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Great Western Trail
#21BGG8.1RATING
Updated Sep 12
2–4
PLAYERS
75–150
MINUTES
3
BEST WITH
3.7
HEAVY
DESIGNER CLARIFICATIONS4
Repeat deliveries to Kansas City or San Franciscodesigner
- CONTEXT
- The rules allow delivering to Kansas City or San Francisco again after you already have a disc there; players were unsure whether the second delivery places another disc and pays out again.
- RULING
- "Yes, you add a disc there and you get multiple reward/penalty."
Replacing the building your herder is standing ondesigner
- CONTEXT
- A player stopped on his own building 5a, used its action to hire a builder, and the resulting immediate action let him replace that same 5a tile with a larger building while his herder was still on it.
- RULING
- "Don't use the new building, but complete all actions of the replaced building."
Adding cattle with cowboys beyond the player-count maximumdesigner
- CONTEXT
- In a 2-player game the cattle market already held 6 cards; a player asked whether cowboys could push it past the 7-card starting size, and whether adding and buying could be interleaved. The player-count maximum applies only to mandatory refills, not to optional cowboy additions.
- RULING
- "You can use 1 cowboy to put 2 cattles into the market and then buy or put another 2 cattle in the market for another cowboy and then choose again etc."
Deliberately overpaying to deny an opponent a tolldesigner
- CONTEXT
- Dollars received as a reward must be taken in full, so a player asked whether they could instead spend cash down — for example by hiring a costlier worker of the same type — to leave nothing available for an opponent's toll.
- RULING
- "Yes. Nobody is forced to buy the cheapest worker of a kind."
Q&A3
Which disc you may take when you have none leftcommunity high-engagementlinked official source
- QUESTION
- A player who has upgraded many train stations has no discs left on their player board and must place one when delivering. Can they pull back the −6 disc already sitting in Kansas City?
- ANSWER
- No. The substitute disc must be removed from a train station of your choice. Discs already placed on city spaces can never be moved, so a disc in Kansas City or any other city is off limits.
Single versus double auxiliary actionscommunity high-engagement
- QUESTION
- Does "perform one single or one double auxiliary action" mean performing one auxiliary action twice, or performing two different auxiliary actions?
- ANSWER
- It means performing one particular auxiliary action twice — never two different ones — and only if both of that action's disc spaces are cleared. With both spaces cleared you may still choose to perform it just once. A double draw-and-discard resolves as a block: draw 2, then discard 2, rather than drawing and discarding one at a time to see the result before committing.
Upgrading a station without promoting a station mastercommunity high-engagement
- QUESTION
- The rules say that if you forfeit the chance at a station master tile you cannot get it later. Can you come back to that station on a future pass and take it then?
- ANSWER
- Only if you left the station untouched. Placing a disc is upgrading the station, and promoting a station master is available only at that same moment. If you stop at a station and decline to place a disc, you may return later with the same options; if you place a disc but skip the promotion, returning does not help, because each station can only be upgraded once.
EDGE CASES2
Kansas City as the only legal delivery citydesigner
- SITUATION
- Delivery requires choosing a city and placing a disc, but every city the player could reach is already covered except Kansas City, whose space costs −6 victory points.
- RULING
- You must still deliver to Kansas City and take the penalty. Placing the disc is mandatory, and the designer confirmed the squeeze is intentional: "Yes! It should put some pressure on you."
Objective-card movement after using a locationcommunity high-engagementlinked official source
- SITUATION
- A player standing on a building performs one of its phase B actions, then plays an objective card whose immediate action moves the herder — while the building still has a second action available.
- RULING
- Phase B ends. Once the herder reaches the new location you carry out phase C directly, and any remaining actions at the original building are forfeited.
Last researched: 2026-08-09
CATEGORIES
American West·Animals
MECHANICS
Deck, Bag, and Pool BuildingHand ManagementOwnershipSet CollectionTrack MovementVariable Set-up
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