Great Western Trail

BGG Rank: 17

Players: 2 - 4, Recommended: 4+, Best: 4

Playing Time: 150 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.70 / 5

Mechanisms: Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Hand Management, Ownership, Set Collection, Track Movement, Variable Set-up

Category: American West, Animals, Economic

Family: Animals: Cattle / Cows, Cities: Kansas City (Missouri, USA), Components: Control Boards, Components: Map (Regional scale), Components: Wooden pieces & boards, Country: USA, Digital Implementations: Board Game Arena, Game: Great Western Trail, Mechanism: Tableau Building, Series: The Great Designers (Stronghold Games), States: Texas

Designer: Alexander Pfister

Artist: Andreas Resch

Publisher: eggertspiele, 999 Games, Arclight Games, Broadway Toys LTD, Conclave Editora, Delta Vision Publishing, Ediciones MasQueOca, Gigamic, Korea Boardgames, Lacerta, Ludicus, MINDOK, Pegasus Spiele, Plan B Games, Stronghold Games, uplay.it edizioni, YOKA Games, Zvezda

Category: Eurogame

America in the 19th century: You are a rancher and repeatedly herd your cattle from Texas to Kansas City, where you send them off by train. This earns you money and victory points. Needless to say, each time you arrive in Kansas City, you want to have your most valuable cattle in tow. However, the "Great Western Trail" not only requires that you keep your herd in good shape, but also that you wisely use the various buildings along the trail. Also, it might be a good idea to hire capable staff: cowboys to improve your herd, craftsmen to build your very own buildings, or engineers for the important railroad line. If you cleverly manage your herd and navigate the opportunities and pitfalls of Great Western Trail, you surely will gain the most victory points and win the game. —description from the publisher

Average Playing Time	2-4 hours
Best Player Count	3 Best
Collection	Kevin
Difficulty	Heavy
Played	Unplayed
Recommended Player Count	2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players

Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 4, Best: 3

Playing Time: 150 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.73 / 5

The rails have progressed further to the north, which opens new opportunities for you to deliver your cattle farther than before, even to cities outside American borders. Those locations can be highly advantageous, but they require more work and effort, such as constructing branchlets to give you more opportunities to deliver and gain different rewards. Much of the content in Great Western Trail: Rails to the North (Second Edition) was included in the original Rails to the North expansion, but it has been reworked and upgraded, with the player boards being dual-layered, a game board extension that features different rail paths, and the medium town tiles being modified. Other elements included in this expansion are new objective cards, a revised building 13a-13b, new solo-mode materials for Sam, and a new breed of orange cows.

FerreRK rated: N/A/10

CASA ALEX

Remyhawk rated: N/A/10

[New heavy euro]

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On radar --- CZ edition in 2017

quietcorn rated: N/A/10

This game is a giant roundel where players circle around trying to get the highest value hand at the end of the loop, consisting of a set all different cow cards. As you play, your movement points get used up more and more, as players add additional buildings and hazard tiles to the routes. Which buildings you construct and how slow or fast you cycle around defines your whole game, which is some fascinating and ever changing decision points. There's a degree of deck building happening as well, as the cow cards come from and are discarded to a personal deck. Many of the actions allow you to manipulate that deck in different ways, removing low value cows or adding more high value cows.

taglob rated: N/A/10

Insert

JimbNYC rated: N/A/10

Pfister

evkefalas rated: N/A/10

Sleeved Pro Mayday Chimera 57.5x89

apkendrick rated: N/A/10

Nice art, but the box cover... sorry but that’s one fugly cover. Never judge a book etc but man.

cjurgens rated: N/A/10

Really intrigued but really don't need another medium heavy/heavy euro I can't get to the table.

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