"Other "Gangster" rules besides...." Topic

Looking for other 1920-1930's style Gangster rules for 28mm figures other than "The Chicago Way", and "Mad Dogs with Guns".

Any suggestions and ideas?

Thanks!

Pulp Alley for RPG style, and Flying Lead for skirmish type gun battles.

FiveCore would do nicely.

Chain Reaction in any version is my favorite "guns & gangs" rules by far.

.45 Adventure (I have a 1st edition on clearance) is fun with an RPG lite feel. After that, Two Hour Wargames is my go-to for games of this scope.

If you want to tell a story in your campaign, Pulp Alley does that better than any system I've used in 30 years of tabletop gaming. And it has a supplement, Vice Alley, devoted to the gangster genre, with a complete campaign included.
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There is also the old TSR Gangbusters set, evidently rereleased in PDF

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Both free.

Gangsters for the flavor.

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Chain Reaction for the mechanics.
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Just a couple more to add:
- 7TV
- pulp version of GASLIGHT

Pulp Alley or .45 Adventure would probably be my first two picks personally.

Can't say enough good things about Pulp Alley. You'll want the whole set of rules, but the QS is a good enough taste.

Nobody has mentioned Pulp Action Library's "Mad Dogs With Guns", which bears the inimitable feel of Howard Whitehouse and Roderick Robertson.

Erm… they have

OP: "Looking for other 1920-1930's style Gangster rules for 28mm figures other than "The Chicago Way", and "Mad Dogs with Guns".

Any suggestions and ideas? "

:-)

Mike

I am biased, but you might take a look at To Be Continued… by GASLIGHT. This was originally published as a supplement to GASLIGHT and is not part of The GASLIGHT Compendium. You can take a look at the GASLIGHT Quick Start Guide as a free download from RPG Now or Wargames Vault. The mechanics are pretty straight forward. If you like GASLIGHT, you can not only use it for your Gangster games but also for Victorian Science Fiction and other periods. With the supplements gathered together in the Compendium, you have a skirmish game, battle-sized game, pulp game, a role-playing game, and even a VSF fleet-action game.

Buck Surdu

Great recommendations here. Buck, you're making me feel old, but I think To Be Continued… IS in your excellent compendium. Did you mean 'now?'

We played a Gangster game using Black Ops rules, from Osprey. It was OK – very tactical, with good stealth rules. I still prefer Pulp Alley

To coin a phrase "D'Oh!!" <slinks off in embarrassment to keep the Lounge Salad Bar company>

Don't worry, I'd have recommended Mad Dogs with Guns as well as its my chosen ruleset.

Mike

I'ved used Chain Reaction with the Gangster supplement to good effect. We ran a bank robbery scenario several times with widely variable results. Lots of replay value there.

Used the '45 rules(free) and characters were being shot stupid and still stumbling on long after their expiration date. I suppose being plugged in the face with 3 .45 hollow points wouldnt deter a manly man but suspension of belief was duly suspended,

Anybody tried we only killed each other by the armchair general? Thoughts on those?

Dave.

I'm necro posting, but for future lookers, "We Only Kill Each other" by the Virtual Arm Chair General is a great set, but on a very small and detailed scale, down to rounds in the magazine. Very Very cool way to play more realistic gangland scenarios i.e. a hit on a rival, a bank robbery etc. Great book with lots of eye candy and crunch for those who are fond of that.