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Information
Designed By
Art By
Published By
Year Published
1988
# of Players:
1 − 6
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 4 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 players
(29 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
180 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
10 and up
(3 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet
(6 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Merchant of Venus
Alternate Names
Merchants of Venus
Expanded By
Families
Description Edit | History

This classic science fiction title from Avalon Hill uses many elements which come together to form a very interesting game. Players take on the roles of space traders who move their ships through interconnected systems discovering new alien worlds to trade with. As players start to make money delivering commodities in a very unique supply and demand system, their earnings can be used to purchase better ships and equipment (shields, lasers, engines. etc...), and construct their own spaceports (which speed up trading) and factories (which create better commodities). Variations included in the rule book allow for inter-player combat. The player who is the first to acquire enough total value ($1000, $2000, $3000, $4000) in cash and port/factory deeds takes the day.

More Information Edit | History

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0 ten-player variant, Darthkadan art
Updated version of Zac Dortch (LordRaidor)'s ten-player variant, based on Darthkadan's art. Non-random movement files.
2010-01-30
6 Newbie Game Overview
High-level overview of MoV to help get new players up and running with the game without having to teach the details of every rule. Designed for learning/teaching games, and needs at least one player to be very familiar with the game.
2009-12-09
3 Navigation counters
For the non-random movement variant, based on Darthkadan's art. You will need one copy, or two if using the second ship rules.
2009-11-20
3 MoV Rastur Play-mats
Mats to de-mark Rastur Tokens' state of play, based on Darthkadan's art. Print, fold, glue and cut for best effect.
2009-11-18
7 Racial Ship Cards - New Art
Ship upgrade cards for the racial ships variant (from The General) based on Darthkadan's art. Print, fold, glue and cut for best effect. 5 of 5
2009-11-17
3 Venus Smuggler Counters - New Art
Rastur Policy Card for the Smugglers variant (from The General) based on Darthkadan's art.
2009-11-15
3 Green Taters - New Art
Counters for Richard Irving's (rri1) "Green Taters" variant based on Darthkadan's art. Original work is here: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/40367
2009-11-15
2 Example of How to play this game with Cyberboard
This is the referee file from a 5-player game. You can trace through it in order to see how the game was set up and how each player played it out.
2009-11-09
2 'vanilla' Cyberboard scenario file
This file will allow you to more easily set up and run a game using Cyberboard. It does not include any variants.
2009-11-09
32 Dathkadan Custom Board with Solamar Errata lined up and patched into the board
Dathkadan Custom Board with Solamar Errata lined up and patched into the board so that you can have the whole thing printed if you haven't done it or would like it without paste ups
2009-11-08
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 228
Num Ratings: 1348
Average Rating: 7.19
Standard Deviation: 1.46
Num Views: 99078
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Avg. Game Weight: 2.8 moreinfo
Fans: 34
Personal Comments: 537
Users Owning: 1559
Users Wanting: 285
Users Trading: 34 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade: 4
Want Parts In Trade: 8
Price History: View
Total Plays: 1350
Plays This Month: 14
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