 |
Home | Game | Rules | Theme | Strategy | FAQ |  |
|
Annotated Games: 4 players, version 0.3This game was played during testing of 1988. For testing purposes, the players pursued different strategies.
SetupPlayer assets
Company assets
Bank
First game roundPhase 1, Regional companiesPlayer 1 bids for A-train and player 2 for Svedab. Player 3 buys BK Tåg for 50 Mkr and player 4 buys TÅGAB for 60 Mkr. Player 1 and 2 bid for Connex and player 3 passes, after which player 4 buys Malmbanan for 70 Mkr. Player 1 gets the priority deal and the buy-bid-turns are paused for an auction for Connex. Player 1 raises her bid to 85 Mkr and player 2 passes. A-train and Svedab only have one bid each so there are no more buy-bid turns. Player 1 keeps the priority deal and gets A-train for 90 Mkr and player 2 gets Svedab for 100 Mkr. Player assets
Bank
Second game roundPhase 2, Stock roundPlayer 1 starts Veolia with par value 100 Mkr and buys the president certificate for 2*100 Mkr (225 Mkr left). Player 2 starts Arriva with par value 67 Mkr and buys the president certificate for 2*67 Mkr (366 Mkr left). Player 3 buys the Banverket president certificate for 2*50 Mkr (450 Mkr left). Player 4 buys a Veolia certificate (370 Mkr left). Player 1 buys a second Veolia certificate (125 Mkr left). Player 2 buys a second Arriva certificate (299 Mkr left). Player 3 buys the SJ president certificate for 2*50 Mkr (350 Mkr left). Player 4 buys an Arriva certificate (303 Mkr left). Player 1 buys a third Veolia certificate for 100 Mkr (25 Mkr left). Player 2 buys a third Arriva certificate (232 Mkr left). Player 3 buys a Banverket certificate (300 Mkr left). Player 4 buys a Veolia certificate (204 Mkr left). Player 1 passes. Player 2 buys a Veolia certificate (132 Mkr left) Player 3 buys an SJ certificate (250 Mkr left). Player 4 buys an Arriva certificate (136 Mkr left) and Arriva now floats. Player 1 passes again. Player 2 buys a Banverket certificate (82 Mkr left). Player 3 buys a Veolia certificate (150 Mkr left) and Veolia now floats. Player 4 buys a Banverket certificate (86 Mkr left). Player 1 passes again. Player 2 buys an SJ certificate (32 Mkr left). Player 3 buys an Arriva certificate (83 Mkr left). Player 4 buys an SJ certificate (36 Mkr left). All players now pass and the priority deal goes to player 4. Player assets
Company assets
Bank
Phase 2, Operating roundFirst, the regional companies operate. Player 1 collects 30 Mkr from Connex and 10 Mkr from A-Train (leaving 80 Mkr on it). Player 2 collects 15 Mkr from Svedab (leaving 85 Mkr on it). Player 3 collects 25 Mkr from BK Tåg. Player 4 collects 35 Mkr from TÅGAB and upgrades the track between Narvik and Gällivare, gaining themselves (and Banverket) another 10 Mkr. This increases the Gällivare value to 30, the Banverket cost with 5 and the SJ revenue with 5. Next, the private companies operate. Since they have no trains and can't collect revenue yet, both Arriva and Veolia moves back on the stock market to 65 and 90 respectively. They decide not to do any lobbying, to buy 2-trains (Arriva 3, Veolia 2), and not to do any stock trade. Finally, SJ and Banverket operate. SJ has a revenue of 5 Mkr and collects another 35 Mkr for the three line contracts. Banverket, which received 10 Mkr earlier, collects 95 Mkr for the same, less a cost of 70 Mkr. Adding their initial 40 Mkr, they both have 80 Mkr in Treasury and pay dividends of 8 Mkr per share, which lowers the share value to 42 Mkr for both. Since the Bank has 5 SJ shares and 5 Banverket shares, the companies keep dividends of 40 Mkr. Banverket