With four of us tonight, I was keen to try this new game from Michael Schacht. As Nige is a big fan of Web Of Power, the group didn’t take too much persuading. The game is about trading goods from your junks in competition with others to gain hard cash, the player with the most cash at the end of the 10 game rounds being declared the winner. On each turn, players can either load cargo onto a junk, obtain goods from a junk for trading, or obtain cash from the cargo they possess on a junk. Once all players have done this, players attempt to sell goods they have collected at market. The market pays a fixed price for each type of good and the player who bids to sell most goods obtains the cash. There are also some special cards that people can obtain at market, which give benefits during later turns or provide bonuses at the end of the game subject to the player fulfilling a certain condition.

This was a nice game with lots of choices to be made and various routes to victory. The market sale phase was quite fun in trying to guess what others were attempting to sell and how much to bid, and there were a number of groans from people who had just mised out on a sale. Nige proved quite adept at not quite bidding enough to achieve a sale. The game was pretty close most of the way through and it turned out to be the end-game bonuses that determined the winner. Mark K was the only one to successfully get a special card bonus and the 8 points this yielded was enough to secure the victory.