Fiorino: Merchants of Florence

Get ready for an unforgettable journey to the heart of Renaissance Florence, where you’ll take on the role of an ambitious member of a powerful merchant guild. Your goal is to earn the most prestige points to become the guild leader. Invest in the trade of luxury goods, curry favor with the Medici, produce goods, and make bold decisions that will determine your success or failure.

As a player, you will have 5 rounds, 3 turns each, to achieve the most prestige points to win the game. During each round you will have a total of 7 cards, consisting of 28 possible actions. You will be able to place or relocate workers, establish plantations, produce and trade goods, collect coins, buy favor with Medici or book and fulfill contracts. Your decisions, especially trading, will shape prices of goods, while cunning worker placement will prove crucial to achieving balanced income, possibly, simultaneously preventing other Marchants from achieving their goals.

While there are a variety of possible actions, there are also many different roads to victory. To determine the most successful Marchant, new guild leader, combine prestige points collected during game with points for contracts, Medici favor, coins and buildings.