on the selected actions. Each player usually has a limited number of pieces with which to participate in the process.
Worker Placement

Movies / TV / Radio theme

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  1. 7.5 out of 10

    THEME IS GREAT. MECHANICS ARE GOOD (RESOURCES AND INFLUENCE). This game has a downside (for me), some spaces (turfs) are way to OP and playing to go first and getting theme is usually a good way o getting ahead.

  2. 9 out of 10

    Very easy to learn and lots of strategy. Played two play but would play different as the number of players goes up.

  3. 7 out of 10

    It's just okay. It has pretty much everything you want from The Godfather based game but for whatever reason the pure worker placement core mechanics just seem like they are missing something from the theme of the game. Don't get me wrong its well designed and simulates some really great things, but I'm not sure what seems to be missing from the game. Not too much player negotiation or interaction other than worker placement. Gets a 7 instead of a 6 just for the components and high production values.

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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 choosing which extra cards to pay tribute to the don at the end of each of the five rounds. At the end of the game, though, cash is all that matters, and whoever has the most money wins.

The game also features drive-by shootings in which enemy tokens are removed from the board and placed face-down in the river.

Ages

14+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players
Play Time

60m – 90m
Designer

Eric M. Lang
Mechanics

Auction/Bidding, Area Control / Area Influence, Card Drafting, Hand Management, Variable Player Powers, Worker Placement
Theme

Economic, Mafia, Movies / TV / Radio theme
Publisher

Crowd Games, Spaghetti Western Games, ADC Blackfire Entertainment, Asmodee, Asterion Press, CMON Limited, Edge Entertainment, Galápagos Jogos, Portal Games
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