Age of Steam Expansion: Argentina / The French Riviera
Age of Steam Expansion: Argentina / The French Riviera Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Argentina and the Pampa
All standard rules apply unless stated otherwise. This map has a new hex type: the dark green Pampa hex.
Setup
Place 3 cubes each in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, and 2 cubes in each other city. Set aside all remaining red cubes from the supply.
Place p − 1 red cubes (fire cubes) on Pampa hexes at random, where p is the number of players. Place at most 1 fire cube per hex, and always leave at least 2 hexes between any two fire cubes. Keep the remaining fire cubes near the board as a reserve.
Then fill the goods display as normal.
Track Laying
- Plain hex: $2
- Pampa hex without fire: $2
- Pampa hex with fire (one red cube present): $3
- Mountain hex: $4
- Ferry line: $4
- Sea between the two capitals (Buenos Aires and Montevideo): $6
When track is laid on a Pampa hex with fire, the red cube on that hex is placed on the track tile just laid. This red cube will be transported during the goods transport phase.
Spreading Fire
Fire spreads in a different direction each round. Roll one die to determine the wind direction. For each group of one or more adjacent red cubes on the board, add 1 red cube in the wind direction (only 1 per group).
The player lowest on the income track chooses, for each group, which hex the fire spreads from in the wind direction.
If there are no red cubes in the reserve, the fire does not spread.
If there are not enough red cubes in the reserve to spread every group, the player lowest on the income track chooses which groups the fire spreads to.
Translator's note: the correspondence between die results and wind directions is printed on the map.
The French Riviera (Côte d'Azur)
All standard rules apply unless stated otherwise. This map has a new hex type: the French Riviera (coastal) hex.
Setup
Place 3 goods in each city on the French Riviera coast, and 2 goods in each other city.
Track Laying
- Inland hex (dark orange): $2
- River hex: $3
- French Riviera hex (bright orange): $3
Only a player who has chosen the Engineer action may lay track on a French Riviera hex.
New Action
Modified Engineer action: If a player who chose this action lays 1 or more track tiles on French Riviera hexes, the number of track tiles that player may lay is limited to 3. If the player lays track only on inland and river hexes, they may lay up to 4 tiles as normal.