I think it would be diffficult to go bankrupt in 1861, 18US ________________________________ From: 18xx@yahoogroups.com on behalf of T.G. Gottschalk Sent: Thu...
A lot of us started out not knowing it could get as cut throat as it can. It is not difficult to play any of these games cooperatively. Play the game to...
... Also 1860 (Isle of Wight) could be a choice, as in it it's impossible for a player to go bankrupt. In our group we play 18XX games socially and mainly...
... 1825 I have taught to my family, and seems easy to play with varying degrees of aggression. Not especially easy to get hold of now, unfortunately. ...
hi tom i think with a lot of 18xx games, the most problems come with how you handle the inevitable 'train- rush', that leads to trains becoming obsolete. ...
I think the friendliest 18xx game is 1861. The worst thing that can happen to a player is receiving a lot of cash when minor companies that are trainless when...
... Interesting idea Mike, but I think with the varying nature of the lentgh of the game, but with fixed case though variable share price, perhaps: (Cash +...
I am convinced that "peaceful" playing is not an evolutionary stable strategy for 1830 - meaning that the best moves are not cooperative ones. Thus, groups of...
... There's nothing that says you can't have fun while being extremely competitive. But some games are more cut-throat than others. 1861 has been suggested...
There are exceptions to this in 1835.There was apparently ,one memorable game in which the director of the Badische took too many chances,and the company was...
... 1861 is really a race to be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. The first 8-train signifies 1905, and the game ends in 1917 when ...
One feature of a cooperative game would be that RRs could place tokens to increase their runs but could never place the LAST token that sealed a city. And any...
2 people working together really well: 1)have all?an area upgrade quicker and therefor access to more of the rare tiles than other players. 2)can build around...
18AL's rules (restricting shares of any company on the open market to 50%) make it harder to dump a company on a hapless minority investor. Plenty of...
... game in which the director of the Badische took too many chances,and the company was prevented from getting a route - permanently! He was saddled with...
... Yup, and afterward I compared this "By circle build" technique to Charles Goren's successful bid of 8 Hearts in a Bridge world championship in 1958, and...
Don't most games have a 50% in the pool rule? Including the ever-harsh 1830? -- Chris Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. Not that I...
I think there might be a loophole in some games which permits the sale of a share certificate provided that there are less than 50% of shares in the...
... a share certificate provided that there are less than 50% of shares in the pool.Somebody else will have to say whether this applies to 1835,as I cannot ...
... According to the 18xx differences list this limit is 50% "... but bear in mind that the rules indicate this is checked before selling shares, after which...
... Well, Bill Stoll's page does confirm this (despite what I quoted from ... Q2.1 Can I sell a block of stock that would result in >50% in the pool? The...
The original German rules say (translated): "At no time there may be more than 50% of the shares of a company in the bankpool (exception: bankruptcy)." Klaus ...
The strange thing is, that the below sentence is missing in my "2nd Edition English translation by John Webley." At least, I can't find it. So I'm left with...
