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Pax Renaissance
Year
2016
Players
24
Play time
120min
Min age
12+
Weight
4.47
BGG rating
7.96
BGG rank
#855
Best with
3

Local copies

Rating: 8.0

As a Renaissance banker, you will finance kings or republics, sponsor voyages of discovery, join secret cabals, or unleash jihads and inquisitions. Your choices determine whether Europe is elevated into the bright modern era or remains festering in dark feudalism. In Pax Renaissance, you have two actions each turn. As in other Pax games, you can acquire cards in a market, sell them out of the game, or play them into your tableau. You can also stimulate the economy by running trade fairs and trading voyages for Oriental goods. A map of Europe with trade routes from Portugal to Crimea is included, and discovering new trade routes can radically alter the importance and wealth of empires, ten of which are in the game. Four victories determine the future course of Western Society: Will it be towards imperialism, trade globalization, religious totalitarianism, or enlightened art and science?

Categories

EducationalPike and ShotReligiousRenaissance

Mechanics

Open DraftingSimulationMarketIncrease Value of Unchosen ResourcesAction PointsAuction: Dutch

Best with how many players

1
Not rec.
2
Recommended
3
Best
4
Recommended
4+
Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

Moderate in-game text(4 of 10 votes)

Sub-rankings

  • Strategy Game Rank#438
  • Thematic Rank#130

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