18MEX

The Railroads Come to Mexico Mark Derrick https://18xx.guide · v1.0.1

Players	3	4	5
Start cash	$625	$500	$450
Cert limit	19	14	11

Bank $9,000. Eight companies. Seven certificates open the game: four privates and three minors.

StartPrivate auction

An 1830-style auction of seven certificates in $5 increments: four privates and three minors.
An auction opens left of the high bidder, not with the lowest.
A full round of passes runs an operating round in which only privates pay, then a fresh SR resumes the auction—and drops Mexico City–Acapulco by $5.

SRBuy/sell shares

Par $60 · $70 · $75 · $80 · $90.
Full capitalization at 50% sold.
Buy and sell in either order, but never sell, buy, then sell. You may not buy a company you have already sold this round.
A player may hold 60%, the pool 50%.
Each share sold drops the price one space; sold out at the end of a round raises it one.

SRMarket zones

Shares of a company in the yellow zone don't count against the cert limit.

SRThe NdM

It may not float in the first stock round, and nobody may buy its shares until Phase 3½.
Ten shares in eleven certificates: a 20% president's, seven 10%, and two 5%, which don't count against the cert limit.

OROperating round

Privates pay, then the minors A · B · C in order, then companies by descending market value.
Mail first: a company holding at least one train collects its home city's printed value from the bank, to the treasury, before anything else.

ORLay track

Two yellow, or one upgrade. Yellow goes only on pale green hexes.
Mexico City and Puebla are one double hex: $60 to green, $40 to brown.

ORTokens

Home token free on the company's first turn, then $40 · $60 · $80.

ORRun trains

A train's length counts cities and off-boards only; towns are free.
A 4D reaches four of them and pays double for each—towns are not doubled.

ORPay dividends

Withhold ←1 · pay anything →1
No room right sends the marker up, no room left down.

ORBuy trains

Until the first 4, a company may buy one train from the bank a turn. Buying from another company is unlimited, at any agreed price of $1 or more.
A forced purchase takes the cheapest train in the bank; the president funds the shortfall and the treasury ends at $0.
4s go obsolete, not scrapped: from the second 6 each runs one more turn, then leaves.

Phase 3½The minors close

At the fifth 3: each minor's treasury passes to its major, its charter and 2-train leave the game, and its token comes off the map and is not replaced.
Its owner takes a trade-in share—5% NdM for A and B, 10% UdY for C.

Phase 5The NdM merger

On the first 5, one floated company may merge into the NdM: CHI, MC, MEX, SPM, or UdY. Starting left of the president of the company that bought the 5, offered to everyone except the NdM president.
If none will, the NdM's president must take an unfloated eligible company they do not preside over, if one is left.
Shareholders sell in at half market, the president trades the 20% for a 10% NdM. The NdM takes its cash and trains, discards to three, and swaps one token per city it has not already reached.
If no merger, the cert limit rises by one for the rest of the game.

ENDEndgame

A bankruptcy ends the game at once.
A price reaching $200, or the bank breaking, ends the current round—plus one more operating round if it happened in a stock round.
Minors score at face value.

What it changes

The mail pays whether or not you run, so a company with a train is never quite broke, and a big home city is an income of its own.
A minor is a 2-train with a guaranteed buyer: it feeds its owner for three phases and then pays out in NdM stock.

Trains
Train	#	Cost	OR/SR	Limit	Scraps	Brings
2	6	$100	1	3
3	6	$180	2	·		Green · privates buyable
3½	×	×	·	·		Minors close · NdM buyable
4	3	$300	·	2	2
5	2	$450	3	·		Brown · privates close · NdM merger
6	2	$600	·	·	3
6½	×	×	·	·		4s obsolete
4D	7	$700	·	·		Gray

Companies
Company		Home		Tokens
CHI	Chihuahua Pacific	E6	Chihuahua	4
FCP	Pacific	B3	Nogales/Tucson	4
MC	Mexican Central	I8	Torreón	2
MEX	Mexican	P13	Veracruz	3
NdM	National Railways of Mexico	O10	Mexico City	4
SPM	Southern Pacific of Mexico	O8	Guadalajara	3
TM	Texas-Mexican	I12	Matamoros	2
UdY	United of Yucatán	Q14	Mérida	2

Privates
#	Private	Face	Pays	Power
1	Mexico City–Acapulco	$20	$5	None. The only certificate the auction discounts.
2	Kansas City, Mexico & Orient	$40	$10	Its company may lay the Copper Canyon tile in F5 for $60 instead of $120, unconnected and outside its tile lays. That tile never upgrades, and if any other tile reaches F5 first—or no 5 has been bought—it leaves the game. Laying it does not close the private.
3	Interoceanic	$50	×	Minor A, home Tampico M12.
4	Sonora-Baja California	$50	×	Minor B, home Mazatlán K6.
5	Southeastern	$50	×	Minor C, home Oaxaca S12.
6	Mexican International	$100	$20	Its first buyer takes a free 10% CHI, which counts toward the CHI's float but is worth nothing until someone pars it.
7	Mexican National	$140	$20	Its first buyer takes the 20% NdM president's certificate and sets its par at once. Never sold to a company; closes when the NdM buys its first train.

A minor is a charter with a built-in 2-train and no shares. It lays one yellow tile, must run, and splits the revenue evenly between its owner and its treasury. It never buys or sells a train, and can never be sold. A company may buy a private from a player from the first 3, for half to 1½× face.

18MEX

Tile manifest 124 tiles · ×N = count in box

Yellow from the start · 49 tiles

#3 ×3

#4 ×3

#5 ×2

#6 ×2

#7 ×5

#8 ×11

#9 ×11

#57 ×4

#58 ×4

#470 ×1

#471 ×1

#472 ×1

#473 ×1

Green from the first 3 · 41 tiles

#14 ×3

#15 ×3

#16 ×1

#17 ×1

#18 ×1

#19 ×1

#20 ×1

#23 ×4

#24 ×4

#25 ×3

#26 ×1

#27 ×1

#28 ×1

#29 ×1

#141 ×2

#142 ×2

#143 ×2

#474 ×2

#475 ×1

#476 ×1

#477 ×1

#478 ×1

#619 ×2

#479 ×1

Brown from the first 5 · 33 tiles

#39 ×1

#40 ×2

#41 ×3

#42 ×3

#43 ×2

#44 ×1

#45 ×2

#46 ×2

#47 ×2

#63 ×7

#70 ×1

#480 ×1

#481 ×1

#482 ×1

#483 ×1

#484 ×1

#485 ×1

#486 ×1

Gray from the first 4D · 1 tile

#455 ×1

CC Copper Canyon · G Guadalajara · L Los Mochis · M Mazatlán · MC Mexico City · P Puebla · T Tampico · V Veracruz. 479, 485, and 486 are double tiles: they cover Mexico City and Puebla together, nothing else may be laid on that pair, and they are the one case where rotation is fixed.