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‘Steam Barons ’ is an expansion designed to work with Steam . A double-sided map is included, showing the eastern half of the USA and parts of Canada on one side and northern England on the other. These maps can be used with the base or standard rules. In addition there are new special rules that combine some of the standard rules with a stock-market system. If you choose to play these maps using the base or standard rules then it is strongly recommended that you do so with five or six players. If you choose to play using the stock-market rules then you will find that the maps can be enjoyed with two, three, four, five, or six players. The wooden train pieces are intended to be used with the stock-market rules to mark ownership of track links but there is no reason why you cannot also use them for the same purpose in the base and standard games. Contents x 24 x 24 x 24 x 24 x 24 x 24 Track ownership markers x 26 x 6 16 black goods cubes 1 first player marker 38 Railway track tiles 32 money tokens 6 Company displays 1 double-sided game board 1 rules booklet 1 Stock-market game card 1
Base and standard rules – both maps These two maps have been designed to work best with five or six players. As a result additional track pieces have been provided. Please add these track pieces to the set included with your original copy of Steam. Set-up Add the sixteen black cubes to the standard goods cubes in the bag. Ignore the printed numbers on the city hexes and place two goods cubes in each city. Place two cubes in each Goods Supply space. Black goods cubes Black goods cubes can only be delivered to the black cities printed on the map. Grey goods cubes can only be delivered to grey New City tiles. Eastern US map only The following rules apply for the base, standard, and stock-market versions of Steam. When building track you can do so only from a city marked with a port symbol, a city connected by track to a port city (the track can belong to any player), or from track that you already have on the board. Some cities are adjacent to each other. These can be connected by placing one of your tokens on the connecting track symbol. It costs you $3 to do so and counts as placing one track tile. The map artwork varies from the original Mayfair edition. Also, mountains have been added as a new terrain feature. Hills still cost $2 extra to build in, while mountains cost $3 extra to build in. Connecting track symbol Other than these changes all the normal rules for base or standard Steam TM are used. Steam Barons stock-market rules Port symbol Hill hex Mountain hex In the Steam Barons stock-market game players take on the role of investors in the various rail companies and endeavour to make shrewd investments in these companies. A company will be under the control of the player who owns the most shares in it. Each turn the relative performance of the companies will be reflected in changes to their share prices. Players need to invest in the right company at the right time and divest themselves of shares in companies before disaster strikes. In this version of the game you should use the train pieces provided to mark ownership of links. The coloured player tokens are now used as company shares and to record a company’s share price and mark its place in the order of play. Please use the orange, green, brown, natural wood, black, and white player tokens for these purposes. Note that while the same coins are used for player money and company money these are not directly interchangeable. Money within a company is a magnitude larger than the same amount held by a player. Starting the Game The stock-market game card should be placed by the side of the board. Add the sixteen black goods cubes to the mix of cubes in the bag. Randomly draw and place a number of goods cubes in each city equal to the value in the city. Randomly draw and place one goods cube in each town hex. Do not place any goods cubes in the Goods Supply spaces. Now remove all of the grey goods cubes from cities and towns and place them back in the game box. After you have seeded the board with goods cubes remove all of the remaining cubes from the bag and place them back in the game box. Place the six Company displays by the side of the board. Place $5 on each display (the game starts with each company having issued one share). If you are playing the northern England map then each company display starts with six share tokens on it. If you are playing the Eastern US map then each company display starts with eight share tokens on it. Place one company share token for each company in the Available Shares box, which can be found on the Stock-market game card. Mark the share price for each company on the Share Price track using a spare company token. All companies start with a share price of $5. Place one spare company token for each company on the zero space of the Victory Point track on the board. This track will be used to record each company’s performance during each turn. Place one spare company token for each company in the cloth bag. Draw one token at a time. The order in which tokens are drawn determines the order of play for the companies. Mark this order on the Order of Play track. With two players each player starts with $40. With three players each player starts with $30. With four players each player starts with $25. With five or six players each player starts with $20. Randomly determine the first player and give that player the first player marker. Place the turn marker in the first space of the Game Turn track. 2
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