Brook City - Helper
1. Cops:
Each Cop fully completes the Cop phase before the next Cop
- Cops take turn in any order they wish
a. Dispatch: pg.9
1. Ready exhausted cards in Cop Play area (not Cop Crime area)
2. Draw and resolve 1 Criminal card
Crime card: - place Card in Your Cop Crime area (right)
- Place a crew figure in space listed on the crime card:
If occupied, displace occupying figure (adjacent)
Asset card: - place Card in criminal play area:
- unless otherwise specified (will say on card)
- If card has listed coordinates, place an asset token on
board in the space listed on the crime card
Event card: - resolve the card's effect
- discarded after effect is resolved (unless otherwise specified)
note: resolve each effect on cards (if able) from top to bottom
b. Act: pg.10 In any order, may perform each of these Steps:
- Must fully complete a step before performing the next step
- May only perform each step Once each turn (unless game effect) - If an effect would add/subtract dice from encounter: resolve now
- Optional, don’t have to do all or any if you wish
*Move: Up to 3 - any combination of Foot and/or Vehicle
Foot: Spaces (white edged) - orthogonally & diagonally (no water) 4. Resolve Criticals: It explodes - roll an additional die
Vehicle: Streets (black outlined) - orthogonally only (no water)
Vehicle: Water (blue outlined) - orthogonally only (water only)
Cop May enter or exit a vehicle anytime during movement
- may continue moving using any remaining movement
- Must Control that vehicle and be Adjacent to it
- If on foot into a street may commandeer a new vehicle
Locations can be moved through freely (think action movies)
- Foot: Spaces - orthogonally & diagonally
- Vehicle: Only some can, will say on vehicle card if able too/how - Minus target's resistance matching approach
Don’t Move at all: May remove 1 Stress instead
*Card: Play 1 Card
Encounter / Ability Cards:
- Played and resolved
Tactic cards: Only one copy of each Tactic card may be in play
- Played into the cop play area, remain in play
- If card already in cop area, may resolve Prepared effect
note: Some game effects allow Cops to play additional cards
Don’t Play a Card: May draw 1 card instead
*Action: may perform 1 of the following Actions:
Hunch: gain 1 hunch token
Card Action: perform Action effect on 1 card in cop play area
- Each Action on cards can only once per turn, even if game
effects allow the cop to perform additional actions
Move: Use Action Step to perform the Move step again
Interact: may resolve Interact effect of a card corresponding to an
Near game component
note:Once during each Act step, the cop may enter or exit a
vehicle that they are adjacent to and that they control (free)
c. Crime: activate each card in Cop Crime area (left to right)
- Resolve Cards Activate effect
If a card to be be activated is exhausted:
- Ready that card instead of activating it (does not activate)
d. Draw: Draw 1 card from cop deck
- flip turn card Face down (signifies Cop has taken a turn)
Once all Cops have had their turn, move onto the 2.Crims phase - A vehicle Moves 1 Street at a time (orthogonally)
2. Crims: pg.13. Players collectively
Activate each card in the criminal play area:
- Resolve the Activate effect of each card (left to right)
Rem: Suspect and/or Setup/Operation card Activate effects
Once cards are done Activating, move onto the 3.Case phase
3. Case: pg.13. Players collectively
a. Activation: Activate each card in the Case play area
- Resolve the Activate effect of each card (left to right)
b. Draw: Draw and resolve 1 card from the Case deck
If Clue Card: place in the case play area (unless specified)
- Place matching clue token (active side up) on card
- if that token is already in play and inactive, flipped it to active
note: a Clue card cannot be discarded (unless specified)
c. End: All Cops flip their turn card Face up
- Start a new round: 1.Cops
Encountering a Card: pg.12
Cops can only Encounter cards with Resistances:
- Must be Near Target (mini/token) - unless specified by card
- Any applicable progress is placed on targets card (after dice roll)
1. Choose Target: Chooses a Nearby target (mini/token)
