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+
airfranz2212
Very fun version if TTR. Does a great job of adding another new variant to the base game that is very easy to implement to the game. I would say if not the easiest to understand, would be the second easiest new rules. Highly recommend. I do have a problem with the script writing of the city names on the board. Not easy to read. No one in my gaming group can read them without a few seconds of studying, other then that I love the bright colors and fun look of the game.
Andy Parsons
Another map and another new mechanism to freshen things up a little. In Nederland it's the payment of bridge tolls; the lower the land the higher the fee. The toll for the first track section linking two cities goes to the bank, the toll for the second goes to the player who built the first. That matters because there's a hefty bonus (50) for most money at the end. This all provides a greater incentive to build early and maybe prompts some cost-benefit analysis of expensive late builds (though concealed money makes that difficult). In a game in which a good deal depends on the luck of the ticket draw, it may seem odd to quibble over the bonus for most cash. However, on the evidence of a couple of games, it does feel a bit of a lottery. Artwork and production quality are to the familiar standards of this series. However, the font in which place names are written is a pain.
brianeikunst
This expansion is not very challenging or tense for 3 players. Is probably better with 4-5p. Also, the majority of the 6 best routes are straight north-south routes, as opposed to criss-crossing routes that introduce overlap and confrontation. Also, it's another single-sided map, which bugs me in terms of variety, conserving shelf space, and packing games to play somewhere aside from at home.