Board Games | Economic Games

Brass: Lancashire — first published as Brass — is an economic strategy game that tells the story of competing cotton entrepreneurs in Lancashire during the industrial revolution. You must develop, build, and establish your industries and network so that you can capitalize demand for iron, coal and cotton. The game is played over two halves: the canal phase and the rail phase. To win the game, score the most victory points (VPs), which are counted at the end of each half. VPs are gained from your canals, rails, and established (flipped) industry tiles. Each round, players take turns according to the turn order track, receiving two actions to perform any of the following: Build an industry tile Build a rail or canal Develop an industry Sell cotton Take a loan At the end of a player's turn, they replace the two cards they played with two more from the deck. Turn order is determined by how much money a player spent on the previous turn, from lowest spent first to highest spent. This turn order mechanism opens some strategic options for players going later in the turn order, allowing for the possibility of back-to-back turns. After all the cards have been played the first time (with the deck size being adjusted for the number of players), the canal phase ends and a scoring round commences. After scoring, all canals and all of the lowest level industries are removed for the game, after which new cards are dealt and the rail phase begins. During this phase, players may now occupy more than one location in a city and a double-connection build (though expensive) is possible. At the end of the rail phase, another scoring round takes place, then a winner is crowned. The cards limit where you can build your industries, but any card can be used for the develop, sell cotton or build connections actions. This leads to a strategic timing/storing of cards. Resources are common so that if one player builds a rail line (which requires coal) they have to use the coal from the nearest source, which may be an opponent's coal mine, which in turn gets that coal mine closer to scoring (i.e., being utilized). Brass: Lancashire, the 2018 edition from Roxley Games, reboots the original Warfrog Games edition of Brass with new artwork and components, as well as a few rules changes: The virtual link rules between Birkenhead have been made optional. The three-player experience has been brought closer to the ideal experience of four players by shortening each half of the game by one round and tuning the deck and distant market tiles slightly to ensure a consistent experience. Two-player rules have been created and are playable without the need for an alternate board. The level 1 cotton mill is now worth 5 VP to make it slightly less terrible.

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Daybreak is a co-operative game about climate action. Each player controls a world power, deploying policies and technologies to both dismantle the engine of global heating and to build resilient societies that protect people from life-threatening crises. If the global temperature gets too high,

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Uwe Rosenbergs new game Atiwa explores the agricultural wonders of the Africancontinent. Leading a family of fruit farmers, the players find that fruit bats - so called flying foxes,once considered to be fruit thieves only - are indeed useful for their farming endeavors.While it's true that the bats are eating the fruits from their trees, they also spread the seeds, overall helping to grow the amount of trees they can farm. This led to a symbiotic lifestyle between farmers and bats in which the farmers keep the bats as pets in order to grow their farms more quickly. However, the more bats, the more space they need... The players who will find the perfect balance between their bats and the growth of theirfarm will finally succeed and win the game!

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Tesla vs. Edison: Powering Up! expands the world of the smash-hit game Tesla vs. Edison! This first expansion is loaded with upgrades that amplify the epic War of Currents to new levels:   Build a Headquarters. Each inventor can develop their own custom Lab, Works, Office, and Studio which offer special abilities and bonus points. Experience Historical Events. 21 different cards bring to life the history of the War of Currents with thrilling opportunities and devastating calamities that make each turn unique. AIs for Solo or Group Play. Custom AI decks, each with TWO difficulty settings - an Ada Lovelace side and a Charles Babbage side - are included for all six Inventors in the expansion. Play solitaire against 1-5 AIs or add AIs for additional challenge in 2+ player games. Welcome a 6th Inventor, Madam C.J. Walker. Another option to choose, and enables you to play a 6-player game! Female Luminaries. Six other brilliant and pioneering women of the time serve as Luminaries and spice things up in the War of Currents. New propaganda cards. Six cards commemorating the U.S Presidents of the period.   Tesla vs. Edison: Powering Up! is an expansion and requires a copy of the Tesla vs. Edison base game to play.

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This item is a pre-order item with an expected release date of 02/27/2026 Orders containing a pre-order items WILL NOT SHIP until the final pre-order item is able to be shipped. Dates and product details are subject to change as new information from the manufacturer is updated. Tech Race is a medium-weight, Euro-style strategy game that simulates the dynamic, fast-paced world of tech startups. Players race to the highest startup valuation through smart hiring, innovation, and lobbying. Fast-paced and strategic, it captures the thrill of growing a company from the ground up with humor and surprises.  Choose your CEO and take the reins of your new tech startup! Each CEO has a unique skill that you must utilize if you want to take your company to the top. Hire and train employees to unlock new abilities and build your company. Just remember, each employee needs a salary, so you’ll need to keep an eye on payroll costs—or risk going bankrupt before your company takes flight. Use your employees’ actions to drive demand, expand your territories, obtain customers or steal from your competitors, and collect resources to develop futuristic technologies. Resources are limited, but savvy CEOs can exchange or buy resources from other players. As the game advances, policy cards will be drawn each round. CEOs then bid on their desired policy. The policy with the highest total bid from all players will be selected and put into play. Plan well, as these policies can earn you valuable rewards or even trigger chaotic events!

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