Region

1. One ship must be deployed if possible.
2. The player chooses a region where all ships transport (other player’s ships as well). As a bonus, he collects the income of the oldest transporting foreign ship from the bank. All other players collect their income as well. (example 1)

Cargo

1. One ship must be deployed if possible.
2. The player transports with 1 of his ships and collects an income of up to £300, depending on the ship’s tonnage. (example 2)

Cruise

1. One ship must be deployed if possible.
2. The player transports with 1 of his ships and collects an income of £10 per 100 passenger capacity (example 3)

Global

1. One ship must be deployed if possible. 2. The player makes a choice: a) he either transports with 1 of his ships per different region, or b) he transports with 1 of his steamships per different flag. (example 1)

Fleet

The player receives 2 victory points per steamship with a different flag (example 2). Purchased ships still waiting for deployment are included.

Commerce

The player collects £ 50 per own Trade House. (example 3).

Blue Riband

1. One ship must be deployed if possible.
2. The player may transport with as many of his ships as he owns Blue Ribands on his player sheet. (example 4)

Coal

Own steamships are loaded with coal. The player loads as many coal units as he owns Coal Bunkers on his player sheet plus 2. The coal has to be distributed evenly on his active steamships in the regions. At fi rst, ships without coal are loaded, then ships with 1 coal (which may be the same ships) etc. (example 5)
Steamships can carry up to 3 coal units each. Sailing Ships do not need coal.

Coal (Extension Card)

Like COAL, but the amount is number of coal bunkers plus 3. The coal may be distributed as the player wishes. The maximum of 3 coal units per steamship still applies. (example 6)

Ship Agent

The player may copy the action from a card which was last played by another player. The action is executed in a way as if he had played that card himself. Ship Agents from other players cannot be copied.

Invest

The player has 2 options:
1. He builds a Trade House in a region where he has a ship and pays £ 20 - £ 50 (depending on its position). In addition, he takes a marker, either for freight, mail, or passengers, and puts it into the corresponding column on his player sheet. Important: each building site in a region can take only 1 Trade House, and each player can build no more than 2 houses per region. The North Atlantic (or New York) has room for 4 houses, but the other regions only have room for 3 houses each.
2. He purchases a Coal Bunker from the supply, pays £ 50, and puts it into the corresponding column on his player sheet. In addition, he takes 2 coal units and distributes them onto 2 different ships if possible.

Invest (Extension Card)

The player pays £ 100, takes 2 different markers from the supply (coal, freight, mail, or passengers) and puts them into the corresponding columns on his player sheet. In addition, he may either build without further payment 1 Trade House in a region where he has a ship, or, if a Coal Bunker was included, distribute 2 coal units onto 2 different ships if possible.

Director

1. The player takes all his cards back into his hand. Important: He must take back at least 4 cards including the DIRECTOR. Otherwise he cannot take this action.
2. If at least 6 cards are taken back, he receives 1 coal bunker or marker for freight, mail, or passengers for his player sheet. With a minimum of 8 cards taken back, he receives 2 different markers (but never a Blue Riband).
3. The player chooses 1 new action card from the open display, plays that card immediately, and executes the related action.
4. The open display is restored: The card in leftmost position is removed and put aside on a separate stack, the remaining 3 cards move left, and 2 new cards are displayed. There must always be 5 different cards on display; duplicate cards go to the separate stack immediately. If the original stack is empty, the separate stack is shuffl ed and then used.

Ship's Score

The ship’s score is the main way to generate Victory Points (VPs). Depending on the situation on the personal player sheet, VPs are gained for ships (and headquarters) of a certain flag. As shown here, a player receives 7 VPs per ship with a blue flag, 3 VPs per ship with a black flag, and 5 VPs per ship with a green flag.

Additional VPs are gained with the help of ships with a certain flag inside the public docks. As shown here, each blue ship receives 2 VPs extra, each black ship 3 VPs extra, and each green ship receives 1 VP extra. The dock’s VPs are the same for every player.

Scores During the Game

Victory Points (VPs) are tallied with a captain on the Victory Point Chart. While playing the game, VPs may be gained in 3 different ways:
1. If a ship is pushed out of its region and cannot be deployed elsewhere, it is scrapped and scores immediately (see “Ship’s score”). It is taken out of the game and does not enter the docks!
2. If ships transport in a region where their owner has Trade Houses as well (see “Transporting with ships”).
3. With the action card FLEET.

