Lunar Rails (2003)

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Designer	M. Robert Stribula
Artist	Larry Elmore
Publisher	Mayfair Games
Year Published	2003
# of Players	2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 3 players Recommended with 2, 3, 4, 5 players (9 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	180 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
User Suggested Ages	12 and up (3 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (3 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Strategy Games (8 voters) [vote]
Category	Economic Science Fiction Trains Transportation
Mechanic	Crayon Rail System Pick-up and Deliver Route/Network Building
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Family	Mayfair Crayon Rail Games Moon/Lunar
Primary Name	Lunar Rails
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Part of Mayfair's line of train crayon-rail games. Here you can make deliveries to any part of the moon, which is why they used the double-hemisphere map. You can connect from the edge of one map to the corresponding point on the other hemisphere's map.

One addition to the events are meteors. When they strike, any rail connect to the point they strike or connecting to any of the 6 dots around that are destroyed. Other events include Decompression, Solar Flares, and Cosmic Rays.

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Lunar Rails

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First Edition

Publisher: Mayfair Games

Artist: Larry Elmore

Year: 2003

Product Code: 4600

Size: 11.50 x 9.50 x 2.00 inches

2.59 pounds

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Lunar Rails Video Review in HD

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4	Sessions Finally talked my girlfriend into playing a real game	2011-09-17	silentj	1
6	Sessions Lunar Rails Solo	2011-06-15	Mr Mjeh	1
0	General luck versus strategy	2010-07-18	marnaudo	7
0	General questions about the rules	2010-07-09	marnaudo	5
1	Strategy Best (and Worst) Cities to Connect	2009-01-06	railgamefan	5
24	Reviews Review of Lunar Rails by semi-experienced Crayon Rails Players	2008-11-19	Paraguay	4
1	Sessions Bang Zoom to the Moon!	2007-07-29	Freitag	0
1	General My dry-erase dilemma	2007-06-01	loquitur	20
6	Reviews Watch out for Meteor Showers!	2006-09-11	kristiefix	0
6	Reviews Geography makes a difference!	2006-07-28	Bookworm	0

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DSA spellenblog To the Moon and Back

by M.J.E. Hendriks

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Extra trains for Lunar Rails.zip

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'Available Loads and Cities' handout from manual with enlarged load icons.

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Board Game Rank:	1212
Strategy Game Rank:	543
Num Ratings:	365
Average Rating:	6.86
Standard Deviation:	1.35
Num Views:	30802
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Personal Comments:	164
Users Owning:	582
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EB Player computer version (Moon map)	http://www.railgamefans.com/ebp/ebpmaps.htm#ebmoo	2008-12-25
RPGnet Review by Shannon Appelcline	http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10378.phtml	2004-06-04
Best & Worst of 2003 on Chris Farrell's website	http://homepage.mac.com/c_farrell/articles/2003.ht...	2004-01-12