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« Reply #400 on: April 15, 2009, 02:48:54 am » |
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You can't break an Upminster Double Loop by moving to Dollis Hill. OPB, your move is invalid, and you have to pay 2 (two) strumpet tokens.
I was actually attempting to set a double-double-nested loop into motion, rather than to break the existing loop. For Science! The topology, you see, should have been fascinating. Ah well, nothing ventured ... |
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Another Entirely Reasonable Opinion from Bill P_______, Nul.D. (Unseen U.), F.R.S.*, Restorer of Old Photographs, Sexagenarian Boy Genius and SUPREME NERD GOD!!! (score=98) Down in the Bear Cave under Cantabrigia Castle, Geekhaven, MA, US* http://forum.retrofuturist.org |
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« Reply #401 on: April 15, 2009, 05:35:10 am » |
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Aha! I play "Hostile Takeover" and thereby steal all of the strumpet tokens. Then I pay thirty nut-brown tokens and declare free ale throughout London town until the end of my next turn.
The endgame isn't far...
...oh, and Upminster
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"The man who is clever and lazy however is for the very highest command; he has the temperament and nerves to deal with all situations."
--General Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, clearly talking about me.
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« Reply #402 on: April 15, 2009, 07:38:43 am » |
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Well that puts me in ebriation and no mistake. Fortunately that means I can break the loop with a move to Euston Square.
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« Reply #403 on: April 15, 2009, 10:55:46 am » |
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Well, if you've truly no consideration against such a move, so be it, but I can't say as I found myself entirely upset by it, seeing how easily it played into my plans for...
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If I have to choose between loving you or breathing, I will use my last breath to say "I love you." -- Estevan Shu
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« Reply #404 on: April 15, 2009, 10:59:23 am » |
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Oxford Street (not too far from Marble Arch anyway)
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« Reply #405 on: April 15, 2009, 11:58:00 am » |
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Oxford Street? You do play a dirty game, don't you? Still, the possiblity such a move might be taken wasn't ENTIRELY unprepared-for, although it does force me to make a silghtly less-optimal play than I might otherwise have desired. Nonetheless, I doubt you'll find my next play entirely beneficial to your plans, and as simply throwing a spanner in your works was all the strategy left available to me after your inspired previous play, I find I must engage in such. Portland Place, my friend.
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« Reply #406 on: April 15, 2009, 12:46:58 pm » |
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Dirty game? *righteous indignation*
Oxford Street is not in Soho, I believe...
Has anyone seen my Cape Town Expansion set? Where did I put it... It is about time...
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« Reply #407 on: April 15, 2009, 03:01:16 pm » |
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Stockton Joans:
Gentleman
Tinkerer
Part time Illithid hunter
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« Reply #408 on: April 15, 2009, 03:42:14 pm » |
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Gloucester Road
(It's probably all of the free beer.)
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"At least those oddballs are interesting" - My Wife.
I'm British but living in America. This might explain my spelling.
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« Reply #409 on: April 16, 2009, 02:19:34 pm » |
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Gloucester Road? Interesting, interesting. A move I'd expect from someone who studied the Kalberg-Tradersson match of 1901 with a mind to the edrition counter-cross played in the seventh phase via star lines. I take it you've researched the match? I remind you, however, that such a move did ultimately lead to Mr. Tradersson getting himself caught in a repeating blindback loop for the better part of the nineteenth phase. Granted this is only due to Miss Kalberg playing as her next move a cross-shift towards Northumberland Avenue, but as the saying goes, why fix what isn't broken? Northumberland Avenue it shall be. Enjoy!
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« Reply #410 on: April 16, 2009, 09:25:41 pm » |
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You fools have utterly failed to guess and derail (pun intended) my plan!
I move to Whitechapel and play all of my stolen Strumpet tokens. Jack the Ripper is thereby drawn in...but even he cannot resist free ale! He drinks his fill, and must answer nature's call...but then he falls under the mind-control of Brunel's Telepathic Clockwork Water Closets! London beware!
