1888 is an 18xx game. Players operate their railroads in Jefferson and New Suffolk, two fictional states within the United States. “Event Cards” are a nice way to add historical flavor to a game, but a deck of random events being flipped over each round is not what we’re after. The train deck is stacked with event cards that are intended to entice players...
TraXX. That sounds like a good name for a railroad company! Well, let’s make it so. The game, the convention that inspired it, and a key company in the game, are all called TraXX. It is the design intention that the TraXX railroad be an important feature of the game. TraXX is player-controlled and partially government-subsidized company that assumes...
1830: The Coalfields by Alan Moon, published originally in Games International number 6 (and republished in the Train Gamer’s Gazette volume 2, number 2 and in Rail Gamer Magazine #7), expands 1830: Railways & Robber Barons, an 18xx game. It adds the Norfolk and Western Railroad; an extra portion of the board; two 7 trains; off-board connections that can...
An 1830 mini-game for 3 to 6 players designed by AICS LABS. To play 1850 jr you need a copy of the original 1830 game from Avalon Hill. All 1830 rules are in effect, with some modifications. The goal of the game is to become the richest robber baron, and also to play a shorter game with the same full flavour of 1830. The game is set in the island of...
Originally published in Rail Gamer Magazine, the Wabash Cannonball Variant is an expansion for 1830: Railways and Robber Barons. It was later commercially published in Wolfram Janich's 1830: Variant Box #1 and periodically reprinted by Winsome. The Wabash Expansion consists of: 1) an extension the map to the west and south-west, pushing Chicago and the...
Another in the 18xx series initiated by Francis Tresham's 1829, 1832 models railroad development in the southeastern United States during an era of consolidation. The rules are similar to 1850: The MidWest and 1870: Railroading Across the Trans Mississippi from 1870 with the addition of two types of mergers to model the railroad consolidation. Companies...