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.
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BBBD77
Tickets are worth an insane amount of points, first game with the 55 point bonus, winner was in the 250's which is excessive.... My Group didn't like this one at all (Its still TTR to me...) IMO they took a step back. The bridges didn't add that much strategy, especially since Routes that are one link away were worth 15+ points in some case? You can complete tickets all day long in this one and still score a ton! Maybe the rating will go up after more plays... but its going to be a while before my group probably even allows me to bring this near the table, little lone play it again.
Bombadillo
The Nederland Map Collection is a failed attempt at making Ticket to Ride a little harder: actually the beauty of the original game comes from its simplicity, which the tolls you have to pay (to either the bank or another player who built the same track as you before you) utterly spoil, as they put too much strategy and control into an otherwise straightforward 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.