Chartered: Building Amsterdam Board Game

About this product

Build the city. Grow the companies. Own the right shares.

A competitive economic strategy game of warehouses, stocks and perfectly timed mergers.

Build trading companies across 17th-century Amsterdam, invest in their shares and outmanoeuvre rival merchants to become the wealthiest player in the city.

Product Description

Welcome to Amsterdam in the early 1600s, where trade is booming, ships are travelling to distant lands and ambitious merchants are competing for economic success.

In Chartered: Building Amsterdam, you establish companies by constructing warehouses across the city, then invest in those companies by buying their stocks. As companies expand, their value rises, increasing the potential value of the shares you hold.

Each turn gives you important choices. Purchase new Building cards, play a Building card to place a warehouse, or sell stocks to free up cash. Building can found a new company, expand an existing one or bring neighbouring companies together in a merger. 

Mergers are where things become particularly interesting. When companies connect, the higher-valued company absorbs the lower-valued one, potentially changing the fortunes of every player who invested in them. Stocks in the absorbed company can be sold, while its value is added to the surviving company. 

The four modular boards can also be rearranged once you know the game, creating different city layouts and fresh strategic challenges from one game to the next.

When the final available warehouse is built, stocks are converted back into money. Add the value of your investments to your remaining cash, the richest merchant wins. 

View the Chartered: Building Amsterdam Rulebook (PDF)

Why You’ll Love It

• Build and invest: Grow companies on the board while deciding which stocks are worth owning.
• Company values keep changing: Expanding a company increases its value, creating new opportunities for investors.
• Strategic mergers: Connect rival companies and watch the stronger company absorb the weaker one.
• Timing matters: Growing a company also earns the player responsible a payout based on its new value. 
• Stock events add disruption: Certain company-value milestones can trigger bidding, trading and auction events.
• Modular city layout: Four boards allow different Amsterdam configurations for added replayability.

Quick Details

• Publisher: Jolly Dutch
• Designers: Alexander Kneepkens & Arnold van Binsbergen
• Players: 2–5
• Age: 10+
• Play time: 60 minutes
• Game type: Economic strategy board game
• Setting: Amsterdam in the early 1600s
• Core play: Building companies, stock investment, company expansion and mergers
• Board: 4 modular boards
• Rules: Dutch and English

What’s in the Box

• 4 Boards
• 1 Stock Chart
• 9 sets of 9 Stock Cards, 1 Stock Token and 1 HQ
• 62 Normal Warehouses
• 10 Broken Roofs
• 114 Building Cards
• 15 Stock Event Cards
• 10 Action Cards
• 150 Money Tokens
• 2 Punchboard Helpers
• Dutch Rules
• English Rules

Good to Know

• Companies can merge: The higher-valued company normally absorbs the lower-valued company when they become connected. 
• Company values have a ceiling: No company can grow beyond ƒ300. 
• Variable setups: Once familiar with the game, players can rearrange the modular boards using alternative layouts.
• Eco-conscious production: The product carries Jolly Dutch's Eco Friendly branding.
• Winner: The player with the greatest combined stock value and cash at the end wins.