Jerry Dziubas "Castle Merchants" from the Z-Men - Verlag in Germany under this very name of the road, what bothered us at first, but was also curious about the game.

The "medieval trade and travel game," revealed in its presentation as a little "stale". The game has produced such material from the last decade.

Trade we had during our drive round in a very simple form by certain products supplied to those locks, whose name (Chianti Castle, Castle Fromage, etc.) is already the preferred product in each case could be closed. We were rewarded for it with gold, with the first appearing at the court dealer can log up the largest chunk.

Traveling, however, designed to build a little more complex: first, ways that have benefited from various surfaces such as wood, plain or mountains, the maneuvering of the pieces, namely, the traveler, using moving maps on the previously constructed trails.

This does not, of course, works flawlessly since the opponent can either butt plate with a landslide or even the expensive underground relocate relocated to another area of the pitch. Then, if no matching motion maps are available, you can even get stuck once.

The whole thing is spiced with a bit of chance in the form of a dice roll, and with the grazing field where, as in the castles of new cards in his hand, and thus more possibilities for action may be taken. Since the playing off of cards is the core element of the game, ie the rapid tightening of cards a tempo advantage.

The winner is who has collected 18 gold pieces at the end of the castles. This is designed towards the end of the game, if the way - resources are largely consumed a little more difficult than in earlier phase of play, so at this point even a little race-emerged in nature.

All in all, Castle Merchants is not a very complex game, with approximately mins 30th a short season, and has at least in the race for gold is a little tension and combinatorics.