Bad Company

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• Setup
  • • Place the city board and score board in the middle of the table.
    • Shuffle the upgrade cards and place them in a face down deck.
    • Shuffle the loot cards and place them in a face down deck near the city board.
    • Shuffle the heist cards and place them in a face up deck.
      • Draw 4 heists and place them face up next to the deck.
    • Place the police car on its start space based on player count.
    • Create a supply of necklace tokens, check markers, and coins.
    • Choose a player to start as the boss.
    • Each player:
      • Takes a scoring disc in their chosen color and places it on the zero space of the score track.
      • Takes 1 recruiter in their color and places it on the 1st space of the recruit track on the score board.
      • Takes 1 player card in their color and places it on the start space on the city board.
      • Takes 2 random gang board pieces (1 left and 1 right) and places them next to each other in their play area.
      • Takes 3 heists from the deck.
        • Draw in player order, starting with the 1st player.
        • Place 2 of the heists above your player board and discard the 3rd to the bottom of the heist deck.
      • Takes $2 from the supply
• Gameplay

  • The game is played over a series of turns until either a player completes their 6th heist or when any car (player or police) enters the red zone at the end of the road. After that turn is completed, there is 1 special final turn before final scoring.

  • Phase 1: Roll the Dice
    • 1. The boss (1st player) rolls all 5 dice.
         • If the boss does not like the results, they may $1 to re-roll any number of dice. This can be repeated multiple times.
      2. The boss uses the 4 golden dice to form any 2 pairs. Announce the sum of each pair.
         • Both pairs may have the same value.
  • Phase 2: Activate Gang Members
    • • Loot cards may be discarded at any time (unless otherwise specified) for their 1-time effects.
        • If the loot deck is ever empty, shuffle the discard to make a new deck.
      • This phase may be performed simultaneously unless there is a timing conflict, in which case they should be resolved in clockwise order starting with the boss.
      • The boss activates both gang members indicated by the sum of each pair of dice
        • If both pairs are the same value, the boss activates the same gang member twice.
      • All other players activate 1 gang member from 1 of the 2 pairs of dice.
      • When activating a gang member, takes all the rewards shown on the gang member.
        • Note that points in the upper left corner of upgrade cards are only scored at the end of the game.
        • When you gain a marker, take a marker from the supply and place it on a matching symbol on 1 of your heists or tasks.
        • If the gang member has a necklace, score 1 point.
    • Special Gang Members (2 and 12)
      • • The Fixer (2): Choose 1 of the 3 (lock, hand, or mask, but not the flashlight) symbols shown and gain markers = to the number of matching reward symbols on all your gang members (not including the fixer).
        • The Chauffeur (12): Move your car 2 spaces on the road.
    • The Car Chase
      • • Whenever your car passes a checkpoint, take the indicated bonus if the police car has not passed it.
        • When moving, you may choose to take a shortcut.
          • If you take a shortcut, you do not get the checkpoint bonus you would have otherwise passed.
    • Recruit
      • • Pay the value in coins to advance your recruiter to the next space on the recruit track.
          • You may do this multiple times on the same turn.
        • Each time you advance the recruiter, draw the top 3 upgrade cards from the deck, choose 1 to keep, and discard the other 2 to a discard pile.
          • Place the the gang member on the matching number space, but make sure all previous reward symbols are visible.
          • If the upgraded gang member has a necklace, place it on the topmost gang member card.
        • If the recruit deck is empty, shuffle the discard to make a new deck.
        • There is no limit to the number of upgrades a gang member can have.
        • If you reach the end of the recruit track, you can no longer upgrade gang members.
          • Instead, you may spend $5 to gain 3 points (as many times as you can afford).
    • Complete Tasks
      • • When you have 2 markers on any of the 4 tasks on your gang board, you may discard the markers to the supply to gain the listed bonus.
        • You may complete several tasks on the same turn, even the same task multiple times.

        Bonus	Description
        	Gain and place a marker on any symbol, even a task symbol.
        	Gain $2.
        	Move your car 1 space.
        	Draw a loot card from the deck, look at it, and place it face down in your play area.

    • Complete Heists
      • • A heist is complete when all symbol spaces are covered with markers.
        • When a heist is complete take any immediate bonus shown at the bottom of the card, return the markers to the supply, flip it face down, and tuck it under your player board.
        • Points for completed heists are scored at the end of the game
        • Some heists have abilities (red box) that will be active for the rest of the game once completed.
        • Some heists have final scoring effects (purple box) that will be counted at the end of the game.
        • You may complete both active heists on the same turn.
        • After all players have finished completing heists, each player counts the total of their mission symbols on all of their completed heists.
          • The player with the most symbols of a given type gains the corresponding necklace.
            • If there is a tie, the player with highest single number of the symbol on a completed heist gets the necklace.
            • If there is still a tie, the player with the highest numbered card with the matching symbol gets the necklace.
          • The necklace is placed on 1 of your gang members.
            • Each gang member can only have 1 necklace.
          • Gain 1 point when you gain a necklace (from another player or the supply).
          • Each time you activate a gang member with a necklace, score 1 point.
  • Phase 3: End of Turn

    • After all players have completed phase 2, do the following.

      1. The boss moves the police car the number of spaces shown on the police die (black die).
         • The police car never takes shortcuts.
      2. In turn order, each player with fewer than 2 active heists takes new heists from the display until they have 2 active.
         • The heist display is immediately replenished when there are fewer than 5 heists showing (the 5th being the top of the deck).
         • If there are not enough heists in the display/deck for each player to have 2 active heists, each player that completed heists this turn takes only 1 heist.
      3. Check for game end conditions:
         • 1 player has completed 6 or more heists.
         • or any car (player or police) has entered the red zone at the end of the road.
         • If the end game is triggered, the next turn is the final turn as outlined in the end game section.
      4. If the end game is not triggered, pass all the dice to the next player (clockwise) and that player becomes the new boss. Proceed back to phase 1.
• End of the Game and Scoring

  • The game ends when either a player completes their 6th heist or when a car (player or police) enters the red zone at the end of the road. Note that the final turn has special rules.

    The Final Turn

    • The boss rolls only the 4 gold dice.
      • No dice can be rerolled.
    • Each player uses the 4 golden dice to form 2 pairs, independently of each other.
    • Each player activates 2 gang members based on the die pairs they've picked.
    • This final turn ends after phase 2.

    Scoring

    • Points on completed heists.
    • Points from final scoring effects on completed heists.
    • Points on collected loot cards.
    • Visible points on upgrade cards.
    • 2 points for each necklace.
    • 1 point for every 2 markers on active heists/tasks/storage, rounded down.
    • Lose 3 points if your car is behind the police car (no points are lost if you are on the same space as the police car).

    The player with the most points wins. If there is a tie, the player with the highest remaining value in coins wins. If there is still a tie, the players share the victory.

• Icons

  • Icon	Description
    	Gain $2
    	Draw a loot card from the deck, look at it, and place it face down in your play area. These can be discarded at any time for the listed effect.
    	Gain the indicated number of points.
    	Gain a marker place it over a matching symbol.

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