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Player-recommended age: 12+
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Automobile Deluxe Edition
Automobile Deluxe Edition immerses you in the captivating history of the American auto industry in the early 20th century. In this strategy game for 3-5 players, you'll manage resources, develop technologies, and build your automotive empire to dominate the market. With luxury wooden components, each game lasts about 120 minutes of intense rivalry between industrial competitors. Published by Mayfair Games.
Publisher: Mayfair Games
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Description
Automobile is a 3-5 player game that bears a modern setting when compared to most of Wallace’s releases. Players are competing in the U.S. auto industry in the early 20th century, purchasing factories that turn out low-, medium- and high-valued vehicles, starting with the 1893 Duryea and moving through history from there.
Each player knows a portion of the market demand each round and must make his purchasing and manufacturing decisions based on the information. Players can fund distributors across the country, but if they don’t supply distributors with vehicles to sell, they go bankrupt, taking your investment with them. Alternatively, players can drop the prices on their cars to move their market share, or even temporarily improve sales rates at the cost of research. Special action spaces are available that give a player a one-turn special ability with the actions provided by Ford, Durant, Kettering, and others somewhat related to their actual business history.
As newer models make their way onto the market, they sell at the expense of the older models. Older factories give inefficiency cubes as time passes, encouraging you to keep pace with technology.
To get money, you need to build cars with your factories, but if you build more than there is demand they lose not only the money spent to make them, but gain inefficiency cubes that hurt them for the rest of the game. Whoever manages their car factories the best over this 120-150 minute game will win.
Each player knows a portion of the market demand each round and must make his purchasing and manufacturing decisions based on the information. Players can fund distributors across the country, but if they don’t supply distributors with vehicles to sell, they go bankrupt, taking your investment with them. Alternatively, players can drop the prices on their cars to move their market share, or even temporarily improve sales rates at the cost of research. Special action spaces are available that give a player a one-turn special ability with the actions provided by Ford, Durant, Kettering, and others somewhat related to their actual business history.
As newer models make their way onto the market, they sell at the expense of the older models. Older factories give inefficiency cubes as time passes, encouraging you to keep pace with technology.
To get money, you need to build cars with your factories, but if you build more than there is demand they lose not only the money spent to make them, but gain inefficiency cubes that hurt them for the rest of the game. Whoever manages their car factories the best over this 120-150 minute game will win.
Additional information
| Mechanics: | Commodity Speculation |
| Categories: | Economic Industry/Manufacturing |
| Alternative names: | Automobile 汽车传奇 (汽車傳奇) Automobile Automobile: En route vers la fortune! Automobile: Wheels to Wealth Automobile: Wielen naar Welvaart 汽车传奇 (汽車傳奇) |
| BARCODE: | NOEAN_6780 |
| In 2 wishlists In 2 collections This was seen 6537 times | |
Description
Automobile is a 3-5 player game that bears a modern setting when compared to most of Wallace’s releases. Players are competing in the U.S. auto industry in the early 20th century, purchasing factories that turn out low-, medium- and high-valued vehicles, starting with the 1893 Duryea and moving through history from there.
Each player knows a portion of the market demand each round and must make his purchasing and manufacturing decisions based on the information. Players can fund distributors across the country, but if they don’t supply distributors with vehicles to sell, they go bankrupt, taking your investment with them. Alternatively, players can drop the prices on their cars to move their market share, or even temporarily improve sales rates at the cost of research. Special action spaces are available that give a player a one-turn special ability with the actions provided by Ford, Durant, Kettering, and others somewhat related to their actual business history.
As newer models make their way onto the market, they sell at the expense of the older models. Older factories give inefficiency cubes as time passes, encouraging you to keep pace with technology.
To get money, you need to build cars with your factories, but if you build more than there is demand they lose not only the money spent to make them, but gain inefficiency cubes that hurt them for the rest of the game. Whoever manages their car factories the best over this 120-150 minute game will win.
Each player knows a portion of the market demand each round and must make his purchasing and manufacturing decisions based on the information. Players can fund distributors across the country, but if they don’t supply distributors with vehicles to sell, they go bankrupt, taking your investment with them. Alternatively, players can drop the prices on their cars to move their market share, or even temporarily improve sales rates at the cost of research. Special action spaces are available that give a player a one-turn special ability with the actions provided by Ford, Durant, Kettering, and others somewhat related to their actual business history.
As newer models make their way onto the market, they sell at the expense of the older models. Older factories give inefficiency cubes as time passes, encouraging you to keep pace with technology.
To get money, you need to build cars with your factories, but if you build more than there is demand they lose not only the money spent to make them, but gain inefficiency cubes that hurt them for the rest of the game. Whoever manages their car factories the best over this 120-150 minute game will win.
Additional information
| Mechanics: | Commodity Speculation |
| Categories: | Economic Industry/Manufacturing |
| Alternative names: | Automobile 汽车传奇 (汽車傳奇) Automobile Automobile: En route vers la fortune! Automobile: Wheels to Wealth Automobile: Wielen naar Welvaart 汽车传奇 (汽車傳奇) |
| BARCODE: | NOEAN_6780 |
| In 2 wishlists In 2 collections This was seen 6537 times | |
What players say · data and reviews published by users of BoardGameGeek
How many players it plays best with · 142 votes on BoardGameGeek
- 1 0 0 say it plays best, 0 recommend it, 72 do not recommend it
- 2 0 0 say it plays best, 5 recommend it, 73 do not recommend it
- 3 5 5 say it plays best, 57 recommend it, 49 do not recommend it
- 4 46 46 say it plays best, 74 recommend it, 5 do not recommend it
- 5 85 85 say it plays best, 32 recommend it, 10 do not recommend it
- 5+ 1 1 say it plays best, 0 recommend it, 55 do not recommend it
Best Suggested Not recommended
CAUTION! Not suitable for children under 3 years of age. It contains small parts which could be swallowed or inhaled.