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Finance, Influence, and the Fate of Nations

Fund voyages, crown kings, and shape the future of Europe.

Looking for a Renaissance strategy board game where money controls the fate of empires? In Pax Renaissance, you are a powerful banker controlling the gears of empires during the 15th and 16th centuries. Every card you acquire can ignite religious wars, back pirates, or steer republics toward trade, conquest, or enlightenment.

Use tableau-building and market manipulation to dominate the map and history itself. This historical board game offers asymmetric strategies and deep replayability where vision, creativity and wealth, not armies, determines who will rule the Renaissance.

Why should you purchase Pax Renaissance?

• Play as a powerful banker: Influence kings, wars, and empires from behind the scenes

• Asymmetric paths to victory: Use religion, trade, conquest, or enlightenment to win

• Deep tableau-building and market manipulation: Every card changes the strategic landscape

• Rich historical immersion: Experience the Renaissance from the perspective of those who truly held the power

Game designer: Phil Eklund, Matt Eklund

Artist: Josefin Strand

Complexity: 4.50

How to play Pax Renaissance?

Four victories determine the future course of Western Society: will it be towards imperialism, trade globalization, religious totalitarianism, or enlightened art and science?

In Pax Renaissance, you buy cards from an eastern and a western market where the price will be influenced by what other players do. Play cards to your tableau to take action and place pieces on the map, but also to build your banking business and assert influence over the royal houses and republics of Europe. Take trade actions, wage war, and initiate revolts and unrest. Fund pirates, start crusades, make money and collect prestige. When a comet card is drawn the future of Europe is about to be decided. Make sure your vision of the future prevails.

Game Board
Chess pieces
Pirate ship pieces
Florins
Busted trade route disk
Cards

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Game designer: Phil Eklund

Living rules and other files, administrated by respective game designer.

DOWNLOADABLE RULES Pax Renaissance 2nd Edition
Pax Renaissance 1st Edition Rules
Playtest Pax Renaissance on Tabeltop Simulator Steam
Pax Renaissance 2nd edition on Boardgamegeek

Videos

Pax Renaissance 2p Play-through, Teaching, & Roundtable discussion by Heavy Cardboard
Pax Renaissance 4p Play-through, Teaching, & Roundtable discussion by Heavy Cardboard
Pax Renaissance — game overview at SPIEL 2016 by BoardGameGeek
Learning Pax Renaissance [How to Play] by Phasing Player
Gaming the Lounge Durée - review by Cole Wehrle by BoardGameGeek
Pax Renaissance - THE perfect 2-player game - review by Cyclodog by BoardGameGeek
A Fine Line Between Abstraction and Theme - review by The Kingmaker
Playthrough of Pax Renaissance by toasToaTs
How to play Pax Renaissance (1st Edition) by Bits of Board
HOW TO PLAY: Pax Renaissance (Second Edition) by
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Phil Eklund and Jon Manker Unboxing of Pax Renaissance 2nd Edition

Board Game Geek Pax Renaissance 2nd Edition

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