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Australian Rails

Rules can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6tBerNsw5ZDUFZ3bDV4MTlDOUE

Australian Rails has some rule differences from Empire Builder:
- $60 million to start
- 3 pre-movement building turns, with switchback start
- NO building across ocean inlets
- Sandstorms: When a sandstorm occurs, the only trains affected are those in desert hexes when the card is drawn. The trains lose a turn and a load and are placed in the last city passed through. All track built to or from desert hexes is removed. Track may be built/rebuilt to desert mileposts only after the Sandstorm event card has been discarded.
- Winning: You must connect Perth and at least 3 of the remaining 4 major cities, and must have at least $250 million cash.
- Note the building costs for desert and seasonal river/lake hexes.

I have implemented a hex map for TTS rather than the point-to-point map on the game board. This does make a bridge-out event different though, since the rivers pass through hexes. Place a black block in a hex or remove a rail where the bridge is out.

The pawns in TTS are not stackable. We implement a house rule so that if you would end your turn where another pawn is, you have to stop 1 hex short. Alternatively, use the disks with loco models.

Plat has created rail models to use on the map, rather than drawing on the board. Drag them out of the infinite containers, rotate them as needed, and place them across hex borders.

The chips on the board are infinite containers.

Let me know if you think of possible improvements.

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The Australian Rails boardgame is by Mayfair Games. This mod allows me to play with family across the country, but it's not as fun as playing over a table with them. If you like this mod, buy the game!

Many thanks to Plat for the awesome rails to lay on the map.
Thanks to Mr. Stump for the LUA code for the counting tiles.
Thanks to ChriskyBusiness for the poker chips.

I used Hexographer to make the map: www.hexographer.com