Age of Rail: South Africa – Expansion Maps: Allegheny & La Pampa
Age of Rail: South Africa – Expansion Maps: Allegheny & La Pampa Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Allegheny
3-6 players, about an hour.
This expansion uses the base game rules, except where listed below:
Initial Offering
Initial Stocks are auctioned off one at a time, in the following order: Red C&O, Blue B&O, Orange NYC, Yellow B&M, and Purple PRR.
- Blue C&O's base is Richmond (map marker 1)
- Red B&O's base is Baltimore (map marker 2)
- Orange NYC's base is New York (map marker 3)
- Yellow B&M's base is Boston (map marker 4)
- Purple PRR's base is Philadelphia (map marker 5)
The Black P&LE railroad is not opened at the beginning of the game.
The first player is the player who owns the Purple PRR stock, then play continues clockwise around the table until the end of the game.
Sequence of Play
Action: Build Track
A railroad may not build a double Track Link going into and out of Pittsburgh.
External Connections
The External Connections on the Allegheny map only pay out the Connection Bonus and do not increase the railroad's Value.
P&LE Opens
When a railroad reaches Pittsburgh, the Black P&LE railroad opens and a share of P&LE stock is immediately put up for auction, following the rules of the Initial Offering. The first bid is offered by the player whose turn has made the connection. Once a player has won the bid, paid the Treasury, and taken their share of P&LE stock, they must build, at no cost, one Track Link from Pittsburgh. The P&LE's Income disk is also updated on the Railroad Income Track.
Action: Develop Locations
The player selecting this action must Develop at least one Location (a Settlement or a Metro Area). Both may only be developed if a railroad connects to them.
Up to two Locations may be developed. The first development is free. The second development costs $3 from the player's personal money supply and is paid to the bank.
Automatic Metro Area Development
If the player chooses not to develop a second time, then an automatic Metro development immediately occurs. It is not required to have a railroad connect to the Metro area for the automatic Metro development to occur.
Which Metro Area is automatically developed is predetermined:
- Pittsburgh is developed first.
- If Pittsburgh is already fully developed, then Cincinnati is developed.
- If Cincinnati is already fully developed, then Detroit is developed.
- If Detroit is already fully developed, then Chicago is developed.
- If Chicago is already fully developed, then nothing happens.
This order of priority is also shown on the Develop Locations action space on the game board.
La Pampa
3-6 players, about an hour.
This expansion uses the base game rules, except where listed below:
Initial Offering
Initial Stocks are auctioned off one at a time, in the following order: Red Sud, Blue Norte, Orange Pacifico, Yellow Oeste, and Purple Central.
The Black Cordoba railroad is not opened at the beginning of the game.
All railroads, except Cordoba, start out of Buenos Aires. Each of the 5 starting railroads are restricted to certain starting Track Links out of Buenos Aires. These are indicated by a letter that corresponds to the letter next to that Railroad's Treasury on the left side of the game board.
For example, the winner of the Yellow Oeste initial offering can choose to build any of the three highlighted Track Links shown on the right, assuming that they have not already been built.
The first player is the player who owns the Purple Central stock, then play continues clockwise around the table until the end of the game.
Sequence of Play
Action: Build Track
Some Track Links are shown with arrows, these are monodirectional and may only be built from one Location to another in the direction of the arrow.
For example, if a railroad has reached Villa Mercedes then that railroad may follow the arrow and build the San Luis – Villa Mercedes Link (following normal build rules). If the railroad's track reaches San Luis but not Villa Mercedes, the railroad may not build this Track Link.
Cordoba Opens
When a railroad reaches Cordoba, the black Cordoba railroad opens and a share of Cordoba stock is immediately put up for auction, following the rules of the Initial Offering. The first bid is offered by the player whose turn has made the connection. Once a player has won the bid, paid the Treasury, and taken their share of Cordoba stock, they must build, at no cost, one Track Link from Cordoba. This Track Link must be on an unoccupied Link to Cruz del Eje or Deán Funes. The Cordoba's Income disk is also updated on the Railroad Income Track.
Action: Develop Locations
The player selecting this action must Develop at least one Location (a Settlement or a Metro Area). Both may only be developed if a railroad connects to them.
Up to two Locations may be developed. The first development is free. The second development costs $3 from the player's personal money supply and is paid to the bank.
Special restrictions to Metro Area Development
Metro Areas may be developed more than once. Buenos Aires must always have more income than any other Metro area. Cordoba must have more income than Tucumán. Rosario must have more income than Tucumán. These special restrictions are also shown on the Develop Locations action space on the game board.