Ludonaute Colt Express Big Box Board Game Ages 10+ 2-9 Players 40 Minutes Playing Time Multicolor

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Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee | Board Game Honor | BoardGameGeek". boardgamegeek.com . Retrieved 2019-11-06. In Colt Express, players take on the roles of competing gang members, each trying their hardest to steal the most loot over the length of a train journey. You’ll be re-enacting classic Western tropes (a carriage rooftop shoot out, robbing the strongbox at the front of the train) and ruining your friends plans, all while trying to stay out of harms way. Colt Super Expresshas the spirit of the original, award-winingColt Expressin the form of a fast-paced, survive-to-win format that players can take anywhere. Take the locomotive and one train car per player (at random) from the box. This will form the train you’re robbing this game.

Trains & 1 Mission features an additional 3D train for players to introduce into their games which contains two special cars and even more dangers to overcome. Also included in the upcoming board game expansion are two new bandits for players to take control of, each with their own unique powers. One is a fierce hand-to-hand fighter called Misty, who has the ability to use any bullet cards in her hands as punch cards, and the other is a duo called Twinzz who are able to play two cards whenever a tunnel round occurs - but must play both face up. Punch (1) – Choose another bandit in your space (inside a car or on the roof) and force them to drop a loot token. You get to choose which token they lose but you are not allowed to see it’s worth. This is the only way loot tokens can end up on the roof of the train. Note – Each character has a special power that should be taken into consideration when choosing who to play as. However, if this is your (or any other player’s) first game, it is recommended to ignore these powers. Each one of the six Colt Express: Bandits expansions allows the players to compete against the game itself, which is operating under the rules of that particular expansion. Colt Express won the Spiel des Jahres award (the Family Game of the Year) in 2015, and it’s certainly a family-friendly game that players shouldn’t take too seriously. Since you can only see a percentage of the programmed actions, you need to calculate the odds of your perfect move being achievable. However, more often than not, the laughter comes when your plans go out the window and you have to suddenly adapt. If you’re a fan of other program-movement titles such as River Dragons, Robo Rally and Lords of Xidit, then Colt Express is the rootin’-tootin’ ride for you.Colt Express is a card-driven, action/movement programming board game that looks like a famous scene straight out of a classic Wild West movie. Here players are rival, caricatured bandits on board a locomotive, attempting to become the richest outlaw during a good old-fashioned train robbery. In the middle of the table is perhaps the real star of Colt Express Big Box — the train. Composed of four to six carriages and a locomotive, the train is made from meeple-sized cardboard models which feature two levels (inside and on the roof) and front and rear panels that keep them together. If you’re playing with either (or both) of the Stagecoach and Prisoner expansion modules (both of which are included in Colt Express Big Box) then you may also have a stagecoach model, or a jailhouse carriage.

The stagecoach, with its second strongbox and valuable hostages adds new ways to increase the score well beyond that of the base game, but again it introduces new risks and complexity. Will you be able to make it to the stagecoach at all, and if you do, will you be shot off it more or less immediately? New abilities provided by the whisky (draw and/or play extra cards) or the reduced prisoner mitigate some of the new challenges, but are often a challenge and at the very least a distraction to get to. Kritikerpreis: "Colt Express" ist "Spiel des Jahres 2015" ". Der Spiegel. 2015-07-06 . Retrieved 2019-11-06. If you’ve already had the pleasure of playing 2014’s unique hand management/action programmer Colt Express, you’ll instantly be at home with both the thrilling high-speed heist scenario and the rogue gallery of characters playing it out. Tuco, Django, Ghost, Belle, Doc and Cheyenne all make their return here in Colt Super Express (along with new addition Mei) but don’t be fooled by over-familiarity. This compact resizing of the original game plays as a faster, more chaotic affair, owing to a new feature whereby the train driver ejects entire carriages at the end of every round in an attempt to get rid of you and your adversaries! Clipped Horns and Curly Wolves There’s no doubt that the Colt Express Big Box provides both a neater and easier to use storage solution for the base game and the expansion content. Either fans had to keep the expansion boxes, splitting the content across them, or they had to ditch the helpful base game insert to cram all of the cardboard into the box. The Big Box has room for all the carriages and cards too. With the well laid out insert the setup time of the game is kept short, with the trains and carriages, stagecoach and everything can be left fully constructed between plays. Due to this approach it’s clear to see why the team decided to go with a longer rather than deeper box, despite it being harder to fit onto the typical gamer’s Kallax shelf. Golden Geek Best Thematic Board Game Nominee | Board Game Honor | BoardGameGeek". boardgamegeek.com . Retrieved 2019-11-06.Colt Express Big Box has just been released by publisher Ludonaute, claiming to be the full Colt Express experience. This big box version of the game includes the base game, the Horses and Stagecoach expansion, the Marshal and Prisoners expansion and a brand new bandit called Silk. Designed by Christophe Raimbault, featuring artwork from Jordi Valbuena, Colt Express is a game that sees 2 – 9 players robbing a train and in true Wild West fashion they’ll be shooting each other and dodging the dastardly law along the way. However, is this the best way to play Colt Express? Let’s find out! In Colt Express, players represent bandits robbing a train at the same time; the goal is to become the richest outlaw of the Old West. [4] Change Floors (2) – If you are inside the train, move to the roof. If you are on the roof, move inside the car you are currently standing on. Actions include "vertical movement" to move from inside the car to the roof or from the roof to inside the car, "horizontal movement" to move to the next car, or move up to 3 cars away if on the roof, "punch" to punch the player in the same car sending them to a neighboring car and causing them to drop one piece of loot, "shoot" to fire your gun at a player in a neighboring car or in your line of sight if on the roof, "steal" to take any loot on the floor, and "move marshal" to cause the marshal to move to a neighboring car and fire his gun at all bandits in the car, causing them to flee to the roof. Bullet cards can really cause you problems. This is because whenever you draw one as one of your six cards it is effectively a dead action. This gives you less cards to choose from, making life much more difficult. So as you can see getting shot too often is really bad for your wealth. If your draw is particularly bad you can mitigate it a little by spending an action to draw three new cards. In 2-3 player games you probably wont get too many bullet holes in you. At 5-6 player numbers however those bullets will be flying around the carriages. You have been warned. Heist Planning

