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Great Western Trail (Second Edition): Rails to the North

Name: Great Western Trail (Second Edition): Rails to the North
Brand: eggertspiele
SKU: ESG50161EN
Price: 47.95 CAD
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Designer	Alexander Pfister
Publisher	eggertspiele
Players	1-4
Playtime	75-150 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion For	Great Western Trail (Second Edition)
Additional Info	359451/great-western-trail-rails-north-second-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/359451/great-western-trail-rails-north-second-edition/forums/63

The rails have progressed further to the north, which opens new opportunities for you to deliver your cattle farther than before, even to cities outside American borders. Those locations can be highly advantageous, but they require more work and effort, such as constructing branchlets to give you more opportunities to deliver and gain different rewards.

Much of the content in Great Western Trail: Rails to the North (Second Edition) was included in the original Rails to the North expansion, but it has been reworked and upgraded, with the player boards being dual-layered, a game board extension that features different rail paths, and the medium town tiles being modified. Other elements included in this expansion are new objective cards, a revised building 13a-13b, new solo-mode materials for Sam, and a new breed of orange cows.

Added decisions, not to much added complexity

This adds a little more complexity to the game, but once you get the hang of it, it wasn't that much more complex.

What I really like are the added decisions, and the way there are opportunities to grab little bonuses to help support whatever strategy you 're pursuing. It really fleshes the train options out in an interesting way.

I'll leave it out when teaching the game, but would always include it otherwise.

Tous ceux avec qui j'ai joué l'ont adoré!

Pour moi j'ai acheté les boitiers rouge et violet afin de jouer avec plus de personnes et ensuite j'ai acheté le coffret Deluxe pour l'offrir en cadeau.

Great game!

A great shedding game where you play poker hands and power cards.

Nightfall Lite but Not Nightfall 2.0

If you liked Nightfall, but thought individual creature combat was too tedious? You'll probably like this.

If you liked Nightfall but thought the game was too slow to ramp up, or too long to finish/hand out all wounds, you'll like this.

If you thought Nightfall's "Private Archive" claims ended to overpower the game based on luck of the draw, you'll like Unchained's 3x3 market grid.
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As far as deck builders go, I like Unchained. It will take awhile to really know the card power combos. The symbols look overwhelming at first, but are kind of intuitive once you're used to how the cards work. Combat is total offense vs total defense and result is one fatigue (wound). So no MTG-ish "creature 1 attacks player B and creature 2 takes 3 wounds against player C." It does speed up and simplify the game a lot. The 3x3 card market is brilliant. You can get cards you want and/or clear out cards you don't want your opponents to get. Much more variety of cards to cycle through than 8+2 archives = 10 cards to choose from per game.

Solid 4/5 all around. I'd give 5/5 if there was a happy medium in combat between Nightfall and Unchained. Not as super simplified as Unchained, but not like Nightfall's individual cards combat. Maybe a power on some cards "stays in play after combat" so there's a larger chance of different strategies than "I punch you, you punch me, repeat"

Funbrick Series - Viking See-Saw (Import)

I never got the game

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