Struan must fight to save his company and his family, or risk seeing everything he has created destroyed at the hands of his sworn enemy. Over the years, their two families will cross paths, threatening to rip both apart, with reverberations that will echo across the generations. Struan and Brock come to control much of England’s trade with China yet neither can control their desires or their hatred of each other. War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies’ wealth-the opium trade is still booming. Tyler Brock, Struan’s rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan’s. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. He is now the Tai-Pan-Supreme Leader-of all Tai-Pans in China.

But overall, he felt that this game is 'Definitely the best entry in the James Clavell series.The sweeping epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavellĭirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company.

Rick Heli, on the website Spotlight on Games noted that 'Each clipper sailing is a race in which greater profits are realized for coming first, and realized in ways that are very sensible for the theme.' Heli noted that there are a large number of cards drawn, and that 'some may complain that there is too much luck in the 'take that' cards'. In Issue 140 of Dragon (December 1988), Jim Bambra thought the rules were 'simple and elegant, taking into acount such things as clipper movement, market fluctuations, and a wide range of events.' He recommended it, saying, ' Tai-Pan is a fun, family game that makes for a good evening's entertainment.' Publication history Īfter the success of the 1980 TV miniseries Shōgun and the 1981 miniseries Noble House, both based on novels by James Clavell, FASA quickly produced four family board games based on Clavell novels: Tai-Pan (1981), designed by Ian Bailey and Albie Fiore Noble House (1981) Shōgun (1983) and Whirlwind (1986).

The players race back to England with their cargos the first clipper ship to arrive is able to sell their goods for the highest price. Each player uses a clipper ship to buy opium in India and sell it in China, then uses three local lorchas to buy Chinese goods such as silk and tea. Set in the 1830s, Tai Pan is a game of international commerce for 2–4 players. James Clavell's Tai-Pan is a board game published by FASA in 1981 that is based on the best-selling 1966 novel Tai-Pan by James Clavell.

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