La Mafia

La Mafia

Designer: calvinus
Publisher: www.pulce.tk
Type: Board
Language: Italian
Status: Free
BGG entry: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/21034
Available at: http://xoomer.alice.it/iscamm/it/games.html

A fascinating multiplayer game on the history of the mafia phenomenon and its inteconnection with political and economic power in Italy from the end of World War II until the present day

Sicily, 1943. Main mafia families in Western Sicily, supported by the Allies who have overthrown Fascim, took back the control of the rural areas inside.

Up to 6 powerful mafia families struggle to achieve economical and political power in Sicily and Italy, managing their deals with the Italo-American gangsters and with the South American and Far-East drug traffickers. They gather their fortunes through the typical ways of organized crime, then re-invest their revenues in money laudering so that they can get some affiliates among the entrepreneurs and politicians of the country.

The aim is to increase their prestige inside organized crime structure, killing their opponents and facing the reaction of the State, alwais adapting their income sources to the evolution of the political context, all along the 50 years of Italian history depicted by the game.