Age of Steam Expansions

• Australia
• Austria
  
• China
• England (Expansion 1)
• France (Expansion 4)
• Germany (Expansion 2)
• India - claudeparenteau.free.fr
• India - Steam Brothers
  
• Ireland (Expansion 1)
• Italy (Expansion 4)
• Japan
• Korea (Expansion 3)
• Mexico
  
• Moon
• Northeastern USA
• Reunion Island
• Scandinavia (Expansion 3)
• Scotland
• South Africa
• South America
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• Spain/Portugal
  
• Umbria
• Western US (Expansion 2)
  

Australia

Setup

• Darwin: 3 cubes
• Sydney: 1 cube
• Roy Hill: 1 yellow cube
• The rest: 2 cubes/city

Track Building

• Plains: $2
• Hills, Desert: $3
• Salt Lake, Small Mountains: $4
• High Mountains: $5
• River: add $1
• Sydney-Canberra connection: $3

Urbanization

• For rounds 1 & 2, 2 players may choose Urbanize.
• Roy Hill may not be urbanized.

Production

• Draw 3 cubes. Place 2 on Goods Display (as basic rules). May pay $3 (or $4 in last 3 rounds) to place the 3^rd cube directly onto a city of your choice; otherwise, return cube to stock.
• Roy Hill Station near Hamersley Mountains (Australia’s greatest iron source) receives 1 black cube every turn (if unavailable, place random cube), in addition to usual goods growth.

Turn Order Pass

• When chosen by the weakest player (lowest income), you may decide to replace with Subvention (announce choice now).
• Subvention: May move a 3^rd cube during the Move Goods phase.

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Austria

2-player only

Setup

• Wien: 4 cubes
• Graz: 3 cubes
• Others: 2 cubes
• New Cities: 1 cube
• Players: $15

Issue Shares: skip phase

Turn Order: skip bidding phase

• Turn Order Pass action not used
• Player A is first on turns 1, 3, 6, 8
• Player B is first on turns 2, 4, 5, 7

Urbanization

• Foreign Market = dotted hex
• Only Foreign Markets (NOT towns) may be urbanized

Track Building

• May only build completed links
• Place/Replace Track: $4
• Place/Upgrade Town: $4
• 5-connection Town: may be placed in Wiels, Leoben, Wiener Neustadt or St. Polten
• Mountains and Heavy black hex-sides are impassable

Move Goods

• 3 rounds
• May NOT move goods through Foreign Markets

Goods Growth

• Austrian cities: goods from both sides of Goods Display
• Wien: 2 random cubes/turn from supply

Winning

• Usual VP + 1VP/$20 cash

China

Russia

• Only produces goods.
• Goods may neither move through nor end in Russia.

Setup

• Remove the purple New City from the game.
• Lan Chow, Chunk King, Si-An: 1 red good
• Other cities, Russia: 2 goods.
• If a purple cube is drawn for Peking (for the map or Goods Display), replace it with another cube.
• Players start with $20 (but still just 2 shares)

Track Building

• Desert: $3
• Mountain: $4
• Hexes with number in a square: # is cost for placing simple track.
• Must start from Hanoi, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tsin Tao, Wei Hai Wei or Port Author. If later start building from a different one of these, must pay $ shown on city.
• Players’ railroads must be contiguous to a coastal city
• When connecting to a city, pay extra $ shown on city.

Engineering

• Either build/upgrade up to 4 tracks or exert Diplomatic Pressure.
• Diplomatic Pressure: when connecting to one city, pay only half the connection cost (round up)

Goods Growth

• In addition to usual replenishment, Russia always gets 1 randomly drawn cube.

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England (Expansion 1)

5-6 players

Setup

• North West gets 3 cubes
• Other cities get 2 cubes each
• Remove red New Cities – London will be the only red city

France (Expansion 4)

Setup

• Nice: 1 cube
• Lyon: 3 cubes
• Paris: 8 cubes
• Others: 2 cubes

Track Building

• Hill (Difficult terrain): $2
• Hill with small black hex symbol (Very Difficult): $4
• Engineer action is required to (re)place track in these areas.

Engineer

• Allows a player to place or replace track in Difficult terrain.

Urbanization

• In the first turn, 2 players may choose role.
• If you choose to place a city tile, you may only build/upgrade 2 regular tiles.

Pay Expenses

• Players incomes are never reduced below zero.
• Players cannot become bankrupt!

Production

• Either perform the standard action or announce a city and randomly draw a cube to be placed in that city.

Goods Growth

• Paris counts as cities 1-6 on the black side of the Goods display.

