A short rant today. Many 18xx games fail to deliver when it comes to easily distinguish companies. Because of that, I even consider some of the unplayable (in their official form that is). As a preliminary, I must emphasize that…
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Recently I found one of the more interesting lists of all 18xx games. There are 213 titles on the list, which makes me wonder why I only have 28 of them. My shelf, which my friends jealous about, doesn’t look…
This time it will be about something completely different. Not only about 18xx, but about the entire board games market, which is currently … what exactly? What will be the reflection of the pandemic on board games? Will people who…
Here is an interview with Lonny Orgler from Spiel Essen in 2019. We are happy to put it out right now, when the kickstarter with his new game 1840, is running. What is your main job? I heard that you…
Today something about the new set of 18xx games, designed by Tony Fryer, we wrote about them here. Meanwhile, I received an article from Tony in which he described why he created a game based on the mechanics of 1846….
Recently, I read a very interesting discussion on Slack group dedicated to 18xx games. It concerned the topic of whether it is possible to reduce the bank in the game in order to shorten the time of the game, and…
My discovery of 2019 is playing online via Board18. I knew about it for long, but was somehow resilient to the idea of playing 18xx online. I knew it isn’t the smoothest experience and I also remembered often losing interest…
As you had the chance to read in Marcin’s article, 2019 was full of events and showed that 18xx does not have to be as niche as it was before. Marcin was lucky that he managed to fit into this…
A few months ago, I played a game of 1879, the title set in the American Northwest, and I was second to act in an operating round. One of my opponents was running a railroad for an increasingly growing revenue…
The year 2019 was a breakthrough for 18xx. For the first time I have the impression that 18xx games aren’t a totally unknown world that no one knows about. I can say more and more about these games and I…