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Merchant of Venus

Setup

  • Shuffle first contact cards and place 1 on each system, face down
  • Ready culture supply (Bags 1-14)
  • Shuffle the following decks:
    • Encounter
      • Solo: remove Title & Intel cards
    • Reward
    • Mission
  • Ready asteroid tokens (blue dot & pirate), cargo holds, warp drives, telegates & fame/infamy tokens
  • Shuffle passengers and place face-down (or leave in bag)
  • Select a start player randomly
  • Each player:
    • Takes player dashboard and markers
      • Choose either shield or laser to be at level 2 and set the other to level 1
    • Choose a level 1 pilot (random if needs be)
    • Deal 1 face-up mission and place mission token on destination
    • Credits: # of players * c20
      • 3rd player adds c20
      • 4th player adds c40
  • Place round marker on round 1
  • Draw 1 passenger randomly and place by starting location (in culture supply)
  • Players ships start at Galactic Base

Game Turn

  • See cheat sheet PDF below.

Goal

  • Most credits win

Game End

  • When all the rounds are over

Scoring

  • Sell merchant spaceports for c200
  • Add fame:
    • fame tokens
    • reward cards
    • completed missions
    • dashboard upgrades
    • ship upgrades (cargo is cumulative)
    • fuzzy dice
    • Minus infamy
  • Credits = Total fame * 10
    • If you have fuzzy dice and rolled doubles, credits = Total fame * 20
  • Total credits
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