Mornington Crescent

>>50432293
Bath spa

>>50432325
A canny use of a parallel manoeuvre!

I'll use a chance card, which means my next play has to be...
>Birmingham International

>>50432357
Damn, I'll have to go around
>Barbican

>>50432293
Okay, that sounds interesting. Can some britfriend explain the game? You need to get to mornington crescent station in the least number of stops?

>>50432357
Is anon allowed to use a chance card after a parallel manoeuvre? I thought one had to move in opposite directions before using a chance card.

Umpire! Can we get an umpire in the thread?

>>50432407
East Rislip

>>50432407
Ah, see, you've misinterpreted how Englebert's Crossover works when we're playing a northern variant. I'm afraid you're going to have to forfeit your turn. I'd highly recommend the learning workshop they hold in Tewkesbury town hall every third Wednesday, that should iron out the issue for you.

Anyway, I guess I'll go:
Stroud

>>50432417
Not the two anons playing, I'm: >>50432424

I'll explain it to you after they've finished.

>>50432424
I believe that the 1983 central European quarter finals in Podgorica confirmed that you indeed can. (Khan v. Papiphilipopolous)

>>50432417
I'll assume you're familiar with the core rules of the game. Fundamentally, in a Leicester Standard match you have to use a combination of 'rollick' and 'stepwise' plays to position yourself advantageously, without depleting your own treasury or letting too many cards be in play at once, which I'm sure you can see why you'd want to avoid that!

>>50432469
I thought that ruling got overturned in the 1995 Paris Special.

>>50432465
What, you're spectating? Really? We have enough space for 7 1/2 more players, it'd be a shame not to join in!

>>50432443
Well, looks like we've exceeded the time limit between plays, looks like I get to go again!
>Bradford-upon-Avon

>>50432483
That only applies if we're using Leicester Standard, north-WESTERN variant, which we aren't.

>>50432443
I think you're forgetting that Englebert's Crossover was revised for the 2003 edition and Tewkesbury had its Mornington Crescent license revoked. The revised rules state that I can choose to either forfeit my turn or make a play on the Leicester Line but >>50432496 has invoked the 'time play rule' so I concede this turn

>>50432496
Elephant and Castle

>>50432511
What degree of Castle?

>>50432293
>>50432325
Not wanting to make a move, but couldn't very well pass up the historical connotations of this opening gambit - it naturally calls to mind images of the Battle of Lansdowne, but also the running battles between ruffians and brigands in the village of Warmley for the rights to predate the roads between the cities of Bath and Bristol. Gallant highwaymen and low bandits plied their trade in the wake of the civil war, which was finally brought to an end two hundred years later with the establishment of the railway in Somerset. The two cities, with their surrounding towns and villages, flourished economically and forged strong links between the two cities.

Often referred to as the "Brunel-Beckford Opening" - even though Brunel is not from Bristol, nor is Beckford from Bath - it regularly gets a cheer from workers and fans of the GWR, even if it's popularity in the last century has declined considerably. In Somerset, it is now considered tradition to follow this opening pair with a toast to the forgotten highwaymen of yore.

>>50432488
I refuse to take part these days. Like many other fans of the game, I was shocked and outraged when Charing Cross Station was split into a standard move and a surveillance post. While I love to watch good people play, making a move myself leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

>>50432511
>Elephant and Castle
Whoa. You are in for it now. Try and come back from that move!

>>50432511
Mudchute to Cockfosters, your move.

>>50432553
Trafalgar Line

I invoke the Webley Rule and move my piece into the stock exchange

>>50432553
Before we can proceed I need to know if you stopped for tea.

>>50432516
No love for the Degree rule for special names, then? I suppose it was a bit much.
Once I had a match with my old man and it took us half an hour to take three turns each.

>>50432511
>>50432551

From sheer pity for this poor sap I'll enter the field at King's Lynn and deploy Parson's castling manoeuvre. N.b the remainder of one Elephant.

>>50432572
Walthamstow Central, approaching in the fifth dimension

woah woah woah how are we working out player moves. I assumed the Russian Roulette method was in play but since Elephant and Castle has been sloppily put in are we running on the Maverick turn set?

>>50432612
I find that the Maverick turn set is good for easing international players into the game.

>>50432599
Maida Vale to Whitechapel and I'd like to play my donations to the homeless shelter now. Stops your fifth dimension quite well.

>>50432293
Ah, I'm a bit late, but looking at the state of the game, could I come in on the DLR, a la the Pickford rules?

