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Offline Pijlie

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The Chicago Way reviewed (with pictures!)
« on: 20 October 2016, 06:44:58 AM »
Based on the very successful Dead Man’s Hand ruleset Great Escape Games transferred their Wild West rules to another wild period in US history: Chicago in the Prohibition Era.

For those who do not know this period: in the 1920ies the US made an enormous effort to ban the drinking of alcohol altogether through drastic legislation and government  control. It became the most spectacular failure in the history of anti-drug legislation until the start of the War On Drugs in the late 20th century. It cost the US government a fortune in missed taxes and costs of crime-fighting. But most of all the wave of liquor-related crime following the Prohibition laid the foundation for organized crime in the US for the century to come. When the US government finally repealed the Prohibition in the early 30ies numerous powerful gangs had become rich on the liquor trade and were ready to transfer their business to other, more durable crimes like the drug trade, gambling and prostitution.



However, The Chicago Way takes place before this, replaying the dawn of organized crime in Chicago in the 1920ies where the likes of Al Capone and Bugsey Malone carved out their criminal empires with bribe money and tommyguns.

Read more here:

http://pijlieblog.blogspot.nl/2016/10/review-and-pics-of-chicago-way.html
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Offline Mr. Peabody

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Re: The Chicago Way reviewed (with pictures!)
« Reply #1 on: 20 October 2016, 05:51:39 PM »
Great review. Answers all the questions I had about TCW!  8)

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