Company Tracks
Mombasa's company tracks: shares and share value, capital calls, special spaces, the permanent bonuses of tracks A and B, the extra bonus spaces of tracks C and D, and every space of all eight track sides.
Each edge of the board holds one company track. The track belongs to the company whose edge it lies on — in the first game A1 is the Mombasa track, B1 Cape Town, C1 Saint-Louis and D1 Cairo; later games deal them out at random (setup). The letter only tells which bonuses the track has.
Shares and their value
Each player has a marker on every track. When your marker reaches or passes a share icon, you own that many shares of the company. Some cards add one more share of a company (bottom left), and the share cards are one share each.
A share’s value is the number of coin icons uncovered in the company’s base — trading posts that left it through expansion or were removed. The last space of each column shows 2 coins.
Moving on a track
- Capital call: crossing one costs the pounds shown (5 or 10), paid at once. If you cannot pay, your marker stops in front of it.
- At the last space your marker stays.
- A reward you cannot use fully (an unpaid capital call, the end of the track) moves you as far as possible; the rest is lost. Rewards are optional: you may take less, or none (FAQ).
Special spaces
Each track has 2 special spaces, with 1 or 2 pounds above them. When your marker reaches or passes one:
- You take that many pounds — and every player who reached it before you takes them again too.
- You unlock its special track bonus, usable from your next turn (not during the action that reached it).
The second bonus of a track is usually a better version of the first. Once you have both you use one or the other, never both: permanent bonuses do not add up, and of a track’s two extra bonus spaces you may occupy only one per round.
Permanent bonuses (tracks A and B)
Always on, every time the action they help comes up.
| Track | First special space | Second special space |
|---|---|---|
| A1 | +1 to your total expansion value (if you have at least 1 expansion card face up) — for expanding, majorities, book needs | +2 instead |
| A2 | 1 extra bonus marker (taken from the box) | 2 extra bonus markers |
| B1 | Buying a card with  bananas costs 1 less | Buying a card with goods costs 1 less, and you may pay with mixed goods types (left-over units still move you on the tracks) |
| B2 | Buying a card with  cotton costs 1 less | Each cotton card in your action area is worth 1 unit more, for everything |
Extra bonus spaces (tracks C and D)
Used like the board’s bonus spaces, with a bonus marker, by players who have unlocked them.
| Track | First special space | Second special space |
|---|---|---|
| C1 | Pay 2:  1 and  2, or 2 and 1 | Pay 1: 2 and 2 |
| C2 | No cost: buy 1 card from the display for its full price in pounds and/or 1 | No cost: buy 1 card for its price −1 in pounds and/or 2 |
| D1 | Remove 1 card from your hand: pounds = its crate value + 3 | Remove 1 coffee card from your hand: pounds = its crate value + 8 |
| D2 | Pay 1: 2 spaces on each of 2 different company tracks (not D2) | Pay 1: 2 spaces on each of the other 3 company tracks (not D2) |
The eight tracks
Spaces are counted from the start space. “Shares” lists the share icon at each space; the last one is the end of the track.
A1
- Shares: 1 at space 4, 2 at 8, 3 at 13, 4 at 18, 5 at 22, 8 at 24 (end).
- Special spaces: 9 (1 pound), 17 (2 pounds) — expansion value +1 / +2.
- Capital call: 10 pounds before space 24.
A2
- Shares: 1 at 4, 2 at 8, 4 at 11, 5 at 16, 7 at 18, 8 at 22 (end).
- Special spaces: 9 (1 pound), 17 (2 pounds) — 1 / 2 extra bonus markers.
- Capital calls: 5 pounds before space 9, 5 pounds before space 17.
B1
- Shares: 1 at 4, 2 at 8, 3 at 13, 5 at 16, 6 at 20, 9 at 22 (end).
- Special spaces: 6 (1 pound), 17 (2 pounds) — cheaper cards with bananas / with any goods.
- Capital calls: 5 pounds before space 14, 10 pounds before space 22.
B2
- Shares: 1 at 4, 2 at 8, 4 at 11, 5 at 16, 6 at 20, 9 at 22 (end).
- Special spaces: 6 (1 pound), 17 (2 pounds) — cheaper cards with cotton / cotton cards +1.
- Capital calls: 5 pounds before space 11, 10 pounds before space 22.
C1
- Shares: 1 at 4, 2 at 8, 3 at 13, 5 at 16, 6 at 20, 9 at 22 (end).
- Special spaces: 7 (1 pound), 17 (2 pounds) — extra bonus spaces.
- Capital calls: 5 pounds before space 14, 10 pounds before space 22.
C2
- Shares: 1 at 4, 3 at 6, 4 at 11, 5 at 16, 6 at 20, 9 at 22 (end).
- Special spaces: 7 (1 pound), 17 (2 pounds) — extra bonus spaces.
- Capital calls: 5 pounds before space 6, 10 pounds before space 22.
D1
- Shares: 1 at 4, 2 at 8, 3 at 13, 4 at 18, 5 at 22, 8 at 24 (end).
- Special spaces: 5 (1 pound), 15 (2 pounds) — extra bonus spaces.
- Capital call: 10 pounds before space 24.
D2
- Shares: 1 at 4, 3 at 6, 4 at 11, 5 at 16, 6 at 20, 9 at 22 (end).
- Special spaces: 8 (1 pound), 17 (2 pounds) — extra bonus spaces.
- Capital calls: 5 pounds before space 6, 10 pounds before space 22.