Iron Dragon (1994)

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Designer	Darwin Bromley Tom Wham
Artist	Larry Elmore Chris Vande Voort
Publisher	Mayfair Games
Year Published	1994
# of Players	2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 3 players Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players (16 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	180 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	14 and up (7 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (4 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Strategy Games (12 voters) [vote]
Category	Fantasy Trains Transportation
Mechanic	Crayon Rail System Pick-up and Deliver
Expansion	Iron Dragon Extensions
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Family	Mayfair Crayon Rail Games
Primary Name	Iron Dragon
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In Iron Dragon, probably the most elaborate of the crayon rail games from Mayfair Games, players are set within a fantasy world attempting to create an extensive and profitable rail network. Players use crayons to draw their rail lines on the game board itself and use their existing rail lines to pick up and deliver commodities for payouts dictated by cards.

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Iron Dragon

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First Edition

Publisher: Mayfair Games

Artist: Larry Elmore

Year: 1994

Product Code: 467

Size: 11.50 x 9.50 x 3.00 inches

3.00 pounds

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0	General Components List?	2012-04-08	WesSed	1
0	General Silly Q: What does the number 467 mean on the box?	2011-08-15	Equalitytime	3
0	Rules Major city and ports	2011-06-19	Magrot	7
2	Rules Quick question on Ship Cards	2011-05-28	Lemur	3
9	General Iron Dragon: Lots of potential; lots of rough edges	2010-10-11	djklaus	21
0	General PC Game	2010-09-28	Jack...	11
0	General number of event cards	2010-08-03	junglejr	2
2	General Reprint?	2010-05-16	Infernarl	5
2	Rules Using a ship \| Magically connected cities \| Connecting cities \| Event: rainbow bridge	2010-03-22	Asur	6
0	General Dry Erase Markers???	2010-01-19	Original_...	12

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14	Iron Dragon Extensions Reviews Short Review by an Iron Dragon Addict	2009-03-18	bombanat	1
0	Iron Dragon Extensions General How do I get this?	2004-07-20	bean6344	4

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Lunar Rails	British Rails	Empire Builder	Eurorails
Nippon Rails	India Rails	Australian Rails	Russian Rails

Standard Recommendations
North American Rails	Silverton

Weak Recommendations
Express	China Rails	Merchant of Venus	Rail Baron
High Bid	Freight Train	Fast Food Franchise	2038

Very Weak Recommendations
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Beginner Friendly Ref. map

This will show rough locations of Item pickup,city, and Harbour. to find city: if your desired city start with 'k' look at K region in my map. you will find it within that region.

kovjkim

2008-11-18

Iron Dragon Rules Variant

A reworking of Iron Dragon Rules. This version plays faster and player's can no longer get screwed by the event deck or miscounting the cost of building track.

Vessenes

2008-01-03

Extra Trains for Iron Dragon.zip

The title says it

kenjohns

2007-07-10

ID Dataset.xls

Delivery and event analysis

TheCat

2006-03-11

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Board Game Rank:	632
Strategy Game Rank:	359
Num Ratings:	1116
Average Rating:	6.89
Standard Deviation:	1.50
Num Views:	64574
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Avg. Game Weight:	3.0
Fans:	27

Personal Comments:	400
Users Owning:	1409
Users Wanting:	49
Users Trading:	64 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade:	1
Want Parts In Trade:	1
Price History:	View
Total Plays:	2081
Plays This Month:	5

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Iron Dragon Extensions

Rank	N/A
Num Ratings	12
Average Rating	6.56
Average Weight	3.00

Num Owned	49
Prev. Owned	4
For Trade	0
Want in Trade	36

Wishlist	55
Comments	10
Year Published	2004

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Iron Dragon Gallery	http://zingman.com/art/ironart.php	2011-02-20
Tom Wham's Iron Dragon page	http://www.tomwham.com/irondrag.html	2011-02-20
Japanese Translation	http://foryou.dip.jp/irondragon	2010-09-27
English Review on www.play-board-games.com	http://www.play-board-games.com/iron-dragon-rail-g...	2010-09-09
English Review on Spotlight on Games	http://spotlightongames.com/list/nights/i-j.html#i...	2010-06-02
PC Game Demo	http://www.irondragon.org/cgi-bin/cgi_id.exe?Page=...	2005-01-05
RPGnet Review of Computer Game by Shannon Appelcline	http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10393.phtml	2004-06-09
Crayon Games Central	http://web.archive.org/web/20001029130042/www.csn....	2002-12-13
Review by Julie Prince from Ken Tidwell's Game Cabinet	http://www.gamecabinet.com/reviews/IronDragon.html	2001-11-02