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- From: njs@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (nicholas.j.sauer)
- Subject: Re: 183x: Info Wanted
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:08:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.160851.18165@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- References: <1bv1hlg@rpi.edu>
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- In article <1bv1hlg@rpi.edu>, cleggp@aix.rpi.edu (Paul Jason Clegg) writes:
- >
- >Yesterday I played 1830 for the first time, and was immediately hooked. I'm
- >considering asking for a copy for Christmas :). I seem to recall, though,
- >some mention of other games of a similar vein, named 183x (x being a digit
- >from 1 to 9); What's the difference between 1830 and the others (if there are
- >others)? Which is best?
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- There are five games total so far. In order of release they are:
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- 1829: Set in southern England.
- 1829 Northern Board: Set in northern England and includes rules to link
- with the southern game. It can be played on its own, also.
- 1830: Set in Eastern America.
- 1853: Set in India.
- 1835: Set in Germany.
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- Both 1829 games and 1853 were released by Hartland Trefoil (UK company).
- 1830 was put out by Avalon Hill. 1835 was put out by Hans Im Gluck in
- Germany and is sold in the US by Mayfair games.
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- I personally think that 1835 is the best in the series with 1830 a close
- second. I really don't have any objective reasons for this feeling, it's
- just based upon multiple playings of each game. I actually like both games
- very much because they each have a very different "feel" of play. 1830 is
- much more lose and free wheeling where 1835, while a little more structured,
- seems to have more to do.
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- I am not real fond of 1853 or 1829 (south). I only played 1829 south once
- along time ago so I'll pretty much restrict myself to comments on 1853. The
- big reason that I do not like 1853 is the one dimensional stock market. I
- really feel this feature stifles the game. I guess I should point out that
- I am more of an economic game enthusiast than a railbuilding game enthusiast.
- To be honest, 1853 kind of warns you about this on the cover "The game for
- engineers who are sick of the financers". I personally find railbuilding to
- be exceptionally boring (the net result of this is that I built a 2-D stock
- market for 1853 that I am waiting to try out now). If you are more into
- rail building than the economic action then 1853 and 1829 are probably more
- for you. I should note with 1829 that the game is even more rigidly
- controlled because of a strict order of availability of private and then
- major companies (with the major companies you can not buy into any future
- company until all of the current companies stock has been sold).
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- To summarize, if you are more into economic action 1830 is for you. If you
- are more into rail building then 1853 and the 1829's are for you. I think
- that 1835 strikes a pretty good balance between the two ends of this spectrum
- and, tends to be the game our group plays the most.
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- Nick Sauer
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