NanoPresentazione] Gioco dell'Anno 2015: Colt Express". Il Nano Borbone (in Italian). 2015-09-09 . Retrieved 2019-11-06. Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee | Board Game Honor | BoardGameGeek". boardgamegeek.com . Retrieved 2019-11-06. unmondedejeux (2015-02-27). "Le palmarès de l'As d'or 2015". Un monde de jeux (in French) . Retrieved 2019-11-06. Big Box versions of popular board games can be a bit of a mixed, erm, box. It can be extremely tempting to think of the “value” you’re getting when investing in a box that includes a base game and any number of expansions, both in terms of money and space — I know better than most how “expansion bloat” can fill up your shelves. The problem is, Big Box editions can make the experience of learning a game daunting for new players. Thankfully, Colt Express Big Box is super simple to get into, and thanks to an excellent instructional pamphlet, you can learn what this great game has to offer at your own pace. This game uses a 3D cardboard train in place of a board, so the first step is to assemble each carriage using the instructions in the box. Once that’s complete, you’re ready to learn how to play. Setup

Best 6 Player Board Games (Aug 2019) Top 10". Board Games Land. 28 April 2019 . Retrieved 2019-11-06. Stealin’→In this phase you will get to see your best laid master-plan go completely wrong with hilarious results. The top card from the central action pile is revealed and the relevant character takes the action revealed. These will consist of: Besides the two new playable characters, an AI controlled character called Il Professore is featured within the expansion that’s designed to stand in for an extra player should one team ever find themselves understaffed. There are two team modes included in 2 Trains & 1 Mission, one which is a straight-up battle between two sides to see which earns the most gold and one where players can choose to betray their team in the last round and try to take the gold for themselves. Should players choose to support their team, then they can play a nudge card to give one of their fellow bandits a chance to perform a basic action on their turn. Thesecond Colt Express expansion : Marshal & Prisoners,contains three new components to add to your game!

Rob (2) – Take one loot token from the car you’re in, or from the roof if you are on top of the train, and put it on your character sheet. All loot remains face down for the whole game. The scene? The Union Pacific Railroad, deep in the dusty heart of the Wild West. The cast? Seven of the meanest, slipperiest bandits that North America has ever flinched at from a Wanted poster. The goal? Rob the living daylights out of the terrified passengers of a steam train and – through scheming, shooting and subterfuge – be the last outlaw standing on the speeding locomotive as it roars away into the sunset. Brigands and brig-ettes, fill up your shootin’ irons and prepare to jump aboard the Colt Super Express! Move –Either move your bandit one car left or right (up to three cars if on the roof). Or move your bandit up or down to or from the roof. There’s no doubt that Colt Express Big Box steals the show visually, and I’d have to say that it is one of the most impressive board games in my collection. The three-dimensional nature of the train looks great, but it’s also quite functional in gameplay terms, with the rooftop level of the train offering freedom of movement, and the interior breaking line of sight — both make perfect sense thematically.of July, 1899: 10 A.M. The Union Pacific Express has left Folsom, New Mexico, with 47 passengers on board. After a few minutes, the sound of rapid footsteps is heard, coming from overhead; and then, gunshots. Heavily armed bandits are mercilessly robbing honest citizens of their wallets and jewellery! To begin, the first player will draw a Round Card and show it to the table. Each card shows how players will be taking turns this round: Alongside the Marshal role comes Mei. She is a brand new character ready to be part of the competitive train heist. Unlike the base game bandits, Mei’s ability is all about movement. When doing a vertical movement she is able to move diagonally to an adjacent carriage. This might not sound like much. However, it can completely throw other bandits off your trail, allowing you to swoop in and claim loot. Having another bandit in the mix from the get go is great for variety and for players that like to play as the yellow meeple in all games. For more details on the Marshal & Prisoners expansion read the full review here.