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1987
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Description
Auf Achse translates roughly to "On the Road," an appropriate title for this 1987 Spiel des Jahres winner which has players delivering loads of commodities to various German and other European cities. Supply cities and demand cities are determined through card play, and players attempt to get delivery contracts by bidding against one another. Movement is accomplished by rolling a die and then moving little rubberized trucks around an abstracted map which depicts lots of interconnected roads and cities in Germany and surrounding countries.
Re-released in 2007 with new artwork and several rule changes designed to reduce randomness.
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Pros
- Redesigned as Lay Lines recently
Cons
- Difficult to pronounce
- Often mispronounced by friends
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Comparison games
- Lay Lines
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Pick-Up and Deliver — Described as "a classic pick up and deliver game."
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- for a year we had to try and pronounce this until somebody announced that they were going to call it Mysterium
- This game made such a splash. Like I forgot that people for a year were importing copies of it because it was so different.
- It's actually pronounced Schüttel's. Like shirtless with an uh with that little uh Is that called an umlaut? Yeah. The the the little uh The the dots over the Yeah, the dots over the U. Yeah, but I'm still going to call it Schüttel's.
- You're rolling uh little gnomes out of a cup. You're trying to roll a Schüttel out of a cup.
- It's like basically a stock market game and depending on how many of the pawns you roll out of the cup, like that's number active.
- This one is really interesting in that it is nothing like the game it's based off of.
- This is Flamecraft Duels. I honestly wish they probably wouldn't have called it Flamecraft, maybe like Flame Duels or something like that would make more sense to me um because I don't think this one is anything like a two-player version of Flamecraft. This is a straight abstract game.
- It's got really great PVC cards with some crazy like metal clasp on it. Like the whole thing is overproduced, but it may it just brings to the uh it brings so much to the occasion when you're playing this game.
- It's a really cool abstract game with really cool puzzlingness and thinkingness uh connected with this just top-notch production.
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- National Treasure was 46. Oh. And then Twilight was 49.
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