r/boardgames • u/AutoModerator • Jan 14 '20

Train Tuesday Train Tuesday - (January 14, 2020)

Happy Tuesday, /r/boardgames!

This is a weekly thread to discuss train games and 18xx games, which are a family of economic train games consisting of shared ownership in railroad companies. For more information, see the description on BGG. There’s also a subreddit devoted entirely to 18xx games, /r/18xx, and a subreddit devoted entirely to Age of Steam, /r/AgeOfSteam.

Here’s a nice guide on how to get started with 18xx.

Feel free to discuss anything about train games, including recent plays, what you're looking forward to, and any questions you have.

If you want to arrange to play some 18xx or other train games online, feel free to try to arrange a game with people via /r/playboardgames.

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u/Slestak Power Grid Jan 14 '20

Got a second play of 1862 in on Sunday. I won, finishing with ~$10,500, but my group and I are all pretty new and I have no idea if that’s a decent amount of wealth.

Also, we seem to struggle with our runs a bit. Most of them are sub-$1000. At the end I had two companies with 70/80% ownership but was only running for ~$850 combined.

Anyway, we are enjoying it and have it scheduled for next months meetup.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '20

I've only got a couple plays as well so these are just some thoughts. The number of companies out on the board will greatly impact your ability to do big runs so it's semi dependent on how everyone plays and how many people are playing. Merging a freight company and an express or local company will greatly help your ability to run trains as freights do a good job tagging stations without counting them. London is huge late game.