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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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.
Admiral Fisher
I was in holiday in Belgium and went over the border to the Netherlands too. Had to buy this, then! It is quite different to the others not simply because of the toll tokens but also because the ticket values are high and getting more of the right ones is tremendously powerful
cazaron
Great ideas went into this game and a great board came out. The bridge toll tokens make sense and are well produced, but Netherlands really loses its edge that Ticket to Ride gains for simplicity.