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Full Steam Ahead
You hear the signature click, clack of a train entering your valley. This is a prime opportunity that you cannot let slip away. So, you whistle for your horse and shoot off towards the billow of steam flowing from the top of the train. This robbery will be your biggest haul yet.

Welcome to Full Steam Ahead, a solo or multi-player game of bandits robbing a train. Each player takes control of a bandit and their horse, and must carefully use a hand of standard playing cards to leap aboard the train, rob its passengers and jump back off again into the sunset.

Every card you use goes into your discard, and if you have no cards left, one is permanently lost for the rest of the game. Once aboard the train, players play a pseudo hand of blackjack to determine if they successfully steal anything. Succeed and the score is yours, fail and you are thrown from the train chasing its dust to try your luck again.

What You Need

Models – 1 Horse and Rider, a train with 3 carriages (or something to represent the train)
Playing Cards – Two decks of standard playing cards
Terrain – An outback or desert scene with railway tracks. A central bandit hideout for the middle of the board
Play Area – 32" x 32"
Playtime – approximately 30 minutes (longer with more players)

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