GREAT WESTERN TRAIL
We set out on the dusty trail with this cow-herding masterpiece
Pegasus Spiele | £43.99 | Strategy | 2-4 players | 75-150 minutes | Age: 12+ | pegasus.de
BOX CONTENTS
◗ Game board
◗ 54 worker tiles
◗ 18 hazard tiles
◗ 22 teepee tiles
◗ Four player boards
◗ Four player count tiles
◗ Four cattlemen
◗ Four engines
◗ 56 player discs
◗ Four certificate markers
◗ 92 cattle cards
◗ 24 objective cards
◗ 47 building tiles
◗ Five station master tiles
◗ 55 coins
◗ Job market token
◗ Scoring notepad
◗ Rulebook
Thousands of board games take mediocre gameplay and pair it with an exciting theme that papers over the mechanical cracks, but many of the greatest tabletop titles begin with a seemingly mundane area of interest and elevate it with outstanding mechanics, revealing the fun and fascination in the mundane. So it is that Great Western Trail is set in the American Old West but features no gunslinging shootouts, moonshine-swigging outlaws or hangings at dawn; instead, what will keep you pinned to your seat for two-odd hours are cows. Grass-munching, methane-producing, mooing bovine.