Great Western Trail: Rails to the North

This expansion felt a bit superfluous, adding a bunch of new mechanics and sideboards only serves to highlight how elegant the base game was. The new mini-stations were interesting, but it seems like you are forced to use them to do well. I feel fine ignoring this expansion until I have played the base game many more times.

This is what an expansion should look like!

Expansion stored in main game

Very good but not essential expansion for Great Western Trail. The expansion adds more choices when delivering cows, however, it comes also with more complexity and decision-making before delivering cows. Moreover, the variety of the base game is slightly improved.

All in all, the expansion convolutes the base game. The streamlined feel isn't there any more.

• The biggest addition is the new railway board that is nicely overlaid on top of the main board. It adds more cities where players can deliver cows which means more choices and decision-making (but also more complexity)
• Players can now build houses (bonus action) along rail tracks to unlock new cities or boni
• Adds more variety (2 new building tiles for each player and new station tiles)

• Added complexity may be too much for some players (especially for beginners)
• The new bonus action "build house along tracks" makes some of the old bonus actions somehow obsolete / less interesting

很有必要加入的一个扩展，使吹牛行动有了更多的可能

Expansión esencial para el juego base. No lo jugaría sin ella.