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From: wjm@teddy.UUCP
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Subject: Good Railroad Games
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 09:11:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 12 09:11:46 1985
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Rail Baron is a good game.  I have three other railroad games that are
interesting.

1829 -- A game of building a railroad network in England from Liverpool and
	Manchester to to the southern coast.  In the introductory and 
	intermediate versions of the game each player controls a single
	company trying to optimize its network.  In the advanced version
	the companies are still trying to optimize there networks, but
	the controlled by its director.  And much of the game deals with
	trying to win control of different companies.  This is one of my
	all time favorite games and by far my favorite railroad game.
	
	The board is made up of about 200 (I could by off by a lot) large
	hexes.  You build a network by adding and replacing tiles to 
	the board.  You then run the trains you have bought on the network.

Railway Rivals -- Another game of building a railroad network.  The map has
	much smaller hexes and you draw (with waterbased markers on clear
	contact paper) your network.  Then you run randomly generated runs
	on your network.  There are about 10 maps I know about and you can
	always make up your own networks.  The first and second players to
	complete a run get money.

Empire Builder -- Again you build up your network as in Railway Rivals, but
	here different cities have different products.  You draw cards that
	pay different amounts for runs.

						bill masek