1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties is an 18xx game set in East Anglia, England. It features a company-packed board, where 16 of 20 companies are randomly selected for use on a board containing only 37 hexes. Major features of the game are:
Petitioning parliament as a means of floating your preferred company
a mixture of full and partial capitalisation for companies
three train types with differing objectives and building requirements
company mergers and re-floatation
1860-style semi-linear stock-market featuring multiple stock jumps.
Rating
Votes: 1378
Average: 8.15066
Bayes: 6.47368
SteamDB 7.793141
Deviation: 1.50744
Playtime
Minimum: 120
Maximum: 300
Medians by Player Count:
All: 240 minutes across 1496 plays
2: 290 minutes across 137 plays
3: 240 minutes across 302 plays
4: 251 minutes across 342 plays
5: 270 minutes across 171 plays
6: 255.5 minutes across 50 plays
7: 293.5 minutes across 10 plays
8: 306 minutes across 6 plays
9: 180 minutes across 331 plays
Players
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 8
Recommendations:
1
Best: 16.4% (9)
Recommended: 52.7% (29)
Not Recommended: 30.9% (17)
2
Best: 5.3% (2)
Recommended: 73.7% (28)
Not Recommended: 21.1% (8)
3
Best: 30.2% (13)
Recommended: 62.8% (27)
Not Recommended: 7.0% (3)
4
Best: 68.9% (31)
Recommended: 26.7% (12)
Not Recommended: 4.4% (2)
5
Best: 34.1% (15)
Recommended: 52.3% (23)
Not Recommended: 13.6% (6)
6
Best: 12.9% (4)
Recommended: 61.3% (19)
Not Recommended: 25.8% (8)
7
Best: 0.0% (0)
Recommended: 33.3% (9)
Not Recommended: 66.7% (18)
8
Best: 0.0% (0)
Recommended: 28.0% (7)
Not Recommended: 72.0% (18)
9+
Best: 0.0% (0)
Recommended: 0.0% (0)
Not Recommended: 100.0% (26)
Weight
Votes: 114
Average: 4.5877
Language Dependence
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