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18Rhl: Rhineland
General Information
Rules Highlights
Rules Clarifications
Implementation Notes
Known Problems
This is still under development and has not yet reached alpha
- Designed by Wolfram Janich
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A short description can be found on Marflow Games' home page.
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Rhine can be passed in 4 places - the remaining Rhine edges are impassible through the whole game.
- The edge between C8 and B9 (Wesel) can be passed by laying tiles in each hex. C9 requires a one time upgrade cost of 30M, and the first tile must have an exit that goes towards B9.
- The three Rhine Metrpolis hexes (D9 Duisburg, F9 Düsseldorf, I10 Köln) start as hexes with 3 city slots, although the 2 on one side of Rhine is the same city (and can therefor not be part of the same route). When upgraded to green this means that a train ferry (Trajekt) makes it possible for routes to pass from one side to the other using the ferry, but for a cost of 10M. When upgraded to brown and gray the hexes becomes a single city and a regular bridge is built across Rhine.
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Initial auction is similar to 1830.
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The private companies bought during initial auction can never be sold. They are closed when phase 6 starts (unless closed earlier - see description of each). But the private companies has some special effect that the owner can use during the play.
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Corporations floated before brown phase is incremental cap. When they are floated the remaining shares are moved to treasury. Corporation receives the price of the floated shares as treasury (exception RhE which receives only price for president share - remaining 3 received when there is a link Aachen - Düren - Köln).
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Corporations floated in brown or gray phase are full capitalization - they receive 100% in treasury, and the unsold IPO shares are moved to the market.
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Shares sold goes down at most one step.
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Towns are not counted for distance. Routes may not start/stop in town.
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There are several bonus available for routes:
- A route starting/ending in eastern Ruhr (Östliches Ruhrgebeit) gets from 20M to 50M depending on how many links (1-4) that has been established to this area.
- The Montan Bonus: Check how many Coal mine (K) and Steel mill (S) that are part of the route. K/S are part of the route if the route passes a hex with that icon, or if the route use one of the connections to eastern Ruhr area. Note: The S icon is counted if Siegerland is part of the route.
- Montan Bonus is 20M per K and S pair. 40M in brown and gray phases.
- Eisern Rhein (Iron Ruhr): A route from Roermond to eastern Ruhr. Note! A token in Roermond makes this bonus only available for the tokening corporation.
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The 8 train is called "The Rheingold-Express". This is a train that can visit any number of cities, off-board and towns. But it only counts the best 8 cities and off-boards.
- Towns do not count for income
- Rheingold Express never count Montan or Eisern Rhein bonuses.
- Rheingold Express must start in one of the off-board hexes with a RGE icon (A4, A6, L11, L13) and must run towards an RGE icon on the other side of the board.
- If Rheingold Express manage to run from RGE in the North, to RGE in the South (or vice versa) any Rhine Metropolis hex (Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Köln) it visits are counted double.
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When paying dividend, for the stock price to increase, the total revenue must be equal to, or higher than, the current share price.
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Game ends when the OR set is completed after Bank has broken. Bankrupt players will sell all their shares. This might leave corporations without director - in which case they are under receivership until someone becomes owner of 20% or more of the corporation. Note! If a corporation is forced to buy a train, and the current director goes bankrupt, the new director will have to buy that train.
- The following red hexes have special handling if tokened:
- Münster and Minden - if tokened by another corporation these are worth 0.
- Boxtel - similar to Münster and Minden, worth zero if tokened by another corporation.
- Roermond - similar to Münster and Minden. Also, the ERh bonus cannot be gained if tokened by another corporation.
- Venlo and Siegerland does give off-board revenue even if tokened by another corporation. And Siegerland can be the Steel mill part of a Montan Bonus.
- The following applies to the three Rhine Metropolis (Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Köln) hexes:
- When they are a yellow hex the East side of Duisburg and East side of Düsseldorf has two city slots belonging to the same city. For Köln the two West city slots are both Köln. This means that you are not allowed to have a route contain both the north and south city slot of the same city. But running from one of them to the other side is OK (if you managed to pass Rhine in some other hex).
- When they are a green hex it is now one city with three slots. Any token is regarded as being on both East and West side. If a route enters the hex from one direction and leaves from the other (East to West or reverse) then the ferry (Trajekt) is used which gives 30 in revenue instead of the 40 you get if you stay on one side.
- When they are a brown or gray hex it is now a normal city with multiple slots. The ferries have been rusted and replaced with a real bridge.
- More information can be found on the BGG rule forum.
- Private 5 gives a GVE share and GVE does not receive any money in treasury for that one. When GVE president share is bought, put 3 times par value in treasury (president share plus the one received when buying private 5). See forum thread about this.
- RhE does receive the winning bid as starting treasury. The 3 shares that are moved to bank pool gets 3 times the par put aside next to it. The RhE president decide a par value, but can only choose 70, 75 or 80 mark. See forum thread about this.
- All variants in the rule book are supported.
- TBD
- Corporation that becomes president less after a bankruptcy probably crashes the game; work is ongoing to fix this.
- Open Issues