1871

The Old Prince Lucas Boyd https://18xx.guide · v1.0.1

Players	3	4
Start cash	$580	$480
Cert limit	20	16
Privates	11	12

The bank is unlimited. At most eight companies. A PEIR share and the Union Bank each count as a certificate.

StartSetup

Shuffle the seven PEIR shares and draw two: the first is the Mainline, the second the Shortline. Both shares leave the game, and a PEIR token goes on the home city of each of the other five.
The Mainline begins floated at 92 with $920; the Shortline sits at 86 and floats for $860 on one more share. The PEIR charter takes $200 and the King's Mail.
At three players remove Ice Boat Shipping. Deal the five PEIR shares and the privates out evenly, face up.
In the auction, the auctioneer offers one item from their own hand and only the two players to their left may bid, at face+$5 or more, in fives. If both pass, the next player clockwise must buy it at face; if nobody can, the richest must. The auctioneer then moves one seat clockwise, and turn order for SR1 is least cash first.

SRBuy/sell shares

Sell any number, then do one thing: buy one share, start a company, or act for the Union Bank.
Never more than 30% of one company a turn, and the price falls one space per company sold, not per share. A company that has not operated can never be sold.
Full capitalization at 60% sold.
Union Bank and reserved exchange shares count toward a sell-out.
Passing takes the lowest free order card for the next SR; acting after a pass forfeits it.

SRStarting a company

The tranche chart gates it: a row opens only once the row above is full and every company in it has operated or sold out.
Start values are 80 · 74 · 65 · 58—the 80 goes after the first 5H, the 74 after the first 3+, the 65 after the first 7. The president's certificate costs 2× the start value.
A PEIR company needs a player holding its PEIR share. On floating it takes 10× its start value, its PEIR token becomes its home one, and the share turns into a 10% share of it, over 60% allowed.

SRSplitting

Preside over a floated company with 4+ shares and 2+ tokens on the map to found a Branch company in an open tranche space.
Everyone, the Union Bank included, trades half their parent shares, rounded down, for child shares; your two become the child's presidency. Shares given up go to the parent's treasury, as does half the bank's.
Give the child a non-home token on the map and split cash, trains, and the Hunslet freely. Its treasury is start value × the shares left in the bank.

SRUnion Bank

A second wallet that never closes: once per SR its owner may buy or start for it, the Bank paying all it can and the owner the rest.
It never sells. Its shares sit outside the owner's 60% limit, and it may hold a presidency. Its cash and shares count for them at the end.

ORLay track

One yellow free, a second for $20, or one upgrade—never a lay and an upgrade together. Terrain cost is extra.
A lay must add track or raise a city you reach. N18 is shut while a player holds the Vernon River Bridge.

ORTokens

One token an OR, $80 flat, in any city you reach, one per hex. Four to a company, the home among them; an unstarted company's home stays reserved.

ORRun trains

H trains count hex edges crossed: a 6H crosses six, so it reaches seven hexes.
+ trains run to that many cities or off-boards, plus towns between them and trailing off either end.
A route needs two revenue centers—a city among them for a + train.

ORPay dividends

Withhold ←1 · pay anything →1
No room right sends the marker up, no room left down. At 400+40 a move right pays each share $40 more instead.

ORBuy trains

A forced purchase spends the treasury, then sells the company's own treasury shares past the 30% cap, then the president's cash and shares—never dumping the company being rescued. Failing that they are bankrupt and the game ends at once.

Privates

P1 · P2 · P6 exchange in an SR for one of the Shortline's three reserved shares, closing the private. Free alongside sell and buy, but doing only it forfeits your order card; at the 4+ the share comes anyway. P2 shuts N18.
P3 exchanges for any share in the bank but the Mainline's or Shortline's, and is worth nothing at the 4+ unused.
P4 · P5 each bring a 10% Mainline share; P8 and P10 are the Mainline and Shortline presidencies, closing when their company operates; P9 is one yellow straight tile, laid by a company you preside over as one of its lays.
P7 is the only private a company may buy: from phase 4H, for $1 to $200, never by the PEIR, and its company may close it to buy a train from the bank at any point in its turn.

The PEIR

Nobody starts it, nobody buys in. No stock price, always operates last, builds from any token and never gets more. Presidency is the most shares, ties to the lowest.
It may pay, withhold, or half-pay. A dividend divides by the PEIR shares in player hands, rounded up per share—so every float makes the rest pay more.
Its shares can never be sold and are worth $80 each at the end. It never needs a train, buys at most one a turn from the bank, and may not buy the Hunslet. When the last PEIR company floats, what is left in it is lost.

ENDEndgame

A bankruptcy ends the game immediately. The first D finishes its set of ORs, then one last SR and a final three ORs; the 4+ is guaranteed one run.

Trains
Train	#	Cost	OR/SR	Limit	Scraps	Brings
2H	4	$80	1	4		Yellow
3H	3	$100	·	·
4H	·	$120	2	·		Green · Hunslet buyable
5H	·	$160	·	·	2H	80 closes
6H	2	$180	·	·	3H
2+	4	$220	·	3	4H
3+	3	$240	·	·	5H	74 closes
4+	2	$200	3	·	6H	Brown · privates close
7	4	$500	·	2	2+	65 closes
D	∞	$600	·	·	3+ · 4+	Gray · endgame

Privates
Private	Face	Pays
P1 Merchants and Co.	$40	$5
P2 Vernon River Bridge	$40	$5
P3 Ice Boat Shipping	$40	$5
P4 Royal Agricultural Society	$110	$10
P5 Railcar Ferry	$120	$15
P6 Shipbuilding	$90	$15
P7 Hunslet Steam Engine	$110	$20
P8 Mainline Concession	$160	$20
P9 Schreiber and Burpee	$100	$30
P10 Short Line Concession	$160	$30
P11 Union Bank	$120

1871

Tile manifest 164 tiles · ×N = count in box

Yellow from the start · 78 tiles

#1 ×2

#3 ×8

#5 ×7

#6 ×7

#7 ×12

#8 ×25

#9 ×1 P9 only

#56 ×2

#58 ×6

#630 ×2

#631 ×2

#632 ×2

#633 ×2

Green from the first 4H · 57 tiles

#16 ×3

#17 ×3

#21 ×2

#22 ×2

#25 ×4

#28 ×4

#29 ×4

#30 ×3

#31 ×3

#143 ×2

#144 ×2

#624 ×2

#625 ×2

#626 ×2

#PEI1 ×3

#PEI2 ×3

#PEI3 ×3

#PEI4 ×2

#PEI5 ×2

#PEI6 ×2

#PEI7 ×2

#PEI8 ×2

Brown from the first 4+ · 27 tiles

#39 ×1

#40 ×1

#41 ×1

#42 ×1

#43 ×1

#44 ×1

#45 ×1

#46 ×1

#47 ×1

#70 ×1

#627 ×1

#628 ×1

#629 ×1

#767 ×1

#769 ×1

#PEI9 ×2

#PEI10 ×2

#PEI11 ×2

#PEI12 ×2

#PEI13 ×2

#PEI14 ×2

Gray from the first D · 2 tiles

#PEI15 ×1

#PEI16 ×1

T and X mark the two kinds of labeled city on the map, CX Charlottetown. Blue hexes are never upgraded.