Bus Boss is a follow up to Railway Rivals/Dampfross that is simpler and plays faster. Similarly to RR, the players draw routes they control on a map in the first part of the game and race to/from randomly determined cities. There are some important differences. In the building phase: Instead of building a short section of track each turn, players buy an...
This game was originally designed by a teacher to be used as a learning tool. There are several different editions of this game (originally released in the UK as Railway Rivals), but most feature several different hexagonal maps of real locations, such as Tennessee and Germany. Starting from one of the cities pictured on the map, players build track during...
Dampfross 2 is a standalone game using the same rules as Dampfross, but with 4 new maps: Southern Italy, Northern Italy, Switzerland and Austria. Dampfross 2 also provides a Laubfroschvariante; a 'leapfrog variant'. Players can now jump up to 3 spaces after their network has been attached to an opposing network. Each player is allowed 8 jumps per game and...
Epic Railroad Building in North America Discover a modern North American classic. Celebrate one of our most vital and enduring passions: railroads. Use your initial investment to build track. Then pick up commodities where they are grown, mined, or manufactured and deliver them to a lucrative place of demand. Complete a delivery and make the money you need...
The Mexican Rails kit was originally conceived as an expansion to Empire Builder and available directly from Mayfair. It includes some new cards, tokens, and a map of Mexico that could be aligned with the Empire Builder board, but all the components were black & white copies packed in a 9×12 envelope with a Mexican Rails sticker on it. Rather than upgrade...
Empire Builder is a classic crayon-rail game by Mayfair, with many followups now available. The core idea of Empire Builder is that players to draw their train routes over a map of the United States. Players start with enough money to build short lengths of track, and by running their trains and delivering loads to various cities acquire more cash to...
Explore the continent of South America, from the deepest parts of the Amazon Rain Forest, to the alpine peaks of the Andes, and the resource rich southern tip. This game is based on the popular Crayon Rails system. Players receive three demand cards which each have three possible deliveries. To complete a delivery a player must connect the demanding city...
Empire Builder: Europe invites you to embark on a strategic rail-building journey across the European continent. The game board unfolds to reveal a map of Europe, segmented into dots. Armed with grease pencils, players strategically connect these dots, constructing an intricate network of railways that spans mountains, rivers, and cities. Dive into the...
An expansion combining both Empire Builder and Eurorails. Players start with a Freight train on each board as well as a Freighter to transport Commodities from one continent to the other. Trains and Freighters must be in the same Port at the same time to transfer a Commodity, unless a Warehouse is built to store Commodities, ($10 in a Port). Like the...
A web-published variant of the well-known Empire Builder system by Mayfair Games. This game takes place on an eight piece modular map representing a group of islands. The area covered is smaller than the usual Empire Builder game and the terrain is extremely limited. It is limited to only 2-3 players. The game can be downloaded here:...
British investors and newly settled Argentine immigrants develop the vast fertile pampas of Argentina with broad gauge railroad networks from 1870-1890. In this game, players invest in companies and try to increase the value of their holdings through cagey track construction choices. Track construction in this game is accomplished via "Consortium bidding"...