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With A Smile & A Gun (Kickstarter Edition)

€31.85 EUR
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Description
Designer Jon Vallerand
Publisher Subsurface Games
Players 1-2
Playing Time 30 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up

Al Capone famously said "You can get pretty far in life with a Smile, but you can get a lot farther with a Smile and a Gun"

With a Smile & a Gun is a fist-clenching game of intrigue and sneakiness, where 2 Criminal Gang leaders fight over the domination of a City’s underground businesses during a very Noir Prohibition Era. They will have to out think their rival, send the Police in their business, use their Network’s abilities, and decide when to lay low and when to go all-out.

Mechanically speaking, With a Smile & a Gun is a dice drafting, area majority game, about taking the last 4, not because you need it, but because your opponent does. Every round, 13 dice will be rolled into a pool. A player will draft two dice: one for their movement around the city, which will place influence, and one for an action.

After both players have gone three times, the Character (one of 5, which changes each game) will use the leftover die for their own movement, affecting the game in their own way. The player who attracted the least attention (lowest sum of Action dice) will get a special Scheming action, and then majorities will be scored for each district.

The player with the most points after 3 rounds wins the game!

—description from the designer

Customer Reviews

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Sheryl Drefke
Thinky, fun solo

I've only played solo, but this game and it's dice rolling, dice selection, and special powers, give a person a lot to think about in a game.

It may be too easy for the AI to keep up with the player's moves though. I need to change up my strategy and see if I can shake them off me a little easier. But wow, thinky and I love that there is a way to manipulate the "police" also, so if there's no way around the AI going to a spot, you have a chance to block them and it's not just them doing the blocking.

I like that there's an opponent and while they are very challenging I'm closing in on that win. I started out losing by 25 and have closed that gap to 7 in my most recent play.
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