## Description
In the year 1375, the Grand Mandarin of Canton issues a decree, whereby the
merchant of the Chinese Empire who manages to earn the most through trading
around the world will be appointed Grand Chamberlain. Those who do not succeed
will be forbidden from returning to Canton, lest they be beheaded.
_Canton_ is a strategy game with action elements and a focus on trading. The
game puts four players against each other on a world map that spans from
Canton itself to Venice, and each player controls one merchant and three
marauders. The goal is to earn more money than the other three players in at
least nine cities of the world. Merchants and marauders are moved in turns on
the map, and marauders can be used to attack enemy merchants or other
marauders. These attacks are resolved as simple sword fights between two
representatives of each faction, where the winner gets to either loot the
merchant or repel the defeated marauder to another city on the map. Merchants
trade in artefacts, spices, precious stones and pearls, though they may at
times be prevented from doing so by external factors such as the plague.
The game fully supports multiplayer, in that any up to all four factions can
be controlled by human players.
Canton