Barrage: 5th Player Expansion Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Components
• New Components Setup
  • In a 5-Player Game
• Automa Rules
  • Automa Engineers on the Extra Actions Board

Components

• 1 New Map
• 1 Construction Wheel
• 1 Extra Actions Board
• 9 Private Contract Tiles
• 1 Starting Contract Tile
• 1 5-player Turn Order Tile
• 6 Hydroelectric Credits of value 1
• 10 Excavators and 10 Cement Mixers of value 1

When you place your Engineers in the upper action spaces, choose one of the four actions illustrated. When you place your Engineers in the lower action spaces, activate a production.

New Components Setup

Setup the Map as usual with the following new rules:

1. Randomly place 5 Headstream Tiles in the designated spaces of the new Map.
2. Randomly place 3 Neutral Dams (a level 1 Dam in the Mountains, a level 2 Dam in the Hills, a level 3 Dam in the Plains). Since you can't use the Neutral Dams Setup tiles from the base game, you can use a method of your choosing to randomize the setup.

Follow the Advanced Rules for players setup (in a 5-player game you will use 5 Companies, 5 Executive Officers and 5 Starting Contracts).

In a 5-Player Game

In a 5-player game, use also the following rules:

3. Place the Extra Actions Board next to the Map (if you place the basic components as shown in the base game Rulebook, this new board fits to the right of the Energy Track, above the Patent Office).
4. Place the 5-player Turn Order Tile over the Turn Order space of the Energy Track.
5. Add the new Private Contract tiles to their respective piles before shuffling the three piles (in a 5-player game there will be only 3 National Contracts).

You can use the new Contracts in all games from now on.

Automa Rules

The new components can be also used in games with Automa players (solo or multiplayer games with up to 4 Automa players), with the following new rules.

If you are checking the Criteria for building spaces you must check the Reference Map, look at this Reference Map instead. Even if all the right-most basins don't have a reference number, you must include them in the checking list.

If you must place Water Drops on a Headstream and there is a tie between two or more Headstreams, use the following rule (instead the rules explained in the base game). Look at the first letter on the Criteria tile (on the right-most column): if it is not a tied Headstream, choose the first tied Headstream on the right of the indicated one (after X go back to A).

Printed as "Headstrem" and "Heastream" in the source; corrected here.

Automa Engineers on the Extra Actions Board

In a 5-player game, Automa players will place Engineers on the Extra Action Board action spaces, with the following new rules.

• Automa will place Engineers here after a Workshop/Machinery Shop/Water Management/Contract Office action, if all the action spaces on the left of the corresponding area of the main Management Board are already occupied.
• Automa will place Engineers here after a Workshop/Machinery Shop/Water Management/Contract Office action, if all the action spaces on the right of the corresponding area of the main Management Board are already occupied.
• Automa will place Engineers here after a production action, if the first 3 top-most action spaces on the left of the Turbine Station are already occupied.
• Automa will place Engineers here after a production action, if the first 3 top-most action spaces on the right of the Turbine Station are already occupied.

The diagrams in the source show these spaces on the Extra Actions Board and the Turbine Station; they are described here by their printed captions.