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Nippon Rails

Empire Builder in Japan!

BGG Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1830/nippon-rails

Setup:
* start with 3 demand cards face up
* start with $60M
* start with freight card
* take 2 turns that are build only
* You may begin your track from any major city
* Your train may begin at a city of any size
* Event cards are shuffled back into the deck during setup instead of taking effect

A game turn is divided into two phases:
1. Operations phase = move the train, load and unload goods, and collect payments
2. Build phase = spend up to 20M to build track or to upgrade train

Instead of taking a normal turn the player may discard their entire hand and draw 3 new cards

A player must always have 3 demand cards. If a player has fewer than 3 demand cards, they must draw a replacement demand card immediately, whether or not it is their turn.

How to Win
All 4 major cities connected
$250M in cash at end of turn

Useful Variants:
Borrowing = A player may take a loan of up to $20M from the bank. They must repay twice the borrowed amount as soon as they have the money to do so.

Fast Trains = 12 and 16 instead of 9 and 12

Fast Game = any or all of the following:
* Each player starts with $70M and 3 pre-movement turns
* Discard the event cards during the initial deal; do not shuffle them into the deck
* Excess Profits Tax event card has no effect
* Deal 5 cards to each player at the beginning of the game. After completing the build-only turns, each player discards 2 demand cards (down to 3)

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Thank you to https://hextml.playest.net/
It was a super helpful tool for building the map!

Draw and Discard icons made by Faithtoken. Available on https://game-icons.net

Goregous table
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Empire Builder (North America map) (I reused the tokens that I could)

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