AGE OF RAIL - LA PAMPA & ALLEGHENY EXPANSION MAPS: The 4th game in the Iron Rail Series is here! invest in multiple rail companies & develop cities and locations. Introduces point-to-point game map system. 3-6 Players, 60 minute play time STRATEGIC RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT: Players invest in railroad companies by buying shares. The more shares a player owns, the greater their potential earnings from dividends. Players build tracks to connect cities and stations, strategically expanding their network to maximize income. MINITED ACTION, MAXIMUM STRATEGY: A limited action system forces players to carefully choose their moves, balancing immediate gains with long-term goals. ECONOMIC ENGINE: The game's economy is driven by player interaction, strategic investment, and the performance of railroad companies. DIVIDEND PAYOUTS: Dividends are paid to shareholders based on company performance. The player with the most money at the end of the sixth dividend round, including a final dividend with bonuses, is the winner. Introducing the Age of Rail: La Pampa & Allegheny Expansion Maps! Age of Rail: South Africa, title #4 in the "Iron Rail" series by Capstone Games, is a new version of 2011's South African Railroads, which was an extensive re-development of Pampas Railroads' sister game, Veld Railroads. Your goal is to have more money than anyone else, and you earn money by holding shares and getting dividend payments from railroad companies. After an initial auction for the first shares of these companies, players take turns, choosing from one of four different actions: build track, develop settlement, offer stock, and pay dividends. These actions are limited; only one dividend action exists, for example, so when a player chooses this, the action remains blocked until that player's next turn, at which time they must choose a different action. Two "offer stock" actions are available, and three "develop settlement" actions; "build track" is an unlimited action and can be repeated on the next turn. When players buy stock, the spent funds go into the company's treasury and can be used to build track. By developing settlements, you increase the value of stations, and a railroad's income increases when it links to stations. When dividends are paid, the company's income is divided by five (the number of shares) and paid to the owner of those shares, which might be the company if not all the shares have been offered. After the sixth dividend, the game ends — but that final divided includes bonuses based on the number of company links and is paid out solely based on the number of shares issued, not all of the shares in existence.