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Traders & Raiders

Traders & Raiders

2022·Mark Hanny

2 - 5 players
60 - 90 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach

From BoardGameGeek

Traders & Raiders is a medieval fantasy strategy game. On a player's turn they place a player token on an action space. Players choose a group action, meaning all players take that action, or choose a solo action, pay a resource, and act alone. Actions include moving their character standee from one town on the map board to another, trading goods in the town where they are located, recruiting follower cards that give new abilities to the player, buy special weapon tiles that help in defeating monsters, build market tents (wooden tokens) that give more options when trading, build building cards for points and to produce additional goods, fight monsters (tokens of unknown power) and retrieve their plundered goods, and collect goods found in their current location. Strategies to win include managing resources, maximizing trades, building cards before other players, gaining the right combination of followers so each turn can produce the most resources, gold, and points. The game ends after 8 rounds when the eighth fortnight tile (or round tile) is placed on a special fortnight board. The player with the most points wins. Points are totaled up from building cards, follower cards, gold, monsters defeated, and certain followers' special abilities.

Traders & Raiders

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Learn to play

How to play Traders & Raiders21:13

How to play Traders & Raiders

Mark Hanny

Mark Hanny

Review

Traders & Raiders - DT Preview with Mark Streed11:34

Traders & Raiders - DT Preview with Mark Streed

Which Traders & Raiders video should I watch?

Traders & Raiders has 4 videos from 4 creators: 1 review, 2 how-to-play guides and 1 unboxing. They date from 2022 to April 2026.

To learn the rules, start with "How to play Traders & Raiders" by Mark Hanny, which runs 21 min.

For an opinion before you buy, start with "Traders & Raiders - DT Preview with Mark Streed".

If you like it, try Finding John Carter, Levitation: Masters of Magic, The Demise of Dr. Frankenstein and Stadium, also by Mark Hanny.

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Traders & Raiders - DT Preview with Mark StreedReview11:34

Traders & Raiders - DT Preview with Mark Streed

How to play Traders & RaidersHow to play21:13

How to play Traders & Raiders

Mark Hanny

Mark Hanny

Traders and Raiders -- UnboxingUnboxing18:05

Traders and Raiders -- Unboxing

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How To Play Traders & RaidersHow to play14:53

How To Play Traders & Raiders

Mark Hanny

Mark Hanny

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Mark Hanny
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About Traders & Raiders

From BoardGameGeek:

Traders & Raiders is a medieval fantasy strategy game. On a player's turn they place a player token on an action space. Players choose a group action, meaning all players take that action, or choose a solo action, pay a resource, and act alone. Actions include moving their character standee from one town on the map board to another, trading goods in the town where they are located, recruiting follower cards that give new abilities to the player, buy special weapon tiles that help in defeating monsters, build market tents (wooden tokens) that give more options when trading, build building cards for points and to produce additional goods, fight monsters (tokens of unknown power) and retrieve their plundered goods, and collect goods found in their current location. Strategies to win include managing resources, maximizing trades, building cards before other players, gaining the right combination of followers so each turn can produce the most resources, gold, and points. The game ends after 8 rounds when the eighth fortnight tile (or round tile) is placed on a special fortnight board. The player with the most points wins. Points are totaled up from building cards, follower cards, gold, monsters defeated, and certain followers' special abilities.

Designer

Mark Hanny

Publisher

Joe Magic Games, Inc.

Categories

EconomicFantasy

Mechanics

Network and Route BuildingArea MovementSimultaneous Action Selection
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