Kohle & Kolonie 2nd Edition (GER/ENG)

Kohle & Kolonie takes 3-5 players to the southern Ruhr region at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The players acquire mine fields and operate mining with small and individual mines in the area of today's cities of Essen, Hattingen, Bochum and Witten. They try to expand their mines and operate them profitably. Of course, it is important to draw the necessary labor force to operate the mines from the surrounding villages and farming communities.
In the course of time, the small collieries are merged ("consolidated") into large collieries. Here, the players have to use money at the right time to take over the entire mine field of the large colliery.
They compete not only with the other players, but also with the coal syndicate.
No colliery can operate without infrastructure. Therefore, the players also focus on the local railroad networks and expand them.

Kohle & Kolonie was the second game in author Thomas Spitzer's coal trilogy after Ruhrschifffahrt. It was followed as the third part by the game Haspelknecht.
Long out of print, Kohle & Kolonie is now available again by popular demand in a revised new version. After Schichtwechsel (2021), this is the second game title by Thomas Spitzer to be published by Spielefaible.