1888-N

Railways in Northern China Leonhard Orgler https://18xx.guide · v1.2.2

Players	2	3	4	5	6
Start cash	¥1,200	¥800	¥600	¥480	¥400
Cert limit	20	20	16	13	11

Bank ¥9,000. Seating is dealt at random. Eight companies, six privates.

StartPrivate auction

An 1830-style auction of six privates, in ¥5 steps.
A full round of passes runs an operating round in which only privates pay, then a fresh SR resumes the auction—and drops Kaiping Tramway by ¥5. At ¥0 the start player must take it.

SRPrivates

They are never traded between players, only sold to a share company, from phase 3, for 50–150% of face.
A company may use a private's power at any point in its turn.

SRBuy/sell shares

Sell any, then buy one.
Par 70 · 75 · 80 · 85 · 90 · 95.
Full capitalization at 60% sold.
Shares of a company in the red zone of the market do not count against your certificate limit—until its price leaves the red.

ORLay track

A tile lay may instead upgrade a pre-printed hex.
Yellow may not go on the three OO hexes or on Beijing. Green may, and upgrading Beijing or the H4 OO hex costs terrain where every other upgrade is free.

ORTokens

Tokens cost ¥40 · ¥60 · ¥80. Home token is free.

ORRun trains

Beijing is two separate cities until its brown upgrade; a route may take both, as with separate towns on one tile.
Home and destination on one route pays the company's bonus.
The harbour must end a route and costs no range; a 2-train can reach it from any city you have a token in.

ORPay dividends

You must claim the highest revenue any player can show, not the route you like.
Withhold, or ¥0, ←1 · pay anything →1
A space pushed past the end of a row moves a row instead, along the arrows.

ORBuy trains

If trainless, you must buy, even with no legal route.
From another company only from phase 3, at ≥ ¥1.
A company that must buy and cannot afford it: the director tops up from personal cash, then sells shares—never changing any presidency.
It must be the cheapest train in the bank or pool, never one from a company, and the director may put in no more than the price: the treasury ends at ¥0.
A director who still cannot pay is bankrupt and the game ends at once.

ORExport

At the end of each set of ORs the top train in the bank leaves the country if it is a 2, 3, or 4. That alone can start the next phase.

ENDEndgame

A bankruptcy ends it immediately; the bank breaking finishes the current set of ORs, or in an SR, that SR and a full set after it.

Trains
Train	#	Cost	Limit	Scraps	Brings
2	7	¥80	4		Yellow
3	6	¥180	·		Green · trains and privates tradeable
4	5	¥300	3	2
5	3	¥500	2		Brown · privates close
6	2	¥630	·	3
D	∞	¥900	·	4	Gray · ¥700 trading in a 4, 5, or 6

Companies
Company		Home		Destination		Bonus	Tokens
CDL	Changda Line	A19	Changchun	E17	Dalian	¥20	4
HJR	Hanji Railway	F6	Handan	G9	Jinan	¥20	4
JHR	Jingha Railway	C9	Beijing	D12	Tangshan	¥30	3
JZR	Jingzhan Railway	C9	Beijing	B6	Zhangjiakou	¥40	3
LYR	Lanyan Railway	F16	Yantai	H14	Qingdao	¥20	3
SSL	Shenshan Line	B18	Shenyang	C13	Qinhuangdao	¥20	3
TJL	Taijiao Line	E3	Taiyuan	H4	Jiaozuo	¥20	4
ZDR	Zidong Railway	G11	Zibo	F12	Dongying	¥40	3

Privates
Private	Face	Pays	Power
Kaiping Tramway	¥25	¥5	None.
Terracotta Army	¥50	¥10	Brings the red Xi'an tile. The owning company may lay it as an extra tile, unconnected. Everyone's trains then use it.
Heng Shan	¥75	¥15	Brings the mountain tile and blocks C5 until sold or closed. Extra free lay. Running to or through it pays the treasury ¥40, costs range, and may end a route. It is the one exception to maximum revenue: you may run to it instead of somewhere worth more, or skip it for somewhere worth less.
Great Wall	¥100	¥20	One or two extra yellow tiles on Wall hexes, free of terrain cost and unconnected. Two must be laid together and must touch.
Yanda Railway Ferry	¥125	¥25	Brings the blue ferry tile. Extra lay on the ferry hex, unconnected. Everyone's trains may use it.
Forbidden City	¥150	¥30	In an SR, close it to take a share of any company with a token in Beijing. That is your purchase for the turn, and you may not sell. Lost if sold to a company.

1888-N

Tile manifest 110 tiles · ×N = count in box

Yellow from the start · 50 tiles

#1 ×1

#2 ×1

#3 ×2

#4 ×4

#5 ×3

#6 ×3

#7 ×4

#8 ×11

#9 ×9

#55 ×1

#56 ×1

#57 ×3

#58 ×5

#69 ×1

#L41 ×1

Green from the first 3 · 30 tiles

#14 ×3

#15 ×4

#16 ×1

#18 ×1

#19 ×1

#20 ×1

#23 ×3

#24 ×3

#25 ×2

#26 ×1

#27 ×1

#28 ×1

#29 ×1

#L42 ×1

#8858 ×1

#8859 ×1

#8860 ×1

#8863 ×1

#8864 ×1

#8865 ×1

Brown from the first 5 · 24 tiles

#39 ×1

#40 ×1

#41 ×2

#42 ×2

#43 ×1

#44 ×1

#45 ×2

#46 ×2

#47 ×2

#70 ×1

#L17 ×2

#611 ×6

#8892 ×1

Gray from the first D · 4 tiles

#51 ×2

#X9 ×1

#8893 ×1

Red Xi'an · 1 tile

#L39 ×1

Blue the ferry · 1 tile

#L40 ×1

B Beijing · OO the three double-city hexes. L39 is Xi'an, L40 the Yanda ferry, and L41 Heng Shan; each arrives with its private company.