Designer Alan R. Moon Publisher ABACUSSPIELE Players 2-5 Playtime 75 mins Suggested Age 10 and up Honors 2011 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee 2011 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee 2012 Årets Spill Best Family Game Winner 2012 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee 2012 JoTa Best Family Board Game Critic Award 2012 JoTa Best Family Board Game Nominee 2012 Vuoden Peli Adult Game of the Year Nominee Additional Info 90419/airlines-europe http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/937804/airlines-europe/reviews Note: This game is in German, but based on BoardGameGeek, the game is language independent and English rules can be found here.Before Ticket to Ride, before Santa Fe Rails, before Union Pacific – yet after Acquire – there was Airlines, one of the earliest published games from designer Alan R. Moon and publisher ABACUSSPIELE. More than two decades after the publication of that game, Moon and ABACUSSPIELE present Airlines Europe, the design of which Moon began in 2007. According to the publisher, "He wanted to preserve the feel of the original game and its successor, Union Pacific, while confronting the player with even more exciting choices." The result of that redesign process is Airlines Europe, featuring a reduced playing time, a new point structure, a European setting, and 112 tiny detailed airplanes. At its heart, Airlines Europe is a stock game, with players earning points for the stock they hold in particular airline companies when one of the randomly determined scorings takes place. On a player's turn, that player either expands an airline and claims a stock, plays stock onto the board and receives dividend, invests in a special airline called Air ABACUS or gets a certain amount of money from the bank. A player scores only for stock in play, but the value of an airline is determined by the value of the route licenses that airline owns – thus, you're torn in terms of what to play when. Some changes compared to Airlines: map of Europe no flight cards special Air ABACUS airline similar to the Union Pacific share track system separate victory point and money systems airplane miniatures no sabotage up to 5 players reduced playtime Some changes compared to Union Pacific: airplane theme map of Europe no track cards Air ABACUS is acquired by trading in other shares share track system separate victory point and money systems up to 5 players reduced playtime
