Players score points for completed destination tickets but lose points for those left incomplete. As with all Ticket to Ride games the aim is to complete destination cards which have two cities which you must link together via connecting routes. When a route is claimed the track piece is removed when the trains are added to the board, making it once again available to be placed elsewhere. To claim a route a set of a coloured Train cards matching the colour of that route is required, the amount set by the length of the route.
This then enables the route to be claimed via Train Cards. When you draw train cards, no matter where from, you also must place a Track piece onto an empty track bed. Normally this would end your turn, though this action also triggers track placement in the France ruleset. Train tickets come in the colours that routes on the board are made of. On a turn, players will either draw Train cards, claim a route or draw new destination tickets. Splitting these routes up are stations, named after and roughly located where the real-life cities should be. Normally, though it is still the case with Old West, snaking across this map are colourful train routes. When the game gets going, on the table is a large map of France or on the reverse side Old West America.
TICKET TO RIDE FRANCE SERIES
However, does this expansion add to the series or is it just another map? Let’s find out!įor those new to the franchise as an expansion this game cannot be played without also owning Ticket to Ride (US), Ticket to Ride Europe or Ticket to Ride Germany, as only a set of white trains is included in the box.
An average game takes just over an hour, creeping up to an hour and a half with the highest player counts. One side sees 2 – 5 players networking across France, while the other enables 2 – 6 players to grow slowly across the Old West. Moon and published by Days of Wonder, as the name suggests, this expansion comes with two maps to play on – utilizing a double-sided board. Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 6 – France & Old West is the latest expansion for the famous train based, set collection and route building board games.