Mornington Crescent, or, Journey up the Northern Line

[BlackCat]

But the crossed leylines over MC would restrict your movement outside London, unless the rules chosen expressly state so, and I believe that is snoopy's call.

What are you talking about ? I think that I have the whole Danelagen to roam in.

Snoopy may have an opinion and is certainly allowed to express it, and he surely shouldn't care about that little buch of war galleys in his proximity

[duke o' york]

Well it's the raping and pillaging across London town that may put him off his strategy.

Furthermore, I'm not sure that the citizens of London ever paid Danegeld. Now were this game to be played in Hull you would have a strong point.

[BlackCat]

Well, Snoopy has his free will and can make his decisions unbiased.

Oh, Snoopy, don't worry about the noise from our axe sharpening - it's just "maintenance"

[duke o' york]

Pinner takes all DrSpike's tokens from him, and distributes them among the other players.

[Spiffor]

Nice move

I can now move to Paddington, thus blocking Imran's progression nothrwards (I can't believe you guys didn't see his fatal move coming)

[DrSpike]

Pinner takes all DrSpike's tokens from him, and distributes them among the other players.

I spent most of them on my last move anyway. A new player such as yourself won't have spotted this but it was an key move setting up a transfuggle to Holborn, which repels the Viking invaders, covers all of Duke's station in 3 feet of snow, and makes me very happy.

[Krill]

Back to Hammersmith, using the Wilson reversal that prohibits repeating movements, after moving the game back 3 turns so everyone, hand back your tokens, find you places, and go...in otherwords, we just restarted

[duke o' york]

'Neasden Mother Brown', as the old song goes. (Apologies for inflicting this on stormerne at CFC almost seven years ago. )

[Cort Haus]

Kings Cross

[chequita guevara]

I start with the Ross Noble Gambit, beautifully played in his first game.

Mornington Crescent!

[Cort Haus]

Yeah but we're not playing congestion charge zone only, so you'll need to shunt three pink tokens up your exhaust-flue and miss two turns for a move that is not only illegal, but decidedly vulgar, Che.

Sorry, old chap.

[Spiffor]

Indeed, really

No, let's restore the feeling of the game as it was before Che's interference. The loss of my DrSpiky tokens removes some of my options, but a parallel move is still possible

Bank not only nets me two red tokens, but it also flashes Krill outwards

[chequita guevara]

Nope, it was a legit move, and perfectly legal under every set of form of the game going to Tudor Court Rules. Your mistake was in assuming that the Kensington Convention of 1867 prevented such play, but it was ruled out of order in the Peoria Tournament of 1899. That ruling has been upheld in every convention since the 1915 Ypres Express Round.

[duke o' york]

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?p=5521354#post5521354

I refer you to the above post, which makes clear that although your move to MC was legitimate according to the relative positions of the players, it is not legitimate to join a game with MC as your first move. The wise owls of the Mornington Convention noticed this anomaly and ruled against it as recently as 1762, under the auspices of their chairman the noble Lord Schnapp. Feel free to try another move though.

I shall move to Cyprus, although more than likely the Greek side.

[Solomwi]

That allows me to cut off duke o' york's most obvious route of approach by using five blue tokens to get to Malta in a classic De Vaubois Gambit.