If so, DLR to Lewisham, buying a Financial Times on the way to start countering >>50432572's Webley

>>50432753
Blackfriers to Bletchly Park - Underground parking

>>50432814
DLR this early seems risky...
Piccadilly Circus, paying the Elephant Tax.

>>50432814
Financial Times strategem. Now there's a counter to the Webley gambit you don't see much these days. Ever since Jubilee went to Stratford, I've thought FT a bit daring, and a number of older players have agreed, preferring to stick to the more reliable Westminister defense.

>>50432814
I don't see why not. If you roll two or lower, you'll look suspicious to the cctvs, though, so it could be a bit risky.

With that out of the way, now that the Barbican is empty, I'll move in my bicycle haggler.

>>50432836
>>50432855

And that's exactly what I'm talking about. You can see him setting up a Trafalgar reveal out of Piccadilly, and it's going to be a close one!

>>50432866
Not if I can help it. Moriarty's Plot, gambit at Baker's Street. Everyone in zone is in spoon for two innings.
>b-but muh ruling at '83 worlds!
Was complete shite and everyone and their mum knew it. That referee was bought off.

Rolled 6, 5 = 11 (2d6)

I'd like to jump in with:

Boston Manor
And roll for the number of delays

>>50432901
Hah, thanks to not being in the zone (based DLR) I'll be taking Monument (Lewisham->Canary Wharf->London Bridge->Monument)

Knew the general go-to for stopping a Trafalgar is a Morriaty, and now look - 3 good stations capped, with FT

>>50432836
>>50432855
>>50432857

There are a number of reasons why a DLR-Trafalgar strategy could fall flat, it's called the Risen Rooster Gambit for this reason. Combinig it with the morning papers forces everyone else to alter their strategy, however, and so even if the move is foiled, it has now forced everyone else to spend a turn buying the morning papers and reveal their social class.

I'll stay on Whitechapel, buying the Telegraph, but asking the teller to sneak a copy of the observer imside it.

>>50432948
>the observer
It's not Sunday, Mornington on Sunday is a whole different beast

Props for stacked papers though, that's a neat move - miss a go while the teller looks at you in confusion and you miss the train, but you get both your Telegraph and Guardian

>>50432948
Mmm, true dat.
Using the albaster errata, i declare nighttime. Barclay's bank.

>>50432987
Ah, but papaer stacking now causes a dirty looks card to be played, resultong in loss of point advantage in the undermap. Did you not read the january revision?

>>50433011
I forgot about the January Revision. Very well, I will wait my turn AND take the dirty looks card. Remind me about this again, does this mean I lose my donations to homeless shelter card too?

>>50433011
The Guardian is half the size, dirty looks only come if the paper is detected - for half size that's only if he fails his roll

>>50433055
I'll go Bow Road and I'll purchase a copy of 'The Sun' and offer you £20 to buy your dirty looks card off you for the double moves bonus.

>>50433073
Deal, I'll take...wait, is that all in 2p coins? Those are not legal tender at that price! You're trying to give me an encumbrance penalty are you not?'

>>50433124
>>50433073
Dude, the double dirty looks double move is cheesy enough already, no need to try and break it with the loose change ruling too.
Especially as you didn't take any of the penalties for carrying around a ton of change before, what, did you find 1000 2p's on the way or something?

I play a Rafferty Exception to get past the Baker Street keruffle without a roll but take a busking token for the Up&Down to Euston Square

>>50433191
Let me guess, you're using this garbage?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FSm2kw6W_k

I give you not a single pence, good sir. Not a single one. Back to Beckton with ye.

>>50433191
>>50433251
> Gets bumped back to Beckton, but that is exactly what he wanted for a free Lithuanian.

Clever one. I don't see a way to counter the Rafferty exception unless I take the Powell-Rivers soapbox-dismissal...which means I go to Hampstead Heath.

>>50433326
...is Powell-Rivers even allowed under Liecester Standard?

Judge?

>>50433326
>free Lithuanian
Damn, that is a nice one with the Rafferty bounce.

>>50432941
From Monument to, lets see, Stratford has been taken, so Mile End

>>50433413
Brixton via Paddington

>>50433421
Only "via" Paddington?

hop to Bethnal Green, take the stairs to the Overground - take to Liverpool Street, avoiding the shitshow that is Central in Leicester Standard

>>50433488

Haha, you fool! You expose your inexperience! You've made the same mistake Simpkins did in the first ever televised game!

Mornington Crescent!