Germany (Expansion 2)

Setup

• Konigsberg: 3 cubes
• Wien: 4 cubes
• Other cities: 2 cubes each
• Grey hexes are foreign terminals: end destinations only. Place a randomly drawn cube in the white box for each of these cities … this will be the color of cubes that each terminal will accept during the game.

Track Building

• Players are limited to placing 3 tiles per turn
• May only lay complete links.
• Building track to the foreign terminals and stations costs the amount shown on the board in the adjacent hexes (varies from 6 to 12).
• Track can be built between Essen/Dortmund and Koln/Dusseldorf for $2 (white circles are missing; 1 connections each). Counts as 1 link and 1 VP.

Engineer

• Allows one track tile to be placed at half cost, rounded up.

Goods Growth

• In addition to normal Goods Growth, Berlin always gets one goods cube (drawn from supply).

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Varansi

• The only black city. Black cubes are pilgrims on a pilgrimage to Varansi (also known as Benares).
• No goods growth or production.

Colombo and Pulmoddai (on Sri Lanka)

• 2-color (randomly determined) cities.
• Only import goods from India; no goods growth.

Setup

• Colombo and Pulmoddai: Take 4 cubes, 1 each of red, blue, yellow, purple. Place 2 of these (random) onto each city: these are the colors of the cities. To increase difficulty, may opt to make these one-color cities only.
• Varanasi: 0 cubes
• Others: 2 cubes/city

Track Building

• Plains: $2
• Hills: $3
• Desert: $4
• Mountains: $5
• River: add $1
• Maritime links (may only build 1/turn; counts as 1 link):
• to Colombo $6
• to Pulmoddai $15

Urbanization

• No urbanization. Instead, allows you to either place a 2-connection (i.e., straight or curved) town tile without paying (still counts as one of your 3 builds), or replace a 2-exit town with a 3-exit dedicated town tile.
• Also, take a cube from the Goods Display, New Cities (A 1^st then A 2^nd, then B 1^st then B 2^nd, etc.) and put it on this town hex.

Production

• If available, choose a cube from one of the New Cities on the Goods Display (topmost present), depending on game round: 1=A, 2=B, … 8 = H. Place the cube in any town or city
• Then, draw 4 cubes; choose 2 to place on the Goods Display (as usual rules) – the other 2 cubes are returned to stock.

Move Goods

• Pulmoddai: the maritime link is worth $2 to its owner.
• Pilgrims going to Varansi: when you deliver a black cube, keep the cube with you. Any time during the game, you may exchange 2 black cubes for $1 income; these are removed from the game (NOT returned to stock). Saved cubes are each worth $1 income (i.e., 3VP) at the end of game.

India - Steam Brothers

Setup: 3 goods/city

Track Building

• Simple track costs
• Mountains: $6
• River or Desert: $3
• Marked hex: price shown 

Goods Growth

• Occurs whenever a NEW player connects to a city, take cube from top of Goods Display
• If a linked town is urbanized, place as many goods from Goods Display (max 2) as there are players connected to the town

Production Action

• Pick a city on the board, then draw 2 random cubes: place 1 in the chosen city 
  

Monsoon

• Occurs BEFORE Income/Expenses
• Roll d6 to determine costs for everyone
• 1: $0
• 2-5: $1
• 6: $2
• If a player cannot pay, lose the difference in income

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Ireland (Expansion 1)

3-4 players

Setup

• Brown cities get as many cubes as pictured
• Other cities, including England and Scotland, get 2/city
• On the Goods Display New Cities area, only place cubes for white and black 1 and 2

Urbanization

• Changed to Deurbanization
• Allows players to remove a goods cube of their choice from the map.
• Must be done before 1^st player takes their move goods turn.

Locomotive

• No longer offers a free upgrade
• Instead, allows the player taking it to skip both of their goods shipments and upgrade twice on the same turn.

Track Building

• Sea routes to cities off the coast. Cost $6 to build; count as 1 link and 1 of your build actions.
• May not build track across the thick black border lines on the map.

Move Goods

• Player who Deurbanized may return a cube from the board to supply.
• Must Deurbanize before any player takes a Move Goods turn.

Italy (Expansion 4)

Set up

• No black cubes on board.
• Roma: 4 goods
• Milano, Napoli, Venezia and Firenze: 3 goods
• Other cities: 2 goods
• New cities E, F, G and H are not used; do not place cubes on the Goods Display for them.

Issue Shares

• Issue shares as normal
• May also issue any number of shares during the Determine Player Order, Build Track and Pay Expenses steps, receiving $3 each time.
• There is no maximum to the number of shares issued.

