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Thurn und Taxis: Glanz und Gloria

• a one page rule leaflet,
• a game board showing a map of the Northern part of Germany and it's surrounding territories
• 69 city cards (23 cities on the map, 3 cards per city). The back of the cards shows a different number of horses (between 1-3)
• 39 victory point markers
• a(n almost useless) mail courier made from cardboard

• The country of Prussia Bavaria is separated into two parts. In the original game it was possible to build stations in all cities of the biggest country with one route. Although it was difficult to accomplish, it rewarded a high number of victory points. Due to the separation, players are now required to travel through (at least) one foreign country. In effect, the player cannot build a station in every city they have visited. The bigger challenge arises through the introduction of additional bottlenecks. If multiple players seek to score points for Prussia they all need to go through either (Hannover), (Kassel) or (Bremen & Hamburg) or (Frankfurt & Würzburg & Weimar). In our games this has caused some severe attempts at blocking access to Hannover and Kassel.
• Players will no longer be collecting coaches of increasing value (3, ..., 7). This is replaced by the following mechanism and the rule that the game ends once one player has placed all his mail stations on the board.
• The Cartwright is not available anymore. Instead, players get a coach with two horses. In order to score a route, players need to have at least as many horses pulling this coach as they have cities in their route. For example, if the player wants to score the route Dresden - Berlin - Hannover - Bremen - Amsterdam (5 cities) they are requried to have at least five horses in front of their coach (= 2 come with the coach for free and 3 additional are required). Andreas and Karin Seyfarth have found a nice mechanism to add horses: whenever a city card is played, the player can choose to play the card as in the original game to extend their route OR (new!) they can place it face down on top of their coach. The back of the city cards contain between one and three horses. In our example above, we would have had a need for 1 city card with 3 horses or 3 cards with 1 horse etc. This mechanism elegantly serves an additional purpose: whenever you cannot place a card to extend your route, you can still use it for the coach and are not forced to close out a route. This was probably one of the major criticisms with the base game.
• Free Cities: Frankfurt, Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck are free cities. The latter three have been members of the Hanse and form separate entities but do not form a country. Each free city scores one victory point for the first player to place a mail station their. If a player has multiple free cities in a route currently being scored, the player may only pace one station into one of the free cities.

Taluva

Taj Mahal

Mauerbauer

One night, a long time ago, seven archers were singing and making noise in the streets, swearing against the apostles and Saint Gimer. These non-believers met a donkey which was covered with a very rich cloth. They seized it, and one after the other rose on the back of the donkey. The animal lengthened as they took place on it, so that they all could sit down on its back! Suddenly the beautiful cloth changed into a funeral pall, and the donkey began to run in the streets. It stopped first at the cemetery, where graves opened, leaving passage to the died, who intoned a funeral lament. Then the donkey, which was in reality Satan, went to the Big Well and dived into the depth with the seven archers. They still belong to him.