Tammany Hall was the political machine that dominated New York City politics by organizing the immigrant populations. While the organization's influence spanned from its founding in the 1790s to its collapse in the 1960s, this game is set in lower Manhattan roughly between 1850 and 1870 – the era of Boss Tweed.

Jan 20, 2013 · Since a huge part of Tammany Hall is ganging up on the leader to catch up, knowing who is winning at any given moment is extremely important. Being able to evaluate the various types of power to determine who is leading is a major part of playing Tammany Hall well. If you spend your game attacking the wrong player you will lose.

Jan 25, 2024 · Tammany Hall is one of those games where the rules offer a framework for you to move around in, rather than the rules telling you what to do and when (#5). The game mechanics give you chips, and you can use those chips at will. There's 16 turns total, at two moves a turn, it's really rather short (for a 90 minute game).

Mar 2, 2011 · Tammany Hall is an extremely mechanically simple area control game with a blind bidding mechanic. I would consider the game a medium-light game of a similar complexity level to Stone Age or Dominion. That is to say, this is a game you could easily teach to a new gamer with very little problems.

Aug 5, 2020 · Tammany Hall and Inis are very different games. While technically, both might be area control games, Inis feels more like a dudes on a map game than Tammany Hall. Inis features limited movement of your pieces from one region to another. Tammany Hall does not. I have yet to play Inis with 4 players, but it works very well at 2 and 3 player counts.

May 1, 2012 · COMPONENTS (*different than 2nd edition - upgraded) WOODEN PIECES Immigrant cubes: 25 Irish (green cubes) 25 English (white cubes) 25 German (orange cubes) 25 Italian (blue cubes) Political favor chips: 35 Irish (green chips) 35 English (white chips) 35 German (orange chips) 35 Italian (blue chips) Ward Boss pieces (player pieces) ( 1 ): 90 Street gang Meeples (meeples with bowler hats)(18 in ...

May 12, 2015 · Tammany Hall showed itself as a mean, even vicious game, and tons of fun, with tension and conflicts filling the game time to the brim. Cursing like a sailor hitting the pinky toe while walking to get water at night were usual, almost every time someone put a cube or a ward boss, specially after the 5th year (for the first four years there are ...

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Aug 14, 2020 · Tammany Hall (2020 edition) | Tammany Hall. Really well written rulebook that clarifies several questions I had after reading my 2009 edition rules.

May 3, 2012 · I went to BGG and searched for games about New York and voting and Tammany Hall and to my absolute shock there weren't any. I couldn't find a single game from this time or context. I spent another half hour looking for maps that could serve as the basis for my idea and found two that seemed great: One was the Mitchell map , and the other was ...