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>>50433753
Impressive! Good game and well played. A rich game this, and I hope /tg/ will play it again some day

[Spoilers]It's basically calvinball[/Spoilers]

Splendid game lads, had me at the edge of my seat!

Fun fact: The first six moves ITT are an exact play-by-play of the infamous 1994 Hodge/Atterton match. I'm glad you guys deviated from that playstyle here, I think we all know how it "ended" (if you catch my drift).

I'll see if I find a Youtube clip of it, around the 2 hour mark, I believe. Grim business, that.

>>50433753
Well shit, a fine game

Has anyone ever played Mornington Crescent Oxbridge Advanced Edition (AKA No pennies for Mrs Thatcher's Boots)

I've heard mixed things about it and was wondering if I should introduce my gaming group to this version despite its controversies.

>>50433753
well judged, sir. I saw the opening but there's just so much you can do when you're caught out of position.

Ah well. At least this wasn't ladder.

>>50433753
Ah, damn it, of course!

Was so focused on avoiding the Central line, because Leicester Standard (the televised game was using... Queen's Rules, I believe?), I didn't even see I was falling into the Simpkins Trap

Well played sir, good game.

>>50434019
I honestly wouldn't bother with the Oxbridge Advanced. It has that MC: Baxter's Tuppence-feel to it, interspersed with the core mechanics of MoCrII GE RaD GP (Queen's Ed.).

In short, too simple.

I'll open with Matryoshka Factory (To be specific, Located in Moscow, You know the one. Yes I'm making that play.)

>>50434339
You idiot! Do you have any idea what kind of plays you've opened us up to?

>>50434348
Yes, That was my intent. Were about to get...Deep anon.

>>50434339
I counter with Westminster Abby's 'Theocratic Station'

A pandoras box of forbidden plays have been opened

>>50434458
Hmmhmm, A thinker that one is.
I expend a Matryoshka level to pass, The safest course available.

>>50434476
Well I've never been one for safety. Arnos Grove, nature rules now apply.

>>50434504
Hmm. I do believe I have a counter.
I play Monsoon, Then expend another Matryoshka Level to also play Atlantis. Water Element is now dominant.
Your move.

>>50434520
Huh. I'm not comfortable allowing you to build up an elemental control board.
London Bridge, earth counter, Fire is now dominant.

>>50434534
Ah! You were too caught up countering my elemental you opened yourself for this...
Monsoon upgrades to Hurricane, London Bridge is Falling Down! Water and Fire counter each-other, Elements equalize.

>>50434567
Curse You!. Don't you know what you've done! Now you have allowed Ether plays to be made!

>>50434567
Hallifax to Bow Station
Earth is now water. Heaven is now Earth

We're through the looking glass

>>50434585
I play Angel, for double points due to the Heaven earth Alignment!

>>50434585
Aetherial Dragon, Elements misaligned, Water becomes Fire and Earth becomes Air...
Were getting wibbly-wobbly now.
Can you keep up?
>>50434599
Blast, Another challenger? I'll have to adapt my strategy...

Now this is my kind of Mornington Crescent. I speak the words of unreality and access the nega-chunnel, using the Erkmann Technique.

>>50434768
Fool, Erkmann was a simpleton and could never tame the Nega-Chunnel, I activate my last Matryoshka and extend my reach into the stars above, Then play Drill that can Pierce the heavens. A defensive move perhaps, But one cannot be too careful of the Nega-Spiral.

>>50434799
Erkmann could not, but I am not he. As earth is now water, I pass through the darksea and arrive at Antilantis, per the Plato Maneuver AND the 1893 revisions of theocratic inversions.

Since Air and Heaven are currently in ascendency, I'll make the unconventional play and use a direct Westbound Piccadilli Line, coupled with an Elementally Misaligned Trumpington

Gentlemen, I'm taking advantage of the elements, we're going to Heathrow Airport, and with the misalignment, we're now in Oslo.

>>50434848
Fascinating, All that simply to capture my earlier Atlantis? Touche to be fair. This renders my preparations pointless...
Never the least, I unveil the center of the Nesting Doll! Golden Retriever
Which retrieves the Scepter of Kings!
>>50434852
Oslo? Blast it, How could I have prepared for...
Aha, I have it!
Third Street to Central, And take a left!
Gentlemen, I'm going for a Quest victory!

>>50434886
>I'm going for a Quest victory!
I shall use Brain Pry to name a card, and if that card is in your hand, you have to discard it.