Final Scoring

Players gather their ships, either from the regions or still waiting for deployment, together with their headquarters and score them altogether in the usual way as described above (see “Ship’s score”).
In addition they receive 1 VP per full amount of £ 100 cash. Players receive VPs for complete rows of markers they have acquired on the sheet (not for markers already printed). The fi rst row gives 5 VPs, the second row 10 VPs, the third row 15 VPs, and the fourth row 20 VPs.
In addition, each marker in the uppermost incomplete row scores as follows: 1 VP if it is the first row, 2 VPs if it is the second, etc. The player sheet as depicted would score a total of 21 VPs.
All VPs are tallied with a captain on the Victory Point Chart. Whenever reaching 50 VPs, the player places a respective VP marker at the chart. Winner of the game is the player with most VPs. In case of a tie, the owner of the youngest ship wins that tie.

General

Card and ship text can be difficult to read, even on larger screens. You can view larger images of most items by clicking on the (magnify icon) present near the different areas of the screen (action card display, ship market, region display, player hand, player marker tableau).

You can click on (info icon) to see more information about the docks and the player marker tableau.

Viewing Opponent Info

To view opponent hands, discards, undeployed ships, marker tableaus, and ship point values, click on the captain marker (located on the bottom right of the screen) for the player you wish to view. The currently selected player will be shown with a white dashed outline around the captain marker. The magnify icons are available to view larger images of opponent info.

About The Screen

There is a lot of information on the screen, so here's a description of everything on the screen, from top-left to bottom-right:

• Action Card Display (top left) - Cards available to pick up when you play your Director/President action card, or when you use your Director/President token
• Action Card Draw Pile - The cards that will replace cards drawn from the action card display. The top number is the number of action cards remaining in the draw pile; the bottom number is the number of action cards in the discard pile; the letter on the back of the card shows whether the next card is from Deck A or Deck B (not really important for gameplay).
• Played Action Cards (top center) - Cards played by opponents and therefore available to be copied with the Ship Agent/Ship Agent Extension card. Note that Ship Agent cards cannot be copied.
• Docks (top right) - Top row of numbers shows how many ships of each color are in the docks. The captain token to the left of Ship Point Values shows which player's point values you are viewing. The bottom row of numbers shows the potential point values of each color ship for that player. These are the points that will be scored when ships are scrapped, and also for ships currently owned if the game were to end now.
• Ship Market (2nd row left) - Ships/HQs available for purchase. If a coal icon is shown on the ship, then that ship comes with coal when purchased.
• Ship Draw Pile (2nd row right) - Ship cards that will replace purchased ships/HQs. The number on the deck represents the 5-year date range for the ships and is not very important for the game. 9 is the highest value for ships. 10 represents HQs.
• Region Display (3rd row left) - This shows deployed ships, who owns them, and how much coal they have. Anchors represent spaces where ships can be present. Once all anchors in a column are full, ships deployed to that column with displace the last ship in that column (which will either be scrapped, or redeployed by their owner).
• Player Info (middle right) - The black ship icon represents the start player (first to play an action card). The black arrows on the left and right pointing inward represent the player on turn. The hands of cards show cards in hand (black text on white cards) and discards (white text on back cards). The director/president token will have an X if it has already been used. If playing the President variant, you'll see a Contract icon with a number over the top showing the number of contracts you've earned since last playing the President action card. Money is shown in the upper right. Current points (end game points) are shown on the bottom right. Player name is at the bottom.
• Player Marker Tableau (right, below player info) - This shows ship and marker counts. The captain token in the upper left signifies which player's information is being viewed. The numbers imposed over the flags show the number of ships owned of that color. The numbers imposed over the markers show how many markers of each type the player has. Everyone starts with 1 marker of each type.
• Player Hand/Discards/Undeployed Ships (bottom left) - This shows your current hand and discards (if any). Available cards are shown on the left. Discards are shown on the right and have a purple band at the bottom (which also shows the number of discards). Undeployed ships (if any) are shown on the far right.
• Player Captain Markers (bottom right) - This shows captain markers for each player in the game. The currently selected captain marker will have a white dashed outline, meaning this is the player's info that is being shown all over the page. Areas affected by this selection will show a captain token in that player's color.