TrainsSKU: 729220058010

The railways of today are amazing things and bullet trains, freight trains and more keep entire countries running. From transporting the populace to carrying essential materials, trains play an integral part in a nation's power and economic development.

You will start with a small set of cards, but by building a more effective deck throughout the game, you will be able to place stations and lay rails over the maps of Osaka or Tokyo. Gain enough points from your railways and you will ultimately manage the most powerful railroads in modern Japan.

Review:

Trains is a deck building game where you work to build the strongest system of rails throughout Tokyo or Osaka. Buy cards to build train stations and rail lines on the board. Buy other cards to help you achieve your goal efficiently and faster.

There are 8 common decks that are used in every game. Shuffle the randomizer and draw 8 cards, and these are the 8 decks that will be used for this game.

On a player?s turn, play and/or buy as many cards as you want. If you decide to do neither, then return all Waste cards from your hand to the supply.

Every card played, you gain money (there is a value on the card played ? from 0 to 3) that will allow you to buy cards from the supply. Some cards played have extra action that you may use.

When your turn is over, discard all cards in your hand, cards played, and newly bought cards to the discard pile and draw five new cards. When the draw pile is exhausted, shuffle the discard pile and that becomes your new draw pile.

Trains plays like Dominion but with a game board. If you never played Dominion before, why haven?t you yet? But seriously, Trains has more decision making(placing tracks, finding the best place and least expensive, acquiring victory points, etc.)than other deck building games.

Designer - Hisashi Hayashi

Publisher - AEG

Players - 2 - 4

Play Time - 45 minutes

Ages - 12+

CAD$74.95

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