- Card/effects may allow to encounter targets not near Cop/Ally
2. Gather Dice: # of dice indicated by the encounter
3. Roll Dice: Roll all the gathered cop dice
If you roll another Critical:
- roll an additional die until no more critical results are rolled
All critical results are treated as successes
5. Convert Hunches: For each hunch result:
- May discard 1 hunch token to convert 1 hunch roll
result to a success roll for this encounter
6. Apply Successes: Add all successes (+ criticals)
Result = # of progress placed on target
- If # of progress on target is =/> Threshold: Busted
7. Resolve Bust Effect: If Busted target has a Bust effect:
- resolve the Bust effect now (if it was Busted in step 6)
8. Gain Hunch Tokens: After all progress has been placed:
- Gain 1 hunch token for each hunch roll result that was not
converted to a success in step 5
Success and Hunch roll result:
You get both results shown (as if 2 dice)
Note: After the encounter procedure, resolve any after an
encounter effects that may apply
Successful Encounter: Is an encounter in which a cop's
successes Equal or Exceed the target's Resistance # (0+)
- Progress doesn't need to be placed to consider that
encounter successful, as long as resistance is met
Spaces Notes
An empty Space contains no Figure/vehicle
- Other tokens/game elements don’t Fill the Space
- A Figure/Small Vehicle take up 1 Space
- A Regular Vehicle takes up 2 Spaces
- Can not move into a Full Space
- A figure Moves 1 Space at a time (orthogonally & diagonally)
- If Space is full and a figure it to be placed (by card/effect),
displace the occupying figure to an adjacent space
A Street has 4 Spaces (black line)
- If all 4 Spaces are Full, that Street section is Blocked
- A vehicle can not move through a Blocked Street
- A figure may ‘count’ through a blocked street for game effects
A Waterway (mainboard) has 4x2 Spaces (8) (blue line)
- If all 8 Spaces are Full, that Water section is Blocked
- A vehicle can not move through Blocked Waterway
- Can only be used by Aquatic Vehicles
- Aquatic Vehicles Move 1 waterway at a time (orthogonally)
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Leads: a Cop Near a Lead Token may take Active Lead card
- A Cop May only have 1 Lead card in their area at a time
- May take a Lead anytime during their turn for free
- May take a Lead mid movement
When a Lead is taken, Draw a new Lead card, face up,to be the
new Active Lead and move token to space indicated on card
- When instructed to Draw a Lead card, Draw from top of deck,
don’t take the Active lead
Lead cards are also drawn for Random locations (ignore text)
Stress:
When Cops suffer stress, add 1 stress on cop's ID card
- Some Game/Card effects discard stress From ID
If a Cop suffers stress equal to or greater than their stress
value, that cop is fired and all the players lose the game
Keywords:
Action: Resolved using the card Action effect
- Cops may only resolve Action on cards they personally control
- Cops Resolve during their Act step
Activate: Instructs how a game element Activates:
Resolve text after Activate keyword when card is Activated
- If Activate “area” only resolve if card is in “area”
Ditch: When controlled by a cop, they may discard it at any point
during their turn to resolve its Ditch effect
Note: Do not resolve Ditch effect if it is discarded from hand or any
game effect causes the card to be discarded instead
Exhaust: When controlled by a cop, they may Exhaust it at any
time during the game to resolve its Exhaust effect
- Can not Exhaust a card to interrupt another card effect that
hasn't fully resolved (unless specified)
- To Exhaust a card: tilt it horizontally sideways (tap)
- Can Not Exhaust again until it is Readied (tilt back vertically)
Note: when another game effect exhausts a card do not trigger the When a Cop is on Foot moves into a street space they may
cards Exhaust effect
Prepared: Is resolved when a Cop would play a Tactic card that
matches a Tactic card already in their Cop Play area:
- only 1 copy of each Tactic card may be in play at
- Discard 2nd same Tactic card after Prepared effect is resolved
Bust: Resolved when a card would be busted.
