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ubarose Written by ubarose     June 28, 2012     1521     
Sky Traders - In Stores Now

Game Information

Game Name
Sky Traders
MSRP $
49.95
Designer
Gioacchino Prestigiacomo

Publisher Information

Publisher
Fantasy Flight Games
Website
http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=3122

Release Schedule Information

Status
In Stores Now
Expected Release Date
2012 Q2
Expected Ship Date
2012 June
Actual Release Date
2012 June
Ship Date
June 28, 2012

Launch your skyship into the clouds and experience adventure and intrigue in Sky Traders, a board game for two to five players. Evade ruthless Wind Pirates and manipulate the commodities market. Work with your peers to create larger profits for everyone, or try to undermine your rivals and keep all the money for yourself. Trade your way to fortune and fame as you attempt to take control of the powerful Sky Guild!

Sky Traders includes:

  • Five Sky Trader figures and 5 skyship sheets
  • One Commodities Exchange sheet and one Guild Influence track
  • 14 Sky District tiles
  • 31 Ill Wind cards
  • And everything else you’ll need to play
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Comments (8)
  • 2012-03-06 21:10:27 | avatarAncient_of_MuMu

    Bastardized version of Merchants and Maruaders?
    EDIT: On a closer look, it seems more like Merchant of Venus with a variable board and Supremacy's stock market

  • 2012-03-06 21:29:44 | avatarSuperflyTNT

    OH SHIT!

    Now we know who won the little legal battle with Stronghold, and what they did about it!

  • 2012-03-06 22:43:08 | avatarShellhead

    Strange. I playtested a very similar-seeming game a couple of years ago, and the designer was former-FFG guy Darrell Hardy. It was a pick-up-and-deliver game featuring flying ships and floating islands, with some combat (against pirates). There were also passengers that you could transport, and some of them offered special abilities or difficulties. And there was an odd macro-economic effect that diminished the payout for goods for each previous sale of that type of goods in a given game round.

  • 2012-03-06 23:49:56 | avatarcdennett

    Ummm, Merchant of Venus from FFG is still available for pre-order from your FOGS, so I suspect this is unrelated to that debacle...

  • 2012-03-07 02:27:28 | avatarwice

    1. "A game by Gioacchino Prestigiacomo"
    2. "Dust Games"
    3. the game looks nothing like Merchants of Venus

    Conclusion: It's not Merchants of Venus.

  • 2012-03-07 07:08:30 | avatarSuperflyTNT

    Uh, yeah. I wasn't being serious.

  • 2012-03-07 14:17:35 | avatarNotahandle

    wice:
    1. Everyone knows that Gioacchino Prestigiacomo is Richard Hamblins real name.
    2. Actually it's "Just Games", FFG's letting us know they won't be merchandising mugs (for example).
    3. Because it's been rethemed.

  • 2012-06-28 10:35:22 | avatarwice

    For the record, based on the rulebook, it is kind of a rip-off of Merchants & Marauders, so Ancient_of_MuMu was right the first time.

    The designer basically simplified M&M's trading and combat (which might make the game significantly faster), and introduced a negotiation-based market-manipulation phase (which will probably slow it down, but since everybody is involved in it, I don't think it's a problem).

    It's derivative as fuck, but I'm still interested.

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