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Another edition of Mayfair's crayon rail games, this one set in India. Players start with enough money to build a small section of track and earn more money by picking up and delivering commodities for a given price. The first player with 250M dollars and all major cities connected wins.
Integrates with:
Nuclear War (using Nuclear War Bonus Pack #2: Expansion to India Rails and Nuclear War)
Year Published
1998
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Unique crayon mechanic for tracks
- Thematic goods transport
- Deep strategic gameplay
- Engaging long-form experience
Cons
- Very long play time (3+ hours often extends to 4+)
- Geography knowledge helps significantly
- Fiddly components (tiddlywinks)
- Complex route planning
Thematic elements
- Indian railways
- Goods transport
- Railway network in India
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Quotes (from this video)
- most of what i look for in a train game is about emergent alliances
- the more people you get in there the more entangled it gets and that's what's really exciting for me about train games
- definitions are useful when they highlight affinities and they cease to be useful when they're used to exclude
- i will call it a train game because it will piss off how to train gamers
- this is the game that invented everything i rip off in my games
- it feels very much like a train game that would have been designed like in 2010
- the rules are really very simple they're just they just take a long time to play
- soft spot for games that are designed just for me as a solo player
- i really enjoy automated opponents and seeing what they're capable of
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