• At SPIEL ’23, you can encounter a new tile-placement challenge from Uwe Rosenberg in Tangram City, which is coming from Korea Boardgames. What will you be doing this time?
In Tangram City, 1-5 players place tiles in a randomly determined order in a square field while trying to balance the amount of city (red) and park (green) tiles. The more balanced these are and the more often you have built a rectangle shape, the more bonus points you receive.
• At SPIEL ’23, publisher Artipia Games will demo Firefighters on Duty from Konstantinos Kokkinis and Sotirios Tsantilas that will be released in 2024.
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Here’s what to expect in this 1-4 player real-time, co-operative board game:
• SPIEL ’23 will also see the release of a German edition from SPIEL DAS! Verlag of With a Smile & a Gun, which debuted from designer Amanda Vallerand‘s own Subsurface Games in 2021.
Here’s an overview of this 1-2 player game:
English edition from Subsurface Games
With a Smile & a Gun is a fist-clenching game of intrigue and sneakiness in which two criminal gang leaders fight over the domination of a city’s underground businesses during a very noir Prohibition Era. They have to outthink their rival, send the police into 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. Each round, thirteen dice are rolled in a pool. A player then drafts two dice: one for their movement around the city, which will place influence, and one for an action.
English edition
After both players have drafted three times, a non-player character — one of five in the box — will use the leftover die for its own movement, affecting the game in its own way. The player who attracted the least attention, that is, who has lowest sum of action dice, takes a special scheming action, then majorities will be scored for each district.
After three rounds, the player with the most points wins.