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RAILWAYS of EUROPE

Tunnels, Passengers, Bonds

This expansion for Railways of the World has an interesting history – it was first intended to be and published under the name of Rails of Europe as an expansion for Railroad Tycoon and has now been re-published as Railways of the World as an expansion for Railways of the World, which is a new revised edition of Railroad Tycoon.

The game is basically played by the rules for Railways of the World: You play rounds consisting of three phases: Auction to determine First Player, Player Actions and finally Income and Dividends. Player Actions are Track Building, Urbanize, Upgrade engines, Deliver one Goods Cube and – in the expansions – take a Railway Operations Card. When the last “empty city” marker is placed on the board the end game starts, you finish the round and then a last complete round is played. The richest player wins.

This expansion uses the basic rules plus some modifications, hexes are either mountains or water or open territory. Bonds can only be issued when they need money for purchases or for making a bid or actions and there are new operations cards – Passenger Line and Tunnel Engineer as well as City Charter and Capital Charter. Capital Charter earns you one victory point per connection built to and from the city afterwards, and if you take City Charter, only you can build in this city, previous builds are not affected. As in the basic game, the game ends with a number of “empty” cities and you win if you own the most money.

If you own Railways of the World, you should take a look at Railways of Europe, the expansion makes an even better game out of an already very good basic game!

Spieler         : 2-5

Alter            : ages 10+

Dauer           : ca. 120 min

Autor           : Glenn Drover

Grafik          : Paul Niemeyer, David Oram

Preis            : ca. 35 Euro

Verlag          : Eagle Games

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Genre                    : Railway game

Zielgruppe             : For experts

Version                           : en

Rules                              : en

In-game use of language   : yes

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Expansion for Railways of the World

Needs Railways of the World to play

Gaming experience is useful

Vergleichbar:

Railroad Tycoon, other railway games with track building, bonds and goods transport

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