Buy Iron DragonIron Dragon Product Description:
- For 2-6 players
- Takes about 4 hours to play
- 18XX series game
- Standalone game
- Components include 1 plastic laminated mounted board, 184 playing cards, paper money, 100 commodity chips with labels, 6 pawns, 6 wipe-off crayons, and 1 Rulebook
Product Description
Maker: Mayfair Games
Age: 10+
Fantasy and reality meet in this exciting offshoot of our popular game system. A must for any Empire fan looking for a new twist!
Science, fantasy, and trains mix in the popular game of fun and finances, Iron Dragon. Players lay track across a mythical realm filled with wizards, elves, and rainbow bridges. Genetically-engineered dragons pull boxcars loaded with jewels, magical items, and other treasures from city to city. Dangerous jungles must be crossed, rivers forged, and orcs bribed, as players plan routes and amass money in an attempt to create a fantasy empire.
Dragon is beautifully illustrated and contains: 1 plastic laminated mounted board, 184 playing cards, paper money, 100 commodity chips with labels, 6 pawns, 6 wipe-off crayons, and a rulebook.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
A fun railrod game with a fantasy twist
By A Customer
Iron Dragon is a fairly complicated and really quite fun strategy game that is not so hard (though not so easy) to learn, and quite hard to master. Like most railroad games, the basic idea of the game is to make money by using your one train engine to transport goods from one city to another dictated by a hand of three cards. To move accross the map, the player needs to spend his money to build railroad tracks.
Iron Dragon is essentially an Empire Builder variant with a ton of special rules, such as foremen, ports and ships, random events, and the Underground. We've enjoyed all of these special rules, though many of our friends who started by playing Empire Builder do not like many of these rules. It is true that some of the special rules have rather strange and extreme effects on play balance.
The materials are quite appealing, and the erasable crayons that are used to draw the railroad lines are excellent. Unfortunately, we've found that the board can peel off if you aren't careful in erasing, and the crayons go fast.
I like this game because there is a lot of strategy involved and rather little cutthroat diplomacy (so you don't see a 3-1 gang up like in many other multi-player games). There isn't much player-to-player interaction (which I prefer, but many of my friends do not like), and the game can get very slow at times (leave an hour per player at least for play time). Still it is one of my personal favorites. END
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
welcome addition to the rail building system of games
By A Customer
Iron Dragon is not as good as Empire Builder, North America Rails or Eurorails, but it's a fun game just the same. I like the extra, underground realm of the Orcs. I also like the magical links between certain cities (similar to Star Trek's worm holes). The reason this game isn't quite as fun as other railbuilding games is, the board doesn't seem to be as even as other boards. It's easier to win if you start in one part of the board than another.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
I Love This Game!
By A Customer
I bought this game for my son because I could not find Empire Builders. Our whole family loves it and we play it over and over again. The game is absolutely fantastic. Other families in our neighborhood liked the game so much after playing ours that they bought it. The game is very addictive, so be careful not to get caught. Adults like it as much as the teens. It is a great way for adults and teens to spend time together doing something they both enjoy. The only bad thing is that the board is really not made to be played the way we play it; the cover is starting to peel off. Also we have had a hard time finding different color grease pencils to use with it. Our crayons were used up long ago.
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