Let’s Play Serenissima!! @Phoenix Comics & Games!

In the 14th century, the Atlantic was an ocean without end and America was yet to be discovered. The Mediterranean was a sea of great prosperity - the only route between East and West. The greatest fleets of the age battled for the most lucrative trade routes.
Trade cities like Venice, Genoa, Barcelona or Istanbul grew as powerful as whole nations, establishing trade routes as far as North Africa or Middle East, bringing back Spice, Gems or Gold to the western Mediterranean, the centre of world trade.

Serenissima uses Area Movement, Dice Rolling, Pick-up & Deliver, Trading, & Turn Order: Auction. You are a City-State establishing your sphere of influence in the Mediterranean, and share all sorts of commodities to make your trading empire the most prosperous. You must build galleys, hire crew and buy/sell commodities. The value of goods can be influenced by other city-states having monopolies in certain commodities or controlling ports. However, you can create your own monopolies and ports thereby earning extra income from players using the port and buying commodities.
Victory is based on the number & size of ports you control, but also on the fact that those ports have commodities of different kind available. Whereas small ports are quite easy to satisfy (they only hold two commodities), the established city-states are far more difficult to please, as they will need all kinds of commodities available.
The number and type of commodities available in ports also controls the number of crew members you can hire, if you can build galleys or forts, and the price of commodities when you sell them. You won't be able to build new galleys until you have wood and iron available in one of the ports you control. Once a galley has been built, it can be filled by the crew & goods. Crew helps the speed & power of your galley but those space is also needed to carry the goods that are worth money. Which in turn allows you to hire new crews, build new galleys, and acquire commodities. So, a balance thus needs to be struck between trading commodities and taking control of ports - between a fleet of merchant galleys and a fleet of warships. Turn order is defined by bidding. Depending on the situation and what the player wants to do, playing first or last might be equally interesting. For example, by playing first, a player would be unable to react to other players move, but he could avoid having his galleys blockaded.
New players are welcome, and the host is happy to teach if you haven't played before.

2 - 4 players
2-2.5 hour expected play time, depending on turnout and player familiarity.
BGG Link
11-min How-to (DiceTower) (***Note: ***this is the 2nd ed video there will be some difference from the 1st ed.)

A few important details:

• This event is scheduled to start at 1:00 PM PLEASE be on time! If you would like to bring a guest please message me.
• It's Cap Hill, so parking can be a challenge. Please factor traffic & parking into your commute and if you will be late post in messages or the Discord. Phoenix Comics & Games is about a block from several bus lines, the First Hill Streetcar (Broadway & Denny), & the Capitol Hill light rail station.
• If you need to cancel please do so as soon as you know. People on the waitlist and playing that day will appreciate it! Signing up for this event means other people are counting on you to attend; board games have both a minimum and a maximum player count, so with limited seats available, I want to be sure that those seats actually have people in them. Last-minute cancellations (less than 24 hours), no-shows, and late arrivals (30+ minutes) without good reason will be marked as no-show for the event and will be automatically moved to the waitlist if one forms for any and all future events they join which are hosted by me and other select hosts!
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• I open signups on Wednesday, 3 days before pressing the "announce" button here on Meetup; if you want to have the opportunity to claim a seat early, you can join the SBG Discord, where I'll post to let users there know as soon as RSVPs open as well as updates and posting polls for future meetups!