18xx games vary widely in complexity. And the many choices on offer can be confusing. These recommendations will allow new players to master the basics before trying more challenging titles.
"This is an epic 18xx game that takes a whole day to play." My very brief experience of 18xx suggests all of them take 6 to 10 hours ... which I'd consider "a whole day". But I am encouraged to learn here of the introductory ones which hopefully will be shorter?!
Bookmarked for later studies, thanks for the mass of infos.
I came to know (and love) of 1829 (North and South) in the early 80ths, later 1830 and some of the variants. Fortunately even in those times we had computeraided bank/stock so not to mess with the paper and could concentrate on building on the plan.
Still lots of fun every 4-8 weeks with some "old" friends.
Greetings from Germany (1835 Nürnberg-Fürth ;-) ANNA
"This is an epic 18xx game that takes a whole day to play." My very brief experience of 18xx suggests all of them take 6 to 10 hours ... which I'd consider "a whole day". But I am encouraged to learn here of the introductory ones which hopefully will be shorter?!
Bookmarked for later studies, thanks for the mass of infos.
I came to know (and love) of 1829 (North and South) in the early 80ths, later 1830 and some of the variants. Fortunately even in those times we had computeraided bank/stock so not to mess with the paper and could concentrate on building on the plan.
Still lots of fun every 4-8 weeks with some "old" friends.
Greetings from Germany (1835 Nürnberg-Fürth ;-) ANNA
I purchased 1856 more than 25 years ago but have never played it. I couldn't get my family to try it.
18XX games are typically *not* family games; rather find some like-mind dedicated gamers!