City of Gangsters: Atlantic City

Welcome to Atlantic City!

Expand your gambling operations to attract high-rollers to Atlantic City casinos in this new high-stakes expansion!

Atlantic City map - During Prohibition, booming tourism in and around Atlantic City demanded grand entertainment and lots of illegal alcohol. So it very rapidly became a mecca for bootlegging and gambling. The loosely connected patchwork of neighboring towns separated by a tangle of bays and estuaries on this map will require some interesting geographic solutions as you build your empire at the shore.

Expanded gambling opportunities - Access gambling earlier in the game and expand more quickly with fewer limits than other cities.

Unique gambling operations and features - Ritzy casinos, high stakes games and glamorous features will keep your discerning clientele entertained and spending:

New operations:

• Atlantic City gambling den
• Small Casino
• Medium Casino
• Luxury Casino

• High stakes slot machines
• Off-track betting parlors
• High-rollers parlors
• Gambling den poker tables
• Baccarat salons
• Telegraph machines
• Valet parking
• High tech lighting & chandeliers

New alcohol resources - Learn about, acquire and profit from new illicit types of booze that flow into Atlantic City by establishing firm connections among the city’s various nationalities:

• Canadian whiskey
• Scotch whisky
• Caribbean rum
• Irish whisky
• English gin
• German schnapps

Atlantic City themed buildings - Explore America’s Playground with its iconic boardwalks and bucolic surroundings.

New vehicle types - To help you shift your illicit merchandise all over coastal New Jersey.

• Town car - A medium capacity vehicle that sits somewhere between a car and pickup truck.
• Cargo van - A high capacity vehicle that can transport very large loads more efficiently around the vast Atlantic City map.

New character portrait items - Additional portrait customization options for your avatar and NPCs.

Unique victory condition - To meet based on the profitability and size of your Atlantic City casinos.

Start a crime syndicate from nothing, and grow it into a well-oiled money machine. Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Smuggle goods from out of town and bribe the police to look the other way. Grow a powerful crew and keep your rivals under your thumb. Eliminate competition and rule the city. But most importantly, keep the money flowing.

The year is 1920, the start of Prohibition in the USA. With congressional action, a huge segment of the national economy becomes illegal overnight: bars and saloons are ordered to close, distilleries and breweries go quiet, distributors shut down. But a new era is dawning: a gilded age for smugglers, black markets, illegal manufacture, and organized crime.

This is where you come in. You’re a new arrival in the city at the dawn of Prohibition, with ambitions of striking it big. Behind many of the city’s facades, people are building makeshift distilleries, secret loading docks, nighttime speakeasies. Work your way into this network, and the world will be yours.

But think beyond making a quick buck or two. You gotta be thinking ahead. You gotta be thinking bigger. Much bigger.

WELL-ORGANISED CRIME
Get started in the booze biz by hocking some homemade hooch. Start your own stills, and find raw materials to supply them. Learn new techniques to make expensive drinks, or smuggle imported booze to fuel your growing operation. Soon you’ll be supplying entire neighborhoods, and opening your own swinging speakeasies.

YOU GOTTA KNOW A GUY
On the black market, social currency matters as much as the greenback. With cops and feds sniffing around, trust is everything and personal introductions are worth their weight in gold. So work your connections to find profitable new friends, and get people who owe you favors to put in a good word.

YOU CAN'T DO IT ALONE
You will need plenty of hands to open new fronts, do delivery runs, and protect your product from envious rivals. Your outfit’s ambitions are only limited by the number of people working for you. Keep them paid, armed, and organized, and who knows how far and how fast you’ll rise.

THE WALLS HAVE EARS
But proceed carefully, because everyone is always observing what you’re doing, and family members stick up for each other. Whether you send your people to harass someone, or to help them, you can be sure they’ll remember it down the line.

GETTING TERRITORIAL
As your outfit grows, convince locals that your goods and theirs will be looked after. Territory under your control will provide a safety net, an income base, and a wealth of opportunities for further growth and expansion.

THIS ERA BELONGS TO YOU
You’ve grabbed the opportunity by the horns, and the city is yours for the taking. But you only have a few years to make your mark on history, to build the largest, most profitable crime syndicate, take over your competition, and rule the entire city. Because after 1933, it will be all over, alcohol will be legal again. And doing business fair and square, well, everybody knows that’s not where the real money is.