18OE: On the Rails of the Orient Express is a monster 18xx game covering entire European continent. There are five types of companies - Private, Minor, Regional, Major, and National. As in every 18xx game players invest in railway companies by buying stock, with the majority stock holder of each company deciding how the company acts on the game board....
In the years before the Civil War, Ohio exploded with railroad fever. At the crossroads between the East Coast and the newly opened lands to the west, Ohio was a magnet for speculators and promoters. Between 1832, when the first railroad was chartered in Ohio, and the Civil War, hundreds of companies were chartered in the state. The 25 companies in the...
18OL is an 18xx game about trains, tracks and finances in the former Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, a German country in the 19th century. The main game play is done through the corporations and companies which are creating and operating the railroad network. Players buy and sell shares, act as CEO of these entities and do everything to enrich themselves and...
18OR is game about railroad investing in Oregon. Players invest in and operate railroad companies for profit or peril. Companies will lay railroad track, build routes, and run trains on while attempting to block rival companies from doing so. The player with the greatest wealth at the end of the game is the winner. 18OR is designed to be scalable and...
18PA is an 18xx game roughly covering the area of Pennsylvania. Designer David G. D. Hecht describes it as gentle, and fairly short game. 18PA includes 16 companies, including local companies, land grant companies, and public companies with different rules for managing them. Rules include merger of small companies to NYC, mining city with mining rights...
The games are based on Francis Treshams 18xx railway game system. Both games, 18Rhl-Rhineland (18Rhl) and 18LRA-Lower Rhine Area (18LRA) set in the western part of Germany. Most of the rules are the same for both games but they have different elements and therefore, provide different challenges. In 18Rhl, the crossing of the Rhine and running the Rheingold...
18Rhl-Rhineland is an 18xx railway game for 3 to 6 players. The concept is based on 1829 by Francis Tresham. The special features of 18Rhl-Rhineland are the bonus routes between steel mills and coal mines, the crossing of the river Rhine and the Rhinegold-Express. The latter achieves a very high income if it travels all the way from the Netherlands to...
18RoyalGorge is an 18XX game set in Colorado. The game covers a thirty-year time span from roughly 1870 to 1900. The game features eleven companies, incremental capitalization, a steel mill that provides track for the companies, and a gold market that players can own shares in. The train companies can be used to ship gold along their rails, and steel...
18Ruhr is a railway game in the 18xx series, in which players buy and sell shares in railway companies. The companies earn money for their shareholders by laying track, building stations, and running trains. The special feature of 18Ruhr compared to other 18xx games are the coal mines and steel mills, which are independent companies with their own shares....
18SA is an 18xx game which is set in South America. The players are seeking to make the most money by buying and selling stock certificates of eleven railroad companies. The player with the most stock of a particular company in his possession acts as the president of this company and is responsible for track laying, the placement of railheads (which are...