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.

Play mode

Competitive

How it plays

Resource & economic management Tile, map & route building

Game type

Board game

What it’s about

Business, building & transportation

Publishers

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

Designers

David G. D. Hecht