We then tried another of Michael Schacht’s little train games from last year’s Essen. Having played Mogul and really enjoyed it, I was looking forward to this, but found it to be much less satisfying. The fact that I got trounced didn’t help. This is a race game where you are moving one of your set of trains forward and leapfrogging those in front of you. The ability to move is done using a blind bidding technique, with four lots of movement available each turn. Points are awarded to trains passing the half way point and finishing line and the person accumulating the most points wins.

I seriously underbid on most of the turns and although that should have allowed me to bid higher on later turns, I picked the wrong fights and still lost out too often. Mark K , on the other hand, could do no wrong and his trains must have been running on diesel rather than steam as he romped ahead comfortably. Not bad but nothing special.