Subject: Re: [18xx] 1869 Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:55:58 +0000 From: "Adam Romoth" Reply-To: 18xx@onelist.com To: 18xx@onelist.com I have now written/translated the rules of 1869/Moon. They are attached as ASCII-File 69rules.asc. The map in the depot is correct, but the coordinates in my ps-file differ. And I did not find the tiles in the depot. I hope that the rules are understandable and complete. This game is really a good one. Adam --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1869 Rules This is a translation (an attempt) from Lemmis little 1 * 8 (1997) 1869 USA-West has been developed by Alan Moon. In principle the rules of 1830 are valid. The total money is 36.000 $. The privat companies are totally sold as in 1830. Private Companies, that are not sold in the first round get 10$ cheaper each further round. The value of the private companies is added to the players means at the end of the game. The (normal) companies are divided into groups. The first group contains CPR, UP and CP. The shares of the second group can't be bought until all initial shares of the first group are sold out. The second group contains NP, SP and ATSF. The shares of the third group can't be bought until all initial shares of the second group are sold out. The third group contains the GN. The fourth group contains the DRG. The fifth group contains WP and CN. the sixth group contains KP, TP and ORN. From the fourth group on the the corporations of the previous group must only be active, before the shares of the next group are available. Optional You can play with a 14th corparation (= seventh group) named ILL. To activate a corporation 60% has to be sold. A player may own 100% of a corporation. At a value <= 69 (yellow) shares don't count towards the paper limit. At a value <= 49 (brown) more than one share of this corporation may be bought in one turn. First the president of a corporation has to be bought, then all shares can be bought. A large share can be exchanged against smaller shares when you buy or sell shares. Example: You want to buy a 30%- share which would cost 300$ You can give 2 10% shares and 100$ In one turn you can first as many shares as you like and then buy one share. First sell - then buy. The share round ends after all players passed. The pool can take all shares of a corporation. If a corporation pays dividens, the shares in the pool pay dividends into the corporation. If there are more than 60% in the pool the corporation, it is in "receivership". Then it does not spend any money, does not deal with trains, it lends the cheapest available train from the bank for 10$ (even if it has a train) and saves. It saves mininal 50$. Substeps in an OR: 1. Return of obsolete trains. Volutary return of trains is possible. 2. Laying tiles (Upgrade only, if there has been a route) 3. Laying token (0$, 40$, 80$, 120$, 160$) +100$ over the border US/Can. Canada are the rows A,B,C plus D32. 4. Running trains 5. Buying trains 6. Return of scrapped trains. 1. and 6. are important, because each scrapped train may run one more time but not in that corporation that bought the scrapping train. A corporation may upgrade a tile only if it had a route to this tile before upgarding. It must not reach the new track. The SP may lay 4 Extra tiles for 40$, 80$, 120$, 120$, also in one turn. The ATSF may lay one extra tile each turn for 20$ until it has run its best Bonus or three Boni together. 4E and 5E are Express-trains. They may leave out any station. But they have to include one own token and stations that are necessary for a Bonus. For most corporations there are Bonusroutes. They can be run also with several trains (with changing the train, even if there is a token in between). The trains may run farer than the Bonus Start and Finish. Each Corporation can get only one Bonus in one OR. Only the ATSF can add its Boni. There is one Bonus for the CPR and UP which is valid only once (see table) The Corporation can save any part of its Bonus (in 10$-steps), the rest is added to the dividend. There is no need to buy a train. If a Corporation buys a train, the president may