Your Galleys teeming with crew and cargo while you sail the Mediterranean seas, while your sole purpose is control the most prosperous trade routes, and ensure your strategy will succeed in filling your warehouses with a veritable fortune in gold, precious stones and spices.
In this game players represent a merchant family during the Renaissance. Players attempt to balance the need of trading and open commerce versus the cut-throat economic piracy of the day. Players create a fleet of ships to purchase and move various commodities around the Mediterranean while also keeping well manned ships to attack and defend against other player's fleets.
Game Contents:
1 game board
15 galleys
1 sheet of stickers
120 Sailor tokens
1 Black token and 1 White token
15 Black cubes
14 Wood cubes
12 Stone cubes
12 Marble cubes
12 Wine cubes
10 Gold cubes
10 Spice cubes
19 Port cards
5 Doge cards
4 Game Help cards
4 Closed cards
5 Fort tokens
6 Basilica tokens
53 coins (1, 5, 10 and 50 Ducats)
1 rulebook
Game Features:
Attractive game board and artwork.
Revised game play – from 4 hrs to a maximum of 2 hrs.
Combat take place using special dice