Age of Steam Expansion: Congo/Sweden
Age of Steam Expansion: Congo/Sweden Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- WTE Operator Action tile
Setup
Remove the purple cubes from the game. Remove all but the black New City tiles from the game. The rest of the Goods cubes are placed as a supply on the table. Place 12 yellow, 8 red, and 4 blue Goods cubes in the Goods bag, then draw and place 2 random Goods cubes in each City. Take care to place these cubes on the upper part of each City hex. Cubes in this area of a City will represent Goods ready to be shipped.
Do not fill the production chart with Goods cubes as it will not be used.
Moving Goods
When Moving Goods, after delivering a yellow, red, or blue Good, place it on the lower half of the destination City, near or on the recycling symbol. Goods cubes in this lower area of a City represent Goods to be recycled at the end of the turn, and are not available to move again this round.
After delivering a black cube, place it on the WTE Plant space of the game board. Black cubes are only cleared from the WTE Plant by use of the WTE Plant Operator action, so they may accumulate over several turns.
Actions
The Production action is not used. A new action, WTE Plant Operator is available to players. After the Move Goods phase, the player choosing the WTE Plant Operator action takes all black cubes from the WTE Plant space of the game board and keeps them in front of themselves. Each black cube taken will be worth 2 points each at the end of the game. If the game runs out of black cubes, players should exchange black cubes they've already taken for purple cubes so that the black cubes may be returned to the supply.
There are only 4 black City tiles available for the Urbanization action. They will not generate any cubes (they represent WTE plants that merely exist to incinerate garbage), and will only be useful to deliver black cubes to.
Goods Growth
Instead of normal Goods Growth, Goods that were delivered to Cities this turn are recycled. Remove each Goods cube from the recycling icon of each City, and replace it with a Good matching the color of the recycling icon in that City (yellow Goods will recycle to red, red to blue, and blue to black). Place the new cube on the top half of the City hex. Repeat this process until all Cities have empty recycling areas.
[Sidebar text printed beside the Goods Growth example; the map illustration is omitted.]
It's the start of Goods Growth, and the Cities will recycle the Goods cubes in their recycling areas. The blue Goods cube in Halmstad's recycling plant is removed and replaced with a black cube. The blue Goods cube in the upper part of Halmstad was placed on it during setup, so it is not recycled. The two yellow Goods cubes in Växjö's recycling plant are removed and replaced with two red Goods cubes in the upper part of the City hex. The blue Goods cube in Växjö remains where it is.
End Game Scoring
Each black cube a player has accumulated from the WTE Plant Operator action by the end of the game is worth 2 Victory Points for final scoring.