Expedition: Congo River 1884

A paddle-wheeler steamboat is about to leave Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) and sail up the Congo River bound for the remote village of Kindu in the heart of deepest Africa. The travellers aboard the steamer are of many different nationalities and have different professions, but they all share the same spirit of adventure.

Each player must compete with their opponents to take command of the colonial stations found at each stop along the steamboat’s trip upstream. For every man that a player succeeds in leaving as chief at the station, he will score victory points. The player with most points at the end of the game wins the game.

• Command stations along the Congo river and score the points: play your cards at the right moment to outbid your opponents.

• Bidding game with a twist: the value of the cards depends on the type of station and the language spoken over there, where the steamboat has arrived.

• Compete for the most valuable stations: disrupt your opponents plans: play special cards to attack other characters, make character less valuable or give yourself another advantage.

• Outbluff your opponents: can you play more auxiliairy cards to command to station?