{"product_id":"messina-1347","title":"Messina 1347 Board Game","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe smash hit from Essen Game Fair 2021 is now available from Rio Grande Games! In 1347, merchant galleys from the Crimean Peninsula arrived in Sicily along with docked at the ancient port of Messina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe galleys had rats. The rats had fleas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas well as the fleas carried a plague that would come to be known as the Black Death. Over the next four years, in cities across Europe, half the population would die.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Messina 1374, the latest game from the designer of Underwater Cities along with Praga Caput Rengi, players take the role of noble families including landholdings in the countryside around Messina. They attempt to rescue people from the plague by relocating them to their estates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the plague in Messina worsens, the players will build small independent communities while attempting to control the plague including fire. In the final rounds of the game, the plague begins to abate, as well as players return the rescued citizens to repopulate the resilient city of Messina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVendor: RIO GRANDE GAMES\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RIO GRANDE GAMES","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48021032501465,"sku":"RIO613","price":89.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8771\/4265\/files\/LP_655132006132_1_b0e76362-a8d0-415a-9381-f14cfdfad2fe.jpg?v=1772002302","url":"https:\/\/www.supergamers.com.au\/products\/messina-1347","provider":"SuperGamers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}