Toby Mao, developer behind www.rollingstock.net, created a new platform to play 18xx games in a fully automated way. For now only 1889 is available, but he wants to add more titles. Website: https://18xx.games/ More information (BGG thread): https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2415089/article/34645990#34645990 EDIT: The…
I was asked to make a spreadsheet for 18Traxx 2020: Great Plains Railroading, one of five games recently released by 18TraXX Games. Not the easiest task if you’ve never played the game, so I quickly put up a basic sheet…
Anthony Fryer, known from Heavy Cardboard and Wheel Tapping podcasts, has been working on several games for a while. From now on you can order them as P’n’P files (the profits go to the TraXX convention budget). Currently, there are…
I’m playing a 4-player online game of 1830 and I faced quite a dilemma. The solution I’ve chosen probably wasn’t the good one 😀 It’s OR3.1 and I’m operating for the first time in the game. My freshly floated B&M…
You can now register for the Spring 2020 edition of the Belgian 18xx Convention (May 29th – June 1st): http://18xxbelgium.com/index.php/registration-spring-2020/ I also made a calendar of 18xx conventions in 2020: https://www.railsonboards.com/18xx-conventions/
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…
Another edition of my favourite boardgaming event: Belgian 18xx Convention. Winter ones take three days, starting on Friday evening and ending on Sunday afternoon. In terms of number of participants, the event was twice as big as the one last…
Another 18xx podcast has emerged. Third one in last few months, actually. Train Shuffling is made by the guys from the Board Game Informant youtube channel. Website of the podcast Other 18xx podcasts: The Train Rush – https://thetrainrush.com/ Derailed…
Anthony Fryer, ex co-host of Heavy Cardboard, and Chris Whitpan from Game All Nite have started a new podcast dedicated to 18xx games. One Show, One Title. Starting with Chesapeake For now they don’t seem to have a website. All info…
Derailed podcast I feel that they don’t get much attention whereas they’ve been putting a new episode virtually every week! There is already 15 episodes of this new podcast presenting 18xx games from newcomers’ point of view. What I like…
