Serenissima (1996)

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Designer	Dominique Ehrhard Duccio Vitale
Artist	Dominique Ehrhard
Publisher	999 Games Descartes Editeur Eurogames Ystari Games
Year Published	1996
# of Players	2 − 4
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 4 players (30 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	120 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	12 and up (4 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (8 voters) [poll]
Honors	1996/Fall Lucca Games Best Original Game
Subdomain	Strategy Games (22 voters) [vote]
Category	Economic Nautical Renaissance
Mechanic	Pick-up and Deliver Trading
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Primary Name	Serenissima
Alternate Names	Méditerrannée
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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 winner of the 1996 Concours International de Créateurs de Jeux de Société.

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1996 Lucca Games Best of Show (Italy), Winner, Best Original Game
1996 Concours International de Créateurs de Jeux de Société.

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Méditerrannée

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Multilingual second edition

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German first edition (w/ Deutscher Spiele Preis logo)

Publisher: Eurogames

Artist: Dominique Ehrhard

Year: 1997

Size: 12.01 x 16.93 x 2.76 inches

3.28 pounds

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French first edition

Publisher: Eurogames

Artist: Dominique Ehrhard

Year: 1997

Size: Long Rectangle (e.g. Power Grid)

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Dutch first edition

Publisher: 999 Games, Descartes Editeur, Eurogames

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German first edition

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Year: 1996

Product Code: 3 289880 002183

Size: 16.93 x 11.81 x 2.76 inches

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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.

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My dad is color blind so we made this guide to the cities for him. Lists the ports in alphabetical order with the color and resource it makes.

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Hulpblad met scores en verklaringen van Serenissima in het Nederlands.

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2011-03-24

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Uitgebreide samenvatting van Serenissima in het Nederlands.

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Ayuda de juego

Aid game, in Spanish

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2009-10-17

Serenissima - Port Aid.doc

Port Aid to note items for sale at the ports

MetalGuitarist

2007-04-11

ResumenSerenissima.doc

Resumen Abreviado de las Fases del Juego

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2006-08-03

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Player Aid (including variant scoring rules)

jttm

2005-11-20

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Board Game Rank:	483
Strategy Game Rank:	290
Num Ratings:	1724
Average Rating:	6.93
Standard Deviation:	1.41
Num Views:	109019
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Avg. Game Weight:	3.0
Fans:	22

Personal Comments:	613
Users Owning:	2164
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Users Trading:	110 [find trade matches]
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Dutch review on speldatabase.be	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=715&zoekcri...	2012-02-12
Dutch rules	http://spelarch.khbo.be/PDFspelregels/715.pdf	2012-02-12
Lloydian Aspects Serenissima Review	http://www.lloydianaspects.co.uk/games/sereniss.ht...	2011-08-14
User reviews (Dutch) on bordspelmania.eu	http://www.bordspelmania.eu/spellen/detail/serenis...	2011-01-24
Spanish/English review at Eight is BEauty	http://eightisbeauty.blogspot.com/2010/07/sereniss...	2010-07-22
French review at Jedisjeux	http://www.jedisjeux.net/mediterranee-t-211.html	2010-02-02
Portuguese Review on dreamwithboardgames	http://dreamwithboardgames.blogspot.com/2008/10/se...	2009-02-24
Review on www.GoodGameGuide.de (in German)	http://www.superfred.de/serenissima.html	2005-03-24
Bruno Faidutti's ideal game library	http://www.faidutti.com/index.php?Module=ludothequ...	2004-10-19
Game review at La Tana dei Goblin	http://nuke.goblins.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&r...	2004-10-18