Empire Builder

Mayfair is pleased to present a new edition of the classic Mayfair title Empire Builder! Discover a modern North American classic. Celebrate one of our most vital and enduring passions: railroads. This new edition features an improved map (much more colorful), pre-printed color logo chips, color rules book, and color into guide to the EB series of games.

With over a million variations, Empire Builder never grows old. Capture the entrepreneurial spirit of North America and learn to build an empire. Whether you share Empire Builder as an evening with friends or as a rainy day activity with your family, you'll always find it captivating!

Featuring two American loves  -- railroads and cold cash -- Empire Builder is as easy as connecting the dots. Players draw tracks with crayons on an erasable board and operate a rail empire in an effort to accumulate the most money.

Empire Builder is continually captivating and challenging. Every game is different, with players creating a new strategy and delivering a variety of goods across the continent. Players learn the locations of cities, states, mountains and rivers of the United States and southern Canada.

For 2 to 6 players, ages 12 to adult. 

$42.00

Eurorails 4th Edition

Discover a modern European classic. Celebrate one of the world's most vital

and enduring passions: railroads. Use your initial investment to build track. Then pick up commodities where they are grown, mined, or manufactured and deliver them to a lucrative place of demand. Complete a delivery and make the money you need to buy larger, faster trains, and expand your

railroad empire. Win the game by building the most effective railroad empire!

With over a million variations, Eurorails never grows old. You decide where to lay your tracks. Your only obstacles are rival tracks and Europe's great mountains, channels, and rivers. So, ignore the borders. Capture the industrial spirit of Europe and learn to build an empire. Whether you share Eurorails as an evening with friends or as a rainy day activity with your family, you'll always find it captivating!

After enjoying this great game, you can explore one of the many other award-winning Empire Builder games, including titles as diverse as China Rails, Australian Rails, and Martian Rails.

Eurorails is geographically accurate. The game depicts Europe's rivers, plains, and mountains, as well as its natural resources. It's a great way to learn about the geography, business, shipping, and transportation of Europe while having loads of fun with friends or family!

• Players: 2-6
• Ages: 12+
• Playing Time: 120-240 minutes

$42.00

Nippon Rails

Based on the award-winning Empire Builder game system, Nippon Rails allows players to amass fortune and power by picking up commodities from cities that produce them and delivering them to cities that need them. Efficient rail lines and effective laying of track means larger fortunes for the players.

Players use erasable crayons to lay track between major Japanese cities.  The coated gameboard allows players to draw routes between the cities and still be able to wipe the board clean after every game. 

$25.00

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India Rails

Another in the Empire Builder® system, India Rails features the exotic land of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and parts of Pakistan. Build tracks from Bombay to Calcutta, cross the Thar Desert (beware of sand storms!), and pick-up and deliver gypsum, indigo, jute and rugs. An additional twist to the game is the special rules regarding pilgrims. India Rails is not a tube game, but is a bookcase game with puzzle cut map.

$35.00

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British Rails

Visit the enchanted misty island of Britain with this Empire Builder series game. British Rails features the exotic and interesting landscape of the island nation. Build tracks across the island through city and village, and cross the country running rails from London to York through the forest of Sherwood. Pick-up and deliver goods, tourists, raw materials. British Rails will Not be a tube game, but will be a bookcase game with puzzle cut map. Revisions of the map will correct errors of previous editions, and loads and production will be
revisited to create better game balance. For 2-6 Players, Ages 12 and up.

$38.00

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China Rails

For centuries, trade has been a crucial factor of life in China. From the ancient "Silk Road" to modern ocean trade, the flow of goods and cargo was the very lifeblood of the great "Middle Kingdom." Once, bearers traveling on foot or carts pulled by oxen were enough to fulfill the needs of this great society. But the wheel of time cannot stop turning, and thus new means are being called upon to deliver precious goods to the people.

