Southern Rails

Southern Rails is played on a map of the southeast United States and is similar in style to many of the stock-based, cube-rail games released by Winsome Games since 2007.During set up, players spend two rounds selecting stocks from two of the six available companies, then the game begins.Each turn, a player must place a track cube for one of the companies in which they have stock. The first cube of a company can be placed on any hex, while each subsequent cube for that company must be placed adjacent to another of the same color. Hexes (other than Atlanta) can have 1-3 cubes placed on them, and when a cube is placed in a city - with cities coming in four colors - that railroad's revenue increases by $1-4 depending on the color of the city.When the tenth cube of a company is placed, railroads earn points based on certain criteria - highest revenue, fewest shares owned, most cubes on the map, and most cities of a color in its network - with ties resulting in no points being awarded for a