Ticket to Ride – Map Collection 4: Nederland.
Expansion of: Ticket to Ride - Core Game.Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 4 – Nederland contains a new game board with new rules for use with Ticket to Ride or Ticket to Ride: Europe with players now creating train lines in the Netherlands.
30m - 60m
2 - 5 Players
Ages 8+
cichlidhead
My wife is a dedicated Ticket to Ride fan, and she'll normally support me picking up any expansion for the game. I'm a little less enthusiastic, but even I have to admit that each expansion that Days of Wonder releases adds something new to the game and is very well thought out. This expansion is second only to the team versions of the Asia expansion. The need to pay tolls adds a new element to the game and encourages players to claim routes sooner instead of simply hoarding cards. I'm rating this after only one play with two players, but I'm enthusiastic to play this some more. The two player game requires a "dummy" player, but it actually works quite well. In fact, this map might be one of the best options for two behind something like Nordic countries.
b0ardgamer
Initially I enjoyed this game, but after a few plays I have become very dissatisfied with the end bonus cards - a swing of a few coins can make a 50-point swing in scores, and that's just too much of a random factor. In our last game, two players built their initial tickets, then just built cheap (long) connections to run their supply of trains out. And won by a mile. That's not an interesting game for me.
Blott
While I'm starting to think no Ticket to Ride map will ever come close to the awesomeness of the Team Asia map, this one is definitely a keeper. The bridge tolls add one more thing to think about but don't add much complexity at all. It also appears that you can take a couple strategies on the tolls as well, because it is possible to just outscore other players strictly with destination tickets, so you might disregard the toll bonuses altogether. The map is beautiful, and I like that you can play it without using any special rules as well if you want. I only have 2 minor nitpicks with this expansion map. First of all, the box insert of the expansion doesn't have a hole big enough for the bag of toll tokens. Not a huge deal, but kind of annoying. Secondly, and considerably more irritating, the font on the destination cards is much different from the font on the board, making it difficult to locate the cities quickly. However, minor complaints aside, this is a quality map and I'll be keeping it unlike a couple of the other Ticket to Ride expansion maps.