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.

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