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Jan. 6th, 2009 10:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHey,
So recently I picked up this new board game called Chicago Express (formerly Wabash Cannonball). As you might expect, it's a railroad game where the object is to buy shares in companies, advance the rail lines, and amass a huge fortune by the end of the game.
In this particular variant, you lay down little markers to represent the lines and you don't have to buy trains or run them, simply connecting towns and cities is sufficient to increase the income you receive when a payout is declared. What's made the game popular is how you have to shuffle emerging alliances. You can't win on your own, you need other people to help you. So the trick is to make offers appealing enough to get people to help you out, but not so good that you can't get ahead. Scores are usually very close and there's a lot of tough choices to make at any given point. Plus, it all plays in under 2 hours.
I'd like to try it out this Saturday afternoon (1/10). It takes 3-5 players. Anyone interested?
later
Tom
So recently I picked up this new board game called Chicago Express (formerly Wabash Cannonball). As you might expect, it's a railroad game where the object is to buy shares in companies, advance the rail lines, and amass a huge fortune by the end of the game.
In this particular variant, you lay down little markers to represent the lines and you don't have to buy trains or run them, simply connecting towns and cities is sufficient to increase the income you receive when a payout is declared. What's made the game popular is how you have to shuffle emerging alliances. You can't win on your own, you need other people to help you. So the trick is to make offers appealing enough to get people to help you out, but not so good that you can't get ahead. Scores are usually very close and there's a lot of tough choices to make at any given point. Plus, it all plays in under 2 hours.
I'd like to try it out this Saturday afternoon (1/10). It takes 3-5 players. Anyone interested?
later
Tom
