Watch “Board Game Blitz: How to Play 1830,” a how-to-play guide for 1830: Railways & Robber Barons from Board Game Blitz on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Board Game Blitz on YouTube:
This is a quick and comprehensive video that teaches you how to play 1830, a basic 18xx game. It helps if someone in the group already knows how to play (eg. you can use this as a replacement to teaching others how to play right before you play), but all the rules are covered in case you haven’t played.
Setup: https://youtu.be/XTXjmycOUpg
Intro: 0:00
Game Overview: 0:11
Special Stock Round: 0:30
Correction: In the Special Stock Round, play continues to the left of the last person to buy directly from the bank (a company with no bids on it), NOT the last person to win an auction. This applies to Priority Deal as well.
Stock Round: 1:47
--Buying a Share: 2:07
--Selling a Share: 3:18
--End of Stock Round: 4:14
Operating Round: 4:55
--Routes: 5:33
--Constructing Track: 6:04
--Placing a Token: 7:40
--Running Trains: 8:18
--Revenue and Dividends: 8:55
--Purchasing Trains: 10:01
--End of Operating Round: 11:07
Phases: 11:15
Private Companies: 12:22
--Schuylkill Valley: 13:03
--Champlain & St. Lawrence: 13:05
--Delaware & Hudson: 13:20
--Mohawk & Hudson: 13:40
--Camden & Amboy: 13:55
--Baltimore & Ohio: 14:01
Forced Train Purchase: 14:16
End Game: 15:16
Other Special Rules: 15:41
--Certificate Limit: 15:41
--Colored Stock Market Areas: 15:54
--Erie Base: 16:12
--Passing Special Stock Round: 16:29
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Mostly playthroughs and reviews. 1830: Railways & Robber Barons is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 13 reviews, 9 how-to-play guides, 21 recorded sessions, 3 unboxings, and 5 other videos.
2 - 7 players
180 - 360 min
Very heavy weight: Rules-dense, long sessions
About 1830: Railways & Robber Barons, from BoardGameGeek:
1830 is one of the most famous 18xx games. One of the things some gamers like about this game is that the game has no 'chance' element. That is to say, if players wished to play two games with the same moves, the outcome would be the same also.
This game takes the basic mechanics from Tresham's 1829, and adds several new elements. Players are seeking to make the most money by buying and selling stock in various share companies located on eastern United States map. The stock manipulation aspect of the game is widely-regarded as one of the best. The board itself is actually a fairly abstract hexagonal system, with track tiles placed on top of the hexes. Plus each 18xx title adds new and different elements to the game. This game features private rail companies and an extremely vicious, 'robber baron' oriented stock market. A game is finished when the bank runs out of money or one player is forced to declare bankruptcy, and the player with the greatest personal holdings wins.
The 2011 version of 1830 was published by Mayfair Games in partnership with Lookout Games of Germany. This publication was developed under license from Francis Tresham in co-operation with Bruce Shelley (the original 1830 developer). This version contains rules and components for Francis Tresham's original classic design, a faster-playing basic game, and new variants from some of the world's best railroad game developers.
Designers
Bruce Shelley, Francis Tresham
Artists
Mike Atkinson, Jared Blando, Charles Kibler, James Talbot, Mark Zug
