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Re: Incremental Rusting

J C Lawrence — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:33:07 GMT

On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:10:20 -0000 ... Baltimore & Ohio, one of Winsome Game's new games for this year, does several intereting things with trains: 1) The cost

Incremental Rusting

mightyrickempire — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:10:59 GMT

... In the game I have been working on the thing that I wanted to tweak was not the sudden obsolecence, but the large difference in utility (in almost every

Re: Seeding: was Tournaments fair and fun

John A. Tamplin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:29:31 GMT

... At least at Chattanooga, you don't ever have to play with particular people if you don't want to. I have refused to join a game with a particular person,

Re: Seeding: was Tournaments fair and fun

Beard, Bruce D. — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:19:07 GMT

Mike, I think I basically agree with you here. What we have is maybe two people who said that maybe, if they were sure they were not going to play any sharks,

Re: Next game to buy

boomcoach — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:21:26 GMT

Thanks to everyone for your input. I think that Mex sounds like a good choice. Ray, I apologize for not having better information on what I was looking for.

Re: E trains in 18GL (and also 1826...)

J C Lawrence — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:04:14 GMT

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:25:55 -0700 (PDT) ... Pampas Railroads and Wabash Cannonball/Chicago Express tend to have rather distinct audiences and reward very

Re: Next game to buy

J C Lawrence — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:57:46 GMT

On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:14:17 -0000 ... I've not seen a LOT of stock dumping, well, not compared to other titles. It may be that we're just naturally

Re: Next game to buy

J C Lawrence — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:50:11 GMT

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:37:48 -0400 ... Thanks, I have that arriving RSN. ... We've played a lot of 18Mex lately. Short comments: 1830 private auction Lots of

Re: Next game to buy

Tim Franklin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:09:23 GMT

... Exactly. The OP could have given a bit more info - "I've narrowed it down to these three becuase..." or "I already own / like / play these 18xx titles

Re: Next game to buy

Chris Shaffer — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:59:35 GMT

I found the discussion interesting, even though I have played all three games. I think people asked relevant questions and gave pretty good descriptions.

Re: Seeding: for Tournaments

Robert Jasiek — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:40:32 GMT

... Although the aim is desirable and distinguishing variants is a very good idea, experience from Go suggests that it is essentially impossible to derive

Steam vs. Diesel (was E trains in 18GL (and also 1826...))

Mark J. Dulcey — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:03:52 GMT

... I don't think that's really true; like steam engines, diesels can be refurbished and have a long service life. However, the state of the art was advancing

Re: E trains in 18GL (and also 1826...)

David G.D. Hecht — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:42:15 GMT

... From: "Ian D Wilson" To: <18xx@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 6:45 AM Subject: Re: [18xx] E trains in 18GL (and

Re: Next game to buy

Ray Mulford — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:31:12 GMT

People whose tastes may be different than yours, whose gaming groups may be different, whose reasons for gaming may be different, who may be lying just because

Re: Next game to buy

Breno Couto Kümmel — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:12:20 GMT

Well, not really random strangers but people with more experience in this niche of the gaming hobby. =P Not everybody can read manuals online and understand