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1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties

Game ID: GID0004950
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2013
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1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties is an 18xx game set in East Anglia, England. It features a company-packed board, where 16 of 20 companies are randomly selected for use on a board containing only 37 hexes. Major features of the game are:

Petitioning parliament as a means of floating your preferred company
a mixture of full and partial capitalisation for companies
three train types with differing objectives and building requirements
company mergers and re-floatation
1860-style semi-linear stock-market featuring multiple stock jumps.

Description

1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties is an 18xx game set in East Anglia, England. It features a company-packed board, where 16 of 20 companies are randomly selected for use on a board containing only 37 hexes. Major features of the game are:

Petitioning parliament as a means of floating your preferred company
a mixture of full and partial capitalisation for companies
three train types with differing objectives and building requirements
company mergers and re-floatation
1860-style semi-linear stock-market featuring multiple stock jumps.

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Extremely positive; considered a marvel of a game with excellent scalability.
Pros
  • A marvel of a game.
  • Fantastic at the end.
  • Plays amazing from one to max player count.
  • The only 18XX on the list.
Cons
  • Only on three people's lists.
  • If 18XX were aggregated, they would be third on the list, but they are considered distinct games.
Thematic elements
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Comparison games
  • 1830
  • 1822
  • Brass: Birmingham
  • Brass: Lancashire
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  • it's Dominoes Ah
  • based on reviewing the Wikipedia for dominoes um that doesn't that seem that year seems wrong. That seems way late.
  • but anything that is like a Domino's game we would recognize doesn't occur until the very end of the 18th or beginning of the 19th century.
  • and tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m., we're finishing up with Antiquity, which is pictured behind Ken's head over there.
  • Of our 402 games, only 13 are published before 1990.
  • So you got Spirit Island, you got Lizboa, you got Quest for Elorado, and 22 other games that are on one person's list.
  • 2019, PAX Premiere, Crystal Palace, and 24 other games.
  • 2015, Gallerist, Trickarion, Food Chain Magnate, 16 other games.
  • Brass, Birmingham, Obsession, Root.
  • John Company, sure. Weather Machine, Carnegi, 19 other games from 2022.
  • Age of steam. Age of steam, right? Yeah. Yeah. Obviously, right. Yeah.
  • Like trying to narrow it down is a hard thing when you when you have maybe the newer you are, the less hard that is.
  • there's going to be another one tomorrow where we go through tutorial number four of Atlantic Chase.
  • I might have a latest greatest version of Crossrox. I'm so excited about this game after hearing you guys talk about it.
  • Every game that you guys play, you're playing. It's oath.
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