... There are quite a few 18xx games out there which include the whole of the western US. Most of them include the east as well. Some don't work well or at ...
... I'm not sure that there's no attempt to recreate history... but I certainly would concede the point that historical forces in the game are somewhat weak in...
Is there anyone who would be interested in playing 18C2C at DragonCon this year? I'm going to be getting my copy hot off the press next week, and I'm looking...
... Damn! Colin Barnhorst developed a fantastic version of Golden Spike while he lived in the Philadelphia area many (25+?) years ago. I contributed to maybe...
... "No attempt" was probably a little strong. The cities on the 18C2C map can be upgraded more or less in line with their real life significance, and players...
... Well, Google, which I am sure you looked at, has multiple links to Edna St. Vincent Millay as the author of the quote. Of course the web is notorious for...
Ron S. sounds like he'll be there. Maybe we could do both 56 and one of the shorter games. I really want to give 18Scan(scandanavia) a try, looks different...
... Spike ... real ... put ... went ... look ... 25 years ... advances in ... it might ... published, if you ... the game. ... strategic ... In the late 1970's...
... "Edna St. Vincent Millay said famously, "It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It is the same damn thing over and over." Great thing,...
... When 1869: The Golden Spike was released, the map extended from the Mississippi to the west coast. It had about 10 major corporations in it and, while ...
... I'm not sure I know Ron. ... I've been having a lot of fun with 1860. However... ... I'll likely only be able to play one 18XX game that day as I'll need...
... If it was just an outage, the mail should be queued at the originating mail server and be eventually delivered when it retries. Also, you can read the...
not so much one damned thing after another as the same damned thing over and over again[1]. Hence, in my book, dull, and I'd be mildly surprised were I to...
Suppose an 18GL corporation can earn more by using another Corporation's Ferry link than it can by not doing so, and further suppose that it has the necessary...
... My interpretation is that the president first decides whether he is going to pay $50 to use the ferry line this turn (which in fact can happen earlier in...
Played 18GL yesterday and some questions cropped up which we failed to answer using the rulebook Once the Conrail forms, and if it needs to use the second...
... Correct. ... Correct. ... Correct. The dividends are paid based on the percentage ownership, certificate limit always counts pieces of paper, and stock...
The rules for forming Conrail are given in the rule book and summarised on Conrail's corporation charter. Unfortunately, they're different. In the former,...
... Obviously 2 full pages from the rules cannot be reproduced on the charter at a readable size, so the summary on the charter is intended to guide you ...
... The relevant text is: 3. Exchange pairs of shares in merger corporations' treasuries, discarding odd shares to the Open Market. The intent was combining...
... on ... the ... 2-for-1 for ... Interestingly we used the opposite method, thus discarding one share to the pool for two of the three precursors Chris ...
We'll be playing 18VA for the first time tonight and had a question. I tired searching the archive, but couldn't find an answer -- my apologies if this is a...
The Port city. There's no separate tokening for the port proper: the port is just considered part of the city (which is why you can't run from the Port City to...
We got halfway through a 2P game of 18VA this evening. It's very interesting, and we both quite enjoyed ourselves. On first blush I think 18Scan plays a...
