Ride the rails and roads through farm country when you play Railroad Tiles: Countryside Expansion by Horrible Guild Games. Add the 44 new Country Route Tiles to the included cloth bag and set up the game each round using the manual’s chart to add them to the base game offerings. Country tiles all include barns, and some have fences, villages, railroad tracks, or roads. Another surprise is the 39 animal pawns (13 each of pigs, sheep, and cows) and a cloth bag to draw them from. After setting up the route tiles, one random animal is drawn and placed beneath each route tile column. When placing country route tiles, follow base game rules for roads and railroads. Animal pawns are always placed in a barn. Pasture areas contain barns and uninterrupted contiguous areas, which provide more points for larger pastures containing animals of the same species. Fences, railroad tracks, and roads separate pastures, as do the town tiles from the base game. Some countryside tiles have blue buildings, which are village tiles. These do not interrupt pastures, but they do work with town tiles from the base game to build cities for end-game points.
Besides the rules for integrating country tiles and animals and scoring rules for them, game play remains the same as the base game. If using objective tiles for more challenge, this expansion includes three country tile challenges. There are also three solo mode challenges included. This expansion is for 1-4 players with a 45-minute game time, and the base game is required to play.
I really had fun with the puzzle of placing animals together in pastures and with the scoring rules around it. I have also played with two of the new objective tiles. ~ Marsha