Tesla vs. Edison is a light-to-medium weight strategy game for 2-5 players. You are an investor who teams up and creates a company with one of the exciting, visionary inventors leading the nascent electric light and power industry of 1880s and 1890s America.

Your inventor, along with other famous people of the period that you hire as employees in your company, work together to claim electric projects across the United States, advance your company's technology, engage in propaganda wars with the other companies, and buy and sell stock from your and your competitors companies.

Tesla vs. Edison plays quickly and provides interesting decisions while telling the exciting story of the birth of electricity.

Here we show the campaign for the production of the Italian Edition. This campaign run together with the Kickstarter campaign and has the same stretch-goals. In addition of that all copies sold here will include also the Italian rulebook and other Italian components will be added unlocking the related giochistarter stretch-goals (check the list on the left). 

 
This is the same campaign running also on Kickstarter! 

Reviews

"Very, very impressive...it's got a lot of stuff going on and they all really work together in concert. I'm really impressed by it." - https://www.youtube.com/user/rahdo

"Tesla vs. Edison: War of Currents couples an immersive theme with a game that is easy to learn and yet surprisingly deep in terms of its strategy."

- Alex Rosenwald, Board Game Quest

"I have been waiting for a brutal, aggressive, area control stock game. Now I have one - and it's awesome."

- UndeadViking

The Game

In Tesla VS Edison you take the role of a great inventor leading a team of luminaries which will be employed by a power company: you will use your genius to innovate and expand the power grid in the United States. At the same time you have to invest in the various power companies to maximize your profits, in order to be the best shareholder.

Each game is divided into 3 phases, each phase consists of 2 turns, for a total of 6 turns of play.
Before each phase there be an auction, where each player gain a new scientist for his team and a new stock certificate.
In each turn, players take actions to improve the quality and extension of the power grid, increasing the fame or the value of their company or to sell and buy shares of their own or others player’s companies. To perform an action is necessary to exhaust one or more of his scientists, so actions are limited by the number of members of the team; also every scientist has different talents and skills: it will be crucial for the success to engage the best luminaries or the most useful to your strategy.

Available actions are:
• Claim a project on the map
• Advance the technological level of the company
• Engage propaganda
• Participate in the stock market

When players have exhausted all of their scientists, the turn ends and you get the benefits of the actions taken previously.
At the end of the last turn, the game will be won by the player who will own the most value in shares.

The right choice of the members of your team and the actions to be taken, as well as the proper use of the resources available will make your own power company the most flourishing and innovative of all, increasing significantly the value of its shares. But remember that to win the game you have to know how to take advantage of the success of the opposing companies, by buying their actions and facilitating the increase in value, if that will bring profit.

Game Contents

1 board
5 Inventor cards (English) + 5 Inventor cards (Italian)
15 Propaganda cards (thematic text in English) + 15 Propaganda cards (Italian)
15 Luminaries cards (thematic text in English) + 15 Luminaries cards (Italian)
28 Stock Option cards
1.64 millions dollars
82 tokens
English rulebook + Italian rulebook

(board)

(5 Invertor cards on both versions: English and Italian)

(15 Propaganda cards on both versions: English and Italian)

(15 Luminery cards)

(28 Stock Option cards)

(1.64 million dollars)

(82 tokens)

(rulebook)

How to pay?

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.

Shipping 

Shipping by mail to Italy costs simbolically 1 euro. For other Countries shipping cost will be shown after clicking "Proceed to checkout” button on the cart. Aproximately the cost to ship a game to European Union is about 7-9 euro. 

It’s possible pick-up your copy here in Rome for free. Those who choose this option will be able to do it for a week earlier than the beginning of shipments. 

We strongly suggest to specify a telephone number in your profile. This helps a lot the game delivery.

When I will receive it? 

Games will be produced by the english publisher Artana, also the giochistarter games. If production timing will be respected, we will able to ship games on September 2015 (or as soon we will receive the games in our warehouse). We will ship games following the order date. Their completion will take a few days, depending on the amount of participants in the project. Shipments to the participants in the campaign will be made in advance than that to stores and Italian distributors, which will be made only the following month.

Risks and Challenges

Production. Rarely occur production delays out of our control and by our actions. For example there may be a technical problem printing the box or a delay of the supplier of the parts of the game. This fact should be taken into account. We will notify you promptly if something like that were to happen.

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

Shipments made by Courier or by Postal service insured can be tracked and are insured. Shipments made by Postal service without insurance 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. If the game gone lost we will reship it only if you took the insurance option.

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 for 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 back at our expense.

If you live out of the European Community, customs taxes could be added. This usually doesn't happen for USA. Check your Country legislation.