I've got a rather nice fit of the hex grid with a slightly larger map. With judicious use of off-board areas (for Exeter, the Welsh coast, Norwich, Stranraer and the North of Scotland), I have a map that is 15 hexes long. For the southernmost third, it is 8 hexes wide; then the width drops to 6 hexes for a short section, while the northernmost half of the map is just 4 hexes wide. This gives a total playable area of 86 hexes, which might be just about acceptable.
The result is similar in overall shape and size to 1856, or to 1825 Units 1 & 2 combined. So it would be playable, but possibly slightly bigger than I had in mind.
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The design that began as Britain Under Steam morphed into 18GB: The Railways of Great Britain, and that game was published by Deep Thought Games in 2018. Meanwhile, I've left this blog to languish. But today I wrote up some thoughts about "The 1835 Family" and I need somewhere to post them, and I've decided to use this blog as a suitable site for this article and any other gaming articles that may or may not follow.
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- Dave Berry
- Work: I am the Enterprise Architect in the Information Systems group of the University of Edinburgh.
Play: I like board games, particularly those in the 18xx family; music, although I don't play myself; and reading, especially science fiction.
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