Isle of Trains: All Aboard
Welcome to the Isle of Trains, where you are the conductor, and constructor of one of the island’s locomotives. You’ll build trains and load a range of goods to complete contracts across the island, and also deliver passengers to their destinations.
Isle of Trains: All Aboard is a card-based engine building game where cards have multiple uses: You can use cards as locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, or buildings to improve the effectiveness and abilities of your train. Cards can also be spent to pay for the construction of your new train cars and buildings, or you can use your cards as cargo and load them onto available freight cars.
You will also have a range of passengers who want to be taken to different destinations. You will draw these passengers at random from a bag when you build passenger cars and certain locomotives. You can then load passengers into any available passenger car. When passengers are delivered to their destinations, they will give you an instant powerful bonus!
Loading cargo and passengers into opponents’ trains is important on the Isle of Trains as it’ll also gain you extra bonuses that turn! But this will help the other train conductors get a little closer to completing their goals, by giving them the cargo or passengers, which they can then use for deliveries and big end game points!
The game ends when a certain number of contracts have been completed, or a certain number of passengers are delivered. You win by scoring the most points, which you earn by building up your train, completing contracts, and delivering passengers.
Isle of Trains: All Aboard is all about balancing the need to upgrade your train, with loading cargo or passengers onto opponent’s train for big bonuses, and delivering cargo and passengers to their destinations before anyone else. Build your engine effectively enough to be remembered as the greatest train conductor on the Isle of Trains!
Number of players: 2 - 4
Game duration: 65 mn
Complexity: 2 / 5
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Rules summary
Note: Rules are a rough draft -- please also refer to rule book
The object of the game is to fulfil two of the six contracts.
In order to do this, you first fulfil the primary contract (two goods) and then complete one of the secondary contracts. Once your first contract is complete, you can choose your second contract.
How to play
On your turn, you can do two of the below actions, including the same action twice. At turn end, the market refreshes and that player can keep at most 5 cards in their hand.
The actions are:
Take
Build
Load
Deliver
Take
Take a card from the face up display, the deck, or a passenger from the bag.
If you wish to take a passenger, but the bag is empty, take 1 VP instead
Load
Loading allows you to add cargo to your cars or an opponent's cars, using cards in your hand or passengers. (Bonus load actions must be on your own car.)
Load a card or passenger onto a car that's not full yet and takes that resource (cargo or passenger)
The car's type and capacity is listed above the car
If you load a wild cargo, it becomes the cargo that car takes
If you load onto an opponent's car, you get the listed bonus (No bonus for loading your own cars)
Benefits from loading are always given in left to right in the order they are displayed, i.e. if you can't use the first benefit until you gained the second benefit, you can't go back and take the first benefit
You may load a second face down card with your load to get rid of it and count it as the cargo
Build
The sequence of this action depends on if you are extending your train, upgrading a previous car, or creating a building
After this sequence is complete, if applicable, the new feature may grant you additional Passengers, take these now
You can have multiple Caboose Cars
You can only ever have ONE engine
You can only have one active building (i.e. a new building would replace the old one)
You can have duplicates of car types
1) Play a new car
To play a car, discard its cost in other cards then place it in the rightmost empty space
Note: You may not play a car that would exceed your engine's weight limit
2) Upgrade an existing car (of the same type)
You can upgrade a car of the same type by paying the difference in other cards
You can skip levels when upgrading e.g. level 1 to 3
The old car is discarded
3) Play a building
To play a building, discard its cost in other cards
Deliver
Delivering allows you to perform deliveries to one location as below. Note taking contracts or filling a passenger delivery row moves the progress track one step toward game end.
Multiple delivery types can be made to the same location, i.e. pick ONE location and perform as many of the below options as you wish or are able to
1) Deliver to a Primary Contract
To perform this type, you must NOT have an Island Card
Deliver the required cargo shown on the left bronze banner on the map for that location
Advance the Progress train forward one space
Take the Island Card from the map and place it in your personal area
2) Deliver to a Secondary Contract
Once you have an Island Card in your personal supply, you can aim to complete ONE of the two Silver banners
Once fulfilled, slip it under your engine in such a way that it shows which of the two banners you completed
3) Deliver a Passenger to a Ticket Tile
If you have a passenger, you can deliver it to the matching color location
Place it on the leftmost unoccupied space and gain that reward
Once the final slot on a Ticket Tile is taken, advance the Progress Train one space
4) Deliver a Special Delivery
Discard any cargo and/or passengers to gain 2 cards each
Game end
Completing 4/5/6 progress in a 2/3/4 player game ends the game. (Running out of cards in the deck/discard also ends the game.)
Everyone gets one final turn (including the player who ended the game)
The player who took the action which caused the end of game via Progress takes the Train of Progress, if game ended by cards running out then no one gets the Train of Progress
To re-iterate, BOTH deck AND discard need to be exhausted for a card depletion end game
Players add up their points from trains, buildings, and contracts.
- Points from trains
- Points from buildings
- Points from contracts
- Point tokens during the game
- +1 point per loaded good remaining
- +1 point to a player ending the game (if by progress)
(Tiebreaker is longest train, then most train points)
