Add your own Tips, Strategies, & House Rules! Vote for tips that you think are useful.
Tips & Strategies (8)
Tips & Strategies (8)
Add your own Tip, Strategy, or House Rule
You must be logged in to add a comment.
- 01Terraforming Mars
- 01Puerto Rico
- 01Clash of Cultures
- 01Flash Point: Fire Rescue
- 01BattleTech
- 01Flash Point: Fire Rescue — 2nd Story Expansion Pack
- 00Spirit Island: Branch And Claw
- 00Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization
- 00Twilight Imperium (4th Ed.)
- 00Thunderstone Quest
- (updated once every hour)
- Check out our users' favorite games!
- (152) 7 Wonders
- (149) Dominion
- (144) Pandemic
- (135) The Settlers of Catan
- (120) Carcassonne
- (115) Ticket to Ride
- (97) Small World
- (96) Munchkin
- (92) Arkham Horror
- (91) Forbidden Island
- (# of user reviews, updated every 12 hours)
- 6 BattleTech
- 4 The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
- 2 Zombicide
- 1 Arkham Horror
- 1 Arkham Horror: Innsmouth Horror
- 1 Arkham Horror: Miskatonic Horror
- 1 Arkham Horror: Kingsport Horror
- 1 Arkham Horror: The Lurker at the Threshold
- 1 Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage
- 1 Washington's War
- (# of times played, updated every 12 hours)
- see all new games >
-
Hasty Baker
19-Aug-24, GoChuckle -
Mythic Quests: The Card Game
7-Nov-22, BoardGaming.com -
Mythic Dungeon Crawler – A Solo Card Game
27-Sep-22, BoardGaming.com -
Lost Ruins of Arnak
28-Dec-21, Czech Games Edition -
13 Monsters
4-Dec-20, Twisted Stranger B.V. -
Forgotten Waters
4-Dec-20, Plaid Hat Games -
Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Core Set
18-Nov-20, Paizo Publishing -
Unlocking Insanity
5-Oct-20, Petersen Games -
Planet Apocalypse
5-Oct-20, Petersen Games -
Marvel United
1-Oct-20, CMON, Spin Master Ltd. -
Draconis Invasion: Wrath
23-Sep-20, -
2 Minute Dino Deal
5-Aug-20, Petersen Games -
Mythic Challenge: The Card Game
2-Aug-20, BoardGaming.com -
Viscounts of the West Kingdom
27-Mar-20, Garphill Games -
Glamazons
14-Feb-20, Prettiest Princess - see all new games >
- see all upcoming games >
-
Gravity Warfare
2018 Q4, Smart Iguana Games -
BANG! The Dice Game – Undead or Alive
2019, dV Giochi -
Hasty Baker
2019, GoChuckle -
Penguinramids
2019 Q4, dV Giochi -
Origami: Legends
2019 Q4, dV Giochi -
Decktective: Bloody-red roses
2019 Q4, dV Giochi -
BANG! The Duel: Renegades
2019 Q4, dV Giochi -
Buy It Or Don’t
2019 Q4, Binks Games -
Four Levels
2019 Q4, Four Level Productions -
Unlocking Insanity
2020, Petersen Games -
High Noon
2020 Q4, High Noon Inc. -
Quantified
2021, Quality Beast -
High Frontier 4 All (4th ed)
2021 Q2, Ion Game Design, Sierra Madre Games -
Legends of Sleepy Hollow
2021 Q2, Dice Hate Me Games -
Game of Energy
2021 Q2, Ninex Games - see all upcoming games >
Recent News
- New Game Adds – What Do You Want?
9-Feb-22|13 comments - Winter Gaming and Gift Giving
17-Dec-21|11 comments - Games Added – Dec 4
4-Dec-20|8 comments - The holiday shopping season is upon us!
30-Nov-20|5 comments - Technology, table top games and the coming holidays
19-Nov-20|8 comments - Support Mythic Kingdoms – Get BG Rewards
11-Aug-20|10 comments - Tournament of the Mythic Kingdoms: Illustrated Playing Cards
1-Jul-20|15 comments - How have games been helping you, your family and friends?
10-Apr-20|12 comments - Games Added (March 27)
27-Mar-20|7 comments - What are you playing during your Stay-At-Home?
27-Mar-20|13 comments
In Practice
– Do not lay down trains early
– Only Draw “2” blind from the deck
Why?
Staying off the board conceals which routes you have, this is especially important in the American version with a small amount of high point routes. While you may lose a few important tracks you will be able to claim more, longer routes and build around others. If a person “blocks” you then your hand will be large enough to simply build around them. Essentially the idea is “walk softly but carry a big stick”
Always try and pick routes that can connect to each other and in multiple ways, such as a route that’s actually part of a longer one. This is a good way to rack up a lot of points quickly and easily while finishing off a ton of tickets and makes it easier to go for the Longest Route point bonus.
The bots have different playstyles which you can use as your advantage. Ie. Vanderbot Jr. draws card form the blind deck quite a while before he bombards the map with long connectinos.
Some of the other bots start playing what they have and then fills up their hands untill they have enough to put down.
My favorite, and the one I’ve scored well above 200 points and got above 12 tickets, is Jane Stanbot.
Most people I know who own an iPad also own an iPhone. I recommend having both versions and lending someone your iPad, playing a local game. Before you know what happens they will be buying the game for their own i-device.
Draw as many cards as you can before you make you first move. It may seem like a long time, but in the end it is helpful just to lay down route after route.
When you can’t pick up a train card to help you grab one of the shorter connecting pieces to keep it from someone else getting it first. It also helps to try and mentally map out all the possibilities of your routes- and get the connectors that you have only one or two shots at first.
To keep peace in our family, we have a house rule when we play the tabletop version that you can’t block other player’s paths to block others. There are also online players that invite folks to play as long as they don’t aggressively block. If your goal is to beat the bots, this kind of courtesy shouldn’t apply at all. Block away! The bots don’t have feelings. It took me a few games to get out of the habit of being nice. The bots don’t seem to aggressively block…they are set to pursue their own goals only. So that gives real players a strategic advantage.
The longer the connection the more points you get and not in a linear way. 1, 2, 4, 7, 10, 15. So a length 6 connection gets you more than 2 points per train. Maximize your points per train placed with this simple strategy.