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Merchant of Venus: The Variant Mini Expansion
Merchant of Venus provides a nice, solid base upon which to build variants. In addition to providing a simple movement system for combining speed, navigation and carrying capacity, it provides a balanced economic model with which to play. These two aspects combine to be very handy when you're modelling such expensive pastimes as war, politics or civilization. During the development of Merchant of Venus many alternative rules were tried and discarded. The variant here presents some of the best of these alternate rules, and the counters to implement them.
What is Merchant of Venus: The Variant Mini Expansion
Merchant of Venus provides a nice, solid base upon which to build variants. In addition to providing a simple movement system for combining speed, navigation and carrying capacity, it provides a balanced economic model with which to play. These two aspects combine to be very handy when you're modelling such expensive pastimes as war, politics or civilization. During the development of Merchant of Venus many alternative rules were tried and discarded. The variant here presents some of the best of these alternate rules, and the counters to implement them.
These rules add quite a bit of versimilitude and fun to the game, but they also add some complexity, unbalance the play a bit, distract the players from the commercial aspects, and/or increase the playing time. That's why they weren't included in the original game. Generally, each variant rule can be used by itself, or it can be freely combined with the other rules.
The variant rules are:
- Fast Set-up: Shortens setup time by mixing in the bonus markers with the goods markers and placing them only on culture discovery, makes bonus markers appear more early.
Game details
- Players
- 1–6
- Age
- +12
- Duration
- 180 min
- Difficulty
- —
- Type
- Expansion
- Year
- 1990
- Mechanics
- Commodity Speculation · Dice Rolling · Pick-up and Deliver
- Categories
- Economic · Expansion for Base-game · Exploration
- Designer
- Richard Hamblen
- Publisher
- The Avalon Hill Game Co
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How many players is Merchant of Venus: The Variant Mini Expansion for?
Merchant of Venus: The Variant Mini Expansion plays with 1–6 players.
How long does a game take?
A game takes about 180 minutes.
What age is it suitable for?
It is recommended from age 12.
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