Product Description

The search for a viable route to India was, since the mid XV Century, the main goal of almost all expeditions made by the Portuguese Kingdom. In 1488 Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope and Pedro da Covilha found a land route, but it was only in 1498 that Vasco da Gama reached the goal and became the first European to reach, after some stops along the way, the legendary Calicut by sea. Vasco da Gama made an exceptional accomplishment, granting Portugal the possibility to achieve the monopoly of the spice trade between India and Europe.

Recruit workers, buy projects, build ships. Use this ships to open new commercial routes to eastern Africa and India, to earn money and glory.

Product Information

• Designer(s): Paolo Mori
• Manufacturer(s): Rio Grande Games, What's Your Game?
• Artist(s): Mariano Iannelli
• Year: 2009
• Players: 2 - 4
• Time: 60 - 120 minutes
• Ages: 12 and up
• Weight: 700 grams (estimated)
• Language Requirements: This is an international edition or domestic edition of an imported item. Manufacturer's rules are printed in multiple languages (including English). Game components are language-independent.

Contents:

• 1 Game board
• 1 Round Marker (1 small white disc)
• 1 First Free of Charge Action Marker (1 white pawn)
• 35 Project/Ship Tiles
• 6 Merchant Ship Tiles
• 4 Scoring Markers in each of the Players' colors
• 4 Character Tiles
• 1 Label Sheet
• 9 Vasco Da Gama Tiles
• 22 Sequence Number cylinders
• 16 Action Discs in each of the 4 Players colors
• 4 Additional Action Discs in each of the 4 Player colors
• 28 Captain pawns in the 4 Player colors
• 32 Sailors in 4 colors: turquoise, violet, grey, orange
• 6 Missionaries (6 human shapes in white)
• 48 Coins (34 of 1 Real, 14 of 5 Reals)
• 1 Cotton Bag

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