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India Rails

Game ID: GID0167873
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1998
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Description

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)

Description

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)

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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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  • 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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