Judging by the smirk on the face of the Sultan of Solo, the businessman from North Sumatra has just made a mistake. And a costly one at that, too. He has paid way too much for merging his rubber company with the Sultan’s extensive rubber plantations: there are no ships in the area to transport the rubber to the booming cities of Java. And the Sultan is now dripping in cash — he can bribe city authorities so that his ships will gain preferential access to those ports where they are competing. Or he might invest in building an oil imperium. But wait — what’s that young fellow over there up to? Buying all the shipping lines? That might change the outlook … considerably, in fact … let’s see…
Indonesia is a game in which 2-5 players build up an economy. As the game unfolds, the basic agricultural economy develops into early industry —the players getting rich in the meantime by producing and transporting goods, and by acquiring and merging companies at the right time, and for the right price. The game takes three to four hours to complete.
Here is the file I created to make my Era cards for Indonesia. The cards have all the misprints corrected. They are ~68mm x 120mm which fit the War of the Ring: CE card sleeves perfectly.
Summary of play that can be used as a reference sheet.
In 1 page.
To be printed on both sides (with page reversed on back) and cut in the middle to make two half page two sided reference sheets.
Please send any comments or mistakes I might have made.
Reference sheet useful for quick referencing and provides a structured summary for teaching the game.
This version contains minor enhancements.
See the Hansa Teutonica game entry if you are interested in ref sheets for other games that I’ve made. If you do not have Microsoft Powerpoint, a PDF version is also available there.
This file contains labels for both sides of 3/4 inch wooden blocks to be used as replacements for the wooden boats that come with the game. This is intended to make it easier to keep track of how much hull capacity is left during an operation phase when goods are being shipped.