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Irish Gauge
60m - 60m
2 - 5 Players
Ages 12+
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Irish Gauge — one of three titles in Winsome Games 2014 Essen Set — is played on a map of Ireland and is similar in style to many of the stock-based, cube-rail games released by Winsome Games since 2007.
On each player’s turn, they can either place a share of one of five companies up for auction, build track (represented by cubes) in one of these five companies, upgrade a town to a city, or call for dividends. The dividends are paid out to shareholders of certain railroads based on how many cities/towns they connect to and how many shares of this company have been issued. The upgrade and dividend actions also affect game length and the likelihood of further dividends for each company. The game ends when a certain condition is met at the end of a player’s turn, and the player with the highest sum of money and stock value at the end of this turn wins.
Irish Gauge is the first title in the Iron Rail series by Capstone Games.
| Ages | 12+ |
|---|---|
| Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players |
| Play Time | 60m – 60m |
| Designer | Tom Russell |
| Mechanics | Auction/Bidding, Network and Route Building, Stock Holding |
| Theme | Economic, Trains |
| Publisher | Capstone Games, Winsome Games |
1000rpm
Rating based on 1 play. The "dividend" system really surprised us in not working the way we expected it to - e.g. some networks that covered multiple cities not paying out. Was a bit more of a learning curve than we expected, but otherwise was a nicely lighter economic train network game than most I've played.
BennyD
:d10-3::d10-4: Well, I won our first two games. But I suspect we all played terribly. Lots to explore in such a short game. The interaction between each of the moving parts is very interesting. The dividend cubes, in particular, feel like the economic game version of Chudyk's cards. They mean so many different things depending upon the context.
Apple Paul
Reminds me of Chicago Express and Paris Connection, and of the three, I think I like this one the best. If you like 18xx games, this one seems to pack a decent amount of punch in a very short game, Is it perfectly tuned? Does it have lots of replayability? Not sure after one play, but I suspect that the answers to these questions may have to do with just how robust and interesting the "cube placement" action can become in the game. On first play, to my detriment I think, I barely explored that action.