Die Händler (German)

Distributor:	Queen Games
Category:	Strategy game
Players:	2-4 (best with 3-4 players)
Play time:	1:00-1:30
Ages:	10+ (probably too low age)
Content:	1 Gameboard 1 Wooden Courier 3 Wooden Wagons 54 Wooden Goods Red Cylinder - Cloth - Tuche Brown Cylinder - Wine - Wein White Cylinder - Salt - Salz Green Box - Foodstuff - Nahrung Black Box - Iron - Eisen Purple Box - Silk - Seide 8 Gray Wooden Markers 4 Punch-sheets containing the following: 10 Gray "Credit" Cards 15 Green "Influence" Cards 8 Red "Special Ability" Cards 4 Price Wheels with 8 Directional Arrows 8 Coat-of-Arms tiles in 4 colors 16 Movement tiles in 4 colors 1 Reference Table Money markers in 100, 500, and 1000 Guilder denominations 1 Label Sheet 4 Cloth Bags 4 Screws for Price Wheels 1 Rules Sheet 1 Contents / Assembly Sheet 1 FAQ Booklet
Game target:	Each player is a dealer trying to achieve high social standing among his fellow dealers. At the end of the game, the dealer with the highest status of all is the winner.
Rules:	Rules in English
Strategy:	-
Comments:	My edition is from 1999. The designer is Wolfgang Kramer and Richard Ulrich. The game is only published in German. Turn phases: 1. Purchasing Goods 2. Bidding for Wagons and Loading Goods 3. Wagon and Courier movement 4. Price Modification, Warehouse Selling 5. Selling Delivered Goods 6. Upkeep and Raising of Social Status A good, although a bit tricky game, as a mix of several different mechanism is used in the game. Some think it's a bit too much rules to learn, but I think they keep together very well.

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