The first mini-expansion to Gear & Piston, it contains 10 Engineer Assistant tiles. At the start of the game each player is dealt one random Engineer Assistant tile. The players may look at the assistant tile they received but the tile is kept secret from other players. The tiles are placed face-down on the table, with the 1VP scoring symbol facing up....
The second mini-expansion to Gear & Piston, it contains 2 Explosion tiles. The two Explosion tiles are shuffled into the bottom half (roughly estimated) of the Junk Parts deck. If an Explosion tile emerges from the deck when refilling the Junk Yard the effect takes place immediately and the Explosion is resolved. If a player draws an Explosion tile when...
In General Palmer each player has their own slightly different board on which they build track and stations. This is done by means of action cards; players start with some in hand and draft a new one each round. Each player also plays a card each round which gives them an action and also permits a certain number of track tiles to be built. Actions can...
This is a web-publsihed variant based on the well-known Empire Builder system by Mayfair Games. True to its name, the game takes place on a map of Germany. Of interest to gamers, one of the loads in this game is games. This was designed by the same designer of the similar game, African Rails. The game can be downloaded at:...
You are a German Industrialist competing with other German Industrialists in the creation of the newly invented railroads. Invest wisely in the creation and expansion of these railroads, accruing victory points in the process while reaping monetary dividends from your well considered decisions. German Rails lasts about an hour with 3 to 5 players, most...
Prussian Rails debuted in 2008 as Preußische Ostbahn, the second game in Winsome's Historic Railroads System, then was reprinted as German Railways. Prussian Rails builds upon the system established in Wabash Cannonball and takes the gameplay to Germany, 1840-1870, introducing an innovative player order mechanism to the system. In addition, each railroad...
Ghawar, located in Saudi Arabia, is the world's biggest oil field. Set to this background the players represent members of the royal family and try to locate good sites for new oil wells, find and deliver the different oil qualities and ship them to their base camps. However, the oil field is so huge that the players have to memorize where which oil...