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Factors of Spice

Factors of Spice is a Euro-hybrid game. Similar in theme to Goa with mechanics like Puerto Rico and El Grande but with a map, limited combat, some secret movement elements.

2–4 players120 minages 12

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What is Factors of Spice

Factors of Spice is a Euro-hybrid game. Similar in theme to Goa with mechanics like Puerto Rico and El Grande but with a map, limited combat, some secret movement elements.

The time is the late 1500s and the domination of the Spice Trade is in the balance. Far from playing colonial powers, the initial countries sent Factors, or professional trader-agents, to live with native peoples, and manage their trade interests while the fleet returned home. These factors lead dangerous lives, and the success of the next fleets’ mission usually lay in their hands. The factors built warehouses, or factories, to house goods collected while fleets were gone, and they were under constant surveillance form the un-trusting locals. Whether you use brutally repressive means against locals like the Portuguese or Dutch, or more congenial methods like the English you must develop a strategy that lets you maximize your profit while minimizing your losses. Factors of Spice allows player the flavor of the spice race managing fleets, trading with natives, and vying for political influence in these far away tropical islands that changed the course of world history.

Players act as Portugal, Spain, Holland or England.

Each turn is simple:

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