Steam
Totally not an attempted cash-grab, lesser clone of Age of Steam
Alternate Names: Steam: Rails to Riches, Martin Wallace's Totally Renamed Train Game
In Steam you build railroads and deliver goods along an ever changing network of tracks and stations. You build the tracks, upgrade towns, improve your train, and grab the right goods to make the longest, most profitable deliveries. Score your deliveries and add to your income or victory points, balancing your need to invest against your quest to win the game.
Steam contains a beautiful, double-sided game board. The map on each side depicts terrain, towns, and cities at the start of the railway age. The map of the northeastern USA and neighboring Canada is ideal for 3 or 4 players. Use the map of Europe’s lower Rhine and Ruhr region when playing a 4 or 5 player game.
The game plays very similarly to Age of Steam but with modifications to some of its mechanics and artwork. Tracks for income, train level, etc. are all printed on the board around the map such that alternate maps can be overlaid on the board and the necessary tracks will still be able to be used.
Expansions for this game in WCS library
Expansions in the Winsome Choose Some library for Steam and Martin Wallace’s Totally Renamed Train Game will be stylistically listed in a future update.
For now, suffice it to say that all expansions are in the WCS library, including:
-Map Expansion #1: Belgium, Luxembourg, Mid-Atlantic United States
-Map Expansion #2: California 2090, China, Great Britain
-Map Expansion #3: Hokkaido, Japan, Singapore, Westward Ho!
-Map Expansion #4: Poland, South Africa
-Map Expansion #5: City Growth Special Contracts, Demanding Suppliers, Five-Way Town, India, New Action Tiles, Southeastern U.S.
-PnP: Andalucia, Central America, Isle of Wight, Iowa, London Underground, Ni’ihau, Sardinia, Sicily & Malta, West Midlands
-Age of Steam expansions with rules for Steam: 1830’s Pennsylvania, 1867 Georgia Reconstruction, African Diamond Mines, Alabama Railways, Amazon Rainforest, America, Antebellum Louisiana, Atlantis, Australia, Barbados, Bay Area, Beer & Pretzels, California Gold Rush, Central New England, Disco Inferno, Disoriented Express, Europe, Four Corners, Golden Spike, Jamaica, Mississippi Steamboats, New Hampshire, Northern California, Oklahoma Land Rush, Orient Express, Outer Space, Puerto Rico, Reversteam, Sahara Desert, Sharing, Soul Train, South Carolina, St. Lucia, Taiwan Cube Factories, Tasmania, Trisland, Underground Railroad, and Vermont