Wildcatters is a tactical and strategic board game set during the booming business of the 19th century oil industry!
The players are oil barons who develop oil fields; bid for oil
rights; and build rigs, oil tankers, trains, and refineries. Your goal
is to deliver more oil barrels to the continents than the other players
while also collecting more shares and money then them.
The game lasts seven rounds with four players, and the game set-up is
the same for each player, with three rigs, two trains, one tanker and
one refinery being placed on the board. The game board features a world
map divided into eight areas where you can find oil. Players choose an
open area card and get money to build rigs, tankers, trains and
refineries, after which they can buy oil actions. The players work
together in an oilfield to find oil at a lower cost. The players
transport oil together to the refineries, using trains and tankers from
other players to deliver oil to the refineries – and all with one
purpose: deliver more oil then the other players by the end of the game.
For a sessrep review from our first play in Malaysia, go to http://boardgamecafe.net/2014/03/09/bgc-meetup-report-otk-cheras-1012014-first-play-of-wildcatters/
