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Le Havre is a French city, containing France’s second largest harbour (after Marseilles). The city is notable not only for its size but also for its unusual name. The Dutch word "Havre", meaning "Harbour", was adopted into French in the 12th century, but these days it is considered archaic and "le port" is used instead.

The principle of the game is simple. A player’s turn consists of two parts: First, distribute newly supplied goods onto the Offer spaces; then take an action. As an action, players may choose either to take all goods of one type from an Offer space or to use one of the available buildings. Building actions allow players to upgrade goods, sell them or use them to build their own buildings and ships. Buildings are both an investment opportunity and a revenue stream, as players must pay an entry fee to use buildings that they do not own. Ships, on the other hand, are primarily used to provide the food that is needed to feed the workers.

After every seven turns, the round ends: a Harvest increases players’ grain and cattle reserves, and players must feed their workers. After a fixed number of rounds, each player may carry out one final action, and then the game ends. Players add the value of their buildings and ships to their cash reserves. The player who has amassed the largest fortune is the winner.

Game Contents:

• 1 Rules booklet
• 1 Rules appendix: Buildings overview
• 3 Game boards
• 5 Person discs (1 in each player colour)
• 5 Ship markers (1 in each player colour)
• 6 counter sheets, containing:
  • 7 large, round supply tiles, each showing 2 game tokens
  • 16 large, round Food production tokens (4x "2/5", 3x "3/4", 3x "5/6", 2x "7/8", 2x "9/10", 1x "11/12", 1x "13/14")
  • 1 large, round starting player tile
  • A total of 420 tokens:
    • 48 "1 Franc" coins (Francs are not counted as a good)
    • 30 "5 Franc" coins (You can make change for Francs at any time)
    • 60 "Cattle" tokens (0 Food) with "Meat" (3 Food) on the reverse (You can never make change from food)
    • 60 "Grain" tokens (0 Food) with "Bread" (2 Food) on the reverse
    • 30 "Iron" tokens with "Steel" on the reverse (Steel can also be used as iron)
    • 42 "Clay" tokens with "Brick" on the reverse (Brick can also be used as clay)
    • 48 "Wood" tokens (1 Energy) with "Charcoal" (3 Energy) on the reverse (You can never make change from energy)
    • 42 "Fish" tokens (1 Food) with "Smoked Fish" (2 Food) on the reverse
    • 30 "Coal" tokens (3 Energy) with "Coke" (10 Energy) on the reverse
    • 30 "Hide" tokens with "Leather" on the reverse
• 110 cards:
  • 5 "Game turn" overview cards in the players’ colours with “Buttery” on the reverse (A Buttery is a food storeroom)
  • 33 Standard building cards (including the Starting buildings: one Construction Firm and two Building Firms)
  • 36 Special building cards
  • 20 Round cards with "Ship" on the reverse (there are 7 Wooden ships, 6 Iron ships, 4 Steel ships and 3 Luxury liners)
  • 11 "Loan" cards
  • 5 "Round overview" cards -- 1 each for the 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 player games.