As the designer I'm obviously biased but I think it works great with 3. One of my design goals was that the game worked equally well at 3, 4, and 5. This is partly because 3p game nights are very common in my neck of the woods and, IMO, there aren't a ton of 18xx games that work great at that count.

Awesome! I read the rulebook yesterday after watching this video. Very cool. With your 3-player endorsement, I had to p500. Number 486; 14 more to go!

14 now

Buying them is so much easier now, but getting them played is still the ultimate challenge!

The evidence beared that out

I think that the generic fantasy setting of the game does lend itself to being a bit non-specific. However, I have found that the bold lettering, clear iconography, and cartographic art lets my imagination run wild, conjuring up ideas of what the world looks like and filling in details where none are provided. 😊

@@kentslocum I was not talking about the art when I said bland. The game's mechanics are bland.

@@135Pandemonium Really? They seem pretty solid and well-tested to me. The idea for Railways of the Lost Atlas never was to be chock-full of extremely original and novel ideas; rather, the goal was combine the best parts of 18xx and Euro board games to create something that bridged the gap and served as a solid entry in either category. I don't know your board game background (I assume you have played other 18xx games), but this is my first 18xx-adjacent game and everything about it is novel and new to me. Nothing about the mechanics are bland or boring--but that's probably because I haven't played the games from which the ideas have been borrowed. In fact, I'm not even sure whether your comment can even be considered a criticism of the game, since "bland" mechanisms have nothing to do with whether a game is good or not. Monopoly isn't a bad game because you roll dice--it's a bad game because it requires players to be bankrupted in order for the game to end. There are plenty of good games that involve rolling dice, even if dice-rolling is a "bland" mechanism used in many, many games.

@@kentslocum I play 18xx games weekly yes. If you keep digging into 18xx you will look back into your comment in a few years and realize. Novel? No. New to you? Alright. If it brings new people to the hobby that is a good thing.

While true, a reverse print on the stock market tokens also has fixed this issue.

Some games used a cross over corporation logo on the reverse side, so it is quite clear it is for a company that has run. This is can be an issue in games that has a lot of different corporations, as colors might be close.

@@LHCper I see; thanks for the information. 😊

It will be released next Monday.

​​@@GameAllNiteShowlooking forward to it!

Gotta along with their philosophy of making the game the most accessible out can be!

They are so large it is really impractical honestly! Bags work just fine in my experience.

I designed an insert for it with deedback from the publisher, on etsy

Neither of us yet,

@@GameAllNiteShow I'll wait for your incoming video :)

One of the best parts about 1880 is getting to talk about communism.