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Ties to the East India Company run deep in your family. A few of your nephews are serving in the Army of Bombay under the supervision of your eldest son.... (read more)
Ties to the East India Company run deep in your family. A few of your nephews are serving in the Army of Bombay under the supervision of your eldest son. After cashing in some favors, your youngest family member has secured a position in Parliament. Now, a fresh scandal threatens the doddering Chairman. This is your moment ot seize control of the Company.
Will you build the most powerful corporation the world has ever seen or help destroy it?
John Company is an interactive historical game about the rise and fall of the British East India Company from the designer of Root, Pax Pamir, and Oath.
John Company is a business game with an important twist: players must collectively steer the fate of a single, sprawling organization. They must navigate its vast bureaucracy while reckoning with the consequences of their actions on the Indian subcontinent.
Guide the fate of the world's most powerful corporation whilst you negotiate your family into prestige and power in the 18th century. John Company is the culmination of over a decade of research and offers an uncompromising portrait of the people who laid the foundations of the British Empire.
Mechanisms:
• Bribery• Dice Rolling• Negotiation• Push Your Luck• Simulation• Voting