Like a river of iron, the tracks of new railroads begin to cross the tremendous distances of the land, stretching from Shanghai to Urumqi, from Qiqihar to Hong Kong, and to every city in between. Shining dragons rush along these tracks, delivering goods as mundane as grain, as exotic as jade. From time to time, these young railroads will be called upon to transfer people: the noble workers or exalted party officials.

From Tibet to Taiwan, the needs of the Republic call out to you. With your limited resources, can you construct the most efficient rail network? Can you deliver needed goods more quickly than your competitors?

Can you prove to the People and the Party that you, and you alone, deserve to be named the "Minister of Railroads"? Events and disasters, both natural and man-made, will stand in your way. But if your plan is sound and your tactics are true, you shall overcome them all and claim your victory!

$40.00

Lunar Rails

Dawn on the moon. The brilliant blue Earth rises above the crater's edge. Amid the lunar dust in the cold emptiness that is the lunar atmosphere, you can feel the strength and power of the train rushing by, but you can not hear it... One can't help but wonder at the willfulness of the human race, shaping the universe one rock at a time. From dome to dome, installation to mine to city, all the settlements on the moon must be connected by rail. There are no roads for cars, no atmosphere for airplanes. The only economical solution is rail. High speed, high capacity, reliable, efficient.

Are you up to the challenge? Can you drive the rail lines from Sinus Iridum to Mare Nectarus? Or from the Ice Mines at Scott to the Far Side metropolis in Mare Ingenii? Will your route bring you fortune and success, or will your competitors drive the development on the Moon? Will you invest in better trains: faster? Stronger? Or perhaps both?

Welcome to the Moon! Face the challenges of building a rail empire on this barren and airless world. Plot your network of steel to earn fortune and glory. Your rails, and those of your competitors, will span the surface of the moon, transporting goods from supplier to demand. While no political boundaries stand in your way, mountains, craters, and the destructive forces of nature may. Spend your money wisely, make every mile marker count, and the wealth of the Moon will be yours to command. Based on the award-winning Empire Builder Game System, Lunar Rails uses eraseable crayons to draw track between Lunar cities. The specially-coated gameboard lets you wipe it clean after each game, so every time you play the experience will be different! You get to decide on the best way to lay track to take advantage of the options before you!

For 2-6 Players, Ages 12 and up.

$38.00

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Martian Rails

Martian Rails is a railroad building game set on a fictional planet Mars. Simultaneously, the game allows a world of canals and noble savages, a cold high altitude desert globe, a nearly airless planet, terraforming, nanotech cyberpunk and everything in between from 100+ years of science fiction stories set on Mars. The game further captures the mood of those stories and the feel of the planet. The game uses a further refinement of the wrap-around mechanism used in Lunar Rails to simulate travel across a 3D opposed to a 2D map. Having to think in 3D wraparound mode adds additional "brain-burn" to the Empire Builder franchise... sometimes the shortest distance between two points isn't the obvious straight line.

$42.00

Steam

In Steam you build railroads and deliver goods along an ever changing network of tracks and stations. You build the tracks, upgrade towns, improve your train, and grab the right goods to make the longest, most profitable deliveries. Score your deliveries and add to your income or victory points, balancing your need to invest against your quest to win the game.

Steam contains a beautiful, double-sided game board. The map on each side depicts terrain, towns, and cities at the start of the railway age. The map of the northeastern USA and neighboring Canada is ideal for 3 or 4 players. Use the map of Europe's lower Rhine and Ruhr region when playing a 4- or 5-player game. You can play Steam on any number of current and future variant and expansion maps, so we include pieces for 6 players.

Steam is the culmination of Martin Wallace's classic railroad game series. It contains a brilliantly balanced standard game, and a very rich, elegant basic game. Both offer you unparalleled flavor and fun.

Steam * Steel * Wealth

• Players: 3-6
• Ages: 12+
• Playing Time: 90+ minutes
• Designer: Mayfair Games and Martin Wallace
• Made in the U.S.A.

