In Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West, players embark on twelve journeys across North America as 19th century pioneers. The campaign begins on the East Coast, with players working their way to the West from one adventure to the next, meeting challenges along the way. As in Ticket to Ride, completing your tickets will remain your primary goal, but you will need to develop other skills if you hope to overcome the unexpected events and your resourceful rivals. Game after game, route after route, you will continuously fill your vault with earnings. As the story progresses, you will open frontier boxes that unlock new rules, content, and many more surprises.
In the Legacy style, Legends of the West is a unique experience molded by player choices. Each player has their own role to play, allowing them to change the way the story unfolds around them. Combined with evolving mechanisms that change as the game progresses, players will have a new experience every time they gather around the board.
At the end of the twelve games in this legacy campaign, you will have transformed your game into a unique copy that you can continue playing for a lifetime..
—description from the publisher
- Manageable legacy game
- Continually evolving gameplay
- Quick play sessions
- Competitive scoring
- Increasing setup complexity
- Long campaign commitment
- Train route building
- American railway expansion
- Legacy campaign
- Base Ticket to Ride
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- legacy progression — Campaign mode with evolving rules and map
- Route Building — Players place trains and complete destination tickets
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- Playing board games is so much more than just the game itself
- Board games allow you to run simulations to see a future that has not yet been realized
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- There's no real order.
- There are ties on the dates.
- The 12 oldest and the 12 newest.
- There's just brownie points.
- I haven't played Age of Innovation.