- Resolved immediately when there are progress
tokens equaling or exceeding the cards threshold
- Most Busted cards are Discarded (unless specified)
- Busted Suspect cards are Not Discarded (unless specified)
Near/Nearby = On or Adjacent to
Target = card with Resistances,
- may have a token or a miniature attached to it on board
#P = # Per-Cops in game
Allies: (makes the game easier but a little more complex)
- Card placed in Cop Play area, Figure starts near its Cop Figure
- Text on card shows how the ally is used
- If Cop suffers Stress, may give to Ally instead (if stress listed)
- If Ally is fired (full stress): remove ally from game (keep playing)
Allies are Not Cops don’t share the keyword Cop for rule sake
- Allies may Encounter a Near Target (mini/token) like Cops
- When Ally encounters, Controlling Cop may convert/gain their
hunches for that encounter
- May use its cops Hunches for game effects (eg: Micky’s tapes)
- Allies may pick up leads (controlling cop gains that lead)
- May ‘ride along’ with cop in a vehicle
Each cop may have their own ally (one or more if you want)
Rivals: (makes the game harder and a little more complex)
- Card placed in Cop Crime area (Rival side faceup)
- Figure starts in the space listed on the rival's card.
Rivals have resistances and may be encountered by Cops/Allies
- If Rival is busted, remove Rival from game (keep playing)
Each cop may have their own Rival (one or more if you want)
Game End: Players Win or Lose together:
Win: Solve the case - on Case rules card
Loose: A cop is fired (full stress) or a Card Rule states
Criminal notes:Operation, Suspect, Crime, Asset, Event
Operation/Suspect can never be discarded, even if busted unless
specified by game/card effect
- Suspect (target) busted, remove all progress from that card
after resolving its Bust effect (Don’t discard card)
- If Suspect gains influence, put that influence on the
Operation card (unless specified)
- Crime/Asset (targets) usually can be busted
then Discarded, unless specified on card/set-up says
- Event resolved then discarded (unless otherwise specified)
Vehicle notes (not Bus- Velocity xpack)
Once during each step, in the cop’s Act phase, the cop may enter
or exit a vehicle
- Must Control that vehicle and be Adjacent to it
- May exit from any side of the vehicle
- May Encounter a Nearby Target (like on foot)
May enter or exit a vehicle anytime during the move Step (once)
- May continue moving using any remaining movement
When moving/placing Vehicle:
- keep it in orthogonal spaces of the Street
- Must move out then back into same street to move to another
position in that same (now new) Street space
- May move back, forwards, sideways into a new Street space
When entering a new street space:
- May place your Vehicle however you want, in any facing
- Must place orthogonally in Spaces
- Can't move into a Street that is full/Blocked (all spaces occupied)
Commandeering a new vehicle
choose to commandeer a new vehicle, Once per turn:
- Draw a card from the vehicle deck, place in Cop play area
- Place vehicle Mini Adjacent/On Cop in Street/water
- Cop may enter vehicle immediately
- Discard old Vehicle Mini/Card (if Cop had one)
Each cop may only ever control 1 vehicle at a time
- If Cop gains another Vehicle, choose one to discard
Allies in Vehicles: Once during their turn, a cop driving a vehicle
may pick up an ally Near the vehicle
- Place Ally figure on the vehicle card
May be “dropped off” at any time during a vehicle’s movement:
- place ally’s figure in any empty space adjacent to the vehicle
Delta Keys: Various card effects allow movement to Delta Keys
- Can also move to while in Aquatic Vehicle off the rightmost water
space on main game board to “Valice” (or Valice to board)
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Bus: Velocity case uses the bus (case rules card)
- Moves in the direction of the arrows on the miniature
- Can’t normally turn or can’t normally change lanes
- Keep in the same lane when moving streets
If effect would allow cops to change the bus’ direction:
- may reposition the bus and any vehicles controlled by cops in
its current street, following the normal placement rules.
- bus can never change its direction a full 180 degrees
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Wrecks: Wreck Rules Card (increase the difficulty of the game)
- Space indicators: used to place new wrecks when instructed
- may never be placed in non-street spaces (unless specified)
- Text is resolved when cops are forced to draw wreck card/s
Whenever accidents occur: draw top card of wreck deck
- place 1 wreck in the indicated spaces
- If space is occupied, reposition wreck to fit in street if possible
- if not possible, discard and redraw new wreck card
When cops are forced to discard a Vehicle card, including Ditch
- Replace the vehicle with a wreck
Wrecks take up Street Spaces (like other vehicles)
- If cop enters a street with 1 or more wrecks: cop suffers 1 stress
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