1877: Venezuela is all the best parts of 1817 packed into a very small game that plays fast and comes out of the starting gate at full speed. Short (2h) 1817-style game with a focus on short sales and financial arbitrage and sabotage Rules changes from 1817: Currency “$” and “Bs.” both represent the Venezuelan bolívar There are no private companies....
18xx set on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea off of Sweden´s east coast. 3 to 5 players invest in and manage a total of 11 railway companies with the ultimate goal of becoming the wealthiest investor. Unique features of 1878 Gotland compared to other 18xx titles is an unusual initial Private auction, Privates with different powers depending on...
A new 18xx Series Game designed and published by Gary Mroczka located in Southwestern United States. Game comes with three types of Railroad Corporations, 1) Mining (3 share company, 50% President, two 25% other shares), 2) Short Line (5 share company, 40% President and three 20% shares) and Class 1 (9 share company, 20% President, eight 10% shares). The...
In 1882, the CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD pioneered railway construction in the territorial region of Assiniboia, an area now divided up across the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The area was a hotbed of prospector and investor speculation, as hundreds of square miles of fertile land were made available for colonizing. The Canadian Prairies railway...
1883 is a game in the 18xx family of train games, set in Northern Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was designed by Manlio Manzini, co-designer of 1841. Some features: a/ 1883 is an "incremental cap" style 18xx, where corporations receive money in their treasuries by 1/ players buying the corporations shares or 2/ the corporations issuing...
1888-N ("N" for "north") is an 18xx game set in China in the Beijing area. It features no special rules apart from the various private companies (which depict Chinese landmarks) and is a branch of the 1830-style games. The maps are double-sided, one side with the classic 18xx layout and the other featuring a more fancy artwork. Two to six players represent...
1889 Berlin, an 18xx game in the series originated by Francis Tresham's 1829, is set in Berlin Germany. In 1889 Berlin, 2-5 players will use money to purchase shares in railroad companies during Share Dealing Rounds. Between subsequent Share Dealing Rounds, railroad corporations then conduct operations on the game board, with the decisions being made by...
Bousou 1894 is one of the works in the 18xx series, which began with Francis Tresham's 1829 (1974), and depicts the Bousou Peninsula. The history of railways on the Bousou Peninsula (Chiba Prefecture) began in 1894 with the opening of the Ichikawa-Sakura section by the Sobu Railway Co., Ltd. This is a pen-and-paper game in which you manage a railway...