Age of Rail: South Africa—Expansion Maps: Allegheny & La Pampa Game Review

Here’s a quote from my original review of Age of Rail: South Africa, published last year by Capstone as the fourth game in their Iron Rails series of “cube rails” games:

“I think the only part of this game I don’t really love is the map layout. In each of my plays, experienced train gamers look at the situation for blue and purple and realize that they are not great places to seed initial capital. Johannesburg is undeniably sexy, so [everyone is] racing to connect to ‘Jo-Burg’ with their track building actions…The first couple rounds of Age of Rail: South Africa have proven to be remarkably ‘samey.’ The red, orange, and purple investors always build track in the same directions.”

While I still enjoyed Age of Rail: South Africa (this is the new version of John Bohrer’s 2011 release South African Railroads), my plays after the review went up followed a path similar to those initial review plays. The meat of my love for the design is tied to the action selection system, but I didn’t love the map.

Good news friends, especially if you are me: Age of Rail now has two expansion maps, set in La Pampa (Argentina) and Allegheny, Pennsylvania. (These maps were provided to the original backers of the game, so while these…

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