In an attempt to reduce the amount of printing, laminating and cutting that I have to do, I've decided to buy coloured wooden cubes to represent shares. An octogan will represent the director's "certificate" while eight cubes will represent the ordinary shares. This is a more expensive solution but should save me time. The pieces match the discs that I have already bought to be station markers.
I reckon it will also give the game more of a "euro" feel, which fits with my overall aims. Although the rules are too complex really to be a true eurogame.
My source has 11 colours available. This has limited the maximum number of companies in the game, forcing me to abandon the option of 2n+1 companies (where n is the number of players). Instead of a formula, I'm currently using 7 companies for 3 players and n+5 for 4 to 6 players. I think this will work OK. As always, playtesting will give more guidance. When these tokens arrive, I will be another step closer towards a playable game.
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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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