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« Reply #411 on: April 16, 2009, 09:33:17 pm » |
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Noooooo! Not the dreaded Water Closet.
Luckily, I can play Wellington Boots of Thames Crossing now (although I would have needed them later).
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« Reply #412 on: April 17, 2009, 09:16:17 am » |
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Ah, but with that play, there may well not BE a later! I'll take the Tower Bridge, thank you.
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« Reply #413 on: April 17, 2009, 10:22:30 am » |
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Time Stop!
In deed, no later (for now)! Muahahaha! (strokes beard)
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« Reply #414 on: April 17, 2009, 10:25:12 am » |
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Time stop, is it? Well, that just makes things even easier! If time itself is out of play at present, there's nothing then to stop me from taking the Houses of Parliament without having to spend so much as a puce token! Thank you SO MUCH, my esteemed opponent!
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« Reply #415 on: April 17, 2009, 10:59:11 am » |
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Time stop, is it? Well, that just makes things even easier! If time itself is out of play at present, there's nothing then to stop me from taking the Houses of Parliament without having to spend so much as a puce token! Thank you SO MUCH, my esteemed opponent!
Oh, you are playing on that board. That is purrrfectly alright. |
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« Reply #416 on: April 17, 2009, 01:01:58 pm » |
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That board? I'm playing a basic London board! The selfsame standard board that's been in play since 1874. What do you... oh. OH! You thought I was working off a variant Chronotraumatic Variant board, such as the one made famous in the August-October 1911 match between Stephen Aldercross and William Montgomery King. No, no. Mr. King lost his position in the Grand Society for that stunt. Why on Earth would I be silly enough to try it?
So, have you a move planned, or are you going to let this game stall in Parliament? (Not that it would be the first thing to get tabled there and die....)
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« Reply #417 on: April 17, 2009, 01:09:31 pm » |
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I still haven't found my Cape Town extension set...
(and where's the cat anyway?)
I shall bribe the cap driver then *sigh*
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« Reply #418 on: April 17, 2009, 01:22:00 pm » |
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Ah! I see your strategy, there. Consistantly play the non-locational options, thus tricking me into thinking I've control of the board by taking road after road, location after location, when in reality you're planning to swoop in near to the last second and take Mornington Crecent yourself! Unfortunately for you, I've seen through your plan! So, I'm simply going to play this against your flow and Swim the Thames. Enjoy!
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« Reply #419 on: April 17, 2009, 01:30:40 pm » |
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Ah! I see your strategy, there. Consistantly play the non-locational options, thus tricking me into thinking I've control of the board by taking road after road, location after location, when in reality you're planning to swoop in near to the last second and take Mornington Crecent yourself! Unfortunately for you, I've seen through your plan! So, I'm simply going to play this against your flow and Swim the Thames. Enjoy!
Off-Topic: Powergaming, in a virtual/imaginary game without rules? |
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« Reply #420 on: April 17, 2009, 01:34:56 pm » |
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Off topic: Hardly powergaming, my friend. Playing to win!  |
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« Reply #421 on: April 17, 2009, 01:37:41 pm » |
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Off topic: Hardly powergaming, my friend. Playing to win! Exactly... It's like I post: Drain Thames and teleport the bed and 500 foot on each side of the river way out into space. Take over London, rule the World and burn the game and all copies so I will be the eternal champion.What's the point? |
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« Reply #422 on: April 17, 2009, 01:38:55 pm » |
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My apologies. If I am not playing to your standards, I will back out of the game presently. Forgive me.
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elShoggotho
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Tinkering for its own sake
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« Reply #423 on: April 17, 2009, 02:34:07 pm » |
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Play to win, but keep it civil. It's in the foundations of the game!
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DAMN YOU LINEAR CAUSALITY!!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!!
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« Reply #424 on: April 17, 2009, 03:58:38 pm » |
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theirs only one thing for it, Steam Pistols at the dawn of time.
or we all sit down and discuss it over a nice cup of tea, your choice
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