We are proud to present the preordering campaign of this game by Gotha Games that will be launched at the imminent next Essen fair. The authors are Remo Conzadori and Nestore Mangone.

Milan, early 20th century, the city is in turmoil as more than 200 new buildings are rushed to being completed in time for welcoming the best minds of the planet. The 1906 Universal Exposition is approaching and, as one of the 40 exhibiting nations, you are confident that your engineers and scientists will impress the world. Who will exhibit the most impressive technological advancements? Which energy source will prevail: the majestic power of Steam or the more elegant and efficient Electricity? Can you prevail in prestige and glory against the other competing nations?

Why join this compaign?

• Because Expo 1906 is a strategic game with some innovative and funny mechanics.
• Becuse you can play this game with your friends or in the solo version.
• Because now you can purchase Expo 1906 with a 15% discount.
• Because with the Fidelity Program, for each purchase made giochistarter allows you to gain/increase a permanent discount linked on your account.
  
• Because here you can join to the "Faster Click" contest and win the game Tiny Epic Defenders, if you will be the faster participant to join the campaign. 
  

The Game

Expo 1906 is a mind-boggling game of inventions and technological advancement in which strategy and puzzle solving combine together to give a truly intense, rich and deep game experience.

A game lasts 90 minutes and can be played from 1 to 4 payers.

Players will win by totaling more Prestige Points at the end of the game than their opponents. Points are awarded for completing Projects which represent historical inventions of the period. To complete a Project, a player must purchase Resources and place them in a proper combinations together with a Project in his Laboratory. This is a challenging task as Projects come in many different shapes and must fit together with their resources in an already tight space. Soon the available room in the Laboratory will reduce and players will face the puzzle solving aspect of the game.

Strategy plays an important role too: to speed up the completion of a Project players can acquire Technologies, which can either reduce the number of Resources required to complete a Project or enhance the type of actions at their disposal. This will require careful management of the available space in their Laboratory too. Also, by registering ideas at the Patents'Office players can become leader in the development of specific Resources and accumulate more prestige points when completing Projects. Setting priorities between all these actions will become critical as players rush to prepare in time for the upcoming World Exposition.

Rules

English rules are available here.

How To Play

The game lasts at maximum ten rounds. Each player can play more turns in the same round. Players alternate in clockwise order with everyone taking one turn until the round is over. In each turn a player plays an Action Card and performs one or more actions. The round ends when a player uses the card “Meeting room”.

The Academy and Train actions allow to obtain Resorces, Technology and Projects tiles from the main board.

Resorces tiles provide two different types of resources; technology tiles give a permanent bonus in resources or actions; Project tiles come in 5 different shapes, require 4 different types of resources to be completed in different quantities and mix and give Prestige Points when completed.

The Laboratory action allows to place your tiles on your Laboratory board in order to complete as many Projects as possible. This is the most fun and complicated part of the game because the tiles must be schifted and rotate more times in order to find the right place in a very thight space.

Resources and Technology tiles must be placed adjacent to the related Project, so you must find the right position for everything in your Laboratory.

The Skyscraper action gives you some funds, necessary to support Projects, while the Journal action allows to move your markers on the Patents Office tracks, in order to gain more Prestige point with your projects and some bonuses.

Each player has 3 markers to advance on the tracks. Only at the right cost and the right point of the track you can move your markers from a track to others.

The game ends after 10 rounds or when the game end condition are triggered by one player. Now the Jury expresses his vote for the Steam or Electric energy and all players totalize their Prestige point to determine the winner.

Game Contents

1 Game Board
4 Personal Lab Boards
20 Player tokens (4 colours)
13 Technology tiles
30 Project tiles
96 Resource tiles
20 Scrap tiles
16 Jury tiles
4 play order / +30 VP tiles
24 Action Cards
5 enhanced Action Cards
6 Bonus VP chits
1 English rulebook

Shipment an Payment

Payment. You can pay with credit cards, Paypal or by Bank wire transfer. Payments must be made within 10 days from the date of the order or the order will be canceled.

Shipment. Shipping to Italy costs 3.73 euro. For USA, Canada, EU countries and other other world Countries shipping cost will be shown after clicking "Proceed to checkout” button on the cart. Shop shipping cost depends by order size and it's shown on Shipping cost page.

It’s possible pick-up your copy for free at our stand in Essen Fair (Germany, 6-10 October) or on our stand in Lucca Comics and Games (Italy) or our pickup point in Rome. Note: Essen pickup will not included printed italian rulebook and any additional games for Expo Early backers, but only English game version with English rulebook.

Games will be delivered approximately on November 2015. Early backers, which got a free game, must specify the game type whitin the shipment date. If not, the free game will be shipped later, but shipment costs will be due.

Note: We strongly suggest to specify a telephone number in your profile. This helps a lot the game delivery. We will use the address specified in your GS account profile at the shipping date: this means you can change it as you wish whitin the date of shipment.

Important Notes

Production. Rarely can occur a production delay out of our control and by our actions. For example there may be a technical problem with the tipography, a delay of a supplier, or a problem with the publisher which is directly printing the game (for example when we made an Italian version of an English game).

These facts should be taken into account. Anyway we will notify you promptly if something like that were to happen.

Contents. Game specifications and contents are indicative and can be changed during final production.

Progect pages. Sometime can be there some little variances on the different language project pages on Giochistarter (Italian, French, English, Spanish, German). In that case, refer to the project English page.

Shipments. Depending on the game, we ship by Postal service, Postal service insured or by Courier (UPS/GLS/Bartolini/SDA).

Shipments made by Courier or by Postal service insured can be tracked and are insured. Shipments made by Postal service (not insured) can not be traced and, although it rarely does, it can happen that they delay or are lost. We recommend to those who want to avoid any problem to use the insured option or an alternative method, if available.

We reserve the right to separate the contents of an order in different shipments or to merge the contents of different orders in the same shipment to improve shipment delivery speed and logistic managment. If that happens, there will not be any additional cost for the customer or right to any refund.

Shipments insurance doesn't cover any external damage to the box.

If the game will not be delivered because of your mistake (wrong address, recipient repeatedly absent, do not pick up the package after the passage of the courier, etc.), you will have to pay an additional shipping cost to re-send you the game. This cost will also include the return costs of the game. Otherwise, if we made an error, we will send it again to you at our expense.
If the game gone lost without any fault, we will reship it only if you took insurance option or Courier service.

If you live out of the European Community, customs taxes could be added. This usually doesn't happen for boardgames. Check your Country legislation to be sure about that, ad this aspect is not a our responsability.

We will no longer accept complaints related to this campaign after 12 months of its term.