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(...) Hunta? I've played Junta (and just about every other game under the sun), but not Hunta. :-) (...) Tikal is my current favorite. Bruce (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Have you played Stephenson's Rocket? I can't get enough of it. Chris (25 years ago, 14-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) What, pray tell, is this? By the title, I'd adjudge it to do with railroads, but is it a PC game, a board game, or what? My faves in the RR genre: PC: Railroad Tycoon (original, strangely enough) Board: 1830 when serious, Eurorails or Iron (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Board. It is of German origin. It's by Reiner Knizia and distributed in English in the US by Rio Grande Games. It's a fairly abstract board game, but is very very challenging. I most highly reccommend it. (...) I've played a few hundred hours (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I got a copy of the original from ebay for $2, on the grounds that I remember spending hours with it years ago. To my great dismay, it seems to _require_ a numeric keypad -- something my Libretto subnotebook lacks. :( (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Sounds good. Can you tell more about it? For example, I consider 1830 more "abstract" than eurorails. One of the reasons I like 1830 is the stock market manipulation. What do you mean by abstract.. For flat out beer and pretzels, it's tough to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) but (...) OK. Knizia's games (the ones that I know at least) seem to have a fairly small ruleset by which the players manipulate stuff within a fixed space. These game/rule/logic systems have a veneer of theme pasted on. Often, even the best (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yes, a number of times. Jury's still out on this one. I'll definitely play it again, but the scoring system tends to be completely incomprehensible to beginners, and what you need to emphasize seems to change dependant upon number of players (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <snipped synopsis> (...) Perused them. Seems to have a bit of Acquire-ish thinking, in how stuff merges. Well, I'll give it a go if I see it. (...) Ya, it's simple. Good mundanes game. I tend to buy every railroad game I encounter, so I did. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) ka-snip (...) We don't really bother with the board game version at all anymore - 1830 straight off the computer. It plays *much* faster that way. (...) 53(?...Imperial (...) We've 18xxed out in general (except on the computer). Perhaps those (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Mike, you have a copy to sell cheap? (...) Your review in general, and this paragraph in specific makes it sound like it's worth a try. <Lionel Trans Con PC game> (...) Yeah! I hate the teaching of incorrect stuff. That's really irresponsible (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Interestingly, the computer version of 1830 sold me on the real board game. I had played 1829, but when 1830 first came out, I passed on it because I thought the smaller board would make the game less interesting. Definitely not so. (...) I (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) This may be old news, but I just discovered that Iron Dragon is being created as a PC game. See (URL) for a few details. Chris (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I do too. And I agree that 18xx is fully an economic game. (...) Have you seen the new version? I just picked it up Saturday morning. It's pretty. The game doesn't need to be pretty, but it is nicer. Chris (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I had not realized it was out. Is it more like 1st edition or second edition Acquire? (The major difference was the "special actions" showed up in second edition... -JDF (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Cool. thanks Hopefully they will reuse the basic game engine to do some of the other non fantasy based ones too. ++Lar (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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