18Ireland

Ian Scrivins https://18xx.guide · v1.1.1

Players	3	4	5	6
Start cash	£330	£250	£200	£160
Cert limit	16	12	10	8

Bank £4,000, and breaking it does not end the game at once. Thirteen 5-share companies start one at a time; seven 10-share companies are formed by merger or started late.

StartPrivate auction

Only five privates play: Dalkey Atmospheric, Dublin & Kingstown, and three drawn at random. The rest leave the game.
An 1830-style auction in £5 steps.
All passing with nothing sold knocks £5 off Dalkey Atmospheric and restages the whole auction.
The Dublin & Kingstown is a company, not a private: its buyer takes the directorship, pars it at the highest price not over half the bid, pays £80 for its 2H train and keeps the rest in treasury.

SRBuy/sell shares

Sell any, then buy one—or start a company. No selling in the first share round.
A player may hold 60% of a 5-share company, 70% of a 10-share. The pool may hold 50%.
Shares of a company in the yellow zone don't count against the certificate limit.
The market is a grid. Each share sold drops the company one row; dividends move it left and right.

SRStart a company

A 5-share company is auctioned from the top of the charter pile, opening at £100 in £5 steps. The winner pars it at the highest outlined price not over half the bid, pays the bid into the treasury, and places its home token at once.
A 10-share company, from phase 6, is simply chosen: par £50–£100, pay twice par into the treasury, and token any free city space.
If no 5-share company started in a share round, the top charter is removed.

SRThe market

A move left from the leftmost column goes down instead; a move right from the rightmost goes up.
A company at £20 that pays no dividend closes.

OROperating round

Sell or buy one own share → track → token → run → dividends → trains.
A company may buy a private from phases 4 for ½–2× face.

ORLay track

One tile, or a second yellow for £20 from the treasury.
Narrow gauge is laid free of terrain and carries no trains. It lends a town's value to the first broad gauge station it reaches, at either end.
New broad gauge must connect to one of your tokens; new narrow gauge must reach a town or city that does.

ORTokens

A 5-share company has only its home token, placed when it starts.
A 10-share company places one more each turn, £20 then £50, on a city it can reach.

ORRun trains

Trains count hexes: a 2H starts in one hex and runs to two more. Each train's route must be wholly separate from the rest, though they may cross or share a station.

ORPay dividends

Withhold ←1 · under the price 0 · ≥1× →1 · ≥2× →2
The second step to the right is for 5-share companies only.

ORBuy trains

Buy from the top of the stock or the pool at face, or from another company at £1 or more, in any phase.
A rusted train is not scrapped: it turns over to half its cost and half its hexes, goes to the pool, and runs until the next rusting removes it.
Train limit: a 5-share company holds 2, and 1 from the 8H. A 10-share holds 4, then 3 from the 6H and 2 from the 8H.
From phase 10 a company may trade one train in each operating round, paying the difference.

Merger round

From phase 4, a merger round follows each pair of operating rounds. A player holding a share proposes merging two or three operating 5-share companies, whose tokens must be connected, into an unstarted 10-share company.
Every shareholder votes one vote a share, all as a block. Pool shares vote for a better price and against a worse one; a tie rejects, and a rejected proposal may not be made again that round.
Each 20% share becomes 10% of the new company. Its price is the intersection of the leftmost column and the topmost row of the companies merged.

ENDEndgame

A bankrupt player retires and their companies close; the game ends only when one player is left.
It also ends at the close of the operating round in which a price reaches £260, or at the close of the pair of operating rounds after the bank breaks.

Trains
Train	#	Cost	Rusts	Turns into	Brings
2H	7	£80		1H at £40
4H	5	£180		2H at £90	Green · mergers · privates buyable
6H	4	£300	2H	3H at £150	10-share companies
8H	3	£440	4H		Russet · privates close · no new 5-share
10H	2	£550	6H		Trade-ins
D	∞	£770			Gray

Privates
Private	Face	Pays	Power
Dalkey Atmospheric	£20	£5	Blocks the Wicklow hex until bought or closed.
Donegal Railway	£30	£7	Two connected narrow gauge yellow tiles in Donegal and one hex beside it. Closes it.
Board of Works	£40	£9	A yellow tile free of terrain cost. Closes on the second use.
City of Dublin Steam Packet	£45	£10	A +£10 marker on Belfast, Londonderry, or Rosslare. Closes it, and the marker outlives it.
Tralee & Dingle	£50	£10	Two connected narrow gauge yellow tiles in Tralee and Dingle. Closes it.
Drumglass Colliery	£60	£12	Blocks H4 until bought or closed; its company may then tile H4 free of terrain and outside its tile lay.
Trans-Atlantic Steam Packet	£75	£15	A +£20 marker on Galway. Closes it, and the marker outlives it.
River Shannon Shipping	£80	£10	Links Dromod and Limerick: one train at either adds the other's value.
William Dargan Esq.	£90	£10	A second tile upgrade each operating round, for £30.
The Irish Mail	£110	£20	Places the red off-board tile beside Londonderry, Kingstown, or Waterford. Closes it, and everyone may run there.
Dublin & Kingstown	£120	×	Not a private at all: see the auction.

18Ireland

Tile manifest 223 tiles · ×N = count in box

Broad gauge Narrow gauge

Yellow from the start · 130 tiles

#1 ×1

#3 ×5

#4 ×5

#5 ×1

#7 ×14

#8 ×18

#9 ×18

#55 ×1

#58 ×5

#69 ×1

#77 ×8

#78 ×14

#79 ×14

#631 ×1

#644 ×1

#645 ×1

#657 ×1

#658 ×1

#659 ×1

#IR1 ×2

#IR2 ×1

#IR3 ×1

#IR4 ×1

#IR5 ×14

Green from the first 4H · 58 tiles

#19 ×1

#20 ×1

#80 ×1

#81 ×1

#82 ×3

#83 ×3

#710 ×1

#711 ×1

#712 ×1

#713 ×1

#714 ×1

#715 ×1

#IR6 ×2

#IR7 ×1

#IR8 ×1

#IR9 ×1

#IR10 ×1

#IR11 ×1

#IR12 ×1

#IR13 ×1

#IR14 ×1

#IR15 ×1

#IR16 ×1

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#IR18 ×1

#IR19 ×1

#IR20 ×1

#IR21 ×1

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#IR23 ×2

#IR24 ×2

#IR25 ×2

#IR26 ×1

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#IR32 ×1

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#IR35 ×1

#IR36 ×1

#IR37 ×1

#IR38 ×1

#IR39 ×1

#IR40 ×1

#IR41 ×1

#IR42 ×1

#IR43 ×1

Russet from the first 8H · 25 tiles

#IR44 ×2

#IR45 ×1

#IR46 ×1

#IR47 ×1

#IR48 ×1

#IR49 ×1

#IR50 ×1

#IR51 ×1

#IR52 ×1

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#IR56 ×1

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#IR58 ×1

#IR59 ×1

#IR60 ×1

#IR61 ×2

#IR62 ×1

#IR63 ×1

#IR64 ×1

#IR65 ×1

#IR66 ×1

Gray from the first D · 9 tiles

#60 ×2

#IR67 ×2

#IR68 ×1

#IR69 ×1

#IR70 ×1

#IR71 ×1

#IR72 ×1

Red the Irish Mail · 1 tile

#IM ×1

BC Belfast or Cork · DD Dundalk/Drogheda · DUB Dublin · EM Enniskillen or Maryborough