Spartacus and Tammany Hall Return — But Not Together

Spartacus and Tammany Hall Return — But Not Together
Board Game: Tammany Hall
• U.S. publisher Pandasaurus Games has announced a new edition of Doug Eckhart's Tammany Hall, which first appeared in 2007 from StrataMax Games in the version shown at right. Here's an overview of the setting and gameplay:
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Tammany Hall is a game of backstabbing, corruption, temporary alliances, and taking power at all costs. If you want to rule New York, you are going to need to play the city's growing immigrant populations against one another. Help the immigrant groups who owe you political favors, call in those favors to slander your rivals, and win elections.

Board Game: Tammany Hall

In Tammany Hall, players help immigrants settle in New York, collect political favors from those immigrant groups, send ward bosses into Manhattan to secure votes, and slander political opponents. An election is held at the end of every fourth year, and the player who uses his power base best will be elected mayor. The Mayor's grip on the city is tenuous at best. After every election, the Mayor must pay off his political rivals by placing them in offices that they can wield to try to take control of the city. Every player is your friend, every player is your enemy.
Board Game: Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery
• Similarly, Gale Force Nine has announced a new edition of Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery, a design from Aaron Dill, John Kovaleski, and Sean Sweigart that caught a lot of attention when it debuted in 2012 thanks both to the game itself and its connection to the Spartacus television series on the STARZ network.

GF9 mentions that the game will have "updated artwork", as shown in the promo image below, but doesn't mention any changes to gameplay.

From gallery of W Eric Martin

Board Game: Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps
• Gale Force Nine has also announced that Andrew Haught's co‑operative survival board game Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps! — which originally bore a September 2018 release date — will finally hit retail in October 2020, with the Ultimate Badasses and Get Away From Her, You B***h! expansions due out before the end of 2020.

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