1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties (2013)

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: 1280
Average: 8.16696
Bayes: 6.47094
SteamDB 7.7995276
Deviation: 1.49598

Playtime

Minimum: 120
Maximum: 300
Medians by Player Count:

All: 240 minutes across 1312 plays
1: 180 minutes across 103 plays
2: 300 minutes across 122 plays
3: 256 minutes across 237 plays
4: 251 minutes across 299 plays
5: 270 minutes across 147 plays
6: 267 minutes across 40 plays
7: 300 minutes across 5 plays
8: 420 minutes across 3 plays
9: 180 minutes across 216 plays

Players

Minimum: 1
Maximum: 8
Recommendations:
- 1
  - Best: 18.0% (9)
  - Recommended: 48.0% (24)
  - Not Recommended: 34.0% (17)
- 2
  - Best: 5.7% (2)
  - Recommended: 71.4% (25)
  - Not Recommended: 22.9% (8)
- 3
  - Best: 28.2% (11)
  - Recommended: 64.1% (25)
  - Not Recommended: 7.7% (3)
- 4
  - Best: 70.7% (29)
  - Recommended: 24.4% (10)
  - Not Recommended: 4.9% (2)
- 5
  - Best: 35.0% (14)
  - Recommended: 55.0% (22)
  - Not Recommended: 10.0% (4)
- 6
  - Best: 7.4% (2)
  - Recommended: 70.4% (19)
  - Not Recommended: 22.2% (6)
- 7
  - Best: 0.0% (0)
  - Recommended: 30.4% (7)
  - Not Recommended: 69.6% (16)
- 8
  - Best: 0.0% (0)
  - Recommended: 27.3% (6)
  - Not Recommended: 72.7% (16)
- 9+
  - Best: 0.0% (0)
  - Recommended: 0.0% (0)
  - Not Recommended: 100.0% (24)

Weight

Votes: 106
Average: 4.6038

Language Dependence

1Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet

1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties (2013)

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