MeepleMates notes for Ventura

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Ventura is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
Best with 4 player according to player poll data.
BoardGameGeek average rating 6.33 and BGG rank #8815.
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Recommended player counts include 2, 3.

Game description from the publisher: In an age of great battles, valiant leaders, and unscrupulous mercenary armies, fortune lies within your grasp. Ventura is a board game of nobility and conquest for 2-4 players. Set in 14th century Italy, Ventura puts players in control of warring noble houses, each vying for control of the country's growing wealth. Balance your house's earnings and maintain your hired soldiers to keep your family's noble standing. Remember, the best armies are also the ones that cost the most! With more than 120 plastic pieces, 40 Territory tiles, 4 Family Boards, a scoring board, and over 100 cards, Ventura will whisk players into a world of warring mercenaries and noble families, all seeking control of Italy's burgeoning wealth. Added... Players build a variable map from randomly drawn hexagonal terrain tiles, then maneuver numbered pieces representing groups of associated cards, various types of military units and their leaders. But the game is financial as well as military. Because everything in this game costs money. Pay money to draw a card. Pay more money to PLAY a card. And once those troops are in action, you better be prepared to pay them every turn or they'll leave. You can use your money (florins) to buy victory points directly (only 30 to win the game). BUT, that leaves you with precious little funds for your defense. Can your opponent(s) field an army fast enough to take out your capital (for the win) before you get there with money?

Mechanics

Simultaneous Action SelectionModular BoardOpen DraftingArea Majority / InfluenceTile PlacementGrid Movement

Best with how many players

Not rec.

Recommended

Best

Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

Moderate in-game text(5 of 7 votes)

Sub-rankings

Strategy Game Rank#2558

Videos

Video language

BoardGameGeek3

Review1

Unboxing and Component Breakdown by Masteriti
BoardGameGeek · masteriti
English · Curated source

Instructional2

External data

No Wikidata data is stored for this game yet. If the scheduled enrichment has run recently, Wikidata probably has no BGG mapping for it.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 09/23/2026.

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Local copies

Ventura