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Founding Fathers family album: All the Presidents (men)

First playing for this Italian group appears to have resulted in crashing the country with Revenues at $-139 million and Reserves at $-239 million. Well, they did pass the 12th Amendment and one or more Tariffs at least.

Founding Fathers (2007)

Players

3–6

Best: 5, 6

Playing time

180–180 min

Age

12+

7.69

Average rating

213

Ratings

3.06/5

Weight

#7087

BGG rank

Outside top 5,000

Designer:Rick Heli

Artist:Rick Heli, Luca Cammisa

Publisher:Up & Away Games +1 more

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy5.0

Luck5.0

Interaction7.0

Complexity6.1

Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

PoliticalNegotiationNapoleonicEducationalPrint & PlayPost-NapoleonicVariable Player PowersVotingSimulation

Overview

Politics year to year in the early American republic. Play begins with George Washington as president, with Vice President John Adams. Each player controls several statesmen as well as others who will appear, up through the arrival of Abraham Lincoln. Together the players try to solve the issues faced by the young republic -- wars, debt, financial panics, the growth of the Union, north-south division, and more. Every four years the most popular politicians from each party square off to see who becomes the next president.

Somewhat similar to The Republic of Rome, but with many modifications to suit the topic, including a completely different way of resolving elections and a more nuanced treatment of Issue cards (rather than simply Wars), plus novelties such as the Public Support Track, spendable Influence, political parties, more offices, tax cards, counterfactual events and an ever-expanding map of the United States.

If diplomacy is not your cup of tea, a variant printed in the rules removes all requirements to negotiate and makes it a matter of cardplay, drafting and utilization of resources.

Living rules available: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/founding-fathers:-green-edition