Mafia Wars is a 3 to 4 player strategy board game involving Dons, goons and guns. Traverse across the playing field picking up guns and fighting your way through enemies to gain control of the turf. Set up traps with a sniper and force your enemies into submission or sneak your way past the enemies’ goons and take out the Don. Become the greatest Mafia boss and claim your enemies’ lives. Do you have what it takes to be the number one Don?

  
  

The Team

The Rules

Item List

• 1 Mafia Wars Board
• 4 Don Tokens
• 16 Goon Tokens
• 8 Pistol Tokens
• 1 Sniper Token

Setup

1. Place the pieces in the designated places on the board, they are marked with their respective initials.
2. Each player has one Don and four goons
3. For four players the green, blue, pink and purple spaces are used. For a three player game the blue, pink and red spaces are used.

Four player setup                                                             Three player setup

How a turn works

• Players decide as a group who begins the game, or the oldest person starts
• Every turn, a player can choose to either move a piece or attack a piece
• Play continues in a clockwise fashion
• The game finishes when only one Don remains

Rules

1. All pieces can move one space in any direction
2. All pieces start with a dagger weapon with an attack range of 1
3. If a goon or a Don lands on a weapon tile, they will pick it up and their attack range (the distance from one piece to another) will change
• Pistol range: 2
• Sniper range: unlimited with a minimum of 3 and must have a direct line of sight (Straight line of hexes from sniper to target, see diagram below)
  
4. Players can choose to swap to a different weapon if they land on that tile
5. Pieces that die will drop their weapons on the tile that they were killed
6. Pieces that attack with a dagger will move to that space and can choose to pick up any weapon that was dropped immediately
7. Pieces with the pistol will move one space towards the enemy piece when they attack and kill it.
   • In cases where there are multiple valid spaces, the attacking player can choose which space to move to
8. Pieces with the sniper do not move when they attack and kill an enemy piece.
9. All pieces are a one shot kill, there is no health for any pieces including the Dons.
10. Killing a Don will result in the player recruiting their remaining living goons
11. If there are only Dons left on the board without any goons, all players will have 5 moves each, if no one is killed the game will end in a stalemate.
• If someone is killed within the turn limit then the turns are reset to 5 moves each.

Tabletopia Notes

• Both 3 and 4 player setups can be accessed during lobby creation
• For more organised gameplay, we recommend setting the “Turn-based Clockwise Strict” mode on by clicking the button to the left of the screen. This will let the game keep track of who’s turn it is and restrict players to only moving pieces on their turn
• Bags on the left side of the table contain coloured goon tokens according to their bag colour. When a Don is defeated, their remaining goons can be replaced by the killer’s goons, making it easier to keep track of which goons are on which side