1825: A new game derived from 1829

The new features.
A totally modular game built up from Units and optional Kits.
Alternative companies become available simultaneously.
A more dynamic stock market.
Many new designs of Extension Kit.

It is well known that Hartland have developed some significant improvements to '1829' over the years but these have not been added to the standard game because they involve revised parts and new rules. The time has come to make a clean break with the original and make all these new features available to games players with a new game.

This is called 1825 to prevent any possible confusion with the rules of '1829', and is a complete replacement of the earlier game. Most players will wish to know what the changes are and why they have been made. Many people will then wish to acquire the new game because it really is a great deal better than its predecessor.

It takes too long to play

Players are sometimes unlucky and are denied the chance of running a railway

The stockmarket is fairly placid, particularly in the closing stages of the game.

'1829' also encourages some quite unrealistic routes, but no-one seems too concerned about this!

Any of the three basic Units played on its own provides a compact game for a small number of players. Each rarely lasts longer than three hours. Full details of the scope of each Unit is given later.

With several companies becoming available at the same time people have a greater chance of starting a company. There are only two or three such companies in any individual Unit but if several Units are combined together, to cater for more players, the choice is wider.

The Dynamic Stockmarket allows a faster appreciation in share values when this is justified by a high earning, but low priced, share. This maintains a high incentive to trade in shares throughout the game because even a low priced share can suddenly become worth having and high priced, but sluggish shares are no longer the game winners they used to be.

The design of the '1829' board, surprisingly, tended to encourage some unrealistic routes. A number of small changes in the board has collectively led to a great improvement in realism without loss of playability, in fact they seem to have enhanced it.

First Release: UNIT 1, South Eastern England, full details below

Advance information on the new expansion kits is found below

Unit 1: South Eastern England

Unit 1 shows the area of England and Wales east of Cardiff and south of Norwich. This includes the London and Birmingham areas and features the old Southern Division of the LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY, which used to be based at Wolverton in what is now Milton Keynes, the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY and the four companies that were most heavily involved in commuter lines into London: the GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY, LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY, SOUTH EASTERN AND CHATHAM RAILWAY and the LONDON, BRIGHTON AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. Several other railways ran in this region and three of them: the MIDLAND RAILWAY, GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY, and the GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY appear in Unit 2. There remain two important regional companies: the London Tilbury & Southend and the Metropolitan, and these could lead to an interesting future Extension Kit.

Each of the three basic Units includes a map board, shares in the relevant railway companies, yellow, green and russet tiles (for phases 1 to 3), trains of types '2', '3', '4', and '5', tokens, money, Company Credits, rule book and a simplified Share Price Index for the companies featured.

The addition of an M1 (Supplementary Tiles) Kit, M3 (Phase 4) Kit and an M4 (Steam Packet Lines) Kit will bring the game to a form closely similar to the old '1829'. The addition of further kits will take the game far beyond this standard and the addition of other Units and Regional Kits will extend the game to any other area of the country.

Schedule of Units

UNIT 1, South Eastern England, imminent
UNIT 2, Midlands. available mid 1995
UNIT 3, Northern England and Scotland, in preparation

Recommended numbers of players:-
Unit 1                          Two to Five
Unit 2                          Two to Four
Unit 3                          Two
Units 1 + 2                     Three to Seven
Units 2 + 3                     Three to Five
Units 1 + 2 + 3                 Four to Eight
All Units and Regional Kits:    up to Nine players

RAILWAY COMPANIES

BAND,   PRICE   COMPANY                         UNIT    BASE
Band 1, L100    LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY  1       Wolverton
                                                2       Crewe
Band 2, L90     GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY           1       Swindon
Band 3, L82     MIDLAND RAILWAY                 2       Derby
                NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY           2       Darlington
Band 4, L76     CALEDONIAN RAILWAY              3       Glasgow
                GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY           1       London
                LONDON & SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY  1       London
                NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY           3       Edinburgh
Band 5, L71     GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY           2       Barnsley
                GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY          2       Doncaster
                LANCASHIRE & YORKSHIRE RAILWAY  2       Horwich (Manchester)
                SOUTH EASTERN & CHATHAM RLY.    1       Ashford
Band 6, L67     GLASGOW & SOUTH WESTERN RLY.    3       Glasgow
                LONDON, BRIGHTON & S. COAST RLY.1       Brighton

In preparation:
Regional Kit 1, Wales
Regional Kit 2, Wessex
Regional Kit 3, North Norfolk
Regional Kit 4, North and West Scotland

Regional Railways already scheduled for inclusion in these kits include : CAMBRIAN, FURNESS, GREAT NORTH of SCOTLAND, HIGHLAND, MIDLAND & GREAT NORTHERN, JOINT, SOMERSET AND DORSET and, represented collectively, the independent railways of South Wales.

The game offers a range of twenty one railways in which players can buy shares. Even in two player games it is possible to include any of these companies by choosing suitable Units and Kits.

Pre-view of the new EXTENSION KITS

M1 Supplementary Tiles. Green and russet tiles of the standard types that are not include in the basic Units.

M2 Advanced Trains. Trains of types '2U', '3T', '3U', '1S', '2+2', and '4+4E'.

M3 Phase '4'. Grey tiles and trains of types '6' and '7'.

M4 Steam Packet Lines. A set of Steam Packet Lines suitable for use with the various units.

M5 Regional Companies for Unit 2, Furness Railway. The Furness, and other, Regional Companies
	that are not part of a Regional Kit require seperate kits.

M6 Advanced Tiles. New designs of tiles, including green/russet and through running tiles.

M7 Phase '5'. Trains and tiles that add an extra phase to the game.

M8 Reserved for Regional Companies, Unit 1.

M9 Reserved for Development Bonds

G1 Additional money

G2 Combined Share Price Index, listing all fourteen of the principal companies.

Other add-ons are planned: the game is a long way from reaching a state where stagnation is imminent. The faithful can expect new features and some new twists to the rules as the range unfolds. All these things are being done for quite deliberate purposes and not simply because they are possible. '1825' will take Hartland into the next Century. The question many existing enthusiasts will be asking is - 'If I have an '1829' do I need an '1825'?' There is no clear cut answer. It has never been part of Hartland's philosophy to render things obsolete, and several of the planned extension kits could certainly be applied with advantage to an '1829' game. However, board geometry is going to count against this process being entirely stisfactory, and the players will find themselves having to juggle with the rules to an increasing degree as the system develops. The most significant thing about '1825' is its adaptability from compact game to mega-game. We believe that most active players will want to change sooner or later.

The 'To', not 'Through' rule for services into other companies' base stations is used, as in nearly all other '18XX' games.

The Survey Parties are now only an optional feature.

The #52 tile and its interesting russet coloured equivalents replace the more restricted #10.

The returns on the four initial Private Companies have been revised and the Liverpool & Manchester is now a reasonable proposition.

Revised share prices have cut the LB&SC down to size and redressed the insults levelled at the Great Eastern and the Lancashire & Yorkshire, which were two very important companies.

1825 from HARTLAND Trefoil Ltd.
5 Chapel Lane, Blisworth,
Northampton NN7 3BU, England.

and the price?

introductory offer: £18.25 for Unit 1
including postage and packing (within the UK)

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