The card I name is "The Biggest Turnip"

>>50434886
Hey, hey, we're on an anonymous imageboard, you can't just make a Quest victory condition! We don't have two weeks to go through a whole quest and we'd have to go to /qst/ anyway.

So to cut you off, I'm channeling Edgware, the Ender of the Black Line. Thunderstorm and bus services unavailable.

>>50434906
psst, biggest turnip shouldn't be in the deck since it was replaced with "train conductors on strike"

>>50434930
That's what he wants you to believe, as it was all an elaborate setup for the joke "can you think of a bigger turnip than a train conductor?"

Every time I play this game at home I go for Shenfield. Most people don't even realize Shenfield is there, even after years of playing. You can do a Liverpool swap just like half the players in the game and no one expects a thing and suddenly bam, you're Shenfield and the game is basically over at that point.

>>50434886
Damn. And with the power of Antilantis I could have teleported straight to the crescent and won.

Hmmmm. I move to Strombürg Station and buy a sack of lutefisk. This is not over yet.

>>50434967
Lutefisk? I see. Domination victory is your plan? Well too late!
>>50434906
Fool, My hand is buried under nesting dolls! You cannot pry what isn't there. Though, No I don't have a Turnip, Just AN APPLE OF LIFE!
>Ripping noises
>>50434913
You have played right into my trap, My hurricane upgrades to Cat5 at the increasing atmospheric anomaly! I unfurl my Dead Sails, Apply the Apple of Life and Sail straight to...
MORNINGTON CRESCENT!

>>50434983
Did you forget we're wibbly wobbly?
>>50434609

>>50434983
That you would if it were not for one factor you did not consider.
Heaven and Earth are still aligned, and with the Apple of Life activated, I'm afraid your Dead Sails are now just regular sails! Your ship once found protection from the sea in it's undeath, but the water it was resided in, IS NOW FIRE!

>>50435010
Oh shit. That means---
ELDRITCH ABOMINATION?

>>50434983
Ah, well played. Same trick used in the 1987 match between Reginald Forsythe and Calco the Great.

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>50435032
What I thought was Mornington Crescent was actually Zalgo's Den, This is getting rough for me. I raise the scepter of kings and demand he submit.

>>50435010
I think he did - also he ran out of Nesting Dolls when he got to the centre.

I call upon the Headless Horseman of Hampstead Heath! (as per the Wittenburg Court amendment)

Interesting game lads, but I have drawn the one card truly helpful in achieving the goal.
An Oyster Card.
I get onto an actual train at Holborn.
You have 12 minutes.

>>50435048
The last layer was removed, The center was not revealed until then.
>>50435059
...Blast
>>50435040
...Double blast! That means I'm eaten. A shame, Questing is out of the meta for a reason I'm afraid. Good luck lads.

>>50435059
Clever, clever....But I have foreseen this! Such a classic maneuver. I activate Central Strike to freeze your movements for the next five turns before launching the Camden Excursion. Don't forget that we are using the 1957 Lothwick Extension.

>>50435059
I play 'Wet Leaves on Track' and take Alternate Bus Service to Charirng Cross Station. I hope its not peak times

>>50435088
>>50435092
An interesting play, but you see, I had decided to use the Piccadilly Line and change at Leicester Square, as I wanted a seat!

>>50435105
Curses, there was a woman with a pram trying to get down the stairs.
I have been delayed.

>>50435059
A clever ploy, and a guarenteed victory!

Or it would be, if I hadn't boarded the train in the carriage ahead of you, and played my "Chit-Chat" card to the lovely Mrs. Fernsworth. Better known as The Trolley Lady! While I do indeed take a big hit to my Britbongs Stoic-ity meter, it's allowed me to secure ALL of the Shortbread Buscuits!
Your move, my good sir.

Listening to some of the old replays are pretty interesting. The automation make for a really different game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVszcAgsBxs

>>50435065
Ahem
>I unveil the center of the Nesting Doll! Golden Retriever
>>50434886

>>50435193
>it's allowed me to secure ALL of the Shortbread Buscuits!
You CAD. There are certain things we do not do out of principle.
I would write a letter of complaint to the International Mornington Crescent Committee if this were not an anonymous image board.

>>50435226
I can assure you, he failed to secure any of the hidden lockboxes.

I'll take the Victoria Line up to Seven Sisters, the newer trains should assure me the victory.

>>50435260
Seven Sisters eh! Well Camden Town! Moving into the final stages here.

