18US

2005 · BGG

Avg rating

6.87

Bayes rating

5.52

Weight

4.40 (Heavy)

Players

2-6

Playtime

4 hr

Ratings count

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Description

18US is a "high-end" 18xx game of the entire history of US railroading (well, until the 1950s anyhow) on two map panels: twelve companies, four different categories of trains with either two or three levels of each (a total of eleven train types), and a substantially different set of mechanisms than the "classic" 18xx games.

18US is intended to appeal to those players who enjoy such games as 1837: Rail Building in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and 1844: Schweiz: large games with many subsystems.



Mechanics

Modular Board Network and Route Building Stock Holding Tile Placement

Themes

Economic Trains

Publishers

(Web published) Deep Thought Games, LLC Golden Spike Games

Designers

David G. D. Hecht