Merchant of Venus: The Variant Mini Expansion

Not by any means essential, but agents and 2nd ships are fun additions, especially for longer games. I have never seen someone buy a base, but I like the option (I can see how it [i]might[/i] be situationally pretty good in longer games).

We ignore the extra forts and mercenaries, as we prefer to play without combat rules entirely (except for blasting asteroids). We also do not use any of the other variants suggested in the magazine (customised spaceships, haggling, etc.).

You should have parts of this at least...