1861

Railways of the Russian Empire Ian D. Wilson https://18xx.guide · v1.0.0

Players	3	4	5	6
Start cash	₽420	₽315	₽252	₽210
Cert limit	21	16	13	11

Bank ₽15,000. Sixteen minors, eight majors, five privates, and the Russian State Railway. A round is SR → OR → merger → OR → merger.

StartChoose market

Choose whether to use the column or grid market.

StartPrivate auction

Five privates auctioned in ascending order by face: the first opened by priority; each after by the player left of the last winner. The opening bid is at least the minimum, raises ₽5, and passing drops you from that private.
If nobody opens, the minimum drops ₽5 and returns to the same player; at ₽0 they take it free.

SRBuy/sell shares

Sell any, then buy one—or auction a minor instead of buying.
A player may hold 60%, the pool 50%.
No selling a major before it has operated.
No selling a minor or a private.
Only a president's sale moves the price: one space, however many they sell.

SRMinors

Auction, opening at ₽100 or more. Bid in multiples of ₽5. Passing drops you out.
The whole bid is its treasury, and its price is half the bid, rounded down to a market space. Play resumes left of the winner.
One 100% certificate, never sold, and one token—its home, reserved on the map. The Nikolaev goes first.
The six green minors from the first 3. No auctions from the first 5.

SRMajors

From the first 4, choose an initial stock price of ₽70–200 and buy a president's certificate.
Put the home token in an unconnected city. If none are available, you may not start.
Incremental capitalization at 20% sold.

SRColumn market

A president's sale ←1. Sold out at the end of the round →1.
A minor never crosses the thick border: it stays.

SRGrid market

A president's sale ↓1. Sold out at the end of the round ↑1.
A minor never crosses the thick border: it moves up.

OROperating round

Privates pay, then every minor by price, then majors by price, then the RSR.
Redeem → track → token → run → dividends → loans → trains.
From the first 3 to the first 6, a company may buy a private from a player for ₽1 to face.

ORRedeem

A major may buy back any of its pool shares.

ORLay track

One lay or upgrade, plus one more yellow for ₽20, never in the same hex.
Locked hexes open with the first 3.
When upgrading a city to brown, use a 6 exit tile if possible. Kharkov upgrades as a Y until its gray tile.

ORTokens

Majors have three tokens. Home is free.
The second token costs ₽20 per hex crossed from its home token, as the crow flies.
The third token costs ₽40 per hex crossed from either token.
Place one per OR.

ORRun trains

Towns may be skipped; cities and off-boards may not. One stop per hex.
Ekaterinburg doubles on a route with Moscow.
2+2 counts two stops, doubled. 5+5E counts five, skips the rest, doubled.

ORPay dividends

A major pays out, withholds, or half pays—keeping half, rounded down to ₽10.
Withhold, or no run, ←1 · pay a total < price 0 · ≥ price →1
A minor with revenue must half pay: half to its owner, half to it. Nothing ←1 · anything →1

ORLoans

₽50 each, at ₽5 interest paid at once and every OR after.
A minor may owe 2, a major 5.
Only when short, and only as many as needed: by choice for track costs, forced for interest or a forced train. Never for a redeem, token, or private.
After interest, repay every ₽50 the treasury holds.

ORBuy trains

At the train limit, a company may not buy—even a train that would rust its own.
Trainless, it must buy: from a willing company, else from the bank on loans—any train, not only the cheapest. Presidents never pay.

Merger round

From the first 3 to the first 8, after every OR, each minor by price may become an unstarted major:
Convert a minor priced ₽100–165 at the same price. Its token becomes the home.
Merge 2 to 10 minors, at most 6 of one player's, all owners willing, all connected to one of them—their own tokens never block. Price lowest + highest. Each minor is a 10% share; the first to two takes the president's. Two minor tokens become the major's.
Then the president—or every holder, in a merge—may buy up to 60% at the price, then each player one share. A merge leaving no president is undone.

Nationalization

A company that cannot pay interest or afford a forced train; a minor that has run and is trainless at the first 4 or 6; every minor at the first 8. A trainless major after a rust, if its president chooses.
It repays what it can, then moves ←1, and ←1 more per loan. Each share is paid that price—a minor 2 shares. All the rest goes to the RSR, which swaps in its tokens while it has them.
A nationalized major may restart.
Privates are nationalized at the first 6, paying face.

The Russian State Railway

After every OR from the first 4 to the first 8: tokens St. Petersburg once, runs its best route, withholds, pays its loans, and buys every train it can afford—forced on unlimited loans if trainless.
At the first 8 it stops and tokens Moscow.

ENDEndgame

The first 8: in the first OR of a set, finish it and play two more; in the second, finish it, then an SR and three ORs.
The bank breaking: finish the round, plus one OR if it is an SR.
Each loan left moves a price ←1. Privates face, minors 2× price.

Trains
Train	#	Cost	Scraps	Minor	Major	Brings
2	10	₽100		2	×	Yellow
3	7	₽225		·	4	Green · green minors · mergers
4	4	₽350	2	1	3	Majors in SR · RSR
5	4	₽550		·	·	Brown · minor auctions end
6	2	₽650	3	·	2	Gray · privates go
7	2	₽800		·	·
8	∞	₽1,000	4	×	·	Minors go · 2+2 · 5+5E · end
2+2	∞	₽600		×	·
5+5E	∞	₽1,500		×	·

Privates
#	Private	Min	Face	Pays	Bonus
1	Tsarskoye Selo	₽20	₽30	₽10
2	Black Sea Shipping	₽30	₽45	₽15	Odessa
3	Moscow–Yaroslavl	₽40	₽60	₽20	Moscow
4	Moscow–Ryazan	₽50	₽75	₽25	Moscow
5	Warsaw–Vienna	₽60	₽90	₽30	Poland

A company's private adds ₽10 to each of its trains that visit the bonus city.

1861

Tile manifest 174 tiles · ×N = count in box

Yellow from the start · 70 tiles

#3 ×2

#4 ×4

#5 ×2

#6 ×2

#7 ×3 unlimited

#8 ×19 unlimited

#9 ×24 unlimited

#57 ×2

#58 ×4

#201 ×3

#202 ×3

#621 ×2

Green from the first 3 · 66 tiles

#14 ×2

#15 ×2

#16 ×2

#17 ×2

#18 ×2

#19 ×2

#20 ×2

#21 ×2

#22 ×2

#23 ×5

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#25 ×4

#26 ×2

#27 ×2

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#29 ×2

#30 ×2

#31 ×2

#87 ×2

#88 ×2

#204 ×2

#207 ×5

#208 ×2

#619 ×2

#622 ×2

#624 ×1

#625 ×1

#626 ×1

#635 ×1

#637 ×1

Brown from the first 5 · 35 tiles

#39 ×2

#40 ×2

#41 ×2

#42 ×2

#43 ×2

#44 ×2

#45 ×2

#46 ×2

#47 ×2

#63 ×3

#611 ×3

#623 ×3

#636 ×1

#638 ×1

#641 ×1

#801 ×2

#911 ×3

Gray from the first 6 · 3 tiles

#639 ×1

#640 ×1

#642 ×1

Y large city, and Kharkov until gray · K Kiev · Kh Kharkov · M Moscow · S St. Petersburg. Tiles 7, 8, and 9 are unlimited; the box holds the counts printed here.