Introduction

Clans of Caledonia is a highly replayable economic strategy game for 1 to 4 players set in 19th century Scotland. It was an era when Scotland made the challenging transition from an agricultural country to an industrialized one, heavily relying on trade and export. 

As proud members of the old clans you use your unique abilities and cunning skill to earn the greatest wealth and fame.

Clans of Caledonia has a unique blend of mechanisms and includes elements of engine-building games (e.g. Terra Mystica) and economic mechanisms such as a dynamic market (e.g. Navegador) and export contracts (e.g. Voyages of Marco Polo). 

The way you produce whisky, bread and cheese from grain and milk is interwoven with the trade and export of goods. This makes it a highly interactive strategy game, with great strategic depth despite having a very accessible rule set.  

Why join the campaign?

• Because Clans of Caledonia is a highly strategy economic eurogame, for a 30 minutes per player.
  
  
• Because you will pay the game less than its release price (55.00€ MRSP).
  
  
• Because here you can pay with Paypal in 5 installments (zero interests)!
  
  
• Because with the Fidelity program, every purchase you make on Giochistarter allows you to accumulate a discount, which is linked to your account, and which is always valid. This discount is valid on all platforms Giochix: www.giochistarter.it, www.giochix.it and www.achegiochiamo.it.
  
  
• Because you will receive the game earlier than normal distribution by shops.

Game Contents

The game ends after five rounds. Each round consists of the three phases:

1. Players' turns
2. Production phase
3. Round scoring

1. Players take turns and do one of eight possible actions, from building, to upgrading, trading and exporting. When players run out of money, they pass and collect a passing bonus.

2. In the production phase, each player collects basic resources, refined goods and cash from their production units built on the game map. Each production unit built makes income visible on the player mat. Refined goods require the respective basic resource.

3. Players receive VPs depending on the scoring tile of the current round.

At the end of the fifth round it starts the Scoring Phase.
The player with the most Victory Points is proclaimed the Greatest Clan Chief of Caledonia and wins the game.

English Rulebook is avalaible here.








Shipping

Shipping to Italy costs 4.27 euros. For other countries, the shipping cost will be shown after clicking the "Proceed to checkout” button on the cart. Some examples (there are different options, the cheapest solution is shown):

France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, UK, Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Norway: 10.95 euro (courier)
USA/Canada: 12 euro (postal service)
China, Japan, South Korea, Israel, Turkey: 12 euro (postal service)

Retailer shipping cost depends on order size and is shown on the Shipping cost page.

You can also pick-up your copy free of charge at our pickup point in Rome. If the game will be ready, will be also possible to pick-up it at our stand at the Essen Fair (Germany) or at the Lucca Comics and Games Fair (Italy). If the game will not be ready in time, shipping costs will be due.

Games will be shipped from November 2017 or as soon the publisher Karma Games will provide us the games.

Note: We strongly suggest that you specify a telephone number in your profile. This helps a lot with the game delivery. We will use the address specified in your GS account profile at the moment of shipping: this means you can change it as you wish until that date, as we will use the last address provided.



Important Notes

Production. A distinction must be made between games that are printed by Giochix directly and those that are printed “indirectly” by another publisher.

In the first case, we have direct control over the entire printing process and we can intervene quickly to adjust for any potential issues where necessary.

In the second case, we may only interact with the publisher that prints the game, without any ability to make immediate changes during the production process.

This means that once the games are printed by us, the shipping date that we have indicated in the project will be a reasonably safe deadline. While we are confident in our abilities to meet the designated timing, unfortunately, delays are always a possibility and this must be taken into account. In the second case, for “indirect” games, the shipping date is purely indicative.

Unfortunately it can happen that the deliveries suffer a delay and this should be considered before making a purchase. Of course we will inform you immediately if something were to happen.

-> Clans of Caledonia is printed by Karma games. It is therefore a “indirect” game.

Components. Game specifications and components are to be considered indicative of the final product and may be changed during final production.

Project pages. Sometime there can be small vartiations between the pages of this project in the different languages. In that case, refer to the project’s English page.

Fairs. It is possible for the game's shipment to be scheduled to occur during a time frame close to a larger game fair, such as; Essen Fair in Germany or Lucca Comics and Games in Italy. It is important to note that we will be showing/selling the game at these fairs independently of campaign participant shipment status. Attending these fair events is vital to the game's chances for success.

Order Canceling. An order can be canceled/refunded before the end of the campaign or within 15 days from the order date  by clicking on the specific button in the order page (or by sending us an e-mail with the contact form with the specific request). Besides these options, the order is considered as valid and is not cancelable/refundable.
If an user has not paid the full amount due, he can can do so by clicking one of the payment buttons on the order page. Orders paid only partially will be awaiting full payment before being processed and shipped.

No Reward. Participation is bound to buy a reward. We can not accept money as a donation. Any participations that do not end with the purchase of an asset will be canceled and refunded.

Shipments. We ship by postal service or by supported courier (UPS, GLS, SDA, etc.)

We reserve the right to separate the contents of an order into different shipments or to merge the contents of different orders in the same shipment to improve the shipment's delivery speed and any required logistics management. If this happens, there will not be any additional costs to you as a customer (nor right to any refund).

Shipments made by courier or by insured postal service can be tracked and are considered insured.

Shipments made by the postal service are not insured and cannot be traced. While rare it is also possible that a package may be lost (0.1-1%). The insurance option for postal services costs an additional 3 euros.

Courier shipments may take about 1-2 days for Italy, 3-6 days for EU/US/Canada and 1-2 weeks for the rest of the world. Postal service shipments require about 1-2 weeks for Italy, 2-7 weeks for EU/US/Canada and 4-8 weeks for the rest of the world. Please note that the postal service in the same case can be slow and may suffer several weeks of additional delay. This happens very rarely but it is still a possibility and is out of our control. If you would like a faster delivery, or wish to avoid any risk of a long delay in the arrival of the package, please use a courier service.

Courier shipment insures against package loss, destruction and package damage. Postal service insurance insures against package loss or destruction. Insurance requires a customer claim to be made when the package is delivered. Ask the postman.

If the game failed to arrive because of your mistake (wrong address, recipient absent, not picking up at courier/postal warehouse, etc.), you will have to pay an additional shipping/warehousing cost for us to re-send/re-deliver your game. This cost will also include the return costs of the game. On the other hand, if the error is ours, we will send it again to you at our expense. If the package is lost or destroyed, we will reship it at our expense only if it was insured.

Please note that we will not reship any game without first having investigated what happened to the first shipment. This can be processeed quickly through the courier service option, but may require an additional 1-5 weeks through the postal service.

If you live outside of the European Community, custom's taxes may be added. This usually doesn't happen for boardgames; however, please check your country's rules and regulations as this aspect will not be our responsibility.

We will no longer accept complaints related to this campaign after 12 months from the date of shipment. (ver 14)