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Days of Steam

Locomotives

You play track from your hand or place a city and move trains to pick up goods or deliver goods or you use the water tower. Circular tracks and delivered goods earn you victory points; color variety in goods earns you bonuses. Between towns there must be a minimum distance of two tracks; new tracks must be connected to a town. A circular track connects a minimum of two cities; for a finished circular track you receive a circular track marker, only one marker per train, even if you finish more circular tracks; and only for the first seven circular tracks all in all. Movement is paid for with steam points, using the water tower and placement of tracks ears you steam points. Each good delivered earns you 2 victory points; each circular track marker is worth 1 victory point. 2, 3 or 4 colors of goods earn you 1, 3 or 5 victory points. When a player has accumulated 13 victory points, he wins instantly, When the last track tile is drawn the player with most points wins.

The expansion “Locomotives” introduces track tiles with factories and Coal Stations. Factories are not towns and you cannot deliver goods there. Coal Stations yield 2 coals which must be changed to steam. The new engine tiles introduce improvements in the categories stability, coal Tender and Steam Boiler. When you place a town tile you receive coal instead of steam; you cannot build over water towers.

Days of Steam + Locomotives is a straight, fast railway game with good rules, which in their degree of difficulty are clearly below complex games like 18xx, but despite this transport the flair, the functionality and importance of steam railways.

Players: 2-4

Age: 12+

Time: 45+

Designer: Aaron Lauster

Artist: Patrick Turner Studios

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Valley Games 2010

Web: www.valleygames.com

Genre: Railway game

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple, clearly structured components * challenging game play with not-too complex rules * also good for families with a bit of gaming experience

Compares to:

Age of Steam for delivering goods, 18xx and other railway games for construction of tracks

Other editions:

Strata ax Edition 2008

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0