The Return Of... Mornington Crescent

[duke o' york]

BUMP!

[Richelieu]

A bit Kafakaesque maybe, but still: WATERLOO. And yes, i saw those tokens... question is: do you know why i left them there?

[duke o' york]

Having awaited the customary two move interval I can take another turn.
I can force Wombat into a Cardinal retraction (would've been more appropriate for Richelieu but never mind) by taking a presumptuous three-quarter strile to Tooting Bec.
I therefore land a barrier of indigo tokens at Euston and until someone can remove them the southern access to MC is completely blocked. Hurrah!

[MikeH]

Kensington Olympia

[CerberusIV]

I'm not sure that I can bear the tension of this game.

Paddington

[Richelieu]

MORNINGT...

wait...



DAMN! The tokens!

MONUMENT it is then.

[duke o' york]

I have badly misjudged my Corsican riposte and have plunged everyone into the horror that is....

Dollis Hill!!!!!

[CerberusIV]

Excuse me but...

Originally posted by monolith94
Monument

Or have I confused the Wembley Park and Wimbledon rule sets?

[MikeH]

I thought it was OK because Richelieu's played Tooting Beck.

[duke o' york]

You are correct in your confusion. Sort of. :hm:
Under the Wimbledon Park rule set then of course Monument would be under Cunliffe's Reserve at this point, but since we're using the Wembley p;ark rules then fair play to Richelieu. (I was tempted to suggest the Wimbledon rules, but I didn't want to give non-Brits a grossly unfair advantage).

I played Tooting Bec!

Much good may it do you stuck in the Dollis Hill Loop though.

[CerberusIV]

I withdraw my query. Since bishops are topical, the only way "out" is to Southwark

That has cost me an inordinate amount of tokens but I expect to recover my outlay.

[duke o' york]

I now have a query of my own.
Can you show you had the necessary LV to escape the fabled Dollis Hill Loop after a single circumnavigation thereof? More experienced players have been stuck in there for many hours and it has even led to games being drawn after the players used their tokens unwisely and failed to muster the right LV to escape.

[CerberusIV]

Of course. You will recall that I visited Earls Court and was able to drop in at the exhibition centre. The current exhibition is the Great British Beer Festival.

http://www.eco.co.uk/website/ecomain.nsf/main?openframeset

I think you will find that my bonus score for managing to visit an event of priority interest during the game has enabled me to accumulate enough additional LV to pull off the minor miracle of escaping from Dollis Hill.

I await an adjudication.

[MikeH]

Originally posted by duke o' york
I played Tooting Bec!

I told you I was rubbish at this variation - hence the obvious moves.

[monolith94]

My move was perfectly legal, as was shown above...

Maida Vale

Yeah, I tend to go for the moves that baffle, I know, and often bend the rules, but what can I say? I like to live on the edge of the crescent....