We played a game of 1830 yesterday. I’ve played some other 18xx games already but it was our first time playing “the original”. I had read that usually a player goes bankrupt, but we didn’t have that happen in our game. Ended up with all companies running at the end. I ran three of them and ended up winning. I have a feeling that some people in our group played a little too “nice”, helping people buy share in their companies even when it didn’t really benefit them!
Some of the other guys in the group had only played partial capitalization 18xx (where you don’t need to float companies with an IPO) and they greatly preferred that method of capitalization. I’m split either way, though I do kind of agree with them.
After 6.5 hours of 1830, we decided to end with a lighter train game and played Ride the Rails . But it ended up being “thinky-er” than we thought and we ended up completely brain fatigued. We definitely need to play it again when we’re not brain dead.