This week I will be talking about the copy of Hell Rails: Third Perdition, that I stumbled upon in my rummaging at the Bookmans at Speedway and Wilmot.
The game cost me about $10. It is made by Mayfair Games, based off of Hell Rail that was created by James Kyle, Sandie Richardson and Chris Young.
Mayfair Games has put out other games such as "Settlers of Catan," "Empire Builder" and "Family Business."
The original Hell Rail had only 30 copies printed in 1998, it was revamped for a second edition in 1999. In 2001 the Third Perdition was released and was redesigned by James Kyle and William V. Niebling.
Welcome to Hell, as you take on roles of conductors transporting souls to the different circles of hell. You have to be the player to deliver the most souls to their proper destinations in order to keep from being a tortured soul yourself.
With each turn players lay down tiles from their hands to create railways connecting the different circles of hell.
You are allowed to take as many Card Actions as you wish, those actions can be; pick-up a car, set-out a car, move your train, lay a new rail or upgrade a rail (replacing an unoccupied rail).
After that you may choose to "Fan the Flames" by discarding a card from your hand and drawing the amount of cards equal to the value of the Brimstone on your discarded tile.
Once you are done with your actions it is the next players turn.
Every circle of hell will have its own unique ability that only the player who first enters it is allowed to use.
Every player can either ram another player or they can get derailed. If a player is stopped in the space in front of you you can ram them into the next space or you can even ram them into one of the circles of hell, depending on their piece location.
Being pushed into a circle of hell makes it so they can't use circle effect as they have to enter it on their own to use the special ability.
Getting derailed happens when your train moves past the end of a railway (no more rail cards in that direction) either voluntarily or non-voluntarily.
When tiles run out the next player must "Charge the Brimstone" or reshuffle the discards and place them back in a draw pile.
If there are no more cards to be reshuffled, the game ends there and each player counts up the value of every car delivered that he/she stashed under his Engine Card. The player with the highest total wins, if there is a tie, then the tying players count up the values of the cars that they had currently loaded on their engines. The highest of those is declared the winner and is spared the torture of bathing in the flames of hell.
The game is listed for 3-4 players, ages 10+ and takes an estimated 45-60 minutes.
I haven't had a chance to play this game yet as my regular gaming night has been delayed due to conflicting work schedules, but I'm very interested trying it out as I am a big fan of "Empire Builder" and its different variations.
Although this game does not have the same mechanics as "Empire Builder" it seems to be an interesting concept.
The artwork on the cards with the circles of hell seem to be taken out of "Dante's Inferno" by Dante Alighier.
If you have any questions or comments about the games I have posted so far please leave a it in the comment box.
Don't forget to check out my brother's "Let's Play" channel on YouTube, to see if there are any that you may have missed.
Also if you are interested in learning how to play some other board games check out "TableTop" on YouTube as well, it is hosted by Wil Wheaton and is an entertaining watch. The new game for them is "Dix It."
Stay tuned in the future I may film the games as I open them and show off the pieces for a better view for you than my crappy photos. If that happens I'll film all the games I've done so far as well.
Well that's all until next week, which will be a lot sooner for me as I am posting this one extremely late, sorry about that, Have a great week.
Thanks and play well,
MYLO
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