In this game players represent a merchant family during the Renaissance. Players attempt to balance the need of trading and open commerce versus the cut-throat economic piracy of the day. Players create a fleet of ships to purchase and move various commodities around the Mediterranean while also keeping well manned ships to attack and defend against other player's fleets.
A convenient combat table, formatted to print three times on one sheet of A4 paper, which removes the need to do calculations after every die roll, and so simplifies play for those poor at mental arithmetic.