1856

Table of Contents

General Information
Rules Clarifications
Implementation Notes

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General Information

• Designed by Bill Dixon
• Published by Mayfair Games (1995)
• Publication rights currently held by Seahorse Laser & Design, but not yet published.
• Rules
• Map
• Tiles
• Market
• BoardGameGeek
• Differences from 1830

Rules Highlights

• Privates

1. Flos Tramway
   • Value $20
   • Revenue $5
   • Blocks L3
2. Waterloo & Saugeen Railway Co
   • Value $40
   • Revenue $10
   • Blocks I12
   • The company may be closed to lay a tile on I12 and or place a (free) token on I12
3. The Canada Company
   • Value $50
   • Revenue $10
   • Blocks H11
   • As a bonus remote tile lay, may lay a tile on H11. Does not close company
4. Great Lakes Shipping Company
   • Value $70
   • Revenue $15
   • This company may be closed to place a +20 marker on a port hex for the owning corporation
   • Port marker goes away in phase 6
5. Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company
   • Value $100
   • Revenue $20
   • This company comes with 3 +10 bonus tokens which each grant a +10 bonus to the Buffalo offboard hexes
   • The buying corporation gets one bonus token immediately, the other tokens can be bought by other corporations for $50
   • Bonus token never goes away
6. St. Clair Frontier Tunnel Company
   • Value $100
   • Revenue $20
   • This company comes with 3 +10 bonus tokens which each grant a +10 bonus to the Sarnia offboard hex
   • The buying corporation gets one bonus token immediately, the other tokens can be bought by other corporations for $50
   • Bonus token never goes away

• Variable Capitalization
  • Earlygame: Escrow - Incremental cap but the last 5 shares are held in escrow until the corporation's home is connected to its destination
  • Midgame: Incremental
  • Lategame: Full Cap
• Variable percent to float - determined at time when the corporation first operates by the facing train in the bank
  • 10% x the number of the facing train
  • 60% for a diesel or a 8 train
• 'Cheap' loans!
  • Once per OR (up to 1 per share in players hands..) a corporation can take out a $100 loan
  • Interest is $10 due at time of revenue calculation (if corporation cannot pay from treasury interest is deducted from run, then from president's pocket..)
• Variable certificate limit
  • Certificate limit is fixed until phase 6
  • After phase 6 certificate limit may go up or down depending on how many corporations are left
  • If corporations continue to close certificate limit continues to go down
• Nationalization
  • When the first 6 train is bought all loans must be paid back or else corporations will be nationalized
  • Presidents may contribute personal funds to save their corporations if they choose but may not sell shares
  • Shares in nationalized corporations are traded 2 for 1 for CGR shares. CGR can be a 10 or 20 share corporation
• Upgradable (and downgradable) towns
  • Starting in phase 6 towns are changale
  • Small towns can be downgraded into plain track
  • Small towns can be upgraded into yellow track
  • Double small towns can be upgraded into green cities

Implementation Notes

• When the CGR forms, if nobody got more than 1 share of the CGR, the president gets the presidents certificate but is obligated to buy the second share on the certificate in the following stock round. In this implementation, if the president is unable to raise the funds to buy the second share of the CGR the game softlocks
• The 'buy until float' auto action doesn't work as expected for non-full-cap corporations
• Open Issues