One choice for early on in the game is whether to purchase Booster for 2 locomotives. Allowing you to save the locomotive card to spend on something else. With this slower gameplay player choice is emphasised.įor example, if you don’t have a destination ticket that involves Scotland you could choose to completely ignore it. Even those whom have played the base games numerous times will be slowed down by the new rules. The ruleset of the United Kingdom certainly steps up the difficulty of the otherwise family friendly franchise. These technologies enable players to build longer routes, into other countries within the United Kingdom and Ireland or even obtain bonus points for routes. The importance of this locomotive card is that players can on each turn, before any actions are made, spend a locomotive or 4 random train cards to purchase a technology. To further the unique twist players also start with a locomotive card, something that is almost a necessity for the game to start of evenly for all players. They also have a reduced number of train carriages to place down, with players only starting with 35 (45 being normal). Unlike other versions of the iconic train game where players can claim any route on the board from the offset players must first purchase technology.Īt the start of the game players are not able to build ferries, build routes longer than 2 carriages or build routes outside of England. Each and every Ticket to Ride map plays differently through differing ratios of long and short routes, the number of trains available for players, the ways to score bonus points and with the United Kingdom version even the rules for train placement are altered. With just this one additional expansion gamers can increase their count of game boards from 1 to 3, trebling the amount of content. To play Ticket to Ride United Kingdom players need either the original US based Ticket to Ride or Ticket to Ride Europe. It gave fans what they wanted at the time and it still benefits players to this day. With the UK board being released Days of Wonder saw an opportunity to change this and the map pack combination was born. The original reasoning was the Pennsylvania board had gone out of print but gamers wanted to get their hands on it. It might seem like an odd decision to include Pennsylvania on the reverse side of the United Kingdom Ticket to Ride board but it is a genius one. The United Kingdom board is designed for 2 – 4 players, while Pennsylvania will cater for 2 – 5 players. This pack comes with a double-sided game board featuring two distinctive and unique maps: United Kingdom & Pennsylvania. Ticket to Ride: United Kingdom is the fifth map collection from Days of Wonder, for their iconic family title Ticket to Ride.
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