Mornington Crescent - The Nisbet Strikes Back

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Seneca
You can't declare Mornington Crescent without at least 14 of them, and they also prevent your opponents from defructifying your teflips - very useful if you can get them.

but I have declared and one against the computer without any and the last game the winner did not have 14

are you sure it is not just for certain stations?

Jon Miller

[Seneca]

That was just a beginners' tutorial - most new players don't bother with nisbets.

[Imran Siddiqui]

And the computers internalize the nisbits .

[Jon Miller]

do I get one for Canonbury ??

Jon Miller

[Imran Siddiqui]

Check the rule book..

Let's see.... you did a minor Nibetian Hallow Bitual, so that would be 2.3 nisbits, but the counter was done by Harrison, so you lose 1/2345 of a nisbit.

[Seneca]

Anyway, on with the show...

Fulham Broadway

[Imran Siddiqui]

Canada Water

Well... why not?

[Jon Miller]

prepare for a northern strategy

making a edgeward move to Edgware

picking up 4 Nisbets

and preparing the Northbridge maneuver of 1929

Jon Miller

[Stefu]

First you let them boil in their own little schemes, and then you come in and collect the profit: Harrow-on-the-Hill.

[Immortal Wombat]

A Type II reversed nisbet-ploy through Borough should clinch me a few nisbets.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Amateur.

Maida Vale.

Right- that fixes me as interim secessionist. I name Seneca as Cleric of Chapel. Your ball Provost, and try not to make an arse of yourself.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Bugs ****ing Bunny
Your ball Provost, and try not to make an arse of yourself.

[Kassiopeia]

Now let me see.

Bugs is clearly trying a reverse triple-Hathawayan triangle around Maida Vale. Even a beginner (like me) can see that.

I am more concerned about Immortal Wombat's interest on Borough - He could be going for the Classabethian-Sundvall or even the feared trapezoidal affection -play - which would render all my attepts for a Scrutinizer move.
But remember IW, for posting without naming a move, you get a ten-second stop-and-go penalty. So no chances for Rickmansworth there.

So, I play Goldhawk Road. Have at you both!

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by kassiopeia
But remember IW, for posting without naming a move, you get a ten-second stop-and-go penalty. So no chances for Rickmansworth there.

Ah, but that would only be if a move at that juncture was allowed. As only one person had 'moved' between my two posts, my move would have been invalid. Therefore my post does not constitute a breach of rules, negating my S&G penalty, and enabling me, after many typos, to take Rickmansworth.

haha!

[Kassiopeia]

HAHAA! I knew that! I wanted you to go to Rickmansworth!

Now, I can make a Crumpet Hammer - the move first implemented by the first and so far best Finnish MC player, Pekka Sairanen. Oh, how he prevailed over Swedish champion Sven Sundvall in the Scandinavian Mornington Crescent Games in 1965. Those were the days.

Note, I can do a move even with just one move by another player inbetween, because of the Heigelman rule #43, subclause A in the latest edition of the Heigelman rules from 1998, that clearly states that this kind of action is legal if it is used to execute a Crumpet Hammer (or an Ellipsoidical Kamikaze Flyer, by the way).

Now, Snaresbrook!