CONTENT
For 2-5 Players (best with 4 Players)
Playing Time: 75 minutes
User Suggested Ages: 10+
Board Game Rank: 221
Strategy Game Rank: 142
Family Game Rank: 25
Subdomain: Family Games, Strategy Games
Category: Aviation / Flight, Economic
Mechanism: Card Drafting, Route/Network Building, Set Collection, Stock Holding
DESCRIPTION
More than two decades after the publication of that game, Moon and ABACUSSPIELE present Airlines Europe, the design of which Moon began in 2007. According to the publisher, "He wanted to preserve the feel of the original game and its successor, Union Pacific, while confronting the player with even more exciting choices." The result of that redesign process is Airlines Europe, featuring a reduced playing time, a new point structure, a European setting, and 112 tiny detailed airplanes.
At its heart, Airlines Europe is a stock game, with players earning points for the stock they hold in particular airline companies when one of the randomly determined scorings takes place. On a player's turn, that player either expands an airline and claims a stock, plays stock onto the board and receives dividend, invests in a special airline called Air ABACUS or gets a certain amount of money from the bank. A player scores only for stock in play, but the value of an airline is determined by the value of the route licenses that airline owns thus, you're torn in terms of what to play when.
Sleeve Information:
Number of cards: 135 @ 56x87mm