decides to place a tunnel tile on Namntallhöjden (decreasing its cost with 5 Mkr thanks to the removal of a single track) and increasing SJ's revenue with 10 Mkr thanks to the removal of the 0-city) and SJ decides to place a work tile on Hallandsåsen. The last thing that happens in the operating round is the auctioning of the line contracts. Player 1 and 2 agree not to engage in any bid wars. Player 1/Arriva gets the Västra stambanan line contract for 40 Mkr and the Västkustbanan line contract for 20 Mkr and player 2/Veolia gets the Södra stambanan line contract for 40 Mkr. Changed cities and tracks
Player assets
Company assets
Bank
Third game roundPhase 2, Stock roundPlayer 4 has the priority deal and starts the stock round by buying 1 Arriva share for 67 Mkr. Player 1 passes, as does Player 2. Player 3 buys 1 Veolia share for 100 Mkr. All players pass and Player 4 passes and ends up with the priority deal. Player assets
Company assets
Bank
Phase 2, Operating roundFrom the regional companies, player 1 collects 30 Mkr from Connex and 10 Mkr from A-Train. Player 2 collects another 15 Mkr from Svedab. Player 3 collects 25 Mkr from BK Tåg. Player 4 collects 35 Mkr from TÅGAB and upgrades the track between Gällivare and Boden, increasing the gain from Malmbanan to 20 Mkr for Banverket and themselves. This increases the Boden value to 30 Mkr, the Banverket cost with 5 Mkr and the SJ revenue with 5 Mkr. The private companies now have lines and trains. Veolia has +1 train capacity and runs Stockholm-Norrköping-Linköping-Nässjö-Hässleholm-Malmö (60+20+40+20+20+50). The line fee is 40 Mkr and the revenue of 170 Mkr is paid as dividends, increasing the share value to 100. Arriva runs Stockholm-Katrineholm-Hallsberg (60+20+0), Skövde-Göteborg-Varberg (0+50 and 50+0) and Malmö-Lund+Hallandsåsen (50+20+0). The line fees are 40+20 Mkr and the penalty fees for Hallsberg-Skövde and Varberg-Hallandsåsen are 10+10 Mkr (half for Arriva). The revenue of 170 Mkr is paid as dividends, increasing the share value to 67. Both companies pay 40 Mkr for lobbying. SJ has 40 Mkr in the Treasury + 20 Mkr from the penalty fee and a revenue of 20 Mkr. They pay 80 Mkr as dividends (keeping 40 Mkr for the shares in the Bank) and the share value stays at 42. Banverket has 40 Mkr in Treasury + 20 Mkr from Malmbanan and 100 Mkr from contract fees. and a cost of 70 Mkr. They pay 90 Mkr as dividends (keeping 45 Mkr for the 5 shares in the Bank). The share value increases to 50. Banverket and SJ decide to close the Sveg-Mora and Mora-Filipstad tracks. This decreases Banverket's costs with 10 Mkr for the two closed tracks and increases SJ's revenue with 10 Mkr for the now disconnected city of Mora. The private companies then agree to lobby for Mälarbanan, since this will increase the value of several of their cities. Veolia pays 10+20 Mkr for two tracks and Arriva 30 Mkr for a third track to complete Mälarbanan (Karlstad-Hallsberg-Västerås-Stockholm). This opens up Mälarbanan for auction and increases several city values, among them Stockholm to the benefit of A-Train once Arlandabanan is completed. This increases Banverket's cost (+15 Mkr for the 3 Mälarbanan double tracks) and SJ's revenue (+20 for the four upgraded cities along Mälarbanan). The auction of Mälarbanan gets no bidders (since none of the companies wanted to buy the last 2-trains yet) so SJ takes the line contract. Changed cities and tracks
Player assets
Company assets
Bank
