Tom's optional rule (companies must do connection runs if able) is OK with me, but companies should still have to wait for the end of their own operations to...
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thomas wall hannaford...
twall1958
May 1, 2012 4:25 pm
JCL, paying (and getting paid) dividends (which is the PRIMARY, maybe ONLY, method for gaining personal cash in an 18XX game) is such an overwhelming part...
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Beard, Bruce D.
beardbruce77
May 1, 2012 4:28 pm
for those of you who care, the 2nd 7-player 1861 concluded a week ago. Game 1 = 20,431R total value Game 2 = 23,741R total value So the average player...
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Beard, Bruce D.
beardbruce77
May 1, 2012 4:42 pm
Tom, Selling privates to public companies is a major way of getting cash. I suspect it is possible to win a short, fast game of 1830 without every paying a...
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Beard, Bruce D.
beardbruce77
May 1, 2012 4:50 pm
Tom, When dividends drive multiple jumps (1846, etc) players cannot choose a stock value strategy. Since payouts translate to stock value, players must play a...
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Mike Coyne
justlak2
May 1, 2012 5:00 pm
By the way, I think it is nice that your life is so exciting that you want your ames to be more like real life. I tend to want the opposite. -Bruce Good Lord...
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Beard, Bruce D.
beardbruce77
May 1, 2012 5:05 pm
"The business of America is business." ________________________________ From: 18xx@yahoogroups.com [18xx@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Coyne...
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JC Lawrence
clearclaw
May 1, 2012 6:04 pm
In which case I recommend you look into Bjoern Rabenstein's "Rolling Stock". It incorporates a rather Buffet-esque concept of "book value" with corporation...
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David Hecht
dhecht05
May 1, 2012 6:08 pm
"This is the most famous misquote of Calvin Coolidge's. Where did historians get this quote and why have they used it in textbooks to get it so well known? ...
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David Hecht
dhecht05
May 1, 2012 6:12 pm
In case anyone is interested, Tanga is having a big sale on various boardgames, mostly euro-type: http://www.tanga.com/deals/board-game-blowout-sale I've no...
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Beard, Bruce D.
beardbruce77
May 1, 2012 6:13 pm
"The business of America is idealism?" ________________________________ From: 18xx@yahoogroups.com [18xx@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David Hecht...
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David Hecht
dhecht05
May 1, 2012 6:23 pm
Not a bad paraphrase...and not far from the truth, either! :-)...
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Rick Westerman
rpwesterm
May 1, 2012 6:25 pm
... What, for this group you aren't recommending "Cleopatra's Caboose -- an 18** game"? Where the stars represent ancient Egypt ankhs which, for some odd...
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Mike Coyne
justlak2
May 1, 2012 6:29 pm
More like 1830BC as i remember. Mike Coyne mpcoyne@... ... From: Rick Westerman <westerm@...> To: 18xx <18xx@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tue, May 1, 2012...
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Joshua Gottesman
joshuaaaaaa6
May 1, 2012 6:32 pm
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/701319/cleopatras-caboose-impressions-from-an-18xx-play Might be helpful. It confirms what I've heard about the game. I...
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Tim Skirvin
nivrikst
May 1, 2012 7:15 pm
... One of my groups played about half a game once. It was quite bad. - Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@...) -- [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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Tom McCorry
tommccorry@...
May 1, 2012 7:40 pm
It's meant to be a spoof on Eurogaming. Here is description from website: A train game set in ancient Egypt! In a slightly satirical turn, Cleopatra's Caboose...
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Aliza Panitz
aliza250
May 1, 2012 8:35 pm
We played it once. The game was abandoned halfway through as a waste of time. There's *some* game there, but not much....
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brosiuse
May 1, 2012 10:13 pm
... You know, Rick, if you told me you played a game called "18 Ankh Ankh", I'd think it was about traffic jams in Los Angeles, not railroads in Egypt. 8-)...
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David Hecht
dhecht05
May 1, 2012 10:44 pm
But then you'd just be in denial... ;-)...
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Ulf Eriksen
mafarin@...
May 1, 2012 11:04 pm
I have the game, but I have not played it. Its not at 18xx-game. Ulf Eriksen Fra: 18xx@yahoogroups.com [mailto:18xx@yahoogroups.com] På vegne af Mike Coyne ...
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pmsleboeuf
May 2, 2012 12:38 am
I have it and have played it once or twice. It is more along the lines of RRTycoon, with some elements of Automobile thrown in, and has the virtue of being...
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Breno Kümmel
breno_k
May 2, 2012 12:52 pm
Cleopatra's Caboose is crap....
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Beard, Bruce D.
beardbruce77
May 2, 2012 1:00 pm
Succinct. ________________________________ From: 18xx@yahoogroups.com [18xx@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Breno Kümmel [breno_k@...] Sent: Wednesday,...
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Ken Hill
khill0
May 3, 2012 7:59 pm
I know the designer quite well. He is a guy from Cleveland who spent a lot of time working on it. I'm sure he would disagree with your assessment but would...
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Beard, Bruce D.
beardbruce77
May 3, 2012 11:17 pm
Ken, I have never seen or played the game. I was just amused by Brebi's short description. -Bruce ________________________________ From: 18xx@yahoogroups.com...
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Breno Kümmel
breno_k
May 4, 2012 12:17 pm
His posts on BGG make it seem like he's a cool guy. However, I disliked his game. Such is the price of having your work published, people are going to dislike...
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William Peeck
wargamer666
May 4, 2012 12:38 pm
I have played Cleopatra's Caboose a couple of times. I am not sure I would qualify it as crap. It's an Euro game with some interesting details. Its not an...
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chester_ogborn
May 5, 2012 4:13 pm
I've gamed with Rob (designer) of Cleopatra's Caboose a few times, and he's a great guy. I was looking forward to the game's release and bought a copy to...
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David Fair
davidafair
May 5, 2012 4:51 pm
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 12:13 PM, chester_ogborn ... Steve Zamborsky is the designer. -- Thanks, Dave -- David Fair dafair@... "Gaming...