$55.00

Steam: Rails to Riches Locomotive Set 

This fine supplemental product provides players the option of replacing their wooden marker disks with wooden train engines the appropriate color and a purple turn marker pawn. All packaged in a fine translucent plastic storage box with a snap closure.

Steam Locomotive Set contains:

• 144 wooden train tokens (6 colors for 6 players)
• 1 pawn (in a color different from the player colors
• 1 plastic storage container

$25.00

Steam Barons

Steam Barons is the first supplement release in the Steam game line.

Most importantly there is a whole new way to play Steam, instead of players only running a single company they now compete for ownership of the various companies with the primary shareholder in each company deciding the actions of that company each turn. As the game progresses the fortunes of the various companies will fluctuate, it

There are two new maps designed with six player games in mind and additional track tiles to ensure that the supply is unlikely to run out. The two maps are of the North of England and the majority of the USA East of the Rocky Mountains.

This game also contains wooden train markers that can be used to mark track ownership instead of the disks in the Base and Standard Steam game.

• Players: 3-6
• Ages: 12+
• Playing Time: 120+ minutes
• Designer: Martin Wallace

$50.00

Age of Steam

Steam-belching iron horses roar across the wild plains in Warfrog (including Treefrog)'s railway game, licensed from Winsome Games. Age of Steam relives the era when pioneering US railroads built the tracks that transformed America's economy. The cut-throat action is centered on the industrial powerhouses of the growing nation: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and beyond.

Challenges that await you:

• Can you finance both the most extensive track network and the most powerful locomotives?
• Which routes will give the best returns on their costs?
• Can you beat the opposition to the most lucrative shipments?
• Will you make enough money to pay your aggressive creditors?

Competition is brutal, with the game usually going to the player who plans most carefully.

Each self-contained phase in the game keeps players constantly involved in making vital decisions and interacting with other players. Age of Steam also allows towns to be developed into cities, ensuring that no two games are exactly the same.

Age of Steam can be played by three to six players, usually takes between 2 and 3 hours to complete, and is suitable for persons aged 13 and above.

$59.95

Railways of the World

Rewrite the annals of history...and engrave your name alongside the world’s greatest railroad barons. Build your railroad empire across the Rails of the World and find out if you have the metal and the mettle to outwit and outmaneuver your opponents!

2-6 players, ages 10 and up, 120 minutes playing time

$74.99

Railways of England & Wales

Who will become the first Rail Baron of England? Mid-19th century England... the tramways that first appeared to transport coal have since been upgraded to railways. Numerous different companies using different railway gauges connected to villages, towns and cities across the country. Eventually the small companies were merged into the Big Four.

This new expansion has two sets of rules. The first set of rules follows the gameplay of the Railways of the World series. The second set of rules is a brand new game from Martin Wallace that features a new share system and economic engine that builds upon the Railways of the World engine.

$31.95

Brass

Your goal in Brass is to build cotton mills, coal mines, iron works, canals, railways, ports, and shipyards, and to have them be used so that they score points. Your choices will be limited by the cards you draw, but not as much as by the plans you make. Lots of interesting detail in the historical Lancashire setting.

$59.95

Central Pacific 2nd Edition

Can you build the first transcontinental railroad across the United States? Central Pacific is a 2-4 player, wide open game of building railroads. Build over and tunnel under mountains, through forests. Forge rail links between cities and steal a few of your opponents'.

A great introduction to railroad gaming, and a quick fix for those already addicted to the genre. Can be played out-of-pocket on any surface. It's the perfect answer to the question "What should we play while we wait for Pete to show up?

