We Only Kill Each Other: Life and Death on The Mean Streets, 1920-1935

We Only Kill Each Other (WOKEO) portrays criminals not as soldiers following orders as in traditional war games, but as social misfits motivated more by fear than ideals, engaging in violence but very much wanting it to be against someone else. It also recognizes the criminal violence of Prohibition and Depression as inseparable from their mostly urban environment. But adding to this background, this Second Edition adds "Hood's Life," rules for how criminals can spend their ill gotten money when not actively engaged in vice and theft. Characters make Reputations, Friends & Foes, can give "The Look" while "Living Large." With other "Cops & Robbers" wargames there is a tendency to conflate Prohibition, Depression, and Mafia criminality with the only common denominator being the "crime." Here, each of these subjects observes the distinctions that give them their unique identity.

And now the rules include "Dillinger Days--Life On The Run," where Players can create their own Depression Era gang of bank robbers and plan a crime wave while running all over the "Tri-State" region: Establish a Hideout, plan heists, acquire autos, commit the crimes, then flee across state highways and country roads, With all the risks of the road, there is always the chance of becoming the object of "Hot Pursuit" by Law Enforcement, and either making a getaway or going down in a hail of bullets. "We Only Kill Each Other" is the grittiest miniatures game of its kind.