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Great Western Trail

Rails to the North

You herd cattle to Kansas City and load it into trains. You have a starting herd; neutral buildings are laid out on the board and you have three steps per turn. On your own and on neutral buildings you can do the main location action(s) – buy cows, build, swap cows for money, upgrade trains, etc. - or do an Auxiliary action; on opponents’ sing buildings or on danger tiles you can do only an auxiliary action. In Kansas City you replenish the tile display, sell your herd – the more colors in it, the more it is worth – mark a city crest for the delivery and begin a new trail with a new herd. Cowboys, workers and engineers improve building performance.

In der expansion Rails to the North, the area of business expands; you use private buildings, extended player boards and new station master tokens as well as a new rail track system on an expansion board for the main board. The most important new action is setting up a branchlet, usually as part of a single or double auxiliary action; the left disc is unlocked immediately; the right one can be unlocked by the usual means, but at a cost of 2$. The location must be available - it must be connected via a track either to Kansas City or to a city crest on the delivery track with your marker on it or to another city where you have a branchlet. Placing a branchlet triggers varying actions depending on the branchlet location. From Kansas City you can deliver to any city crest where you have a branchlet.

An excellent expansion for an excellent game; the importance of the craftsmen increases a bit. All in all, the expansion makes the game even more challenging and strategic.

Players: 2-4

Age: 12+

Time: 150+

Designer: Alexander Pfister

Artist: Andreas Resch

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Plan B Games / eggertspiele / Pegasus Spiele 2018

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Development

Users: For experts

Version: de

Rules: de en es fr pl ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very well working expansion

Intensified strategies

Exchange tokens provide new cards

Compares to:

Great Western Rails

Other editions:

Ediciones MasQueOca (es), Lacerta (pl), Plan B / eggertspiele (en, fr), Zvezda (ru)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 3

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0