Country Trains

Country Trains

Designer: Andrew Muhling
Type: Tile
Status: Free
BGG entry: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/24510
Available from: http://www.arach.net.au/~ckam/game.html

This is a tile placement game with additional pieces (trains) that move around on the tiles. There are 3 types of tiles. Siding tiles that show a commodity they will accept, track tiles and country tiles. Country tiles have a commodity printed on them. On their go, each play will place a new tile and move their locomotive. They will then check to see if their locomotive connects a siding that provides a commodity to a siding that can receive that commodity. If they have achieved this, that player will collect the income that connection generates. They may then also have to pay tax to the manager of any of the sidings involved. At the end of the game, the winner is the player with the most money. The rules are only 2 pages and the game takes about 30 minutes.