Mornington Crescent

[Pablo]

I play Mornington Crescent.

Perhaps we can set up a separate thread if there is enough interest?

Right, a simple one so the newbies can get involved too. Since the network is largely suspended, we'll play the Cambridge Standard Rules, with broken escalators as wild.

I'll start: Chalfont & Latimer

 

[Dickie E]

Chalfont & Latimer

and invoking hooper’s mainline variation:

Ruislip Manor

 

[SimonSmith]

I think you'll find the Nelson Paradox will take me to Tooting Bec

 

[crossref]

Walthamstow
(the rules changed in 2017, look it up)

 

[belladonna]

Walthamstow
(the rules changed in 2017, look it up)

I thought the International Mornington Crescent Board said those rules didn't actually change anything, though, CR.

Does that put you in nid?

I invoke Ellis's Oblate Spheroid Uplift and go to Richmond.

 

[Pablo]

I thought the International Mornington Crescent Board said those rules didn't actually change anything, though, CR.

Does that put you in nid?

I invoke Ellis's Oblate Spheroid Uplift and go to Richmond.

From Richmond, I'll play a Back Hand and take us to Leicester Square.

(And I think you'll find Ellis's spheroid was prolate. If I'm being picky, I could deduct you a mark.)

 

[crossref]

Does that put you in nid?

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always in NID

 

[belladonna]

From Richmond, I'll play a Back Hand and take us to Leicester Square.

(And I think you'll find Ellis's spheroid was prolate. If I'm being picky, I could deduct you a mark.)

Oh gosh. I think that puts me in nid, too

 

[crossref]

Oh gosh. I think that puts me in nid, too

surely that would give pablo way too much advantage

 

[SimonSmith]

Walthamstow
(the rules changed in 2017, look it up)

With respect, the 2019 rewrite, while ostensibly not changing anything from 2017, had quite a material effect on the rules.

As a result, this move may not be considered valid.

 

[crossref]

As a result, this move may not be considered valid.

is it possible to just manage it?

 

[belladonna]

With respect, the 2019 rewrite, while ostensibly not changing anything from 2017, had quite a material effect on the rules.

As a result, this move may not be considered valid.

You've got a point there.

Please have a turn - crossref and I are still in nid

 

[Balones]

Just to confirm, we are playing the English language version? The Spanish version has nuances in translation which aren’t quite the same rules.

 

[SimonSmith]

Just to confirm, we are playing the English language version? The Spanish version has nuances in translation which aren’t quite the same rules.

I think you'll find that's "matiz" in translation...

 

[Balones]

I think you'll find that's "matiz" in translation...

Si, claro.

 

[beckett50]

Ok. so from what I understand is that we have two players in NID and the move to WALTHAMSTOW has been allowed because it wasn't material?

CANARY WHARF

 

[L'irlandais]

Sorry to moan, but I find it a tad unfair playing Richmond so early in the round, especially if we want Newbies to join in. Not only, have you effectively blocked any chance of Brentwood to Waterloo. [Bummer for anybody who wanted to introduce any 28mm miniatures.] But also, any chance of Sunbury-on-Thames to Liverpool Street is well and truly snookered.

Madejski’s variations, would (technically) allow for the Master stroke; Reading. (Outside London Underground Zone 1-6, I know). But now that it is official – (... since December 2019) Reading is part of the London Underground and has been put on the iconic map of the Tube. I am sorely tempted to go for it.

However, I will just have to play it safe for now with Ealing Broadway

 

[crossref]

Bwah ha ha ...
Did you not realise that would immediately release me from nid??

MORNINGTON CRESCENT

 

[L'irlandais]

Bloody hell! I walked straight into that one. Where’s Declan Kidney when the 'Phone a Friend' lifeline is needed?

Leaves me wondering if Reading would have been acceptable under the rules as they stand. I mean the club’s still called London Irish, right? Even, if they are playing away from home, as it were.

In any case, it’s first in last out, as far as nid is concerned*. So you can’t actually pass Go and mustn’t collect £200 until belladonna is first released. Surely? [*Or technically last in, first out.] Someone has left an assassination team outside the gaol, so I am not sure he will be too keen on getting out of there all that quickly.

 

[L'irlandais]

If the rule makers could hurry up and take a decision on belladonna getting out of Nidd, or not. And decide about any subsequent embuscade by 28mm scale miniatures, while you are at it. I m not sure the urban terrain allows for it, to be honest.

I play Elephant & Castle terminus (Bakerloo line), which will allow other players to change to the Northern line, just in case the escalator is still broken.