Strategy Train Game Features
- Rail Baron® computer version for 2 to 6 players
- Play on a wide variety of game maps
- Play vs. AI (bots), others at your computer, others at remote computers (online) live or via email
- Fast: humans can complete a match in under 10 minutes
- Fast: AI can complete a match in less than 1 second
- Adjustable AI skill level means bots can both gently teach beginners yet challenge game experts
- Hall of Fame logs the top scoring matches
- Fun on both computers and tablets (Windows 98, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11), and Windows 10/11 smartphones
- RBP also runs under Linux via Wine, or on a Mac via Parallels or Vmware Fusion
- iPad/iOS and Android devices via Windows Access
- Designed by a top-ranked RB board game player and tournament champion
- Quality expected by elite strategy game players
Online and
Home Network
- Play online at your option for fresh, live competition beyond the AI bots
- Just connect with a friend via the Internet and play (no need for a special server)
- Play locally via your home network (router) too
- Up to 6 online players can participate in the same match
- Send text messages to one or all players
- Auto-reconnect and resume in case connection drops
- Requires no "virtual currency" purchase to facilitate play
(Pbem)
- Enjoy the game vs. anyone with a copy of RBP and email service
- Automates the Pbem process for up to 6 players per match
- Emails the match to the next player so they can take their turn
- Review shows a player all purchases since their last turn
- Scrollable banter box records comments from each participant
- Automove moves train for a player, reducing number of emails
- Nudge feature gently reminds a slow player to take his turn
- Remail feature recovers in case an email is lost
- Notify feature tells you who most recently took a turn
- Moderator feature lets designated person monitor matches, such as for a tournament
- Self-test checks email sending, your choice of automatic or manual send mode
- Allows you to participate in multiple Pbem matches concurrently
- Employs a standard Windows user interface for familiarity and ease of use
- Touch-screen enabled on devices like tablets/pads running Windows: no keyboard, mouse, or stylus needed
- Run full-screen or in a resizable window
- Zoom and scroll map
- Thumbnail "mini-map" for easier zooming
- Full color game maps
- Mouse over cities to see names and images
- Ask the AI to suggest a good route or RR purchase for you
- Scrollable game history automatically logs all match activity
- Essential info of all players is displayed in scrollable window
- Player cash displayed upon announcing
- Point and click to move train or buy RRs
- Automove moves your train to your next destination
(enable or disable
at your option)
- Backtracking - reuse a prior route before next destination arrival
- Bonus time - choose when bonus roll is determined
- Bounce out - enable or disable exiting destination via bonus
- Home city choice - RBP picks your starting region, but you pick the city
- Home swap - exchange home city and first destination
- Manual dice - enter movement dice rolls by hand
- Pay before purchase - require rail use fees be paid before buying a railroad
- Randomize / reprice railroads for a fresh challenge (tough to beat AI bots!)
- Ride own railroads free - no use fee when your train moves on tracks you own
- Rovering - allow or disallow chase/capture of declared player's train
- Secret cash - keep each player's cash secret until he/she announces
- Selling - permit or disallow players to raise needed cash without an auction
- Start match with any type of engine
- Superchief custom pricing, including popular "free Superchief" option
- Choose AI play style and skill level
- Change money settings for starting cash, winning cash, track rentals, rover fee, etc.
- Scenario editor lets you set starting RR ownership, train locations, etc. then test run
- Print the map, with player railroad networks, for match recordkeeping (large 4.2m PDF sample)
- Reports of city and railroad data
- Graphs of history of player cash and net worth during match
- Player statistics: cash, net worth, city access %, monopoly %, railroad cost, payoffs collected, average payoff, use fees paid, use fees collected
- More player stats: number of arrivals, number of unfriendly destinations, avg rolls by engine type, route efficiency, destination list, trip length, income by RR, and more
- AI stats: avg rounds per match, winning percentages by AI style / skill / turn order, avg income by RR, RRs most often owned by winner, number of rover plays, and more
- Most reports can be printed, or copied to the clipboard
- Choose the text font and size your eyes prefer
- Show or hide graphical map background
- Adjust sizes of map / text display areas
- Many display personalization features: helpful to users with limited vision
- Choose map zooming direction of mouse wheel
- Turn automatic map zooming, train animation, sound effects on/off
- Text-to-speech reads game contents aloud
- Supports: Windows mouse settings, keyboard remapping, third-party input devices, macros, difficulty settings, save points, assists, speed settings, color-blind options, training levels, and more per AbleGamers.com
(use at your option)
- Save games to and open from online (cloud) storage via FTP
- Play live online vs. others
- Play by email vs. others
- Employ online images as avatars
- Download saved games directly from web site links
- Browse this web site to view what's new
- Automated download and install of game updates
- Internet connection not required for other features, i.e. you can play offline too
- Modify or create maps with the RBPEdit map editor
- Add new railroads and destinations to an existing RBP game map
- Change city and region probabilities
- Adjust railroad prices, names and colors as you see fit
- Add, remove and reposition milepost dots
- Modify trip payoffs, or generate entire payoff chart automatically
- Change railroad intersections and connections
- Draw a map and region outlines via Xgraphics™
- Build an entirely new map from scratch
- Create helpful information files to accompany your map
- Print your map as a board game (subject to printer and Windows limitations)
- Cloud storage (optional): pause match on one device, easily resume it on another
- Fully tablet-compatible: fingertip touch control of all game elements
- Ultra-high resolution display support, including 8K UHD 7680 x 4320
- Quantum randomness (optional): truly random, non-deterministic simulated dice rolls
- Play live online with your friends, plus the hottest thing in e-gaming: spectators (optional)
- Groups can play via your home network, without dependence on a third-party game server
- Play on your smartphone (requires Windows 10, remote desktop, or emulator for iOS and Android)
- Concurrent use of multi-core processors for high performance
- Free updates installed automatically
- Pull-down menu operation, no intuition/guesswork needed
- Usability: form follows function
- In-game context-sensitive help
- Evolutionary upgrades, no jarring changes that require mass relearning
- Upgrades upwardly compatible with content of prior versions
- Sustainable: upwardly compatible for over 25 years, no game has a longer record
- Tech support from USA-based staff
- Prompt repair of any repeatable problem in current version
- Not sluggish: from RBP start to game play takes less than 5 seconds on most devices
- Not bloatware: compact, efficient design makes things easy on you and your device
- Not scamware: no in-game purchases needed to facilitate game play
- Not an FPS (first-person-shooter) game, This Game Is Not A Toy™
- No awkward, clueless, help-devoid user interface
- No subscription needed to continue play
- No advertisements to interrupt play
- No credit card needed for free 30-day trial
- For your privacy none of the user tracking, such as Flurry, often hidden in iOS and Android apps
- Registration costs about the same as one board game, yet RBP does so much more
- Thousands of users have played millions of matches
- Board Game Conductor does all the table lookups when you play the board game
- Find a route of X distance between any two cities
- Set up AI-only match, played repeatedly to gather statistics and analyze maps and strategies
- Sum stats from multiple instances running on multi-core computer
- Fast AI stat collection: can run over 10 million game rounds per day on a quad-core computer
- Compresses saved game files to minimize their storage space
- Context-sensitive help system supplied in both WinHelp HLP and HTML formats
- Free upgrades for the life of your device
- Ours is the only Rail Baron game approved by the Avalon Hill Game Company