{"id":711,"date":"2012-11-26T18:13:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T23:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=711"},"modified":"2012-12-06T18:38:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T23:38:06","slug":"rails-to-new-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"Rails of New England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week on Thanksgiving\u00c2\u00a0eve\u00c2\u00a0we started a game of <em>Rails\u00c2\u00a0of New England<\/em>. The name implies that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a train game. While it does have tracks and train depots it is really more a business management game where location is key. Players build businesses in various cities to generate money. Each round the game has an economic condition (Prosperity, Normal, &amp; Depression) which affects how much money is generated. Building depots on the cities where your business are helps \u00e2\u20ac\u0153connect\u00e2\u20ac\u009d them. Connected cities earn you more money. If you haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t figured it out yet, the key to winning the game is money. There are also special actions, state subsidies, and special routes that players may claim during the game. Most of these generate even more money. Money, money, money.<\/p>\n<p>In a couple hours we got about half way through the game. (This includes going over the rules.) Like many games we play, the rules and bits of this game make it appear complicated. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really not. Once you get a few simple concepts down, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re soon on your way to building a business and railroad empire.<\/p>\n<p>We stopped the game on a high note\u00e2\u20ac\u201da year of prosperity where we all earned lots of money. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll pick the game back up where we left off in about two weeks. Until then we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be planning and strategizing our next moves.<\/p>\n<p>Who am I kidding? When we get back together, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll spend the first 30 minutes remembering how to play the game. Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all luck and bickering for the rest of the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Chaos Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week on Thanksgiving\u00c2\u00a0eve\u00c2\u00a0we started a game of Rails\u00c2\u00a0of New England. The name implies that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a train game. While it does have tracks and train depots it is really more a business management game where location is key. Players build businesses in various cities to generate money. Each round the game has an economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boardgames","tag-rails-of-new-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}