Kohle & Kolonie 2nd Edition

Kohle & Kolonie takes players to the southern Ruhr area at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Players acquire mining fields and operate small and individual mines in the area of today's cities Essen, Hattingen, Bochum, and Witten. They try to expand their mines and operate them profitably. Of course, it is important to recruit the necessary workforce from the surrounding villages and farms to operate the mines. Over time, the small mines are consolidated into large mines. Here, players must invest money at the right time to take over the entire mining field of the large mine. They compete not only with other players but also with the coal syndicate. Without infrastructure, no mine can be operated. Therefore, players also focus on the local railway networks and expand them. Kohle & Kolonie was the second game in the coal trilogy by author Thomas Spitzer, following Ruhrschifffahrt. The third part was the game Haspelknecht. Long out of print, Kohle & Kolonie is now available again in a revised edition at the request of many. After Schichtwechsel (2021), this is the second game title by Thomas Spitzer published by Spielefaible.