History of the World (board game) the number of armies it gets, its capital or starting location in parentheses, and the seas it can navigate in parentheses. Each epoch there is a minor empire and a kingdom that can be played as event cards, and these are listed at the bottom of the epoch. History of the World (board game) History of the World (often abbreviated HotW) is a board game designed by Ragnar Brothers and originally published in 1991. It is played by up to six different players in seven different epochs; each player playing a different empire in each epoch. The first edition of
Empire Builder (board game) Empire Builder (board game) Empire Builder is a railroad board game centered on the construction of railroad track and delivery of goods. It was designed by Bill Fawcett and Darwin Bromley and released in 1982 by Mayfair Games. The original game was set in the United States and Canada. This was replaced with a new version encompassing all of North America, including Mexico. A number of spin off games have been released since, expanding the game's geography to other countries ("British Rails", "Australian Rails", "Russian Rails," etc.) and fantastic landscapes ("Iron Dragon, Lunar Rails, Martian Rails"). These games are collectively