Bill Dixon

Bill Dixon (William R. Dixon) is a board game designer, who has four 18XX games published: As of 2006, he is currently working on an expansion kit which will combine 1830, 1832, 1850, and 1870 into one large game covering the eastern half of the United States. The expansion kit will include the extra map pieces and components (ownership of all four games will be required), and be published by Deep Thought Games, LLC when it is ready (likely to be... more

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