Construction began on the Prince Edward Island Railway (PEIR) in 1871 … the rest is a financial catastrophe. Criticized as the most crooked railway in the world (both physically and financially), Prince Edward Island was nearly at a full economic collapse within a year. In 1873, Prince Edward Island dumped the PEIR onto Canada and joined the Canadian...
18ZOO is an 18xx game set in a fictional ZOO, designed for 2-4(5) players and playable in about 100 minutes: - it is playable as a welcoming 18xx game, since many convention/rules are already in place, to let enter new players comfortably into the genre (i.e. they will find villages, dits, cities, shares, tokening, etc...) - it is playable as the quickest...
Each player draws a list of cities that they must visit, in sequence, which starts and ends at a particular city. Players roll the dice and move along their chosen routes to reach their target cities. Every time they throw doubles they must draw a card. Most cards have a question about a state capitol that rewards the player for answering correctly, or...
Across the United States, a.k.a. アクロス・ザ・ユナイテッドステイツ, is a railway and network building game set in the 19th century. In 19th century America, railways gained popularity as a means of transportation over carriages and boats, and many railway companies were established to take advantage of this growing industry. As a result, a large railway network gradually...
This is John Bohrer's original 2002 Age of Steam: Ireland expansion. This is not the 2003 Martin Wallace map with de-urbanization and ferries. This expansion provides the actual accurate entirety of Ireland and addresses the challenges brought by the decision to build railways in broad gauge. A novel mechanism assists in the creation of the Irish Railways....
This Age of Steam expansion includes a double sided map with the Western US and Germany. As is the standard, each map introduces not only a unique layout, but new rules. Western US: - Special rules involving transcontinental networks - Towns start with goods cubes that are lost when the town is urbanized - new terrain: swamps Germany: - Berlin always...
This Age of Steam Expansion #3 contains a two-sided board with Scandinavia and Korea. The Scandinavia map adds sea routes and an extra action "Ferry" which allows transport from one coastal city to another. In Korea, none of the cities are colored, i.e. none have an inherent demand. The demand exists for the goods of the color of the cubes it contains....
This Age of Steam Expansion #4 contains a two-sided board with France and Italy. France : Paris is a multicolor city with very strong goods growth (represents 1-6 Black on the growth chart). Many actions have changed : Urbanization is weaker, Production stronger and you need the engineer to build on mountains. Italy : there are no "towns", only cities and...
A fan made expansion, like Japan, available from the base Age of Steam page. A bit more bare-bones in its presentation, but also fairly expansive, and helps fill the high scale niche. The only special rule involves building a tunnel between two cities, which requires not only a large cash expenditure (8$), but the engineer role as well. The files are...
This Age of Steam Expansion brings the game to Austria, Switzerland & The Netherlands. Each map includes several new rules. The Austrian map is for 2 players and includes a special 5 spoke Dedicated Town hex tile. The Swiss map is for 3 or 4 players. Bond buybacks are permitted. The Dutch map is for 5-7 players and includes a special Goods Demand and...