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