Westwarts

A small press game about the legendary 'wagon train' of the Old West as players try to organize a train of twenty wagons. Conceptually, somewhat similar to the games RONDA MAGICA, DIGIT and TANTALUS. Twenty wagon cards with many settlers and gold mines and even a scout, barber, preacher, teacher, cook and gravedigger are placed beside a munitions wagon. Five cards each are randomly distributed on four area cards (pastureland, desert, Indian country and mountain country). Thirty job cards want to be completed. Unlike similar games, in which each player holds the demands in the hand, here they are laid out publicly. Thus four are set out, each providing 1 to 3 gold nuggets when completed. The progress of the wagon train is controlled by cards, each player holding 3 in hand. While game flow is quite simple, fulfilling demands not always so. Each player places a movement card face down. The current player reveals his own and that of another. With these two cards he resolves the wagon train movements and tries to fulfill jobs. The game ends when a player has earned 15 nuggets or fewer than four incomplete jobs remain. Some jobs are simple with small payoffs while a more difficult one would require, for example, equipping one area with three settlers and two gold diggers or placing the preacher between a settler and a gold digger. In such a case often the second card is of no help unless players make special arrangements with one another. You scratch my back, I scratch yours. There are also some special cards which do things like eliminate or paralyze certain wagons due to fire or broken axles.Comes with 71 'genuine' small gold nuggets! - BoardGameGeek