The fifth game in Winsome's Prairie Railroads Series. An economic railroad building gamer's game, Veld Railroads takes place in South Africa during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Players bid for stock in the six available rail lines, construct track, and develop the settlements of South Africa. Historical events such as the growth...
It is 1861, and the USA is wracked in Civil War. Great issues are at stake — slavery, states rights, the preservation of the Union — but as a British arms manufacturer, you don't care! As a profiteer, your aim is to make as much money as possible by supplying the troops needed to fight the war with your factories and by speculating in the bonds issued by...
The gameboard is a 7x9 grid. The players draw from a bag containing seventy-eight tiles called nuggets. Each nugget represents one of six metals. Each player, in turn, places one, two or three nuggets on the gameboard. The nuggets placed must match each other, however. After placement of the nuggets, the player may purchase up to two shares of stock of the...
In Prospectus, players are mages trying to earn the most money by trading potions in the Kriztus potion exchange. As mages, players can of course see into the market futures to gain an edge in their trading. However, your skills at this are somewhat limited, as things will not always go according to your predictions. The game makes use of a unique and...
Interesting stock-market & trading game for 2-4 players. Make the most profits by buying, selling and clever, tactical moving and trading! Each player tries to earn the most money by moving his pieces around the board, buying shares and attacking other players (to get shares of stock from him.) After each move, players can trade shares of stock to earn...
OverviewR.I.G.S. has players acting as newly appointed future captains of industry on a newly colonized world. Within a set period of a time, they must generate, trade, and gather as much wealth as possible with the holder of the most wealth being the controller of industry for this colony. This won't be a trivial task. The world experiences strange...
Ragamuffins is a city building game in which the players take on the role of Old World capitalists who employ street urchins to thieve from fruit markets in an effort to manipulate prices. The game is played across 16 rounds, on a modular city map of 64 squares. At the beginning of each round 5 ships are loaded with 2 fruit tiles, and set sail for 4 ports...
RAGS TO RICHES is a dice-based stock trading game where each player races to accumulate enough wealth to build his/her own luxury mansion and "retire" to a quiet life. The mechanics of the game are quite simple. Players move around the board, buying and selling stock shares in hopes of creating a profit for themselves so that they can make even bigger...
Rail Baron Rivals is a game where you and a rival baron are competing to have the most cash after 12 years of development in the golden age of railroading in the U.S. Northeast. Each year is represented by a turn in which you will roll 5 special dice that are used by one or more railroads to build track, expand cities and improve infrastructure. You may...
Rail Roads & Robber Barons is a board/card game inspired by the 18XX series of games. All the fun and strategy of trains, stocks, delivery's, profits, and hand management, in about a fifth of the time! The game is designed for 1 to 6 players. Solo play is handled by the use of AI decks to represent other players. There are standard AI decks, which are a...
Railroad Barons belongs to the family of 18xx games, but raised to the meta-level. Individual companies are no longer the focus, but large holding companies which add more and more new railways to their portfolios. At this abstract level there is no need for the game board and route tiles used in traditional 18xx games. The two players buy and sell stock...