Fourth game roundPhase 2, Stock roundPlayer 4 has the priority deal and states her intentions to start Green Cargo and sell shares if necessary. She sets the par price to 90 Mkr and pays 180 Mkr for the President certificate. The other players all buy 1 share each, after which player 4 passes. Player 1 and 2 buys an Arriva share and player 3 buys a 2nd Green Cargo share. The priority deal returns to player 4. Since the last Arriva share was bought, the share price increases to 71. Player assets
Company assets
Bank
Phase 2, Operating round 1From the regional companies, player 1 collects 35 Mkr from Connex and 10 Mkr from A-Train. The A-train amount is now less than the Stockholm value so the Arlandabanan tile is laid. Player 2 collects another 15 Mkr from Svedab. The Svedab amount is now less than the Malmö value so the Öresundsbron tile is laid. Player 3 collects 25 Mkr from BK Tåg. Player 4 only collects 25 Mkr from TÅGAB, since Mora was disconnected and Mälarbanan turned Västerås into a 20-city, and upgrades the track between Boden and Luleå, increasing the gain from Malmbanan to 30 Mkr for Banverket and themselves. This increases the Boden value to 30, the Banverket cost with 5 and the SJ revenue with 5. Veolia runs Stockholm-Norrköping-Linköping-Nässjö-Hässleholm-Malmö as before but with more money for Stockholm (70+20+40+20+20+50) and less fee thanks to the contacts (40-30=10 Mkr). The revenue of 210 Mkr is paid as dividends, increasing the share value to 112. Veolia pays another 30 Mkr for lobbying. Green Cargo has no trains yet but buys the last 2-train for 80 Mkr and the first 3-train for 180 Mkr. This triggers the start of phase 3. Since green tiles may now be bought, Green Cargo lobbies for 30 Mkr, hoping to get Botniabanan completed. Arriva runs Stockholm-Katrineholm-Hallsberg (70+20+0), Skövde-Göteborg-Varberg (0+50 and 50+0) and Malmö-Lund+Hallandsåsen (50+20+0). Thanks to the contacts, the line fee is only 60-20 Mkr and the penalty fees for Hallsberg-Skövde and Varberg-Hallandsåsen are 10+10 Mkr (half for Arriva). The revenue of 210 Mkr is paid as dividends, increasing the share value to 76. Arriva lobbies for 30 Mkr and buys a 3-train. SJ has 40 Mkr in the Treasury + 20 Mkr from the penalty fee and another 25 Mkr for Mälarbanan in addition to the revenue of 50 Mkr. They pay 130 Mkr as dividends (keeping the odd 5 Mkr and 65 Mkr for the 5 shares in the Bank) and the share value increases to 50. Banverket has 45 Mkr in Treasury + 30 Mkr from Malmbanan, 40 Mkr from Mälarbanan and 100 Mkr from line fees. The cost is 80 Mkr, leaving 130 Mkr for dividends (keeping the odd 5 Mkr and 65 Mkr for the 5 shares in the Bank). The share value increases to 60. As shareholders in Green Cargo, player 3 and 4 are interested in Northern development so player 3 takes advantage of her Banverket presidency to lay a double track on Mittbanan's first track, Umeå-Sundsvall. The Veolia president, player 1, is less interested in this and refrains from lobbying but the Green Cargo president, player 4, spends 10+20 Mkr to extend the line via Sundsvall-Ånge-Östersund. Arriva's president, player 2, feels blackmailed but since it is in their interest to complete Hallandsåstunneln, Arriva spends 30 Mkr to do so. SJ's president, player 3, completes Namntalltunneln. It's a setback for Banverket that Mittbanan but at least Botniabanan was. The cost increases with 15 Mkr for the three Mittbanan tracks and 5 Mkr for the Namntallhöjden track but decreases with 10 Mkr for Hallandsåstunneln. SJ's revenue increases with 20 Mkr for the four Mittbanan cities, another 10 Mkr for the two cities around Namntalltunneln and 10 Mkr for Hallandsåstunneln. Since phase 3 has started, all contracts are up for bidding. Arriva and Veolia agree to keep their lines and not engage in any bid wars. Green Cargo gets Botniabanan uncontested for 20 Mkr, Arriva surprises by bidding 40 Mkr for Mälarbanan but Veolia nevertheless honor the agreement and only bids 40 Mkr for Södra stambanan, after which Arriva bids 40 Mkr and 30 Mkr (higher due to Hallandsåstunneln) for Västra stambanan and Västkustbanan. Changed cities and tracks
