CONTENTS:
1 Mounted Mapboard
1 Sheet Die-Cut Markers
85 Die-Cut Track Tiles
75 Stock Certificates
8 Corporation Charter Cards
$12,000 TAHGC Currency
6 Private Company Certificates
On May 24, 1830 the first regularly scheduled railroad service in America was inaugurated by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Although those first trains travelling out to Ellicot Mills and back were pulled by horses, this was the dawning of North America's railway era. Within a few years the horses were replaced by small steam locomotives and every town in the land was building or planning its own railroad. By 1930 the continent was crisscrossed by manyu thousands of miles of track, and the railroads and railroad men had secured their place in our cultural history.
The early railroads were the first great industrial corporations, and the profits, power, romance and glory of running them attracted the best and worst of the era's bright businessmen. There was the rought hewn but shrewd Commodore Vanderbilt and his son of the New York Central, the devious and greedy partners Jay Gould and Jim Fisk of the Erie, the brilliant builder of the mighty Pennsylvania J. Edgar Thompson, and J.P. Morgan, the tough financial wizard and ruthless manipulator of men, money and the New Haven Railroad. These men and others like them presided over the wild railroad era, with its continental construction projects, financial panics and stock market swindles.
1830 is The Avalon Hill Game Company's new multiplayer railroad game that captures the drama and excitement of this period. Set in the northeast U.S. and Canada, 1830 recreates the development of the railroad system from its horse drawn beginnings to the ascendency of diesel locomotives. The object of the game is to be the wealthiest player at the finish. To this end you invest in railroad stock and operate the companies you can control. You can be an empire builder carefully managing your companies for the long term, or you can loot companies for mximum quick profits and hope to leave someone else with the wreckage.
The play of 1830 is divided into two separate segments: Stock Buying Rounds when stock is bought and sold, and Railroad Operating Rounds when each railroad in play is operated by its president. The majority stockholder of a railroad is usually its president. Operating railroads play track tiles on the mapboard, build bridges and tunnels, buy and sell trains, and decide whether to pay the revenue earned each round as dividends to stockholders or to keep it in the treasury for future needs. A railroad's stock value rises or falls depending on the payment of dividends, as well as the buying and selling of the shares. Once the starting positions are determined, there are no more random events or elements of luck in the game. Each player's success is dependent on his or her own skill and decisions.
Avalon Hill, 1986 |
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