Track Building

• Unfinished links are not allowed.
• May only build one completed link per turn.
• All completed links must be built in the least expensive way.
• There are 7 additional complex and complete track tiles for use on the Italy board. The complete track tiles can only replace complex track, at a cost of $7.

Engineer

• Allows a player to (re)place one track tile for no cost

Urbanization

• There are no towns, only cities.
• Allows a player to twice move a black Goods cube from a city or the Goods display and randomly draw another Good from supply to replace it.

Move Goods

• Black cubes can move anywhere
• Each different completed link that they travel over reduces the income of that link’s owner by 1 on the income track.
  Income Reduction
• Skip this phase

Victory: lose only 2 VP/share, not 3.

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Japan

3-4 players

Terrain:

• Yokohama Bay: The hex E of Tokyo is treated as a river hex (Cost: $3)
• Partial hexes near Abashiri & Morioka are in play.

Set Up:

• Kagoshima & Abashiri: 3 cubes
• Other cities: 2 cubes

Locomotive (Bullet Trains!)

• Locomotive now only allows a temporary increase in Engine level: do not advance the player’s token on the Engine Track. Instead, allows shipping goods one extra link this turn (max 7 links).
• Do not pay expenses for this temporary link.

Track Building

• Water hexes: $6 (bridge, tunnel or ferry)
• Track may be built on indicated blue water hexes.
• Straight or gentle curve only.
• The track must connect to land at both ends.
• Half Water/Half Land hexes
• If track occupies only the land half of the hex, treat as a land hex with a river: $3
• If track crosses the water portion of the hex, it is considered a water hex; build as above ($6)
• A complex tile may be placed if one route is a land route and the other is a water route. Upgrading to a complex tile in order to add a land route costs $3 and a water route costs $6

Urbanization

• If you choose to place a city tile, you may only build/upgrade 2 regular tiles.

Goods Growth

• Osaka & Tokyo have 2 numbers; when either number is rolled, a cube is placed on the appropriate city.

Korea (Expansion 3)

Set up

• Pyongyang: 4 cubes
• Pusan and Inchon: 3 cubes
• Other cities (including Suwon): 2 cubes

Track Building

• May not build track across thick black lines
• Links between Suwon and Inchon/Seoul cost $2 and 1 track placement.
• Hills/Mountains: $3

Urbanization

• When a New City is built, the 2 corresponding goods from the Goods Display are immediately placed on that city. Draw new cubes from supply to replenish the Goods Display.
• New cities are regarded as being gray, regardless of their color.

Move Goods

• Inchon (or Seoul) and Suwon must be linked to move goods between them. If linked through Suwon, Inchon and Seoul are two links apart.
• Goods must be moved to a city that contains a cube of the same color.
• Cubes cannot move through cities containing cubes of the same color.
• Track circles: where cities are adjacent, a link can be built by placing a control marker in the white circle depicted on the board. This counts as one track tile and costs $2.

Mexico - Steam Brothers

Setup

• Remove blue New City from game
• 2 cubes/city on map
• 2 cubes/city on Goods Display
• No blue cubes for Mexico City (map or Display) 

Track Building

• Mountains: $3
• Marked hexes: $ in square box (simple track)

Nationalization (replaces Engineering)

• May not be chosen on first turn
• When chosen, immediately select a completed link:
• remove owning player’s control marker
• bank pays owning player for each hex in the link
• town: $2
• others: simple track build cost, based on terrain 

Move Goods

• All players may use nationalized links
• Pay $1 cash for each link used (reduce income if needed)

Production

• Maximum of 2 goods/city on Goods Display
• No blue cubes for Mexico

Moon

Setup

• 1 cube/city
• Landing Hex: 2 cubes/player
• Remove black New Cities from game
• Place 1 upside down track tile on the night/day zone

Track Building

• Town: $2 + $1/stub
• Crater: $3
• Mountain: $4
• 2 tiles/turn maximum
• May only build from central hex or from a city connected to the central hex.
• Map is spherical and wraps around as marked.

Engineer

• May build/upgrade 3 tiles.

Move Goods

• Central hex city has no color.
• On first turn, all cities on the left are black instead of their own color. The dark side changes left/right every turn.

Goods Growth

• Roll 2d6 per player.
• Only resupply day cities connected with a complete link.

Low Gravitation

• A new action.
• Allows you to use another player’s link this turn as if it was your own. May use it for both goods movement rounds.

