yeknom02
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Hi, I'm Dan. I live in the Detroit Metro Area. This week, I just got back from Chattanooga, where I played twelve games (in all, more than 51 hours) of 18XX games. It inspired me to add a bit more to my poker chip collection, so I was wondering, who is here at PCF mostly due to train games?
For those unfamiliar, 18XX is a specific genre of board game where you run railroad companies, building track, running trains for revenue, and paying shareholders - i.e. everyone at the table. Because half of the game is a competitive stock market, they can be cutthroat games with a lot of transactions and money changing hands. So the train-game addicts (which in my experience is most people who try them) are huge fans of using poker chips rather than paper or card money.
Often, 18xx players have a lot of uses for all denominations between $1 and $500, and are often in search of the Holy Grail $20 denomination (which is just more practically useful in the game.) Typical banks are $12,000 or less, and the game usually ends once the bank breaks. Some games feature an unlimited bank.
Of course, there are plenty of other train games, such as Age of Steam, which also feature cash transactions, although to a much smaller scale.
For those unfamiliar, 18XX is a specific genre of board game where you run railroad companies, building track, running trains for revenue, and paying shareholders - i.e. everyone at the table. Because half of the game is a competitive stock market, they can be cutthroat games with a lot of transactions and money changing hands. So the train-game addicts (which in my experience is most people who try them) are huge fans of using poker chips rather than paper or card money.
Often, 18xx players have a lot of uses for all denominations between $1 and $500, and are often in search of the Holy Grail $20 denomination (which is just more practically useful in the game.) Typical banks are $12,000 or less, and the game usually ends once the bank breaks. Some games feature an unlimited bank.
Of course, there are plenty of other train games, such as Age of Steam, which also feature cash transactions, although to a much smaller scale.