Kraftwagen Fan Site

Components

• 1 gameboard
• 4 player mats
• 41 car body tiles
• 39 engine tiles
• 8 buyer tiles
• 50 research cards
• 9 engineer markers
• 56 price markers
• 10 action tiles
• 56 "workers"
• 4 cars
• 1 marker token
• 4 start tiles
• 10 award tiles
• 12 specialty tiles

Object of the Game

In Kraftwagen, players advance the state of automobile development and production by playing as start-up companies. They must research new technologies and build improved chassis and engines.

Early Grand Prix races provide the young companies with prestige and money, but the players must maintain a key balance of fulfilling the demand preferences of buyers at the lowest possible price. …

Gameboard

Ihe gameboard is divided into several different areas. the action track is the central element - here the players determine the action(s) of their player turn and the play order. Each game turn, the players conduct a car race on the Grand-Prix track.

The players offer cars they have produced onto the market. The market can absorb a total of six cars each turn. The buyer track may determine the end of the action phase and the start of the scoring phase. …

Developments

Players receive research points in the car body and engine categories via Research development cards. Some of the cards earn the player two research points (the card contains either two car bodies, two engines, or one car body and one engine).

Other cards immediately earn the player a car body or engine from the supply (identical to the respective action; please take a look at the icons at the bottom of the card).

The number of research points a player has determines which car bodies and engines a player may take with the car body and engine actions. At the start of the game, each player has one research point in both categories from their respective start tile. …