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37.00€
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 |
bcnevan
A game of probabilities grafted onto an economic engine fueled by trains and stocks. Irish Gauge demands repeated play. The probabilistic payouts are modified by scoring tempo, player manipulation, and stock dilution. Careful concerted effort by multiple players is needed to weaken stronger positions. Mistakes can snowball. Excellent for its 40 minutes of play time.
ChimBlade
Loved everything about this except the random bag pulling-- it just felt off relative to everything else which is totally player driven and like it could decide too much of the game. Great game otherwise!
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.