Northeastern USA

Setup

• Remove the yellow and blue New Cities from the game
• White-background cities: 3 goods
• Other cities: 2 goods
• Goods Display: white-background cities get 3 goods each; black-background cities get 2 goods each

Track Building

• Baltimore-Washington or New York 4-New York 5 links: $2
• Counts as 1 track build and 1 VP.
• One player may not own both links between a pair of cities.

Production --> Speculation

• When chosen, immediately select a goods cube color and place on marked hex. Remains there till end of turn.

Move Goods

• If a player moves a good of the same color as Speculation, earn $1 bonus income.

Reunion Island

2 players

Setup

• Remove purple cubes and New Cities A, B, E and F from the game.
• St. Joseph, Ste. Rose: 2 red cubes and 2 random cubes
• St. Philippe: 3 red cubes and 3 random cubes
• Goods Display: no red cubes for cities C, D, G and H
• Players start with 2 shares but NO cash.

Turn Order Auction

• Loser pays $0, winner pays full bid

Choose Special Actions

• 2^nd Player blocks an action, then 1^st Player blocks a different action (place town disk on action).
• May not block an action blocked last turn.
• Then, players choose Actions in turn order.

Turn Order Pass

• Next turn’s auction is 1 round only; you bid second.

Track Building

• Plains: $1
• Mountain: $3
• River: add $1
• Town: $1/stub (no additional $1)
• High Mountains (white), Volcano (orange): may not build track
• Sea links: $6
• Max 1/player/turn
• Le Port-France may be built only after urbanizing Le Port
• Counts as 1 track build and 1 link, 1VP?
• 1^st Player may build/upgrade 0-2 tracks; then 2^nd Player, 0-4 tracks; then 1^st Player, 0-2 tracks

Engineer

• May build 4 tracks consecutively.
• Before opponent begins, announce choice of building either before, after, or between opponents 2 build rounds.

Move Goods

• Le Port-France sea link may only be used turns 7-10
• St. Denis-France sea link is inactivated after turn 6 if Le Port-France link has been built.

Goods Growth: Volcano Eruption

• At end of phase, roll d6 x 3 (keep in order rolled).
• Sum<12 à volcano erupts:
• Lava flows according to dice (see orange hex).
• Use face down track tile to indicate flow.
• Lava makes hex unusable and destroys contents: if present, cubes and New City tokens removed from game; track tiles returned to supply, or flipped over on board?

Game End: 10 turns

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Scandinavia (Expansion 3)

Setup

• All cities start with 2 cubes

Ferry

• There is now an additional Ferry Action.
• Allows the player to move a cube from one coastal city to another. This does not count as a movement link.
• Only one cube may be moved in this manner.

Track Building

• Sea routes (white line): $6. Counts as 1 VP and 1 link.
• A player may only construct one sea route per turn.
• The Malmo-Rostock sea route only exists once both towns have been urbanized.

Game length: the game is one turn shorter

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Scotland

Setup

• 2 goods cubes/city.

Turn Order Pass

• Allows you to be the first in the player order on the next turn without an auction being necessary.

Track Building

• Plains: $2
• River: $3
• Mountains: $4 (even if river present)
• Maritime links:
• 2 ferry routes on the map: between Ayr and Belfast, and between Ullapool and Stornoway.
• If both towns of a link have been urbanized, you may build a Ferry Route (counts as 1 link) for $6. This counts as one of your 3 building actions.
• Ayr-Glasgow track:
• If Ayr is urbanized before there is a track to Glasgow, you still have to pay $2 to build the actual link. Place the track on the board.
• If Ayr is urbanized after there is a track to Glasgow, (re)place the track there (i.e., the stub is not removed by Urbanization)

Move Goods

• To move goods between Ayr and Glasgow there must be railway track connecting them to each other.

Goods Growth

• Use 4 dice to restock the cities on the map, once for the light and once for the dark cities.

Game End: After 8 turns (4-player end-marker).

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South Africa

Angola, Rhodesia:

• Only produce goods. Goods cannot be delivered or go through these hexes.

Setup

• Kimberley, Vereeniging, Pretoria/Johannesburg: 1 yellow cube
• Other cities, Angola, Rhodesia: 2 cubes
• Goods Display: Each city gets as many cubes as its number (and can never have more)

Track Building

• Desert: $3

• Mountain: $4

• Must start building from Walvis Bay, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban or Maputo.
• Players’ railroads must be contiguous to a coastal city
• When you connect to Middelburg, Upington, Bloemfontein, Kimberley, Vereeniging or Pretoria/Johannesburg, earn the bonus shown on the city.
• You must first pay the build costs; receive bonus at end of build phase.
• Every player may earn this bonus once/city.