>>50435274
Camden town? That opens up a spot for a new player, and I think I'm going to bust the advantages you've built up so far. I'm going to twist the traditional Slith Entry, and arrive in Charing Cross!

>>50435193
ALL the Shortbread?

Good lord.

I'll have to get a bit unconventional here - I'll pop to M&S and get some Jaffa Cakes, the United Biscuits ruling means I can take advantage of Cakes despite your shortbread.

May have to sacrifice them to the Dragon of Tower Bridge, but I'll get to that when I come to it - it may be slumbering

Well bugger this then.
I shall depart my train at King's Cross, and shall head to the theatre.

>>50435274
Ballsy move this late into the game, haven't seen this since the 1988 Hull Championships.
If my calculations are correct, I can parallel move into the last bus to Manor House. AND recover a hidden cache of what I remember being shortbread.

Wait a sec, Biscoff? What is this tomfoolery?

>>50435363
Of course!
With the elemental balance thrown off, the balance of biscuits was sure to follow!
I may be able to win this yet with a pack of custard creams!

>>50435363
Hah the shortbread is mine and with it the hidden bourbon supplies too! I switched to the Biscotti which as we all know gives you a NEGATIVE move while being consumed and I'm just sitting pretty on the East India DLR to Beckton

>>50435379
Okay, time for emergency moves to fix up this tea and shortbread build.

I move to Finsbury Park and a acquire a brand new electric kettle.

>>50435422
Beckton? You fool! Beckton is exactly where i need to be to enact the Art Banser Doubleswitch. You know what that means?


MORNINGTON CRESCENT!

>>50435435
Oh well played sir! I am very fond of the Banser maneuvers. Quiet applause.

>>50435435
HOLD UP
You called it when he arrived and not on departure, now you lost your turn.

>>50435435
Wait, he can't-

Oh, you brilliant asshole. You planned for the jaffa cakes all along, didn't you?

>>50435226
>>50435260
>>50435305
>>50435422

First off, who is this upstart whippersnapper masquerading as me?

Secondly, my esteemed gentlemen, I make a stop off at York and add a box of Digestives to my all encompassing Shortbread supply.
I also buy a new Bowler hat!

>My Visage When you all realize I am making my way towards a Biscuit Breakdown finish.

>>50435459
Incorrect sir, the doubleswitch assumes to be played on arrival, since it involves the Broken Turnstile principal.

>>50435473
When was the last time you played. the mid seventies? The Broken Turnstile was overruled.

>>50435459
No, it's like a Pung call in Mahjong, you can call it on arrivals AND departures if you shout it before the other guy does.

>>50435497
Remember its wibbly wobbly

>>50435488
Someone was not present at the 5th Sunday meeting at Tewksbury last year. Shame you missed Humberton showing his Simpkins impression.

>>50435509
Humberton is a fool and it distresses me that he still has clout.
Whatever, this game has yet to end. Having acquired a brand new electric kettle, I blitz to Dalston Junction and acquire the second component of my 5 o'clock strategy: exactly 5 boxes of earl grey tea, loose.

>>50435509
Wasn't the vote tied?

Everyone had had far too much sherry at that point, and the next issue of the Circular just mentioned the meeting happened.

>>50435461
This is distressing, but if Turnstile is overruled then I still have a chance - I'll need to quickly lose the Jaffas, but I make a beeline Camden.

Going for the pub slam, just need to finish a heavy round then I can stagger to Mornington Crescent, unless something comes up - I know it's a bit of a gamble

I take the Picadilly line from Coventry to Leicester and buy some chocolate at M&M's World.

>>50435647
So on top of being a fool, Humberton is also a drunkard. Is this the face of modern Mornington Crescent that we want?

Having spent my last blitz last turn, I'll make a second bus move to King's Cross, and get my free 5 liters of water. Thank god for the 2001 tea time rebalancing, or I would have been stuck here forever.

Five turns to win, it's on now chaps!

>>50435680

Illegal play as coventry isn't parallel to leicester. And before you quote rule 87.3 it only applies to tower hill.

>>50435750
Get with the times, old man. People have been talking about games from 1987, for crying out loud.

>>50435750

Humberton being a drunkard doesn't invalidate his opinions as the opposition is also quite spiffy on the regs.

>>50435794
>>50435795
That's fucking it, I'm going to the next meeting and putting everyone in their place.

How about a rousing game of Numberwang?

I'm glad quests disappeared so we can have threads like this instead.

>>50436905
Yes, because they are mutually exclusive.

>>50436905
Me too. Reminds me of the good old times when we still had creative threads.