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Product detailed description

Bay of Merchants is an asymmetric fantasy eurogame, where each player takes on the role of a completely unique merchant and manages their trade with magical items. You will sell goods to adventurers who sail into the harbor, whose docks and waterfront are not only a safe haven, but also the most famous market in all of the Five Realms. The uniqueness of the Bay of Merchants game lies in the fact that each player uses completely different game materials and mechanisms to produce goods. If you master the intricacies of your craft perfectly, you will undoubtedly be able to streamline production enough to satisfy the demand of adventurers and, most importantly, fill your pockets with gold!

Although you work independently behind the doors of your shops, you will compete for customers, influence market demand, and struggle for the favor of the four guilds. If you want to have the upper hand over the competition, you can hire residents of the bay as assistants. Or, if you're not afraid to get your hands dirty, you'll always find help in the rotten underworld. But at what cost? After three days, the richest merchant will be the winner.

In the base game, you will find a total of 4 different merchants: Alchemist, Chronomage, Captain, and Blacksmith:
The Alchemist uses mechanics of combining ingredient beads, cooking recipes, and engine-building.
The Blacksmith uses dice placement mechanics, dice manipulation, and resource creation.
The Captain uses mechanics of random selection, unit movement, exploration, and luck testing.
The Chronomage uses mechanics of shifting pieces, moving around a rondel, and time manipulation.

The game is designed for 1-5 players aged 12 and up.

The rules are in Czech. The game material is language-independent. 

The game includes:

1 game board
52 adventurer figures
6 three-dimensional cardboard ships
12 gold gems
5 merchant flags and plastic stands
36 citizen cards
3 rogue cards
4 merchant cards
60 treachery cards
2 wooden mice
1 trade phase marker
10 gold and time markers
2 double-sided adventurer tokens
1 rulebook
1 set of inserts

Materials for each merchant:

4 merchant rules (blacksmith, chronomage, alchemist, captain)
5 plastic merchant miniatures
4 shop boards
3 employee boards
4 display cases
84 pieces of merchant goods
60 plastic stands
12 dice
10 portal fragment tiles
4 frozen hour tokens
1 cloth bag
26 ingredient beads
4 ichor plastic tokens
1 cardboard flask
1 cardboard compass
4 plastic ships
7 cardboard coins

Download the rules here.

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