Engineer

• Either build/upgrade 4 tiles or build 1 track tile at half cost (rounded up).

Goods Growth

• In addition to usual replenishment, Angola and Rhodesia always get 1 randomly drawn goods cube

South America

Setup

• La Paz: 4 goods
• Santiago: 3 goods. If a blue good is drawn for the map or for the Goods Display, replace it with another cube.
• Other cities: 2 cubes each
• Remove the blue New City from the game.

Turn Order Pass

• Changed: person choosing it becomes “El Presidente”
• If no one chooses it, the bank is “El Presidente”

Track Building

• Mountain: $6

Move Goods

• When you move a good from, through, or to Buenos Aires you must pay El Presidente $1. If you don’t have $1, lose 1 income and bank pays El Presidente.
• Does not apply to El Presidente himself.

Goods Growth

• In addition to usual replenishment, Buenos Aires always gets 1 randomly drawn (non-blue) cube.

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Setup

• The Baléares (1-3): 4 cubes each
• Other cities: 2 cubes each

Track Building

• Plains: $2
• Hills: $3
• Mountains: $4
• River: add $1
• Maritime links:
• $6 or $8 as shown on map
• 1 player/link
• 2 links starting in Valencia and 2 in Barcelona, going to the Baléares

Move Goods

• The Baléares islands count as one city and one link; no rerouting of goods within the islands.
• Optional: if using the Ferry action, you MAY reroute goods within the islands.

Production

• Draw 4 cubes. Place 2 on either on Goods Display (basic rules) or onto different islands of the Baléares.
• Return other 2 to stock.

Goods Growth

• The Baléares: Cube from first box goes to Baléares 1; 2^nd box to 2; 3^rd box to 3

Spain/Portugal - Steam Brothers

4 or 6 players in 2 teams (variant: no teams)

Setup

• Split into 2 teams of 2 or 3 each; each player will play as in basic game
• Remove blue New City from game
• Roll a d12 for each New City and place the tile on the marked hex
• Bordeaux, Marseille: 4 non-Blue cubes
• Others: 2 cubes
• Goods Display: fill as usual, but no blue cubes on Bordeaux or Marseille

Track Building

• Mountains: $5
• Hills: $3
• Heavy black hexsides: impassable
  

Move Goods

• May not move goods through Bordeaux or Marseilles
• Pay $2 penalty for each good shipped to/from Bordeaux or Marseilles (lose income if necessary) 

Insurrection (replaces Urbanization)

• When chosen, flip a New City tile on the map upside down and place a town marker there
• Any cubes on that city or Goods Display are removed
• Counts as a town that may have 6 connections

Winning the Game

• Add team members’ scores together: team with highest total wins
• Player with highest score on the winning team wins the game
• In variant individual game, use victory conditions of basic game

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Umbria

Setup

• On all cities, place 2 good cubes.
• On the goods chart, fill cities 1-6 white and A-H.

Turn Order Pass

• Allows the player to automatically be first on the next turn (no turn auction will take place).

Track Building

• Plains: $2
• River: $3
• Mountains: $4 (even if river present)
• If Todi is urbanized, a Ferry Route (counts as 1 link) may be established between Todi and Orvieto for $6. This counts as one of your 3 building actions.

Goods Growth

• Roll 4 dice for the white side.
• If any of the black cities (E-F-G-H) are placed on the map, role again for black.

Western US (Expansion 2)

Setup

• 2 goods are placed in each town, and 1 in each city
• Each player begins with $20 and 2 shares issued.

Track Building

• Railroads must start at Eastern or Western cities.
• Building across swamp hexes costs $4.
• Until one of the Western cities and one of the Eastern cities connect, all or a railroad’s track must be contiguous.
• The first time E and W are connected, a transcontinental railroad exists and it receives an immediate $4 bonus in income level.
• If the two cities are connected by 2 railroads, each receives $2.
• If the two cities are connected by more than 2 railroads, the player placing the connecting tile chooses which two railroads each receive $2.

Urbanize

• If a town with a good on it is urbanized, one good is returned to supply.

Move Goods

• Moving a good between an Eastern and Western one earns a bonus of $1 for one of the links traveled, chosen by the player moving the good.
• Eastern Cities
• Duluth
• Mineapolis
• Des Moines
• St. Louis
• Memphis
• Vicksburg
• New Orleans
• Western Cities
• Seattle
• San Francisco
• Los Angeles
• Portland or San Diego if urbanised

Victory

• Ties are not allowed.
• If victory points are equal, ties are broken by cash on hand, then most track, then highest die roll.