please let me know if you find one> what is pbm18xx?...
Bear11king@...
Apr 16, 2004 11:56 pm
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If you find one, let me know also. Meetup.org has a 18xx group. Site with most members is Phoenix with two(2!) players. Very lonely for board gamers this...
18XX refers to different strategy/board games with the title being a year within the 1800's, these include 1830, 1837,etc. the PBM is "play-by-mail," although...
rww0172@...
May 7, 2004 8:45 pm
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That's what I call the way we play RB. To make the game more interesting, we change the rule about choosing which RR to go on if 2 or 3 run together-you are...
I bought the game years ago when it forst came out, but lost the rules a long time ago. I wonder just how much I have strayed from Holy Writ to House Rules. ...
... There's a rewrite of the rules at http://www.insystem.com/rbp/rbrules.htm...
Steve Okonski
intersys@...
May 7, 2004 8:48 pm
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... Gakteri, I'm not sure I follow how this works. Are you saying that if I move, for example, from Minneapolis west on the NP, I have to pay to use the GN...
pjvanbloem@...
May 9, 2004 1:43 am
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... Paul: True, it is not realistic for a train to take multiple tracks- but it does change the strategy a bit-getting a free route across the middle is more ...
... I now see that a rule we were playing was just a House Rule. We played that one could only purchase a railroad on which one had traveled on the trip for...
... Never played that way. I would imagine that makes the game longer. ... The following page tells how you can get a replacement payoff chart for free...
Steve Okonski
intersys@...
May 19, 2004 7:30 pm
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The RBP site has an offer for a free payoff table that is printed on heavy paper. You just need to go to http://www.insystem.com/rbp/rbpchart and send them...
Hi, You'll find two new things at the Rail Baron Fanatics site: a main page makeover, and a free download-and-print alternate RB map of Colorado (by Daryl...
Steve Okonski
intersys@...
Jun 8, 2004 10:36 pm
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the railgamefan group: Of the RB Player alternate game maps for sale, which is your favorite? o US2 -...
railgamefan@yahoogrou...
Jun 11, 2004 2:42 pm
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the railgamefan group: Of the RB Player alternate game maps that are free, which is your favorite? o...
railgamefan@yahoogrou...
Jun 11, 2004 2:44 pm
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Hi, This week there's another free print-and-play map available from the RB Fanatics site. This time it's Great Britain and Ireland (by Jim Lomax). The map is...
Steve Okonski
intersys@...
Jun 21, 2004 10:14 pm
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Hi, There's more new free stuff at the RB Fanatics site. We've posted print-your-own PDF files with a replacement/upgraded Rail Baron destination and lookup...
Steve Okonski
intersys@...
Jul 1, 2004 3:06 pm
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Gaming groups in and around Philadelphia, Trenton, Harrisburg, and points inbetween Salutations, gentlefolk, Awhile back I put this draft list together,...
Hi, Today at the Fanatics site we've posted a new version of RB Player. We made lots of end game improvements to the AI and added a few small new features....
Steve Okonski
intersys@...
Jul 12, 2004 10:06 pm
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Hi, More new RB freebies to announce. Let me get right to the list, with links for each: Rod Johnstone has contributed an Australian Rail Baron map we liked...
Steve Okonski
intersys@...
Jul 19, 2004 10:55 pm
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Hi all, I posted the following in a forum on Consimworld. Wondering if anybody here might have any comments. Thanks! Togu Oppusunggu ...
Togu P Oppusunggu
togu@...
Jul 23, 2004 6:34 pm
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Hi all, I posted the following in a forum on Consimworld. Wondering if anybody here might have any comments. Thanks! Togu Oppusunggu ...
Togu P Oppusunggu
togu@...
Jul 23, 2004 6:43 pm
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Putting the variant through several test runs, I surmised that the variant would perhaps take two-thirds as long as a regular game to complete. That's still a...
Togu P Oppusunggu
togu@...
Jul 28, 2004 4:55 am
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I thought I would see if I could start a little dicussion. I recieved my Age of Steam Expansions 2 and 3. I am hoping to play one of the maps this weekend....
It has indeed been quiet in here. All members are welcome to post train game topics to the group, as Mike has done. I haven't played Age of Steam in months,...
Steve Okonski
intersys@...
Feb 3, 2005 10:29 pm
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Someone has created a handy Pocket PC program that does Rail Baron chart lookups for you. He's even implemented some of the alternate RB maps. Having a...
Steve Okonski
intersys@...
Feb 3, 2005 10:34 pm
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Hello everybody, I want to inform you that I have founded a new group for everyone who is interested in railroad games and I hop it will be of interest to the...
Is any version of Rail Baron available for us Mac users yet? I am currently using OS 10.3.9. Help. "If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish...
I'm not aware of any RB for Mac. We don't anticipate porting our Windows version anytime in the near future. The marketplace is such that it would cost us...
