Patrician III lets you join the Hanseatic League and its exciting world of discovery and new beginnings. Protected by the Hanseatic League, traders travel between Luebeck and London, Cologne and Bergen, Riga and Novgorod. You are a small, but ambitious trader, bent on succeeding and shaping your own empire.

To this end you gather information, set up trading offices in other Hanseatic towns, take on various assignments for which you are not always best qualified, and indulge in as much bribery as your purse will withstand. However, it is not just base self-interest driving you in this. You also desire wealth for your home town and toil for recognition and prestige, dabble in local and national politics, ensure your competition is left standing and confront evil pirates and unreasonable princes. In a word, you are busy.