🎯 The Goal
Amass the highest number of Victory Points (VP) by building industries, establishing supply lines, and flipping canal or rail networks across the English Midlands.
⚙️ Core Actions
Discard cards from your hand to take two actions per turn:
- Build: Pay costs to place pottery, cotton mills, coal mines, iron works, or breweries on the map.
- Network: Build canal or rail connections between locations to expand your shipping capabilities.
- Develop: Discard low-tier industry tiles from your player board to skip straight to high-value advanced technologies.
- Sell: Transport produced goods to open markets via connected rail or canal links to gain permanent income increments.
- Loan: Inject immediate capital into your economy by dropping your long-term passive income track.
🧠 Why you’ll like it
It features a deeply tight, player-driven economy. You frequently rely on your opponents’ infrastructure, resources, and beer to succeed, creating an intensely interactive strategic puzzle.