The Curse of Inca Gold in Chili

I like excursions. With one of my best friend, every summer, we go in french montains to make sport. But french montains are not very high. I dream to go in Chili...
Age of Steam can easyly go every where, particularly in Chili. The size and the global form of this country could make a very challenging map... it was at the end of 2004...
Every night, i wrote my ideas about new expansions. I thought at every phases of the game, and how to change only one rule. That was my aim at this time (i changed my mind since i designed the moon expansion...) it was fabulous to wake up in the night to write some ideas, like a giant brainstorming...
I dreamt to publish this map of Chili on the other side of Italy...But i did not know anyone of the Warfrog company, and i was just a dreamer... France will be published on the other side because Winsome released it with Italy...
Anyway, i wanted to create this map. In the basic rule, you always borrow money with the sharing phase. You always pay during the entire game your shares... If we could move down the disc on the shares issues....Yesssss...
Good idea, but why in Chili... Because in Chili, we have never found the inca Gold... Age of Steam can do that for railroad barons... Yellow cubes can do that... 
The new rule is very simple, yellow cubes are the famous gold, and each time you deliver a yellow cube, you can go down your disc on the share issue+ income for the delivery of course. To contre balance the powerfull of yellow cube, building costs will be very very expensive, and i added a new terrain type : High montains...
40% of the map is high montains hexes at a cost of $5 each....
40% of the map is only montains hexes that cost $3 like in the basic game
20% of the map is plain that costs $2
You can not urbanize in yellow, and only two cities are yellow on the map, one in the north near the Titicaca Lake and one in the center of the map.
The north of the map is very strategic, because of the lake. The middle is very expensive, but there are more goods at the setting phase. The South is very poor...
This map is suitable for 4 to 6 players, but plays best with 5 players.
Because of the size of the map, i did not publish it in 2005 and i prefered to release my moon expansion.
But this year, i find a publisher that would be able to print this map at a correct price ...
I just have to find another map on the other side but it wouldn't be too difficult...

Comments

[MARIO AGUILA INOSTROZA]

Great, but in my country all roads, railways and cities are in the Central Valley, not in the mountains :-)

Anyway, it's a great idea to have this map and the new rules