Hansa Teutonica

About this board game

Hansa Teutonica is a board game for 2–5 players with a playing time of about 90 minutes, in which traders compete to earn victory points through networks, offices, city control, bonus markers, and improved skills.

Players place their pawns to control lines between cities. Once a line is controlled, a player can choose to build an office, potentially establish control, and possibly gain a bonus marker. Alternatively, that connection can provide a skill improvement from one of the cities.

Developing the right skills is central to expanding a trader’s opportunities. These improvements affect several important parts of play:

• Increasing the victory points gained from offices in a network
• Gaining more available action points
• Increasing the number of available pawns
• Gaining the right to place pawns and acquire more special pawns

Victory points can come from building a network of offices, controlling cities, and collecting bonus markers. Players can also score when other traders use cities they control, making city ownership an important part of the competition.

With multiple ways to gain points and several skills to improve, Hansa Teutonica focuses on choices about how to use connections, develop capabilities, and extend a trading presence. The game originally appeared as Wettstreit der Händler at the Hippodice competition and was released in 2009.