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General Information
Rules Clarifications
Implementation Notes
Known Problems

This is in alpha. Cisleithania variant is not in alpha at the moment due to a bug.

General Information

Note!

1824 contains an alternate map, Cisleithania, for 2-3 players. The things particular to that can be found on the 1824 Cistleithania map page.

Rules Clarifications

  • Only g-trains rust g-trains. Clarification about rusting, BGG thread: Train obselence
  • A route may not contain the same city revenue location (including red tiles) more than once. Thus, it is not allowed to travel from Vienna to Vienna or from Budapest to Budapest. BGG thread: Routes to separate cities on the same tile.
  • Even thought maybe not explicit in the rules, when trading in a train to buy a new train from the bank, it can only be exactly the previous version of train for the same type. So e.g. you cannot trade in a 3 train to buy a 5 train, but a 4 train is allowed. And you cannot trade in g-train for a regular train, and vice versa.
  • When KK1 and KK2 convert, only one token of the kk-Staatsbahn is allowed in Vienna. (Every company may only have one token on each hex.) The president has to choose one token to take back for reuse, if there is a choice to make. The KK Staatsbahn starts with one token in Vienna and four more tokens to spend. Answer 4 by Lonny I also asked Lonny about the cost for the taken back token and it should be 40G.
  • When a pre-staatsbahn is unsold this is a summary of what happens:
    • Reserved shares becomes unreserved
      • Note: If a 20% share becomes unreserved it cannot be bought. Instead it goes to the largest owner when staatsbahn is formed.
        • If multiple players are largest the tie breaker is:
          1. Previous ownership of pre-staatsbahn with the lowest number
          2. Player sitting first clock-wise based on Priority Card
      • Note: If no one owns 20% after formation the staatsbahn is in receivership, which means that during ORs it will just move stock price to the left (or down). If a player buys shares up to 20% that player becomes president.
    • Token for the pre-staatsbahn is returned to charter. Cost of it depends on how many unplaced tokens a company has: 100G, 40G, or 0G.
    • Reservation is removed.
      • Exception: If staatsbahn has no tokens placed on map after formation, the start location of the #1 pre-staatsbahn remains as a start location for the staatsbahn, and a token is placed there during the staatsbahn's first OR (even if receivership).
    • Starting capital added at formation is 1200G minus 120G per 10% exchanged during formation.

Variants and Optional Rules

Variants and optional rules may be selected when creating a game (with references to the rule book, if appropriate).

  • Implemented:
    • Goods Time: 3-6 players. Standard game where some plain hexes are replaced with single or double town hexes. Adds some extra tiles to the game. At 18xx.games the suggested start scenario is used as the only choice. Here is a link to how the map looks like for the Goods Time variant with the suggested start scenario.
  • Not implemented:
    • Goods Time with player selected start hexes.

Variants using Cisleithania map are explained on the 1824 Cisleithania map page.

Implementation Notes

  • Implementation is according to v2, 2019, English rulebook. Some corrections has been done - see Rules Clarification above.

Known Problems

  • During Emergency Financing, if the director assist by selling share(s), if the company cross-buy from another company controlled by the same director, all available cash must be used.
  • Open Issues