Railroad Dice - Deutschland
| Year: | Essen 2004 |  |
| Designer: | Jens Kappe | |
| Publisher name: | Wassertal Spieleverlag | |
| Status: | In print | |
| Series: | Railroad Dice | |
| Price: | EUR 15.00 | |
| Type: | Board | |
| No. of players: | 2-4 | |
| Age: | 12 years and up | |
| Duration: | 1 hour | |
| German reviews: | H@LL9000 | |
| Comment: | Expansion for "Railroad Dice". | |
| Press info: | Railroad Dice - Germany is not that kind of typical game expansion which only adds some few more components to the basic edition, but is a complete new game with many new ideas, using components and some of the well known and beloved mechanisms of the basic game. In Railroad Dice - the first rails the players were responsible for the development of the terrainmap. This changes in Railroad Dice - Germany, because the game is played on 4x6 prealigned tiles having the same size like the original terraintiles. In addition to the already known terraintypes this expansion adds rivers as a new interesting element with effects on trackbuilding. During the game players alltogether build a single railroadtrack like in the basic game, again with the same mechanism that all railroaddice are removed from the tile which just have been left by the track. A difference to the first rails is, that in such a case, the already built stations are left on the map instead of transferring them onto a miniatureview of the terrain map. In the basic game players got appointed Director of one of the five companies by having most shares. This changed in Railroad Dice - Germany to the appointment of Directorship based on most actually already transported passengers for each company. That is the cause for not using shares anymore in the expansion game. The former sharesymbol of the railroaddice is used in a game with the expansion-set as "transport"-symbol where each roll adds 1.000 passengers, waiting for their departure to one of the five companies. This number of waiting passengers is increased at the end of each round about a multiple of 1.000, depending on the amount of already built stations for each company. In Railroad Dice - Germany stations could be built by all players, without the need of beeing Director anymore, like compared to the basic game. In contrast to that, possibilities of stationbuilding are restricted to special areas on the map, because stations could be built only on colordepicted spaces of known german cities connected to single companies each. Besides these colored unique spaces other fields exist in many areas of the map as well as in the surrounding neighbouring countries where stations of any color could be built. The player who just built a station receives two questionmarks and all counters representing passengers waiting for transport for this appropiate company. This amount of passengercounters could be increased just before, by using questionmarks and transportsymbols by the building player. This is one of the main differences in the whole gameplay of Railroad Dice - Germany, that player could initiate the gain of passengers themselves during a round by building a station and do not have to wait for the end of the round, where in Railroad Dice - the first rails passenger counters are distributed based on the actual share-/Director-situation. Railroad Dice - Germany is faster, more dynamic and less complex compared to the basic game. This is realized among other because of a reduction in stations that could be built for each company by two and a change in the total income of railroaddice from each player per round In Railroad Dice - the first rails it was necessary for each player to be Director of one or several companies with the overall sum of at least five stations to receive an income of more than four railroaddice per round. I n Railroad Dice - Germany a player i.e. only needs to be in control of one company with a single station to receive one additional die per round as income on top of the usual four dice. Due to this significant change of passengercounter distribution, it is now more easier for players to get back into the game, in case they should have dropped back some way behind the leader, compared to the basis game. Railroad Dice - Germany is an expansion, produced as a fold-apart map, that fits into the box of the 2nd edition of Railroad Dice - the first rails, so no additional box was necessary. In addition 20 orange and 40 brown plastic chips are distributed together with the map to double the supply of the basic game. | |
| Contents: | 1 fold-apart map 20 orange and 40 brown plastic chips rules | |
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| Last modified: | 18.02.10 | |
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