1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties

1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties

Published: 2013
Category: Economic, Trains
Mechanics: Auction/Bidding, Route/Network Building, Stock Holding, Tile Placement
Rating: 8.2

2 - 8
Players

300 - 300
Minutes

12+
Age

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.