Mornington Crescent

Here's the map we'll be using: http://images.intolondon.com/images/intolondon/transport-maps/london-underground-tube-map.gif

Dude, thank you so much for running a Harrish game (S4's fine, any other edition would be cool as well). It seems like every other game I find is using the same old Amberly ruleset - which was great when it came out, but now it's been twinked to hell - everyone just camps Embankment and Euston and any time you try to break it up by approaching from the Finsbury direction they shunt you down the Central line. It's fun sometimes - last time I nearly sent someone all the way down to Epping, they used a Woodford ralley at the last minute to get out of it. But it's pretty much played out imo.

Anyway to your Harrish. Let's keep this simple to start with; Edgware Road. That stops things from getting out of control, while opening up the Mallory Gambit for the midgame (if you dare, heh!).

It's a risky move, but I'm going to take a gamble and capture Oxford Circus.

*yawn* That was new in the 90s, it's almost textbook now. Bank, obviously - weakens your Central while giving me options on several different signal lines.

By the way, after your response I'm gonna hold off my next move to see if anyone else comes in. You said in the SB that you wanted to run this as a Zone 4, so we could do with at least 2 more - your thoughts?

When in doubt, work by the Textbook, or in this case 13.8 Due to the arch of Oxford Circus and Seven Kings, with point of Banks, I gain Victoria Line bonus for this turn and move on to Seven Kings.

Working by textbook is so predictible. I think you need someone to shake you up a bit. I'm going to take a gamble and do a double reverse turn to move to Canning Town, entering into zone 3 and opening up new routes of play whilst avoiding a triple blockoff.

Now we're rolling! Or, to put it more correctly, rolling stock. Now that the south-east is opened up, Mayfair rules from S3 of Harrish let the signalman bring in stock from the East India, and unless I'm mistaken, Bank + one minor station makes me the signalman. So I'm deploying stock as a free move to jam the DLR at Limehouse. That avoids a long DLR runabout (I was chatting to Sev a while ago about DLR games, I hate them) while giving me at least two z2 tickets for later use unless Numenor closes his station.

For my actual move, I'll consolidate signalling with another major station: London Bridge.

Well then, since the game has been upped a level, I'm going for the infamous chigwell corner turn, enabling me to hold the first zone area for the redbridge. Now, checking S4 I see that this means I can cause one train to stall for one 24 hour period. I'll hold this I think, because it may come in useful. Especially with those z2 tickets.

um, you're not holding my train, are you?

EDIT: hold Numenor and we can isolate him in the east side of the map, that gives me mid and you left + some top.