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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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| | | | | Re: Stephenson's Rocket —Christopher L. Weeks
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Stephenson's Rocket —Larry Pieniazek
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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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| | | | | | | | | Re: Stephenson's Rocket —Christopher L. Weeks
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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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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Stephenson's Rocket —Larry Pieniazek
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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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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Stephenson's Rocket —Christopher L. Weeks
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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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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Stephenson's Rocket —Frank Filz
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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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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Stephenson's Rocket —Christopher L. Weeks
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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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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Stephenson's Rocket —John D. Forinash
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Stephenson's Rocket —Bruce Schlickbernd
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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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| | | | | Re: Stephenson's Rocket —Matthew Miller
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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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| | | | | Iron Dragon (was: Re: Stephenson's Rocket) —Christopher L. Weeks
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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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| | | | | | Re: Iron Dragon (was: Re: Stephenson's Rocket) —Larry Pieniazek
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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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