Railroad Tiles: Countryside Expansion

What is Railroad Tiles: Countryside Expansion

Your goal is to create big Pastures with lots of Animals of the same type. In contrast to all other expansions, the Animal pawns you get are tied to a specific column of tiles you get from the central board during the draft phase at the beginning of each round.

Countryside tiles may come with two new features: barns and fences. Animal pawns must be placed not on routes, like cars, trains, and travelers, but on the barns in the fields that surround them. Fields connected to each other are called “Pastures” and are separated from each other by fences, but also by highways, railways, and towns.

Some Countryside tiles also feature blue buildings similar to Town tiles (in addition to a Barn); these are Village tiles: they count as Town tiles when building Cities, but unlike Town tiles they do not interrupt Pastures.

When you place an Animal pawn, you immediately score 1 point + 1 point for each other Animal pawn of the same type in the same Pasture, up to a maximum of 5 Prestige points.

Game details

Players

1–4

Age

+8

Duration

30 min

Difficulty

Light

Type

Expansion

Year

2025

Mechanics

Connections · Map Addition · Pattern Building

Categories

Expansion for Base-game · Farming · Trains

Designer

Lorenzo Silva · Hjalmar Hach

Publisher

Horrible Guild · Cranio Creations · GaGa Games