31-07-2003 20:40									#151
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You have stopped the cascade, and may end up getting a very wet *rse as a result!
That will depend upon the move chosen by the next player, or potentially upon your ability to convince us that Ruislip Manor has some kind of religious or clerical significance.

	31-07-2003 20:44									#152
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Er... thanks!

Mornington Cresent

Did you guys forget about me sitting on Dagenham Heathway? Schoolboy error!

	01-08-2003 13:17									#153
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Well that has to be one of the shortest games I've ever participated in.

I don't want to seem a bad sport, but can we have an adjudication on whether Mike's move is legal. Can someone remind me if this particular rule set allows a player to declare MC when another player is in squonk?
And with a move against the tidal current!

Mike can of course explain the nuances of his move to those of us who are dumbfounded. Maybe this could catch on and be added to the many MC notebooks around the world. It could be called something like "The Banana Shot", to steal a term from footy and make it appropriate to our MC arena.

	01-08-2003 14:23									#154
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*ahem*

quote: Originally posted by MikeH Sounds good to me. Anyone up for a bit of madness? How about making the District Line wild?

quote: Originally posted by duke o' york All right!

	01-08-2003 15:46									#155
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Mea culpa.



By way of apology I'd like to invite you to propose the next rule set. We can then all argue about that.

	01-08-2003 16:02									#156
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No, I kind of took advantage that time, I'll let someone else do it.

	01-08-2003 20:17									#157
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Well how's about some orchestral manoeuvres in the Park?
A game using the Wembley Park rules. It's end to end stuff but try not to be caught offside.
Everywhere apart from zones 1 to 3 is wild: moving from one zone over the Circle Line to the same zone on the other side will cost tokens roughly equivalent to a quarter of the current LV so get stocking up with some extravagant play! Bus routes up the tempo drastically and can allow you to cash in on token windfalls but the same rules apply above and below ground so be careful you don't stay on for too many stops or else you'll lose all the tokens you just picked up!

What does anyone else think? I'm nearly off home so I'll be back on Monday morning to see what you've managed to come up with regarding the next rules.

	01-08-2003 21:09									#158
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I'm really bad at that version but I'll give it a go, would be good practice.

	01-08-2003 21:20									#159
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Shall I kick off then?

*flies in with Heathrow Terminal 4.*

	01-08-2003 21:25									#160
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Er...

Piccadilly Circus (yes I'm aware I have no idea what I'm doing)

	01-08-2003 21:28									#161
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Monument

	04-08-2003 02:19									#162
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Wow, haven't played these rules in a while. Let's see.

Oval

	04-08-2003 03:29									#163
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I'm new, but I've been watching and I think I mostly understand. The only question I've got is whether a backwards double-cross can be attempted on the move directly after a triple hit. Stefu's move in the first game seems to imply that you can, but I distinctly remember hearing from someone earlier that this is one of the best ways to get yourself disqualified.

Anyway, if Wombat takes Oval, I suppose I've got to take Stamford Brook if I don't want to be caught in a classic "pincers trap"

	04-08-2003 13:41									#164
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Judicious use of the Bank escalators allows me to split the difference in LV with MikeH and although I am in serious trouble of incurring a massive token cost by crossing the Circle Line and staying in the same zone, using a ghost station will get me out of the trap I have set myself.
So White City.

	04-08-2003 14:19									#165
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A quick change at Ealing Broadway allows me to stay outside the Circle line and make an exhibition of myself at Earls Court

That throws the game open. Who has the nerve to make a decisive move from there?

	06-08-2003 16:26									#166
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BUMP!

	06-08-2003 17:08									#167
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A bit Kafakaesque maybe, but still: WATERLOO. And yes, i saw those tokens... question is: do you know why i left them there?

	06-08-2003 17:54									#168
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Having awaited the customary two move interval I can take another turn.
I can force Wombat into a Cardinal retraction (would've been more appropriate for Richelieu but never mind) by taking a presumptuous three-quarter strile to Tooting Bec.
I therefore land a barrier of indigo tokens at Euston and until someone can remove them the southern access to MC is completely blocked. Hurrah!

	06-08-2003 18:09									#169
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Kensington Olympia

	06-08-2003 18:29									#170
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I'm not sure that I can bear the tension of this game.

Paddington

	06-08-2003 18:51									#171
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MORNINGT...

wait...



DAMN! The tokens!

MONUMENT it is then.

	06-08-2003 19:12									#172
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I have badly misjudged my Corsican riposte and have plunged everyone into the horror that is....

Dollis Hill!!!!!

	06-08-2003 19:24									#173
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Excuse me but...

quote: Originally posted by monolith94 Monument

Or have I confused the Wembley Park and Wimbledon rule sets?

	06-08-2003 19:32									#174
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I thought it was OK because Richelieu's played Tooting Beck.

	06-08-2003 19:55									#175
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You are correct in your confusion. Sort of. :hm:
Under the Wimbledon Park rule set then of course Monument would be under Cunliffe's Reserve at this point, but since we're using the Wembley p;ark rules then fair play to Richelieu. (I was tempted to suggest the Wimbledon rules, but I didn't want to give non-Brits a grossly unfair advantage).

I played Tooting Bec!

Much good may it do you stuck in the Dollis Hill Loop though.

	06-08-2003 20:10									#176
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I withdraw my query. Since bishops are topical, the only way "out" is to Southwark

That has cost me an inordinate amount of tokens but I expect to recover my outlay.

	06-08-2003 20:15									#177
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I now have a query of my own.
Can you show you had the necessary LV to escape the fabled Dollis Hill Loop after a single circumnavigation thereof? More experienced players have been stuck in there for many hours and it has even led to games being drawn after the players used their tokens unwisely and failed to muster the right LV to escape.

	06-08-2003 20:47									#178
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Of course. You will recall that I visited Earls Court and was able to drop in at the exhibition centre. The current exhibition is the Great British Beer Festival.

http://www.eco.co.uk/website/ecomai...in?openframeset

I think you will find that my bonus score for managing to visit an event of priority interest during the game has enabled me to accumulate enough additional LV to pull off the minor miracle of escaping from Dollis Hill.

I await an adjudication.

	06-08-2003 20:50									#179
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quote: Originally posted by duke o' york I played Tooting Bec!

I told you I was rubbish at this variation - hence the obvious moves.

	06-08-2003 21:46									#180
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My move was perfectly legal, as was shown above...

Maida Vale

Yeah, I tend to go for the moves that baffle, I know, and often bend the rules, but what can I say? I like to live on the edge of the crescent....