Includes:

• 80 hardwood rail tiles.
• 1 "Golden Spike"
• 28 train (player) tokens
• 8 Stock Market / Land Grant tokens
• Wooden playing board (pictured)

$30.00

Silverton

Set in the historic mining areas of Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, Silverton is a game of railroading, mining, and commodity market manipulation. Use your surveyor to plot your railroads and your prospector to find your mines. Operate your empire of mines and
railroads to position your gold, silver, and other commodities in the right market and at the right time to reap maximum profit.
Contains a 17" x 22" mounted mapboard, Each player will have 32 wooden cubes and 8 wooden disks in one of the following colors. White, Green, Red, Yellow, Blue, Purple, 13 black 5/16" cubes for the price chart, 208 chips - in various colors, two decks, rules book, box and turn marker. 

For 1-6 players. Ages 12 & up, Playing Time 3-4 hours.

$45.00

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1870

This extension of the 18xx game takes players to the trans - Mississippi Valley of midwestern America. 1870 combines the successful 18xx system with a new geographic venue and new custom rules while still allowing players to build railroad and enter into share speculation. The ability to engage in the infamous abuses of corporate power only add to the fun. A complete game for 3 to 7 players ages 16 and up. 

$45.00

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1856

1856 is Mayfair Games' version of the critically acclaimed 18XX railroad game system for Upper Canada, including the upper reaches of the St. Lawrence River, and the Toronto to Detroit area of southern Ontario. Players use their initial money to capitalize railroad companies, which can in turn build track, buy locomotives, and generate income. Players may engage in corporate raiding, stock manipulation, and insider trading to take advantage of their opponents and win the day. Special play features include the ability of every player to open and operate a rail company, with the government providing loans to help and the ability to cut small towns from your route. Deluxe components include warp-resistant board, plastic sorting tray, high quality playing pieces and contemporary currency. For 3 to 7 players ages 16 and up. 

1856 is personally endorsed and approved by Francis Tresham, the designer of 1829, upon which 1856 is based.

$45.00

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1835

This highly acclaimed game
of railway building and share speculation is set in Germany. Each player learns what it is like to be a shareholder in railroad companies and aims at being the wealthiest player at the end of the game. Players that become directors of companies can manipulate their railroads, making their companies stronger and themselves rich-two things that do not always coincide. For 3 to 7 players, ages 16 and up.

$45.00

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1853 India

1853 India is a railway building game using the 18XX game system, set in imperial India. It was originally published in 1989 by Hartland Trefoil. Contrary to many other 18XX games, 1853 does not require aggressive stock trading, but skills in engineering the best possible routes. 1853 is a game that takes several hours to play. Even players familiar with the rules should require at least four hours.

• Players: 3-6
• Ages: 16+
• Playing Time: 360 minutes

$75.00

Express

Building trains is an integral part of America's history. Now the tradition continues with Express, a unique card game for the 90's.  Reminiscent of classic card games but including new play twists, Express is as easy to learn as rummy. Players start with a one-car train and build on their meld to maximize points and bonuses. But players must be wary of train wrecks and derailments. Unique play allows partners to pass key cards to each other during the game. Express is sure to be a hit for years to come. For 2 to 6 players, ages 8 to adult.

$15.00

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Freight Train

In Freight Train, each player runs their own freight yard and several trains. Using these and a shared main yard, players take eleven
different types of freight cars and compete to form the longest trains.  The game lasts for three "days", but when the yard foreman call it quits, that day is over. As each day wears on, tension mounts as players scheme to ensure that their trains will be the longest.  The locomotives are waiting. Are you ready to roll?

$20.00

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Station Master

With the rising of a new dawn, another busy day at the Station begins.
Harried passengers hustle about, looking for their trains. Behind the scenes the engineers and workers rush to connect carriages to engines. It would all be a fine mess if there wasn't someone to oversee everything. If there was no Station Master!

Can you be that Station Master? Can you balance the needs of your passengers with the carriages you have available? You will have to compete with your opponents to direct passengers to the proper trains while choosing the best place to assign your carriages. There are many unexpected things that can happen at the Station, so be prepared for anything!

Will you be the Station Master who can most cleverly steer your passengers to the most advantageous trains? The only way to find out is to play a quick-paced game of Station Master!

$20.00

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