Brides & Bribes is a worker placement and resource management board game, set in Genoa during the Renaissance period, where five families struggle against each other to increase their power.

In Brides and Bribes, a strategy game played over six rounds, each player takes the role of a powerful family of Genoa. Carefully employing your family members, each of whom has a unique ability, is the key to your success.

Each round, you plan send your family members to the Genoese boroughs to hire new employees, get new workers, and convince the local lord that your family is worth a marriage with his beautiful daughter. If you want to succeed, you have to send the right person in the right place. Hire the most skilled people, intermarry with the most powerful families, poison your enemies, and increase your commercial empire!

Game Contents:

• 1 Big game board resembling the city of Genoa in XVI century
• 5 Player residences, one for each family
• 24 Shop cards
• 32 Object Tiles
• 69 Character Tiles
• 55 City workers in different colours
• 16 Coaches in different colours
• 18 Influence Tokens
• 10 Player makers, 2 of each colour
• 55 Coins
• 1 Rule Book