Kraftwagen

In 1888 Bertha Benz drove her husband's motor car from Mannheim to Pforzheim, ran out of fuel and found chemicals at a pharmacy, inventing the gas station on the spot. Kraftwagen starts there and carries you to 1928, when combustion engines have beaten steam and electric motors and cars roll off assembly lines. You run a start-up car maker, researching technology, building better chassis and engines, and entering early Grand Prix races for prestige and money. It is a Euro of worker placement, rondel and set collection, where a turn-order track rewards patient timing. Plan on seventy-five minutes and a table full of tiny engineering dilemmas.