Player assets
Company assets
Bank
Phase 2, Operating round 2The game has now entered phase 2 so there will be a second operating round before the stock round. Most of the actions will be the same with the notable exceptions that Arriva operates on Mälarbanan as well and that A-Train and Svedab operates Arlandabanan and Öresundsbron respectively. From the regional companies, player 1 collects 35 Mkr from Connex and 50 Mkr from A-Train (Stockholm 70 and Arlanda 30 divided by two). Player 2 collects 55 Mkr from Svedab (Malmö 50 and Köpenhamn 60 divided by two). Player 3 collects 25 Mkr from BK Tåg while player 4 collects not only 25 Mkr from TÅGAB but also 50 Mkr from Malmtrafik, since Botniabanan is run by a private company. Veolia runs Stockholm-Norrköping-Linköping-Nässjö-Hässleholm-Malmö as before (70+20+40+20+20+50) but with no contacts to cover the fee of 40 Mkr. The revenue of 180 Mkr is paid as dividends, increasing the share value to 126. Green Cargo operates for the first time. The 2-train and 3-train is more than enough to run Narvik-Gällivare-Boden-Luleå-Umeå and collect 30+30+30+20+40. In addition, Green Cargo is entitled to 5 Mkr per city smaller than 50, adding another 25 Mkr to the revenue. The line contract fee of 20 Mkr is covered by the Contacts so Green Cargo pays 16 Mkr per share in dividends and the share value increases to 90. The company lobbies for 30 Mkr and buys another 3-train. Arriva's 1 3-train and 3 2-trains are enough to run on all their contracted tracks except Hallsberg-Karlstad. They collect 210 Mkr for Västra stambanan, 140 Mkr for Västkustbanan and 90 Mkr for Mälarbanan. The contract fees are 40+40+30 Mkr, of which 30 Mkr are paid by Contacts, and 10 Mkr are paid to SJ as penalty for the Hallsberg-Karlstad track. The net revenue of 350 Mkr is paid as dividends, increasing the share value to 82. Arriva lobbies for 30 Mkr. SJ has 70 Mkr in the Treasury + 10 Mkr from the penalty fee in addition to the revenue of 90 Mkr. They pay 170 Mkr as dividends and the share value increases to 58. Banverket has 70 Mkr in Treasury and gets 40+40+30+20+40 Mkr from line contract fees. The cost is 95 Mkr, leaving 140 Mkr for dividends. The share value increases to 65. Since the players now have a lot of cash to spend in the stock round, the companies are cautious about engaging in lobbying until the fog has cleared. Nevertheless, Banverket and SJ make an agreement with Green Cargo to close Östersund-Trondheim, after which Green Cargo lobbies to develop Gällivare-Östersund on Inlandsbanan and close Sveg-Östersund while SJ lobbies to close Filipstad-Karlstad. This has the benefit of decreasing Banverket's cost with 10 Mkr (+5 for the one double track but -15 for the three closed ones) and increasing SJ's revenue with 20 Mkr (+10 for the upgrades of Gällivare and Östersund and +10 for disconnecting Sveg and Filipstad). Inbetween, Veolia abstains while Arriva starts working on Norgebanan (from Göteborg). Changed cities and tracks
Player assets
Company assets
Bank
To be continued. |
Annotated gamesIf you like those game mechanisms, I can also recommend:
|
