I have played several titles of 18xx PBeM. But I have not yet found a Cyberboard for 1832. Does anyone know if it exists? /Arne Östlund...
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marktderrick
Nov 1, 2010 5:21 pm
We played a six player game of the new 1880 China game on Saturday. A number of questions came up that will likely need a clarification at some point. One...
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Lonny
lonny1837
Nov 2, 2010 12:06 pm
2010/11/1 marktderrick <derrick@...> ... 1880-China is in some ways different to other 18xx games. There is no strict order of stock rounds and...
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ftaton
Nov 2, 2010 11:31 pm
Hello Kevin. We played a 5-player game of Poseidon sunday afternoon. 3 of us have played 1830 extensively in the past. I've played a lot of variants as well...
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michaelmonical
Nov 3, 2010 12:07 am
Thanks for the report Mark. Where did you find 6 18xx players in Chattanooga this time of year? Did you get any extras for sale this time? Mike...
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Leonhard Orgler
lonny1837
Nov 4, 2010 2:54 pm
... Yes, it is correct. It is of no advantage or disadvantage to do that because there is no change in the "price". ... You are right, the English rules...
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ftaton
Nov 7, 2010 8:47 pm
... Well, not exactly, Though I admit it's very unlikely: imagine a player who is missing a few bucks to buy some merchants. He just has to sell some merchants...
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Beard, Bruce D.
beardbruce77
Nov 7, 2010 11:29 pm
We played a 4-player game of Posiedon Friday night. It stood up well to one play and I would like to play again because I think I have a good strategy to try....
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Steve Thomas
stephen839501
Nov 9, 2010 1:08 pm
I played 1880 (the new Double-O game set in China) the other night, and enjoyed it. I might even have done reasonably well if at any time during it I had...
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Steve Thomas
stephen839501
Nov 9, 2010 5:22 pm
... The answer is straightforward enough, though I found part of the explanation surprising. The rules tell us that "As soon as the owner of the Foreign ...
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Nick Wedd
nick@...
Nov 9, 2010 6:49 pm
In message <5037EDA4479F4C6CBB2C58BE0FFC7CAD@StevePC>, Steve Thomas <maisnestce@...> writes ... To put it more bluntly, examples should exemplify...
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Leonhard Orgler
lonny1837
Nov 10, 2010 7:20 pm
... The confusion with P6 and BCR director might result in the fact that we first had the 20% Direcor share amongst the private papers and replaced it by P6. ...
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Games on the Brain
gamesonthebrain
Nov 10, 2010 7:38 pm
I posted this on BGG in the 18xx forum already, so pardon me if you've read it: I'm still doing a bunch of brainstorming for 18Xpress... Are there any 18xx...
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Dutton, Richard
dutton_rick
Nov 10, 2010 7:45 pm
My guess: It would slow the train rush, because there would be less reason to buy a train that you couldn't immediately use. For some games this would be a...
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Scott Petersen
scottredracecar
Nov 10, 2010 7:48 pm
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Games on the Brain < ... I don't know of any game like that. B&O comes closest with its train maintenance cost in lieu of...
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Ian D Wilson
ianwilson156...
Nov 10, 2010 9:33 pm
... This is the 1830 train-mix. Without some sort of slowing mechanism, it tends to create a massive train rush at some point - some players like that (I...
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Hanno Girke
kuestenzauberer
Nov 10, 2010 9:44 pm
Let's say you allow 10 token on the track. This means that the first 2 train rusts when the last 3 train is purchased, and the last 2 train rusts when the...
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Leonhard Orgler
lonny1837
Nov 10, 2010 10:20 pm
I had this idea several years ago (actually it was part of the first prototype of 18Australia). The first 4-train rusts the first 2-train, the second 4-train...
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gamesonthebrain
Nov 11, 2010 2:05 am
That's a very interesting alternative. Thanks for sharing!...
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gamesonthebrain
Nov 11, 2010 2:07 am
The number of tokens could be different. In addition, I was just using the 1830 mix as an example. One other idea I had was automatically removing the oldest...
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Larry
larryirons
Nov 11, 2010 1:12 pm
My thought was that you get one more OR to use your obsolete train then it rusts. Larry...
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Beard, Bruce D.
beardbruce77
Nov 11, 2010 2:21 pm
I think the idea of gradual rusting and the pace of the gradual rusting should depend upon how "cash-rich" the game is. In a cash-rich environment, players...
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Chris Shaffer
chris_shaffer
Nov 11, 2010 4:30 pm
That's been used in lots of games (1846, 18AL, 18MEX spring to mind), usually called delayed obsolescence. -- Chris Please consider the environment before...
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Steve Thomas
stephen839501
Nov 11, 2010 5:03 pm
... We may have been a bit harsh. Judging from Lonny's later comments, the problem is that a rule got missed out of the English version of the rule book,...
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Steve Thomas
stephen839501
Nov 11, 2010 5:04 pm
... I don't think so. Just about every game out there has a system whereby most of the time nothing very much happens when a train gets bought, but ...
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Ian D Wilson
ianwilson156...
Nov 11, 2010 5:32 pm
... There will be a lot of competition to float your company last in order at the beginning - the first 2 is poison! Ian D [Non-text portions of this...
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gamesonthebrain
Nov 11, 2010 5:48 pm
That's why I suggested starting it in SR3, or even SR4. Yes, the first 2 is poison, but if you waited until SR3 or SR4 to start the rule, it would still be...
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windmilling2002
Nov 11, 2010 5:56 pm
... No one has mentioned the possibility of buying the new train making your own train obsolete. It seems there would be incentive to better control the...
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John David Galt
john_david_galt
Nov 11, 2010 8:02 pm
... That's a neat idea and I'd like to try a game of it sometime. I put another new (to rail games) version of "rusting" in my work-in- progress...
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Chris Shaffer
chris_shaffer
Nov 12, 2010 7:17 am
For what I think is the first time, a thread simultaneously posted on this group and BGG has generated more discussion on BGG. -- Chris Shaffer Please consider...
