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#162: John Company Second Edition

Game Brain: A Board Game Podcast About Our Gaming Group

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The Story of the East India Company

The game follows the story of the East India Company and you can play multiple scenarios starting all the way back from 1710. This is not the story of England invading and colonizing India, this is the story of a privately held company that then became public with stocks. And this company actually at one point had a standing army of 200,000 people, a company. That's crazy. Like if Amazon had 200,000 soldiers with guns that were just taking what they wanted from other countries.

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