In Roads & Boats, each player builds up a civilization over a long period of time, like in many other games. Unlike most games, however, Roads & Boats is not about warfare, population growth, city or statebuilding. The emphasis instead is on logistics, or rather: on transport. Each player starts the game with three donkeys, a pile of wooden boards, a number of stones and two geese. With these few resources, you try to build such diverse things as woodcutters, roads, boats, mines, a stock exchange. But beware! There is no concept of territory in the game, so anyone can use the buildings you put down, using the goods you had considered to be yours....