Hansa Teutonica Big Box

Andreas Steding has already designed one game about the Hanseatic League—the excellent Kogge, in which players trade around the Baltic Sea. Here he returns to the theme with a land-based trading game. The board shows a network of cities across Germany, connected by roads. Players get victory points for building a network of offices, for controlling cities and for other traders using the cities they control.

Instead of scoring points, players can choose to improve their traders' ‘skills’. The better the skills, the more points they should score later, so there's a balance to be struck between taking points and building for the future.

Published in 2009 to great acclaim, it has become a perennially popular classic.

The Big Box edition incorporates the two expansions to the original game: East (a new board, covering Northeastern Germany and surrounding areas, along with the Baltic Sea with additional rules to cover the sea routes across the Baltic) and Britannia (again, an alternative board with a map of Britain for a different challenge - it also includes revised rules for the two-player game).

It is currently (Dec 2025) out of print, but a re-print is due in late 2026.

For 3-5 players, aged 12+, playing time 90 minutes

Hansa Teutonica Big Box was designed by Andreas Steding and is published by Pegasus

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