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Trans Siberian

Railroads across the taiga

Mondainai is entering rails and makes us trade and build railways. In each round you receive one resource which you can stash for future use or trade for other cubes when your cube is in demand in your location or wait yet another round. But as the grass usually is greener somewhere else, or at least trading conditions are better, you will finally discard two cubes to lay track! Suddenly, colors of cubes are important, you need blue cubes to build from Moscow into today’s Russia or yellow ones to build in Kazakhstan, etc. When two cities are connected you travel cheaply between them, you pay only one money unit for tile that you cross and for one cube you get 10 money units from the bank. In the course of the game the east gets more and more interesting, but building towards the east is expensive, so you try to use alternate transport possibilities, but finally you will resort back to tracks, because everything else is much too expensive.

A player’s turn comprises 1) draw one resource from the bag, 2) travel, with our without railway; 3) trade and growth of towns and 4) Building tracks. When the free resources have been used you score two victory points for each section of track you built, one victory point for each remaining resources cube and 0,1 victory point per money unit.

As in all games by Harald Enoksson the casually written, witty rules hide a good interesting game, which starts rather easily, but soon proffers its strategic and tactical possibility; funnily enough it reminds me both of Empire Builders as well as of the more simple versions of 18xx, all in all real railway flair for railroad gamers!

Players: 2-6

Age: 10+

Time: 120+

Designer: Harald Enoksson

Artist: Harald Enoksson

Price: on demand

Publisher: Mondainai Games 2012

Web: -

Genre: Railway

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Handmade limited edition

Availability not known

Very concise rules

Rules allow quite a lot of strategy

Compares to:

Other railway games with resources management

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0