1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties details
- Designer: Mike Hutton
- Artists: Mark Simonitch, Mike Hutton, Rodger B. MacGowan
- Publishers: GMT Games, Korea Boardgames, LMN+B, Ltd
- Release Date: 2013
- Player count : 1 - 8
- Age range : 14+
- Time range : 120 - 300 minutes
- Mechanism(s): Auction/Bidding, Market, Network and Route Building, Ownership, Solo / Solitaire Game, Stock Holding, Tile Placement, Victory Points as a Resource
- BGG Geek Rating: 8.22295 - converted to Meeple Mountain scale: 4.0.
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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.
Justin continues his dive into the train game world with a review of the 2013 GMT Games release 1862, designed by Mike Hutton!
