City of Gangsters: Criminal Record

The times have changed

Take control of your outfit and engage in daring new schemes in City of Gangsters: Criminal Record.

Captain Roles - Got a guy in your crew who’s been in a few dust-ups and knows how to handle a weapon? A gal who has been running booze all over town and can make some solid deals? Well, once you attain the rank of captain, you’ll be able to give them a specialized role that’s particularly suited to their own, unique experiences. And as befits the boss, you’ll be able to see all of your captains and crew laid out before you in a new organization hierarchy.

Some of the roles that your captains will be able to take on include:

• The Enforcer
• The Intimidator
• The Jailbird
• The Lookout
• The Mouthpiece
• The Closer
• The Accountant

Attaining a specialized role requires very specific experience and expertise, which differs from role to role. A captain can only have one role, so choose wisely!

Schemes - As your gang grows through the 20s, you will discover that your captains will come up with ideas for their own personal schemes. These elaborate illicit activities (such as a bank heist or the blackmail of a crooked cop) unfold over a number of stages, containing different options and potential consequences.

Will you be able to leverage a scheme to your long-term advantage? Or will your captain fall prey to their own ambitions, the law, or your rivals?

Philadelphia map - Your family connections in the area will get you a unique starting condition that is sure to be incredibly profitable. The City of Brotherly Love is a perfect location to make a quick buck with its additional resource production. Philadelphia is also a wealthy city with more banks than your average town, making the bank heist scheme extra appealing - and lucrative.

Your Office - As a boss of a certain standing, you will now be able to set up your office, in a secluded country lodge or stylish downtown penthouse, and fill up your new office with spoils of victory and mementos of your escapades.

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.