Age of Steam Expansion #4: France and Italy: AoS Italy endgame: Purple 145, Blue 138, Yellow 133 http://boardgamegeek.com/image/197119 Age of Steam Expansion #4: France and Italy: Purple built a pitchfork of track to reach his three newly urbanized cities to the North of Nantes. http://boardgamegeek.com/image/178302 Age of Steam Expansion #4: France and Italy: Lyon was a popular thoroughfare, seeing as everyone who built into the city made sure to build out as soon as possible. The residents only ever got to see goods passing through. http://boardgamegeek.com/image/178299 Age of Steam Expansion #4: France and Italy: Red had to take the long way around to get from Paris to Nantes since Purple blocked the most direct route on the first turn. http://boardgamegeek.com/image/178298 Age of Steam Expansion #4: France and Italy: Eveyone avoided the very difficult terrain outside Toulouse like the plague, building around it as best they could. http://boardgamegeek.com/image/178297 Age of Steam Expansion #4: France and Italy: Paris was the hot spot, as was to be expected, with all four players claiming at least one entrance to the technicolor city. http://boardgamegeek.com/image/178295 Age of Steam Expansion #4: France and Italy: Purple wins with 69 points, to Red and Blue's 61, and Yellow's meager 54. No one had to issue too many shares in France, but most failed to get enough locomotive links either. It was a relatively low scoring affair. http://boardgamegeek.com/image/178293 Age of Steam Expansion #4: France and Italy: Final Score = (Total score, income track, shares, tracks) -- Purple (69, 22, -15, 18), Red (61, 19, -15, 19), Blue (61, 21, -15, 13), Yellow (54, 18, -12, 12) http://boardgamegeek.com/image/178292 Age of Steam Expansion #4: France and Italy: http://boardgamegeek.com/image/150765 Age of Steam Expansion #4: France and Italy: http://boardgamegeek.com/image/150764 Age of Steam Expansion #4: France and Italy: http://boardgamegeek.com/image/150763 Age of Steam Expansion #4: France and Italy: http://boardgamegeek.com/image/150762 Age of Steam Expansion #4: France and Italy: Towards the last few turns, the playing space gets smaller and smaller, so money is of very little value in late games on this map http://boardgamegeek.com/image/149317 Age of Steam Expansion #4: France and Italy: Near end of 3-player game, bidding skyrocketed! aanemesis (green) bid $32, friedricetheman (yellow) bid $33, Champion Eternal (purple) bid $34. Insane! http://boardgamegeek.com/image/148117 Age of Steam Expansion #4: France and Italy: Halfway through a 3-player game on France map. Not too crowded, money not too tight. http://boardgamegeek.com/image/148116