18Chesapeake

Scott Petersen https://18xx.guide · v1.0.0

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

Bank $8,000. Eight companies, six privates. One company's president's certificate is drawn at random to go with the Cornelius Vanderbilt. Two players use the rulebook's own variant.

StartPrivate auction

An 1830-style auction of six privates.
A full round of passes with nothing sold drops the Delaware and Raritan Canal $5, and priority passes to the first to pass. At $0 the start player must take it.
Once one is sold, a full round of passes runs an OR in which privates pay. It is a normal OR, so a train is exported after it.
Priority then goes left of the last player to buy at face.

SRBuy/sell shares

Sell any, then buy one. No selling in the first SR.
Par $70 · $80 · $95.
Full capitalization at 60% sold.
A player may hold 60%, the pool 50%.
Each share sold drops the price one space; sold out at the end of the round raises it one.

SRMarket zones

Yellow: those shares don't count against the cert limit. There is no zone that lets a player pass 60%.

OROperating round

Track → token → run → dividends → trains.
A railroad may buy a private at any point.
Privates pay first, then railroads in descending share price, then rightmost, then topmost.

ORLay track

One tile. Mountains cost $80, water $40, on the first tile. Baltimore pays its $40 again to go green.
Baltimore and Philadelphia start with yellow track printed.

ORTokens

Home token is free, then $40 · $60 · $80.

ORRun trains

The highest earnings any player can show must be declared.

ORPay dividends

Withhold ←1 · pay anything →1
Pool shares pay the company.

ORBuy trains

A company may buy another's train for $1 up to its own treasury.
Only a company with no train and a route must buy one. Its president may fund only the cheapest in the bank or pool, or another company's train up to face, and the treasury ends at $0.
From the first 6, a D costs $700 with a 4, 5, or 6 traded in, even at the train limit.

Train export

At the end of each set of ORs, the next 2, 3, or 4 in the bank leaves the game. That can change the phase.

ENDEndgame

The bank breaking ends the game after the current set of ORs—or the next, if it breaks in an SR.
A president who cannot fund a forced train is bankrupt, and the game ends at once. They score their unsellable shares and privates.
Privates score at face before the first 5.

Trains
Train	#	Cost	OR/SR	Limit	Off-board	Scraps	Brings
2	7	$80	1	4	1st		Yellow
3	6	$180	2	·	2nd		Green · privates buyable
4	5	$300	·	3	·	2
5	3	$500	3	2	3rd		Brown · privates close
6	2	$630	·	·	·	3	D for sale
D	∞	$900	·	·	4th	4	Gray

Companies
Company		Home		Tokens
B&O	Baltimore & Ohio	H6	Baltimore	3
C&A	Camden & Amboy	J6	Camden	2
C&O	Chesapeake & Ohio	G13	Richmond	4
LV	Lehigh Valley	J2	Allentown	2
N&W	Norfolk & Western	C13	Lynchburg	3
PRR	Pennsylvania	F2	Harrisburg	4
P&LE	Pittsburgh & Lake Erie	A3	Pittsburgh	3
SRR	Strasburg Rail Road	H4	Strasburg	2

Privates
Private	Face	Pays	Power
Delaware and Raritan Canal	$20	$5	Blocks K3.
Columbia-Philadelphia	$40	$10	Blocks H2 and I3. Its company may lay #8s or #9s in both, joined, unconnected, besides its own tile. Lost if anyone else builds there.
Baltimore and Susquehanna	$50	$10	The same, in F4 and G5.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal	$80	$15	Blocks D2. Its company may lay a #57 there, unconnected, as its tile and paying terrain, then a free token there as its token.
Baltimore and Ohio	$100		Comes with a 10% B&O share.
Cornelius Vanderbilt	$200	$30	Comes with the drawn president's certificate; set its par at once. Never sold to a company; closes when that company buys its first train.

18Chesapeake

Tile manifest 97 tiles · ×N = count in box

Yellow from the start · 44 tiles

#1 ×1

#2 ×1

#3 ×2

#4 ×2

#7 ×4 unlimited

#8 ×12 unlimited

#9 ×9 unlimited

#55 ×1

#56 ×1

#57 ×7

#58 ×2

#69 ×1

#X1 ×1

Green from the first 3 · 30 tiles

#14 ×5

#15 ×6

#16 ×1

#19 ×1

#20 ×1

#23 ×3

#24 ×3

#25 ×2

#26 ×1

#27 ×1

#28 ×1

#29 ×1

#X2 ×1

#X3 ×1

#X4 ×1

#X5 ×1

Brown from the first 5 · 20 tiles

#39 ×1

#40 ×1

#41 ×1

#42 ×1

#43 ×2

#44 ×1

#45 ×1

#46 ×1

#47 ×2

#70 ×1

#X6 ×1

#X7 ×2

#611 ×5

Gray from the first D · 3 tiles

#X8 ×1

#X9 ×1

#915 ×1

DC Washington · OO Baltimore and Philadelphia, two separate cities. Tiles 7, 8, and 9 are unlimited; the box holds the counts printed here.