1824 (board game)
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| 1824 | |
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| 1824 as published by Double-O Games | |
| Players | 3–6 |
| Age range | 12+ |
| Setup time | 10 minutes |
| Playing time | 3-5 hours |
| Random chance | None |
| Skills required | Strategy |
1824 is a railroad operations and share trading board game in the 18XX series, published by Double-O Games in 2005. The game was designed by Lonny Orgler and Helmut Ohley, and is set in Austria-Hungary. It is a smaller and simpler version of Lonny's 1837, and adds some ideas from his later 1854 and Helmut's 1844.
1824 has five types of companies: Mountain Railways, Forerunners of National Railways, National Railways, Coal Railways and Regional Railways. Mountain Railways are treated like private companies (there is one certificate and it earns a fixed amount per operating round) that may be exchanged for a share of a major railroad. Forerunners are owned by one player and operate as a typical minor company (splitting revenue evenly between the owner and the company treasury), and are exchanged for shares of the corresponding National Railway when it forms. Coal Railways become the regional railways. One Regional Railway is available to be started normally at the start of the game. The conversions into shares happens at various times during the game, based on train purchases.
There are two different types of trains — in addition to the normal trains there are G-trains which must run from a mine and pay the mine's value directly to the company treasury. G-trains become available not by the previous type of G-trains being sold out but rather by the purchase of normal trains. Trains may also be traded in on the next higher train of the same type for a credit of half the face value of the trade-in. Foreign investors purchase a normal train from the bank at the end of each set of operating rounds, which may trigger a phase change.
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[edit] Railroad Companies Represented
[edit] Mountain Railways
- Semmeringbahn (B1)
- Karstbahn (B2)
- Brennerbahn (B3)
- Arlbergbahn (B4)
- Karawankenbahn (B5)
- Wocheinerbhan (B6)
[edit] Coal Railways
- Eisenbahn Pilsen - Priesen (EPP)
- Eisenbahn Oderberg - Dombran (EOD)
- Mosty - Lemberg Bahn (MLB)
- Simeria - Petroseni Bahn (SPB)
[edit] Regional Railroads
- Böhmische Kommerzbahn (BK)
- Mährisch - Schlesische Eisenbahn (MS)
- Carl Ludwigs-Bahn (CL)
- Siebenbürgische Bahn (SB)
- Bosnien-Herzegowinische Landesbahn (BH)
[edit] Forerunner Railroads
- Wien - Gloggnitzer Eisenbahngesellschaft (S1)
- Kärntner Bahn (S2)
- Nordtiroler Staatsbahn (S3)
- Eisenbahn Pest - Waitzen (U1)
- Mohács - Fünfkirchner Bahn (U2)
- Kaiserin Elisabeth Bahn (K1)
- Kaiser Ferdinand Nordbahn (K2)
[edit] National Railroads
- Südbahn (SD)
- Ungarische Staatsbahn (UG)
- Kaiserlich - königliche Staatsbahn (KK)
