Union Station
2022Travis D. Hill
- Videos
- 6
- Creators
- 5
Mostly how-to-play. Union Station is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 4 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, and 1 unboxings.
3 - 5 players
30 - 45 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
From BoardGameGeek
From the turn of the 20th century, Chicago's Union Station rose to prominence as one of the busiest and most used train station hubs in the United States. At one point, five railroad companies each owned stock in the Chicago Union Station Co, collaborating to build the greatest train station at the time. Union Station is a quick-playing cube rails game, focusing more on share purchasing and stock manipulation than route building. On your turn you may either buy stock and increase its value, sell all of your stock to get quick cash while also lowering the company's value, or lay track. While the shares might come out randomly, it's all about careful timing and the willingness to drop something good for something even better. The game ends immediately when all of the Shares have been bought or sold off, 20 dividends have been paid, or railroad companies cannot lay any additional track. The players add together their cash in hand to the value of each of their shares, and the player with the most money wins. -description from designer
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Union Station has 6 videos from 5 creators: 4 how-to-play guides, 1 playthrough and 1 unboxing. They date from 2021 to September 2023.
To learn the rules, start with "Travis D. Hill’s Union Station" by Before You Play, which runs 10 min.
To see it played, watch "Union Station play, wrap & review" by calandale.
If you like it, try Westward Rails, Card Rails Exchange and CardRunners, also by Travis D. Hill, or 1830: Railways & Robber Barons, which shares several of its mechanics.
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- Creators
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About Union Station
From BoardGameGeek:
From the turn of the 20th century, Chicago's Union Station rose to prominence as one of the busiest and most used train station hubs in the United States. At one point, five railroad companies each owned stock in the Chicago Union Station Co, collaborating to build the greatest train station at the time. Union Station is a quick-playing cube rails game, focusing more on share purchasing and stock manipulation than route building. On your turn you may either buy stock and increase its value, sell all of your stock to get quick cash while also lowering the company's value, or lay track. While the shares might come out randomly, it's all about careful timing and the willingness to drop something good for something even better. The game ends immediately when all of the Shares have been bought or sold off, 20 dividends have been paid, or railroad companies cannot lay any additional track. The players add together their cash in hand to the value of each of their shares, and the player with the most money wins. -description from designer
Designer
Travis D. Hill
Artist
Daniel Newman
Publisher
New Mill Industries
Categories
EconomicTrains
Mechanics