Quartal

This is an economic game self-published bye Joe Zihlmann from Switzerland. Winner of the game is the player who first build a trust of 7 companies. The 5 different kind of companies must be part of the winning trust. Every player starts with 2 companies, fixed by the rules. The 5 different companies are: Producer of oil, Producer of metal, Producer of energy, a Factory and a commerce. Every player has industry-terrain on which he places his company and the elements produced there. The producers supply the resources, and the factory builds the end-product with 1 of the three resources. Then with the commerce you try to sell that product to the market. In addition, all things can be traded between the players or the market (when available). The Market is defined with a "wheel", in every round it will be turned/shuffled and shows the buy- and sell-numbers for this turn. A Turn (all players): 1. Shuffle the market 2. Player produce resources. 3. Buy and/or trade resources with the market and/or the other players. 4. Production of end-products from the players factories 5. All players try to sell their end-products 6. All players must pay their storage-costs and taxes 7. Buy or sell of companies.