Game Info
Year
2023
Players
2-4
Age
12+
Playtime
120 min
Collection
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Description
18xx railway game set in Colorado featuring eleven companies gold market shares and the Royal Gorge wars
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Pros
- Deep strategic depth and multi-layered decision making
- High replayability due to private/public cards and variable setup
- Dynamic track-laying with macro-choices and terrain costs
- Rich thematic flavor with events like Treaty of Boston and Ghost Towns
Cons
- Long play time and potential pacing issues
- Rule ambiguities around privates, treaty effects, and tokening
- Learning curve for new players
Thematic elements
- Railroads, corporate finance, competition, and private equity in the 18XX system
- American West, 19th-century railroad expansion
- Historical-trade-war style with deck of private cards and Treaty of Boston event
Comparison games
- Lost Atlas
- Railways the Lost Atlas
- Kuba Libre
- 1830
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction / Bidding — auction of private companies with non-random setup predetermined by the cards
- Debt and debt tokens — Debt tokens introduced by Treaty of Boston; paying debt affects payouts and endgame
- Gold/Silver mining tokens — gold/silver mining tokens provide revenue when routes hit gold; limited by token availability and market
- Gold/Silver/Bronze Scoring — gold/silver mining tokens provide revenue when routes hit gold; limited by token availability and market
- Loans — Debt tokens introduced by Treaty of Boston; paying debt affects payouts and endgame
- Network/route building — laying rails to connect towns, with terrain costs and token placements
- Operating rounds (OS) — per-phase actions for each company including track laying, building, and debt management
- Private auctions — auction of private companies with non-random setup predetermined by the cards
- Stock holding — rounds where players buy and sell stock, with par values and price movements
- Stock rounds — rounds where players buy and sell stock, with par values and price movements
- Tokening and stations — tokens placed to access routes; stations and offboard towns influence paths
- Track laying & route planning — laying rails to connect towns, with terrain costs and token placements
- Treaty of Boston event — historic event card causes debt transfers and endgame triggers
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Quotes (from this video)
- 18 Royal Gorge is it's it has some interesting mcguffins for sure
- Treaty of Boston is a big deal
- The track building is spectacular
- Doc Holliday and the Rio Grande debt interaction adds tension
- Ghost Town Tour Company can provide extra revenue when last gold ships
- The Treaty of Boston really shifts debt tokens and endgame dynamics
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