You usually try the Korea map when everyone in your group in in great shape. This is one of the toughest map and also a favorite in our group with his simple rules but very challenging at the same time.

The players began their network in the folloging areas: Marc-Andre in the southeast, Martin in the southwest, Mario and Pierre near Seoul. Pierre won the loco action on turn 2 for 4$ but the area around Seoul was jammed between the networks of Mario and Pierre. Marc-Andre took the first build action on turn 1 and choose the southeast region and he continued his work on turn 2 when he tried to block this area entirely to deny access to the other players. Martin is not the kind of guy that can be intimidate easily so he began building in the area that Marc was reserving for himself. Marc won the loco action but Martin choose some first build action and some urbanization to compete with him. With a neighbour like this, Marc-Andre was beggining to have a very tough time in his small area. There was another interesting fight between the 2 other players as Pierre stole many red goods in Mario's network. The game was very close and we had a classical betting round between Marc and Mario and the later won a loco action for 13$. Marc-Andre made a nice comeback when he linked Kungnung and gain access to several goods that were shipped for 6 income.

As expected we had another great game on this map. Age of Steam is a very challenging map but when playing the Korea map it's even harder to play. You realy need to plan all your move in advance and have Plan B, Plan C, Plan D because anything can happen very fast.

Final score:
Marc-Andre: 98
Mario: 93
Martin: 93
Pierre: 84