Congo Rulebook
Congo is a miniature game that offers you to follow the footsteps of great
explorers like Stanley and Livingstone and head out to the heart of Dark Africa,
deep into the Basin of the great Congo River. This new venture is primarily an
adventure game, aimed at intrepid players, willing to risk everything in a
desperate quest for fame, wealth and knowledge.
The period covered by Congo is fascinating. Well before the massive arrival
of Europeans, adventurers pioneered the exploration of the African subcontinent.
They were explorers, scientists or Arab merchants and traders. At the head of
columns of many men (most of them natives), they went into the jungle or
followed the tracks of the savannah, with various objectives (some of them being
less than moral). And throughout their journeys, their journey brought them into
the lands of many indigenous tribes who have never seen white people and their
path took them through the kingdoms of major African powers like the Azande.
Today, a mouse click allows us to contemplate vast exotic landscapes or
communicate with remote friends living thousands of kilometers away, and it is
hard to imagine the difficulties these explorers faced. The climate,
environment, fauna, flora and local population were so many pitfalls that could
transform the expedition into a terrible and deadly fiasco. And you really
needed a good dose of courage, recklessness or greed to enter the
Congo Basin.
Contents:
- Rulebook (hardcover, 108 pages, full colour)
- Deck of 44 cards
- Punch out sheet of tokens and measuring sticks needed for the game
- 4 x double sided “The Bulletin” sheets (8 Adventures for
the game)
- Double sided Dangerous Terrain cardboard sheet