Acquisitions - Ticket to Ride UK

This is a little bit of the loot that I picked up a Reaper con, a boardgame of all things. I certainly realize that this Ticket to Ride variant has been out for sometime but I have been remiss in keeping up with one of my favorite game series.

Like most of these variants you need a copy of one the larger games for the additional components like cars and markers. Certainly not a problem for me! The flip side of the UK board is Pennsylvania and both introduce some very interesting variations.

The UK has upgrade cards and you purchase these upgrades with locomotives. In fact you can trade in regular cards to obtain additional locomotive cards which is a neat concept. There are a fair number of upgrades and you must buy upgrades in order to reach certain parts of the board (like Scotland, Ireland and France) as well as being able to lay trains on the larger routes. I can see some interesting strategies coming from this and I'm looking forward to playing it (some time).

The Pennsylvania board adds stock certificates. When you lay trains on certain routes you can pick from a stock certificates associated with that particular route. Players with the most stock certificates in the companies get bonus points! Shades of an 18xx game there! Not to surprising since Alan was involved in the development of 1830, along with its two variants, the Reading and the Coalfields. Another variant that I look forward to giving a try.