Which means you missed my purple flag, which I’m turning in for a move back to the Piccadilly line.
Arsenal
Let’s see you get MC in two now.
Well, in my copy the Triangulation Rule is only hinted at (on pages 142-145), but I have a feeling that in the 1982 revision all the page numbers from the original were reversed, so you need to look at pages 541, 441, 341, and 241. Let’s hope the cat missed all those!
You are right, of course - what an elementary error! But still moot, as I said.
Picadilly does seem to have sidestepped lynne’s cunning effort, but I still need to tread carefully. I can’t be bothered to check the thread, but I don’t believe I am in knip, so I think Goodge Street is safe. I would have preferred to utilise the double-o in Waterloo, but I don’t really want to take the out-of-bounds penalty.
How about this?
Pontoon Duck was played early on, followed short by hassocks declared. Hassocks allows me to answer Goodge Street by skipping without playing Old Street, and play…
Mornington Crescent.
Indeed, the 1982 revision has the page numbers reversed. I happened to be reading through it last night, comparing MCE to Rashi, and I did go over page 441. Curiously, pages 442 and 440 were clawed beyond recognition, but 441 showed no harm whatsoever. This is what happens when a cat gets inside a sealed box.
Bricker’s play direct to MC leaves me a little :dubious:, especially after I had played Wimbledon Park, trebled.
Nice try, Bricker, but you’ll have to do better than that. Red Skeezix declared Street Fog on page one. Fog has never been mentioned again, ergo it is still a factor, ergo you can’t skip Old Street.
Lynne - I’m surprised at your comment that we seem to be nearing the end game. Personally, I would have thought the opening skirmishes were just drawing to a close as some early mid-game strategies begin to emerge.
As Churchill said after El Alamein, this is not the end, nor even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Not only did Bricker miss the fog, we’re still under Tudor Court Rules, which prohibit the MC Direct attacks., unless you declare Anne’s Head Forfeit, which is explicitly prohibited by Jones&Wales MC Expurgated Quarterly Vol. XXIV, pp 37b.1 to VLIV(A1).
So, to the early midgame!
Swiss Cottage
A neat Zone 2 squeeze play there, Wargamer! Aggressive, but without leaving too much of an exposed flank. You’ve been studying Siegbahn on Strategy methinks!
Time for a three-line play, just to spice things up a bit:
Farringdon.
Blast Red Skeezix, and damn his heirs and assigns.
OK, fair enough. That rule is rather basic, and I don’t know how I missed. it.
In my defense, Wargamer dropped Gold Transfer Tokens on London Bridge, which is not legal during street fog, and from then on I simply forgot that condition.
BUT – I would ask that since I explicitly indicated a force to Old Street was not necessary with hassocks in play, it was clearly my intention to recognize the force to Old Street. So post #203 should be construed as a play of Old Street by me.
Wargamer can choose to play Swiss Cottage still, of course, as it is a perfectly fair Jubilee Line play regardless, but it requires an additional westbound count of three. In fairness he may wish to play another, and in fairness, you may all wish to say that #203 is a nullity based on my error.
(Aside to Scuba Ben: I’m sorry, but since Wimbledon Park is in the bounds of Merton Borough, the Priory Rule excepts all multipliers attempted following a Northern Line play… which yours was, as you recall, following Tooting Bec)
ETA: Never mind. It’s gone beyond two plays, and no reconsideration can apply. Slow typing. )
Crud.
I should’ve known that. The Priory Rule was used to good effect in the Carbon County, UT, championships this past June, and I was there at the time. I particularly remember my surprise at MC’s popularity in the Great Basin – but if you’re not digging something up (usually coal, sometimes paleoanthropology or fossil hunts), there’s not a whole lot to do out there.
Also, it’s legal to drop tokens on London Bridge even during street fog. But then the tokens can’t be picked up, due to the fog. At least, that’s my understanding of Mornington Crescent for Dummies, Vol. XIX.
ETA: Duh, I should make a move! We normally play with the DLR {I often set up moves to Tower Hill and get trumped with Tower Gateway}, so I’ll go for the two-line play at Canary Wharf and randomly redistribute tokens.
Canary Wharf? This should be interesting. Lynne has completed her ‘full house’ play (five moves) on Paddington, which is of course one of only two four-line stations. Given that CW was played as a two-line play, it’s lucky that Pad and CW don’t share any line in common, or else Lynne would have immediately won out-right! However, if someone were to go for the a three-line play (e.g. Euston), there’s a distinct chance of a Hogg Lateral Shift play that could lead to a very strong advantage, if it’s played correctly and if the rest of us aren’t very careful.
Perivale, and “in the hole” one to protect against crossruff.
Guys, I’m sort of troubled by all the editing going on in this thread. If you have add’l comments, can you put them in a new post? Otherwise what’s to stop Ben, say, from changing his Canary Wharf to South Ealing once he saw Bricker’s play? Or, Christ, Marble Arch even! I know this is just a friendly game, but this is the sort of stuff that people lose their tournament cards over. (Remember Bullfinch at the Invitational in, what, '93? '95 maybe.)
–Cliffy
Was that the fork incident?
Oxford Circus
No, that wasn’t at the Invitational but at a Welsh regional. But it was the same year – the wiki says they were both '93. Man, that guy had a tough season.
In response to your Oxford Circus, how about Bank? (Eastbound registration, obv.)
–Cliffy
Yippee! ‘Bank’ and ‘East’ are both four letters and have a matching vowel, allowing me to play my favourite again…
Totteridge & Whetstone
Yay, twice in one game! I’ve never managed this before!
Quite simply, editing like that just wouldn’t be cricket. MC practice rigorously opposes changing a move after the next move has been made. That’s so obvious, no rules authority sees a need to spell it out.
Now in nomic, all rules have to be spelled out. Fortunately we’re playing MC not nomic. (Been there, done that, got tired of it.)
Bond Street
Just to continue off the four letter continuum, Bank and Bond are both four letter words that start with ‘B’.
Up or down?
Baker Street
An increase of one letter (still starting with B) lands me four green tokens.
/quotes entire thread.
I thought I spoke and understood english.
I was wrong.
<teasing myself, not you; blame the Threadspotting for luring me into where I have no place being!
Entertaining, though. 
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Barons Court, up to 6, and I’ll take a Green Oyster Card!