This is the Indian sub-continent (British Imperial India) member of the 18xx family of games. It is billed as A game for engineers who've had enough of the financiers! It involves five-foot-six and metre gauges, hills, mountains and the Himalayas, contract bids and government mails. The technical challenges of building a railroad network in difficult...
MIK1 Extension Kit for 1853 Expands: 1853 1992 edition: Adds 25 Assorted yellow tiles to the game. 4 × #3 4 × #4 1 × #71 2 × #72 3 × #73 2 × #74 1 × #75 1 × #76 1 × #77 3 × #78 2 × #79 1 × #113 1999 edition: Adds 16 Assorted yellow tiles to the game. From the Sheet that comes with it: This Kit consists of 16 extra yellow track titles that may be added to...
MIK2 Extension Kit for 1853 (Shares and Commodities) Contents: * Two Director's certificates for the Bengal Assam Railway, 140 Pounds Each * Four Director's certificates for the Bombay, Baroda & Central India Railway, 168 Pounds Each * Two Director's certificates for the Bengal Nagpur Railway, 176 Pounds Each * Four Director's certificates for the Great...
An economic game of investment in railway companies that operated in the Northwest of Spain throughout the 19th century, based on the “18xx” series and more specifically in 1817. Although 1855 inherits practically all the financial mechanics of 1817 (short sales, conversions, mergers, -hostile and friendly- acquisitions and liquidations), it presents very...
18xx set in the Papal State Marches region, Central Italy. The game starts in 1855, right before the Unification, when the Marches were part of the Papal State at the time of Pope Pius IX. He was the first Pope to embrace railways, after the missed opportunities of Gregorio XVI - he was so enthusiastic he had a personal train built for him. The game opens...
This 18xx game takes the basic mechanics from Tresham's 1829, and adds several new elements. Players seek to make the most money by buying and selling stock in various rail companies located on an map of eastern Canada. The board itself is actually a fairly abstract hexagonal system, with track tiles placed on top of the hexes. Players buy and sell stock...
1857 — one of three titles in Winsome Games 2015 Essen Set — is an 18xx game set in Argentina and requires some of the components from 1830 in order to play. There are 8 companies in the game with 6 unique privates. Several of these privates continue to function if owned by a railroad when they would normally close and removed from the game. Companies also...
A mid-size 18xx game set in Spain and Portugal. Features include: two gauges of track; 22 private companies which build track and are exchanged for shares in public companies; 5-share and 10-share public companies; four types of train; and a two-stage obsolescence of trains. In stock rounds, privates are auctioned and public company shares are exchanged or...
South Africa is a land with a rich history, demanding terrain and spectacular resources. 1859 stretches from Cape Town through the Orange Free State to Johannesburg and beyond to Rhodesia. Tokens are non-blocking but do extract a cost for passage. The later discovery of Diamond mines in Kimberley affect the play, as does the even later discovery of...
It is the middle of the nineteenth century and the age of steam is well underway. The Russian and Canadian governments, eager to capitalize on the new rail technology to bring together their vast countries, are sponsoring entrepreneurs to help build their railway networks. You are an investor, seeking to take advantage of their generous offer to make your...
Published exclusively in the 2023 edition of TraXX Mainline magazine, 1864: Forty-Niner takes on the Transcontinental Railroad as a variant of 1861/67 set in the United States. Featured as in-game elements are the UP’s Bailey Yard, Moffat Tunnel, Lucin Cutoff, Sun Valley ski resort, the Credit Mobilier scheme, and the Forty-Niner's route itself!...