Mayfair Games - 1988 - 2 to 6 players - Expert - B. Fawcett & D. Bromley
Philrey212: 8 / 10
Empire Builder is a game of "construction" of railroad tracks in North America.
The big feature is that it draws on the game board This leaves the player total freedom to expand its network as it sees fit.
Empire Builder is a game where you must manage money and invest it in better with the expansion of its network. And this while being careful to meet the resource demands of cities and other goods. Indeed, each player always has three cards, each with three requests for delivery.
You guessed that once the established network, trains travel to pick up and deliver various products.
interest of the game lies primarily in the design of its network. The pickup & delivery is itself in the long run, a bit repetitive.
Attention Empire Builder is long, very long. At three, we did not finish the game after ... more than 4 hours of play, but frankly, you never get bored not!
Now we can apply variations to speed up play, such as increasing train speed, start with more money, etc..
Another good evening Wine Game!
I enjoyed our "long" part of "Empire Builder". It's a game that the old one starts at 14:30, finishing the bottle of Gevrey Chambertin (or a cigar for the most unconscious) by the fire and where we know we will get a good afternoon, evening show ;-) No other game scheduled on the agenda because we want remain in a known and comfortable.
The surprise is that it draws its lines of railway in marker directly on the board. This gives a great feeling of openness, creativity, renew permanent ...
its cash management is essential - a mistake can leave you battered with no chance to return to the game. But hey, it's still not too hard, do not get out the calculator, the abacus just ...
No grand strategy here and quite (too?) By chance, we optimize "just" according to its last drawing by building roads that we can use a maximum of times.
In summary, Empire Builder is a very nice game for families who liked to Ride.
Here is the table game with players of different ways. On the sides, the card 'contract' of each player and train maps. We note at the bottom that the train is loaded with three goods.
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