1889

History of Shikoku Railways Yasutaka Ikeda https://18xx.guide · v1.0.1

Players	2	3	4	5	6
Start cash	¥420	¥420	¥420	¥390	¥390
Cert limit	25	19	14	12	11

Bank ¥7,000. Seven corporations, seven privates.

StartPrivate auction

An 1830-style auction of seven privates, in ¥5 steps. The rulebook calls a bid a reservation bid and marks it with a cube.
An auction opens left of the high bidder, not the lowest, and whoever passes takes their money back and is out of it.
A full round of passes pays every private its revenue and carries on. Before anyone owns one, it drops Takamatsu E-Railroad by ¥5 instead—free at ¥0.

SRBuy/sell shares

Sell and buy in either order—but never sell, buy, then sell again.
Par 65 · 70 · 75 · 80 · 90 · 100.
Full capitalization at 50% sold.
A private may not be sold as part of a stock action; only a corporation buys them.

SRMarket zones

Yellow zone: those shares don't count against the cert limit.
Orange zone: also no 60% holding limit.
Both end the moment the token leaves the zone—sell down on your next turn.

OROperating round

A corporation may buy a private from a player from phase 3, at a price the two agree.

ORLay track

A lay must be on your home hex, add track connected to one of your tokens, or raise the value of a city you can already reach.
A hex marked with a private company's icon cannot be upgraded until a corporation owns that private.
Upgrading Kouchi costs ¥80, yellow to green and green to brown.

ORPay dividends

Withhold, or ¥0, ←1 · pay anything →1

ENDEndgame

A president who cannot fund a compulsory train goes bankrupt and the game ends at once.
The bank breaking also ends it; shareholders then collect their dividends from the bank themselves.

Trains
Train	#	Cost	OR/SR	Limit	Scraps	Brings
2	6	¥80	1	4		Yellow
3	5	¥180	2	·		Green · privates buyable
4	4	¥300	·	3	2
5	3	¥450	3	2		Brown · privates close
6	2	¥630	·	·	3
D	∞	¥1,100	·	·	4	¥300 off trading in a 4, 5, or 6

Corporations
Company		Home		Tokens
AR	Awa	K8	Naruto	2
IR	Iyo	E2	Matsuyama	2
SR	Sanuki	I2	Marugame	2
KO	Takamatsu & Kotohira	K4	Takamatsu	2
TR	Tosa Electric	F9	Kochi	3
KU	Tosa Kuroshio	C10	Nakamura	1
UR	Uwajima	B7	Uwajima	3

Privates
Private	Face	Pays	Power
Takamatsu E-Railroad	¥20	¥5	Blocks Takamatsu while a player holds it.
Mitsubishi Ferry	¥30	¥5	The owning player may place the port tile on an empty coastal town, at any time, needing no corporation and no connection. Does not close.
Ehime Railway	¥40	¥10	Blocks Ohzu while a player holds it. On selling it to a corporation, that player lays a green tile on Ohzu as an extra tile. Does not close.
Sumitomo Mines Railway	¥50	¥15	The owning corporation builds free on mountain hexes without a river. Does not close.
Dougo Railway	¥60	¥15	The owning player may exchange it for a 10% Iyo share from the offering.
South Iyo Railway	¥80	¥20	None.
Uno-Takamatsu Ferry	¥150	¥30	Never closes while a player holds it. At the first 5-train its revenue rises to ¥50 and it can no longer be sold to a corporation.

1889

Tile manifest 63 tiles · ×N = count in box

Yellow from the start · 25 tiles

#3 ×2

#5 ×2

#6 ×2

#7 ×2

#8 ×5

#9 ×5

#57 ×2

#58 ×3

#437 ×1

#438 ×1

Green from the first 3 · 22 tiles

#12 ×1

#13 ×1

#14 ×1

#15 ×3

#16 ×1

#19 ×1

#20 ×1

#23 ×2

#24 ×2

#25 ×1

#26 ×1

#27 ×1

#28 ×1

#29 ×1

#205 ×1

#206 ×1

#439 ×1

#440 ×1

Brown from the first 5 · 16 tiles

#39 ×1

#40 ×1

#41 ×1

#42 ×1

#45 ×1

#46 ×1

#47 ×1

#448 ×4

#465 ×1

#466 ×1

#492 ×1

#611 ×2

H Kouchi · K Kotohira · T Takamatsu. The box holds eight more tiles—2 of #6 and one each of #7, #8, #9, #23, #24, and #57—for the beginner game only.