give up to 25% of the price from his own money. If a corporation has no train it may buy the cheapest train with all its money and the president pays the rest. The president may not sell shares for this purpose. If there is a route between CPR and SP or if the first 6 has been sold the CPR merges into the SP. The new SP has 200% shares. It may own one more train than other corporations. The games ends, when the bank goes out of money with a complete sequence of ORs. Tables: Corporation Shares (*10%) Bonusroutes Start at Money, Tokens CPR Central Pacific 2,2,2,1,1,1,1 Once 300, when route I3 Sacramento $1100, 2 J2 - H22 exists UP Union Pacific 2,2,1,1,1,1,1,1 as CPR H22 Omaha $1100, 4 plus H22 - J2 = 60$ CP Canadian Pacific 3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 D32 - D4/C5 = 280$ D32 Montreal $1100, 4 NP Northern Pacific 2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 F24 - D4/E3 = 150$ F24 Minneapolis $1010, 5 SP Southern Pacific 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 O29 - N16 = 80$ O29 New Orleans $1010, 5 O29 - M5/L4 = 400$ ATSF Atchison Topek &SF 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 G29 - J24/J28 = 30$ G29 Chicago $1010, 5 G29 - N16 = 30$ G29 - K15 = 70$ G29 - M5/L4 = 220$ GN Great Northern 2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 F24 - E3/D4 = 150$ F24 Minneapolis $930, 5 DRG Denver & Rio Gr. 3,2,1,1,1,1,1 J16 - N16 = 50$ J16 Denver $860, 3 J16 - M10/M12 = 90$ WP Western Pacific 3,3,2,1,1 - J2 San Francisco $800, 2 CN Canadian National 3,2,1,1,1,1,1 C21 - C5 = 120$ C21 Winnipeg $800, 3 KP Kansas Pacific 3,2,2,1,1,1 J24 - N16 = 40$ J24 Kansas City $750, 2 J24 - J2/L4/M5 = 100$ TP Texas & Pacific 3,3,1,1,1,1 M23 - N16 = 40$ M23 Dallas $750, 2 M23 - L4/M5 = 100$ ORN Oregon & Navig. 4,2,2,2 - E3 Portland $750, 2 ILL Illinois Central 2,2,2,2,2 G29 - O29 = 80$ G29 Chicago $740, 2 Number of players 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Startkapital 1750 1167 875 700 584 500 438 Limit of papers 39 27 21 17 14 12 11 Limit with ILL 40 28 22 18 15 13 12 Private Company Price Income Extra Butterfield Overland M. $20 $5 - Daily Overland Mail $40 $10 - Government Contract $90 $15 1 token can be laid for free on other side of the border US/Can Mississippi Engeneering $140 $20 One bridge over the Mississippi Company can be built for free Rock Mountains Explo- $200 $25 One Mountain can be built for sives Co. free LA-NY Steamship Co. $270 $30 plus 20% CPR Presidency. It closes when CPR runs the first time. NO-SF Steamship Co. $280 $35 plus 10% SP Presidency The 3rd, the 4th and 5th can alternatively lay an extra tile once. Train N Price Limit OR 2 8 90 = 68 + 22 4 1 yellow 3 7 170 = 128 + 42 4 2 green 4 5 340 = 255 + 85 3 2 green, 2 trains scrapped 5 4 480 = 360 + 120 3 3 green 4E 2 510 = 383 + 127 3 3 green, After the 1st 5 available 6 4 630 = 473 + 157 2 3 brown, 3 trains scrapped, Privat Companies closed, CPR & SP Fusion 5E 2 660 = 495 + 165 2 3 brown, After the 1st 5 available 7 2 720 = 540 + 180 2 3 brown, After the 1st 5 available 8 2 800 = 600 + 200 2 3 brown, After the 1st 5 available D 3 950 = 713 + 237 2 3 brown After the 1st 5 available 4 trains scrapped Special Tiles: green: PSL, no 90 only at E3, J2 and L4 (and no normal town) brown: PL, no 81 only at E3 and J4 brown: C , no 82 only at G29 brown: MT, no 83 only at D32 brown: NO, no 84 only at O29 brown: S , no 80 only at J2 There is a border (a unpassable river) between E27 and D26 * 50 60 75 80 86 93 101 110 120 132 146 162 180 200 225 250 275 300 325 350 375 400 425 450 500 45 55 65 75 80 86 93 101 110 120 132 146 162 180 200 220 240 260 280 300 325 350 375 400 450 40 50 60 70 75 80 86 93 101 110 118 128 140 154 170 185 205 225 245 265 290 315 340 365 400 35 45 55 65 71 75 80 86 93 101 110 116 124 134 146 160 175 190 205 30 40 50 60 70 73 75 80 86 93 101 110 114 120 128 138 150 25 35 45 55 65 71 73 75 80 86 93 101 110 112 20 30 40 50 60 70 72 74 75 80 86 93 10 25 35 45 55 65 71 73 74 75 80 . 20 30 40 50 60 70 72 . . . 35 45 55 65 71 Corporations start into the column with the *, the first group in row 1, the second group in row 2, and so on.