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Import / Export: Captain Edition


45m - 90m

2 - 5 Players

Ages 8+
This mechanic requires you to place a bid, usually monetary, on items in an auction of goods in order to enhance your position in the game. These goods allow players future actions or improve a position. The auction consists of taking turns placing bids on a given item until one winner is established, allowing the winner to take control of the item being bid on. Usually there is a game rule that helps drop the price of the items being bid on if no players are interested in the item at its current price.
Auction/Bidding
In-game money is bet on different commodities in hope that that particular commodity will become the most valuable as the game progresses. Often the values of the commodities are continually changing throughout the game, and the players buy and sell the commodities to make money off of their investment.
Commodity Speculation
Hand management games are games with cards in them that reward players for playing the cards in certain sequences or groups. The optimal sequence/grouping may vary, depending on board position, cards held and cards played by opponents. Managing your hand means gaining the most value out of available cards under given circumstances. Cards often have multiple uses in the game, further obfuscating an "optimal" sequence.
Hand Management
This mechanic usually requires players to pick up an item or good at one location on the playing board and bring it to another location on the playing board. Initial placement of the item can be either predetermined or random. The delivery of the good usually gives the player money to do more actions with. In most cases, there is a game rule or another mechanic that determines where the item needs to go.
Pick-up and Deliver
Maneuvers that directly attack an opposing player's strength, level, life points or do something else to impede their progress.
Take That
Variable Player Powers is a mechanic that grants different abilities and/or paths to victory to the players.
Variable Player Powers

Nautical

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  1. 4 out of 10

    Pales compared to its (somewhat more than loose) inspiration Glory to Rome. Has more stuff and rules and fiddly bits than the latter, all of which do not add enjoyment, only bookkeeping and frustration. Seeing how much of the rules is a straight copy, you’d like to see at least a symbolic nod towards Chudyk in the rule book.

  2. 8 out of 10

    Brain-burner of a card game with heavily multi-use cards. Lives up to the advertisement being the midpoint between Glory to Rome and Container.

  3. NEW Still Sealed Make/100 Kickstarter Edition w/ 14 Limited Edition model ships + (Make/100) Alternate Artwork & First Player Yellow Buoy + 5 Kickstarter Expansion Cards + 3 Special Goods Cards with Alternate Win Conditions + 10 Card Expansion originally released with the Jutaku Kickstarter Also: Capital Expansion + Tokyo Expansion

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The Captain Edition is the “all-in” backer level for the Import/Export Kickstarter campaign.

[Description from publisher]Import / Export is a role selection game with a passive and active economy driven by player decisions.

You have the power to gain over 100 unique powers by exporting shipments of goods, specializing into a varied tech tree, and unlocking advanced game engines that will be completely unique to each play!

Once your shipments enter the open sea, someone can trigger an Import action, where everyone will hold a silent auction to buy your containers and either allocate them as a future end game investment or an immediate boost to their available actions for specific roles.

The end goal of the game is to have the most credits, which will be a combination of your physical credits, passive credits that were saved as imported goods, plus any bonuses from completed shipments.

Contents include:

Import / Export base game

1 game box with Spot UV printing
100 poker sized goods cards
12 bridge sized player ship cards
6 large sized player harbor cards
1 large sized supply island card
50 white credit cubes
42 red credit rectangles
1 rulebook
1 captain card, 4 player aid cards, 1 fold-out goods appendix

15 unique Kickstarter expansion cards

Tokyo expansion

10 Japanese themed goods cards with crazy powers
1 large sized Port of Tokyo card
1 rule sheet

Capital expansion

15 grey colored capital goods cards that add a new action and rules to the game
1 rule sheet

+ 10 promotional expansion cards released with the Jutaku Kickstarter campaign

+ 12 colorful model ships that replace your ship cards and extend the nautical theme

+ 3 special goods cards only available with the Captain Edition

Ages

8+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players, 6 Players
Play Time

45m – 90m
Designer

Jordan Draper
Mechanics

Auction/Bidding, Commodity Speculation, Hand Management, Pick-up and Deliver, Stock Holding, Take That, Variable Player Powers
Theme

Bluffing, Card Game, Economic, Industry / Manufacturing, Math, Nautical, Transportation
Publisher

Dark Flight, Jordan Draper Games, Spiele-Offensive.de
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