History
In the early 1980s, John Bohrer played a lot of war games. "One guy brought by a game he had gotten as a gift from his girlfriend called Rails through the Rockies." They played the game and found some shortcomings. Bohrer researched railbuilding in that region and era. He significantly revised the rules, used the Rails through the Rockies map and called the new game Rocky Mountain Rails.
- After further research I developed my own map; it eliminated eastern Colorado so that I could concentrate on western Colorado's mines and geography. I combined this map with probabilistic pass completion system and further research on the mines to arrive at Tracks to Telluride.
- The historical event deck contains actual events, and I used this as a vehicle to illustrate the trials and tribulations these CEO's had in building the railroads, and to help the struggling railroads (1/3 of the deck) and to offer character building experiences (1/3 of the deck) to the powerful railroads. Some gamers call this the "hysterical event deck". I have kept it out of Advanced Tracks to Telluride at the request of the tournament players. AT2T will give them other acts of God to contend with, not the least being the weather.
The game board is copyrighted 1992.Tracks to Telluride is copyrighted 1994. Advanced Tracks to Telluride is copyrighted 1995.
Tracks to Titicaca is the second game in the Tracks series. It is set in the Andes between the years 1870 and 1930.
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