18xx tournament starts tomorrow. Here is a brief summary of tournament rules and scoring if you are interested. Scoring is (hopefully) simple, easy and...
Geoff, I'm really excited that you raised this topic! The Met is really one of the most interesting railways in the area of Greater London. So in the past I...
... The tunnel was originally built by Sir Marc Brunel (father of the even more well-known IKB) as a tunnel for pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages. It was...
Please report back on how well the scoring systems works out. I am definitely interested in the results as I had some drama earlier in the year with a scoring...
... the ... my ... Klaus , Thanks for your enthusiasm You are correct on the route - but it was part of the Met's geography although I haven't researched...
... Only when part of the LPTB. The other companies in the original consortium ran some passenger trains and a lot of goods trains. ... And they operated on...
If you do 18LON will we need 18NYC or 18 Chicago or LA. Of course we could do 2007 Toronto with Via rail, Commuters, Subways, Rail street cars, Trolleys, and...
Hello. I've updated my webpage with the results of the last tournament of Geert Lagrou Trophy (18xx belgian championship), the current ranking after 4...
Except that I know London pretty well but have never even been to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles or Toronto. ;-)) Charlie Wilson [a bearded one] ;-{)} ... ...
In the rules for 1832, rule 8.1.g, pertaining to routes reads: "A route may not reverse at a junction (a city, town, or where two branches of track join at a...
What is meant by the "A route may not ==REVERSE== at a junction" means you cannot to a 180 degree turn and go back out on the EXACT SAME TRACK Segment on the...
It can get just a little tricky.Basically,you cannot use the same piece of track twice,but you can turn at a point.So if making a 135 degree turn would...
Actually it is at 0 degree (straight ahead), 60 degrees (kind of gentle curve through a city) and 120 degrees (kind of sharp curve through a city). 30 degrees...
BUCKEYFEST 18XX was a success in its inaugural year. I told Pete I was hoping we would have 10 players so that there were always 2 choices for games and some...
... I think this is something of a misread. The rule claims that you can't reverse at a city etc. which means that you can't leave a city etc. by the same...
I've always understood reversing to mean not backing up on the same track nor making an acute angle turn (as on green tiles 23 and 24), but to my recollection...
Buckeye Gamefest is over and it was at least for me a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone who came. Highlights include: A total of 19 players participated. Games...
Congratulations to tournament winner Bruce Beard. Top 10 final scorers were: Bruce Beard 66 Pete Chace 60 Mike Coyne 45 Mark Geary 39 Matt Campbell 34 ...
If interested, I scored based on the players top 6 game scores. Some people therefore had lower scores if they completed fewer than 6 games. I would...
Someone out there about to run a tournament asked Pete about letting him know how the scoring system worked out. I am not sure Buckeyefest was a good test...
Hey, Matt Campbell, Are you out there? I really liked 18NEB. I thought you did a good job of incorporating ideas from other games and fitting them together...
I did not have a login but my 3 favorites are 70, 61 and 46. ________________________________ From: 18xx@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Occu Pant Sent: Tue...
My overall 18xx favorite is 1870. I also like 1851 for 3 players. I've found that I don't like most of the 18xx series with 5-6 players, prefer 3-4....
Thank you for the input. However, I have no way to integrate your votes into the poll (unfortunately, the poll tool does not allow the creator to insert...
Aaaah, Now we want to know more about it... :-) Is there any pictures taken during the Buckeyefest of this prototype? Or any website or blog with graphics,...
Frederic, Matt will have to answer all these questions. I will tell you one thing I liked: Most of the smaller 3-4 player games are produced by Mark Derrick...
I won't be at Essen this year, but Jim McDanold will be going and taking two suitcases full of games. Details of where to pick them up aren't set yet and...
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