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Map Expansion #3

Topic of the game is the great age of track building for railroads; in the basic game you use boards for part of the USA or Germany. Players lay track, develop towns, enhance the maximum distance of railway engines and secure commodities for themselves to deliver them for income or victory points. A round of the game comprises issuing shares, determine order of play, choose actions, building of track, move commodities, income, costs, income reduction, supplements of commodities and moving round marker. After a preset number of rounds you win with most victory points which you acquire at the end of the game for the income you can accrue and for each segment of a completed connection, shares you issued lose you 3 victory points for each share.

Map Expansion #3 offers a double-sided game board; one side features maps for Japan, Hokkaido and Singapore, the other side for Western USA, including track tiles and rules.

The expansions Singapore and Hokkaido are both intended for two players, the Japan expansion for 3-4 players and Westward, Ho! can accommodate 4-6 players; there are changes in the rules for the beginners and standard games and you need the core game for all those expansions; in the Singapore expansion there is no difference between introductory and standard game.

What goes for the two previous expansions, Map Expansion #1 for Midwestern USA / Belgium & Luxemburg and Map Expansion #2 for Great Britain / California & China also goes for this one: If you own the core game and like to play it, you will love this well-made and interesting expansion, in which the map for Japan is a special challenge.

Players: 2-6

Age: 13+

Time: variable playing time

Designer: Martin Wallace, Morgan Dontanville

Art: Jared Blando, John Austin, Ron Magin, Pete Fenlon

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Mayfair Games 2013

Web: www.mayfairgames.com

Genre: Railway game

Users: For experts

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Third expansion for Steam

Only for use with the basic game

Four different scenarios

Complete with rules and track tiles

Compares to:

Steam, Age of Steam and all expansions

Other editions:

Currently none

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