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Martian Rails (2009)

Average Rating: 7.29/10
Board Game Rank: 1422
Strategy Game Rank: 574
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Year Published
2009
# of Players
2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 2, 3 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players
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Playing Time
240 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
10 and up
User Suggested Ages
10
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Language Dependence
Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups
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Subdomain
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Martian Rails is a railroad building game set on a fictional planet Mars. Simultaneously, the game allows a world of canals and noble savages, a cold high altitude desert globe, a nearly airless planet, terraforming, nanotech cyberpunk and everything in between from 100+ years of science fiction stories set on Mars. The game further captures the mood of those stories and the feel of the planet. The game uses a further refinement of the wrap-around mechanism used in Lunar Rails to simulate travel across a 3D opposed to a 2D map. Having to think in 3D wraparound mode adds additional "brain-burn" to the Empire Builder franchise... sometimes the shortest distance between two points isn't the obvious straight line.

See crayon rail games for more crayon fun.

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Martian Rails
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English first edition
Publisher: Mayfair Games
Artist: Mark Zug
Year: 2009
Size: 11.61 x 9.33 x 3.03 inches
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Board Game Rank: 1422
Strategy Game Rank: 574
Num Ratings: 164
Average Rating: 7.29
Standard Deviation: 1.39
Num Views: 20118
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Avg. Game Weight: 3.4
Fans: 17
Personal Comments: 77
Users Owning: 288
Users Wanting: 36
Users Trading: 8 [find trade matches]
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Total Plays: 630
Plays This Month: 17
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