Markets and Mercenaries

From the publisher: " Markets and Mercenaries is a simple and quick board game that combines the interesting features of many more primitive "build a colony" computer and board games (resources, buildings, market economics, special events) while excluding features that tend to slow such a game down (exploration, territorial expansion, conquest). The game uses a Monopoly-like path around the board's outer edge allow random events in a way that carefully prohibits luck from overriding strategy. Players use wise resource management and strategic construction of new buildings to expand their colony.…