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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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.
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.
BvdM
Played at Spellenspektakel '15. Ticket to Ride on a map of the Netherlands and northern Belgium. The new mechanism involving coins adds a significant amount of strategy and balance to the game.