Cargotrain Duel

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Cargotrain Duel

Score
4.4
Players
2
Time
30
Recommended Age
10+
Difficulty
normal
Official Website
Not provided
Type
game
categories
mechanics
publishers

Description

Cargotrain Duel is a promotional board game which serves to promote the full game Cargotrain. The game is just a double sided sheet of paper with instructions on one side and the board on the other.

Each player manages a fleet of trains. The goal of the game is to gather most points. On a player's turn she rolls five dice. Then the players takes alternatively one dice each other, starting with the active player untill both take two. The last 5th die is a support die.

The active player moves first. She chooses wich die will be the resource die and which will be the route die. Then she takes an amount of resources equal to the sum of resource and support dice. Now she can move a train on route which corresponds to route die. In order to do that she must spend her resources in amount indicated on route fields. If a player reaches or passes through a field with factory, then

When both players have taken their turns, there is a scoring round. Each player scores the points indicated on the route fields which their trains are on.