Watch “Pioneer Rails - Forest Playthrough and Overview,” a how-to-play guide for Pioneer Rails from BoardGame Officer on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by BoardGame Officer on YouTube:
Here is a flip and write call Pioneer Trails that combines flip and write with some poker attributes!
Comes to Kickstarter April 17th
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/drandagames/pioneer-rails
Let me know in the comments below of the mistakes I made and what you think!!
Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
0:25 Setup
1:32 Overview of Game Play
3:39 Jails and Bandits
4:32 Forts
4:46 Cattle
5:15 Rail Yards
5:34 Railways vs Networks
6:13 Towns
7:30 Saloons
8:15 Playthrough Begins - Round 1
10:56 Round 2
13:45 Round 3
16:05 Round 4
19:20 End Game - Count up the Points
20:53 Outro
Mainly reviews. Pioneer Rails is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 14 reviews, 7 how-to-play guides, 5 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
1 - 80 players
30 - 45 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
About Pioneer Rails, from BoardGameGeek:
In Pioneer Rails, you represent a railroad owner who has seen an opportunity to expand your empire across the new lands of the frontier. You'll compete against other railroad owners to plan your railway in the best way possible to connect establishments to the railroad and satisfy the demands of the locals.
In this flip-and-write game, you use poker cards to extend your railway tracks and build a poker hand at the same time. Each turn, you choose one of the revealed poker cards. The suit of the card helps you extend your railway, connecting you to new towns and surrounding features. When you connect to a town, you gain the ability to do a one-time bonus. When you surround a feature with your tracks, you activate it for endgame scoring. The value of the card is added to your poker hand, for which you'll score additional points at the end of the round.
Three common goals are also in play each game, giving you incentives to build in different directions.
The mechanism of surrounding features to activate them gives Pioneer Rails a satisfying "puzzley" feel to the game.
-description from the publisher