Furnace: Interbellum

Game Designer: Ivan Lashin
Artwork: Oleg Yurkov, Sergey Dulin, Vadim Poluboyarov, Marta Ivanova, Egor Zharkov, Ilya Konovalov

30-60 min

1–5

12+

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Game Overview

Furnace: Interbellum is an expansion to our 2021 Bestseller Furnace!

Furnace expands into the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century — the interwar period known as the interbellum. In this expansion, you will find new Company cards and Capitalists, new abilities, Manager tokens, variable Capital discs, a set of components for a fifth player, and new Agents for two-player and single-player games. All of this exists within beautiful industrial buildings and structures from the epoch of Art Deco, Constructivism, and Bauhaus.

Interbellum is designed for players who are already familiar with Furnace. The expansion is best played if all of its elements are added to the base game, but if you don’t feel up to it, you can get to know it piece by piece.

Features:

∙ New age: roaring twenties/ Interbellum: Skyscrapers, airships, cars, electricity

∙ New architectural styles: Art Deco, Bauhaus, Constructivism

∙ Industrialists, buildings and factories from all over the world, from USA to Japan

∙ New capitalist and start-up cards

∙ Components for the 5th player, rules for the 5 player game

∙ Solo-mode and new mode for 2 players

∙ Each player gets a new capital disk with the variable value

∙ New card abilities, including permanent and one-time effects

∙ New manager tokens that add new abilities to companies and start-ups . Each round player decides what managers to use and where

∙ All those new mechanics make production phase as flexible and exciting as the auction phase

International Publishers

English edition — Arcane Wonders
German edition — Kobold Spieleverlag
Spanish-Portuguese edition — Maldito Games
Japanese edition — Jelly Jelly Games
Chinese edition — CMON Asia
Korean edition — Midnight Jungle

Key Selling Points

Furnace expansion – enhance your experience

New modes: solo, new mode for 2 players, 5 players mode

New card abilities, including permanent and one-time effects

Box 23 х 15,5 х 4,5 cm (smaller than base game)

40 cards

2 tiles sheets

5 double-sided rotating disks with a variable value

4 wooden disks of blue color (similar to base game)

Base resources: 5 yellow Oil, 10 blue Iron, 15 black Coal

Rulebook

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English Review by @gameboardmaster — Reading Time: 3 min.

Furnace is such a great game for experienced and new gamers. This expansion brings so much more goodness out of it. <...> It was thoroughly entertaining, extensive, challenging and absolute fun!

English Review by @dice_n_josh — Reading Time: 2 min.

…if you like the game already and want a little more variability in it… this delivers with greatness!

English Review by BoardGameShots – Reading Time: 5 min.

This expansion makes the game more interesting by adding variety and depth. The manager tokens are a great way to make the company cards more dynamic, and the new powers on company cards give you more things to think about.

Spanish & English review by Free the Meeple – Reading time: 2 min.

Good and interesting new elements. I like the new effects, being able to improve your companies with manager tokens, and the flexibility given by the variable capital disc.

English review by @boardgames.joel – Reading time: 2 min.

If you enjoy Furnace and are looking for more variety and crunch, we would definitely recommend this expansion.

English review by Board Game Gumbo – Reading time: 6 min.

Furnace with the Interbellum expansion still delivers the essential experiences of the base game. You still get the pleasure of building an engine and running it as efficiently as possible. You will still get that cold chill of anticipation as you wait for your turn to bid, hoping that someone doesn’t put the same size chip you were planning to play on the card you really wanted to affect. And you can still put your opponents on ice by freezing them out of the card they really want.

English review by @woodandmeeples – Reading time: 2 min.

Overall, this is a good expansion that adds a lot more cards and content to add more variety to your game. We will definitely use this expansion in our games of Furnace going forward.

English review by Doctor Phil – Reading time: 4 min.

After playing with the expansion, I prefer the added complexity of some of those cards, as well as the other incentives like manager tokens and the variable bidding token, so I wouldn’t go back to the base game.

English review by @2player_board – Reading time: 1 min.

We recently bought the Interbellum expansion that adds a fifth player, a new disc for bidding with a twist, and extra content. We have played it a few times already and most of the people we presented the game have enjoyed too.

English review by Dale Yu (Opinionated Gamers) – Reading time: 6 min.

Once everyone is familiar with the game, you can play with the expansion in probably 30-40 minutes, and there is definitely a lot of game here for that short time period. Each game will end up being a little different due to alterations made in setup (giving a different deck distribution) as well as which Manager tokens come into play (and which Business school cards are randomly chosen to be part of the auction tableau). The added complexity of the game with the expansion more than makes up for the added game time.