One of the more interesting expansions. Usually you are just placing your ferries, lookout towers, or other pawns and freely earning points for the whole group. However, with the gondolas you'll only score points based on how many bridges you've managed to place out by way of roads crossing over your canal. This does make scoring your gondolas harder, but because there is no upper limit on gondola scoring, you could potentially really max out on points. Rating: Amazing • 9/10
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Railroad Tiles: Canals Expansion
Canals Expansion for Railroad Tiles: build canals, bridges, and gondolas inspired by Venice. Players use tiles from the base and expansion bags, creating new challenges and scoring opportunities each turn.
Publisher: Cranio Creations
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Description
Each thematic expansion comes with its own bag of tiles, in addition to the other components (like pawns and objectives, as well as other special components that are specific to each expansion, like the Canal End tokens, more on those later).
When revealing Route tiles at the beginning of each round, players must follow a pre-determined mix of tiles from the Core Box bag and the Expansion bag. Each column will still contain as many tiles as the number of square icons at the top of that column, just like in a regular game with the core rules, so that the total amount of tiles available to players during a game will stay the same (which keeps the duration of the game similar to the core gameplay).
Even if the total number of tiles available during the game will be the same, it will be a mix of core and expansion tiles, though, which significantly alters the flow of the game and the availability of specific tiles during the game and creates new, interesting challenges. In the Canals Expansion, unsurprisingly, you will have to deal with the construction of Venice-inspired canals, bridges, and gondolas.
Your goal is to build Canals that are as long as possible (each Canal scores 1 Prestige point for each Canal tile it contains after the second tile, so a Canal with 5 tiles would be worth 3 points) and close as many of its open ends as possible (each is worth -2 points at the end of the game; to close a Canal, you just need to connect it to the Empty side of a tile, which allows you to place a Canal End token on top of it).
Additionally, some Canal tiles also have routes with open gaps over the canal itself where Bridges can be built when both ends of the "open" route are connected to other tiles. Bridges are very important to make points with gondolas (you want those romantic moments during your sightseeing tours), as each gondola is worth 1 point +1 for each bridge in the same canal.
When revealing Route tiles at the beginning of each round, players must follow a pre-determined mix of tiles from the Core Box bag and the Expansion bag. Each column will still contain as many tiles as the number of square icons at the top of that column, just like in a regular game with the core rules, so that the total amount of tiles available to players during a game will stay the same (which keeps the duration of the game similar to the core gameplay).
Even if the total number of tiles available during the game will be the same, it will be a mix of core and expansion tiles, though, which significantly alters the flow of the game and the availability of specific tiles during the game and creates new, interesting challenges. In the Canals Expansion, unsurprisingly, you will have to deal with the construction of Venice-inspired canals, bridges, and gondolas.
Your goal is to build Canals that are as long as possible (each Canal scores 1 Prestige point for each Canal tile it contains after the second tile, so a Canal with 5 tiles would be worth 3 points) and close as many of its open ends as possible (each is worth -2 points at the end of the game; to close a Canal, you just need to connect it to the Empty side of a tile, which allows you to place a Canal End token on top of it).
Additionally, some Canal tiles also have routes with open gaps over the canal itself where Bridges can be built when both ends of the "open" route are connected to other tiles. Bridges are very important to make points with gondolas (you want those romantic moments during your sightseeing tours), as each gondola is worth 1 point +1 for each bridge in the same canal.
Additional information
| Mechanics: | Tile Placement Pattern Recognition Map Addition Connections |
| Categories: | Trains Transportation Expansion for base-game |
| Alternative names: | |
| BARCODE: | 8034055587560 |
| The item is in 2 carts This was seen 928 times | |
Description
Each thematic expansion comes with its own bag of tiles, in addition to the other components (like pawns and objectives, as well as other special components that are specific to each expansion, like the Canal End tokens, more on those later).
When revealing Route tiles at the beginning of each round, players must follow a pre-determined mix of tiles from the Core Box bag and the Expansion bag. Each column will still contain as many tiles as the number of square icons at the top of that column, just like in a regular game with the core rules, so that the total amount of tiles available to players during a game will stay the same (which keeps the duration of the game similar to the core gameplay).
Even if the total number of tiles available during the game will be the same, it will be a mix of core and expansion tiles, though, which significantly alters the flow of the game and the availability of specific tiles during the game and creates new, interesting challenges. In the Canals Expansion, unsurprisingly, you will have to deal with the construction of Venice-inspired canals, bridges, and gondolas.
Your goal is to build Canals that are as long as possible (each Canal scores 1 Prestige point for each Canal tile it contains after the second tile, so a Canal with 5 tiles would be worth 3 points) and close as many of its open ends as possible (each is worth -2 points at the end of the game; to close a Canal, you just need to connect it to the Empty side of a tile, which allows you to place a Canal End token on top of it).
Additionally, some Canal tiles also have routes with open gaps over the canal itself where Bridges can be built when both ends of the "open" route are connected to other tiles. Bridges are very important to make points with gondolas (you want those romantic moments during your sightseeing tours), as each gondola is worth 1 point +1 for each bridge in the same canal.
When revealing Route tiles at the beginning of each round, players must follow a pre-determined mix of tiles from the Core Box bag and the Expansion bag. Each column will still contain as many tiles as the number of square icons at the top of that column, just like in a regular game with the core rules, so that the total amount of tiles available to players during a game will stay the same (which keeps the duration of the game similar to the core gameplay).
Even if the total number of tiles available during the game will be the same, it will be a mix of core and expansion tiles, though, which significantly alters the flow of the game and the availability of specific tiles during the game and creates new, interesting challenges. In the Canals Expansion, unsurprisingly, you will have to deal with the construction of Venice-inspired canals, bridges, and gondolas.
Your goal is to build Canals that are as long as possible (each Canal scores 1 Prestige point for each Canal tile it contains after the second tile, so a Canal with 5 tiles would be worth 3 points) and close as many of its open ends as possible (each is worth -2 points at the end of the game; to close a Canal, you just need to connect it to the Empty side of a tile, which allows you to place a Canal End token on top of it).
Additionally, some Canal tiles also have routes with open gaps over the canal itself where Bridges can be built when both ends of the "open" route are connected to other tiles. Bridges are very important to make points with gondolas (you want those romantic moments during your sightseeing tours), as each gondola is worth 1 point +1 for each bridge in the same canal.
Additional information
| Mechanics: | Tile Placement Pattern Recognition Map Addition Connections |
| Categories: | Trains Transportation Expansion for base-game |
| Alternative names: | |
| BARCODE: | 8034055587560 |
| The item is in 2 carts This was seen 928 times | |
What players say · data and reviews published by users of BoardGameGeek
A selection of reviews rated 8 or higher.
Great expansion, keeps the spirit of the game while allowing for your gondolas to score high points in the later rounds. The goal of making a long canal is very fun as well. Haven't tried the other expansions but some of them compete with the base game tiles and shift your focus from what the base game is asking you to do. This expansions adds something that allows you to still build your network as usual.
Perhaps my favorite of the Railroad Tiles expansion batch so far (I still have 4 more to try). This is so great because the canal tiles offer a whole new depth to the game and you want to collect them. I really enjoyed the Lakes expansion but this is even more planning and puzzly. You need bridges and to make sure everything lines up. Definitely worth checking out!!
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