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Last Train to Wensleydale

ChEESE FROM THE YORKSHIRE DALES TO THE MIDLANDS

The second railway game under the Treefrog Label makes you transport stones, cheese and passengers from the hills of the Yorkshire Dales to the railroads of North Eastern Railway and Midland Steam. The valleys of the dales are the essential factor in the game, there you can build track. After building track you need to buy used engines and cars to transport goods and passengers. Local land owners might oppose your plans, so you need influence on government offices. Ideally you can palm off your lines before the losses get too high.

Each of the four rounds with four players and five rounds with three players is divided into several phases, which all must be completed before you start the next one: Investment cubes, influence points, auction influence points, orders of play, build track, buy trains and move goods/passengers, profit and loss, order of play, takeovers and end of turn. At the end you score for goods and passengers transported, if you can make up sets of goods you score a bonus for each set. This score is modified by your position on the profit/loss track, if you then have the achieved the highest score you win.

Challenging and well made, especially the selling off of unprofitable lines result in new strategies for your line. All in all a well-working combination of basic mechanisms with lovely, challenging details that keep you on your toes. The comprehensive rules allow fast play and offer good fun and interesting game play. The game is sold out in the Treefrog edition – it is presented here to announce the revised edition that will appear at Argentum Spiele as „First Train to Nürnberg” at Spiel in Essen.

Spieler         : 3-4

Alter            : ages 13 and up

Dauer           : approx. 120 min

Autor           : Martin Wallace

Grafik          : Mike Atkinson

German Title : Identical

Preis            : sold out 

Verlag          : Treefrog Games 2009

www.warfroggames.com

Genre                    : Economy / railway game

Zielgruppe             : For Experts

Mechanismen         : Build track, transport goods and passengers

Kommentar:

Sold out in this edition

Revised Edition coming at Essen 2010 at Argentum Spiele

Well-known basic mechanisms

Interesting and challenging details

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Other train/economy games

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