Get Ready for The Great Race Citroën Board Game
In 1919, Adolphe Kégresse joined Citroën’s “All-terrain” Vehicle Department and 1920 and designed the first model of the famous Citroën Kégresse, that in various forms was produced from 1921 to 1940.
François-Gilles Ricard is launching a KickStarter project in March that is a board game based on La Croissiere Noir, the famous Citroën Kegresse expedition that took place on the African continent from October 28, 1924, to June 26, 1925.
Also called “Citroën Center Africa Expedition” or “2nd Haardt Audouin-Dubreuil mission”, (the first was to Egypt), it was envisioned and backed by André Citroën in order to make his company better known and to open a regular motor route crossing the African continent.
The game will be replete with moulded Kégresse vehicle pieces and, as the name says, is a great race that puts the various Kégresse vehicles in competition.
You can see more development pics of the game here: https://www.facebook.com/The-Great-Race-le-jeu-120991439297120/?modal=admin_todo_tour and film footage clips of the Croissiere Noir here: https://www.platypusgame.com/videos
Look for The Great Race game on Kickstarter and back it if you’d like to play a Citroën Croissiere Noir adventure at home later in 2020!
If you missed this Kickstarter, you know The Great Race game was hard to find.
That is changing. Starting June 22, 2021, Platypus Game is launching a dual Kickstarter campaign, both for “The Great Race 2” and an upgraded reprint of the original game. “2” is subtitled “Wild West and Far East,” and uses a DOUBLE map for the US and Asia. Five new teams compete, and new modules will be included. Plus, folks can get the original TGR (Africa and South America) and the modules from the Kickstarter. Choose one or both! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thegreatrace/the-great-race-2?ref=discovery&term=The%20Great%20race