Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 6 – France & Old West includes a double-sided game board that features France on one side and the western half of the United States on the other.
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cree47
Both sides provide some good challenge. The France side can be tedious and leads to extended playtime. The Old West side can lead to players getting cut off from parts of the map entirely at lower player counts, but at higher player counts this is definitely the better side.
bgcrazy19
This is a great twist on the original game. This does exactly what I want an expansion to do! Adds a few new elements without changing the original gameplay too much. The first change involves every player now having up to 3 cities. You are able to place one at the beginning of the game and then the others can be placed on future turns. The cities provide you with a chance to earn points from other people's routes. This twist presents players with tough decisions. Once the board begins filling up you may be forced to claim a route where you don't earn the points that you have worked so hard for. I thought this change was brilliant! It more decisions to make without overcomplicating the game. The other change is you may only build off of your train, you cannot place route that is not connected to you. Although this restriction was frustrating at times, I felt like this was a restriction that enhanced gameplay. It really required you to rethink some of your strategy. Overall, this is great addition to Ticket to Ride. The combination of cities and train placement make for gameplay with few more decisions to make and strategies to consider. I wonder if after several plays cities will be played in the same spot. I do think once routes become memorized the cities will be rather predictable. However, this isn't a game I see myself overplaying. This is all about the Old West map. I look forward to playing the France side and I wonder if that may even increase my rating to an 8.5. Great game! Highly recommend if you like Ticket to Ride.
Bigft64
I've only played the France map and it's...fine. The twist of adding colors to the lines appears to be a huge change to the core mechanic but it just doesn't really shift the strategies all that much. It mostly just feels like another TTR map but now with this extra action you have to take that slows the game down. The juice isn't really worth the squeeze here.