I attended the Board Game Night at Comic Quest on
Thursday. There was a good sized crowd
of 22 people there and six game being played at any one time. There was only time enough for me to play one
game at the event.
The game I played was Eurorails. Eurorails is part of the Empire Builder
family of games. For those that are
unfamiliar with the Empire Builder games here is a brief description of how
they are played. The players own
railroad companies that are competing to build rail lines and move freight from
one city to another based on a set of demand cards that they have. Once a demand on a demand card is completed
the player discards it and draws a new one from the deck. Included in the demand card deck are a number
of disaster cards which include things like derailments and river floods which
impede the player’s progress to victory.
The unique feature of the Empire Builder family of games is
the free form building of track that it allows.
The player uses special crayons that are included with the game to draw
their track on the board. Between games
the marking from the previous game are erased from the game so that in the next
play of the game the players start with a fresh board.
Eurorails is set in Europe from Kaliningrad in the east to
the western shores including the United Kingdom and Ireland. The goal in Eurorails is to collect $250 and
for the player to have connected six of the seven major cities in the game. In the current edition of the game the option
of building the Chunnel between France and England is now available. The cost is prohibitive and I would not
recommend it unless there are four or more players in the game and a player is
spending most of their time moving to and from England.
The game ran longer than normal because we had a player that
was new to the game. When we have a new
player in the game it usually takes and extra 30 to 40 minutes to play the
game.
The cards I had at the start were not ones I normally get
when playing Eurorails. They had me
taking products from Poland into Torino in northern Italy. I was skeptical as to how they would work out
for me but I decided to give them a try any way. It turned out that using the initial
deliveries I was able to grow my track quite quickly up into Germany and
eventually out to Spain. Late in the
game I was started to run into trouble but was able to finally draw a new set
of cards that got me to the point where I was able to declare victory. Unfortunately I was the first player so the
rest of the players got to have one last turn and one of the other players
ended up with two more Euros than I had so I ended up in second place out of
four players.
My stats for the event:
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