Frostrain – OP Strategy Guide

OP (Overpowered) Strategy

I just found an OP strategy but it relies a bit on luck. I just won with a little less than 50 000 in score.

Here’s How:

• Take Mrs Choi for the +2 bonus in train car
• obtain 2 blue cards (academy) as a priority to place at least 2 and start accumulating them for free
• Upgrade to 4 blue cards as soon as possible to accumulate them even faster and improve them quickly
• Place the “Train Power” cards (gear) as a second priority to improve the speed of the train. In my game I went up to the max bonus (5) but you should be fine with 3.
• Keep the white cards (Central Supply Bureau) in your hand, unless you can place them on your train to gain a bonus at some point. Keep in mind that you will need all 6 cards (including the extra large wagon) for the last part of the game (they can be hard to obtain late game).
• Discard all other cards (unless it can give you a small bonus at the start of the game).
• For the last ¼ or 1/3 of the map you should have all your blue buildings at max level and will start drawing “Ivory Tower” cards. Raise them to max level and only place them on the train if it does not affect another bonus (Academy or TrainPower).
• When the speed of the train seems sufficient to you (for my part after the radioactive city), remove the TrainPower cards (gear) except the blue and white ones (obviously).
• Place your white cards to have all 6 and activate the max cycle time bonus
• The “Ivory Tower” cards will start raining ! Upgrade them to the max level in your hand before placing them for maximum happiness bonus.
• Don’t hesitate to make “unnecessary” loops on the route to continue accumulating points.

Note: I didn’t push this strategy too far (I stopped before the blizzard arrived) so I think one should be able to get a much better score than me.