Italian Rails

Draw your tracks and run your trains to satisfy demand cards. Use your profits to upgrade your train -- make it faster or make it bigger? First to 250 million Lira wins!

Innovations:

• Special contract locking rules enable competition/races.
• Extensive ferry possibilities, with staggered pricing
• Demand cards ordered by value
• Cash as tiles -- no paper money
• Design eliminates fiddly commodity chips.

Reviews:

• “Italian Rails is a great game by Rick Heli that holds up on its own and we have had plenty of fun with this very recent discovery and introduction to the crayon rail series.” –Justus Pang

• “It was very interesting and fun with cool ferry ports. ... My congratulations to the fine author of this version!“ –Andracon (on BGG)

• “With Italian Rails, we enjoyed the thought that went in to picking the best loads and maximizing profits by limiting the amount of track you have to buy. “ –ChaoticGemini (on BGG)

• "I own Italian Rails and like it a lot. Thanks for that one too." –Ben Baldanza

• “Playable in an hour. So it works for a lunch game.” –caillebotte (on BGG)

• “I really enjoyed Italian Rails ... Pickup-and-deliver is a favorite mechanic of mine so I enjoyed that aspect of the game as well as planning the best routes. There was lots of thinking involved, but we really didn't mind it.” –April W (on BGG)

Ideal for learning the geography if you're planning a trip to Italy. Makes a nice wedding present.

Note: For the list of Components see below.

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Train games fan? Check out also Dwarven Rails. It's also a train game, but in a completely different and more challenging and strategic style, featuring mining, rail building and pickup-and-deliver in a fantasy setting.

Published August 4, 2017.