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Expedition

Congo River 1884

The first game of the Expedition series takes us on board of a paddle-wheel steamboat that is leaving Leopoldville in Congo to sail up the Congo River to Kindu. Each player controls a group of travelers who should take control of stations along the way. One round comprises revealing of a station tile, drawing of cards, commanding the station and moving the steamboat. When the station tile shows jungle or a village at a station of value 4 the flags next to it is removed and the station cannot be controlled. To bid for a station you play a face-down character card; when all are revealed one player is allowed to play a special card; the first one to decide if he wants to do so is the starting player; if he forgoes this, the next player chooses, etc. Then the basic value of each character is determined in relation profession and nationality as well as to the flag next to the station – for neutral characters sympathies are determined by dice roll – and then each player can play auxiliary cards to enhance the value of the character; those cards must show icon correlation with the character card and for interpreters and boys there are special rules. If you then control the station because of best character values there you win victory points and sometimes hippo markers which you play in case of value ties. When the boat moves out of Kindu the game ends and you win with most victory points.  

The topic is a mixture of expedition and colonization, the dice-driven allocation of some languages and nationalities/sympathies as well as the drawing of cards offer little tactic, rounds proceed in a very uniform and static way.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 60+

Designer: José Antonio Rivero Nuez

Artist: Alexandre Roche

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: White Goblin Games 2012

Web: www.whitegoblingames.com

Genre: Bidding, card management

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

First game in the Expedition series

Somewhat controversial topic

Rounds are very similar

Little tactic

Compares to:

Bidding games on best values

Other editions:

Currently none

My rating:

Statements:

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0