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On the Underground first game

posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 09:25am on 12/04/2009 under ,
[livejournal.com profile] alaimacerc brought round one of his new purchases, On the Underground, last night and we gave it a go.

It's a track laying and route completing sort of game. One that actually seems to produce something resembling the London Tube at the end, which is nice. I managed a good 11-pt loop for a big score, and about three of the 'connect the lost and found' items. I would have lost nastily if at any point either Sam or Alai had bowbed me on the loop, but they are gentlemen (more or less) and the final scores were S 57, A 60, M 67.
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 08:49am on 12/04/2009
I first played this in August '07 at a games/SF/filk con in Cambridge. Interestingly the designed was there and the game had only just come out so he was answering questions and talking to people playing to get feedback. Apparently the 'circle line rule' had to be added so that a circle line would be produced as it didn't happen any other way*. He'd also been working on a New York version of the game - no idea if it's come out yet - and I suggested he do the Tokyo underground as well.

*which is rather ironic as the 'circle line' is going to become more of a spiral line fairly soon.
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 10:43am on 12/04/2009
There is a Tokyo expansion for the game, released last year if Boardgamegeek is right. You give good advice, clearly.
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posted by [identity profile] alaimacerc.livejournal.com at 08:24pm on 12/04/2009
That be Recombination, by any chance?

(After twice starting a comment lengthily alluding to its numerous aliases, predecessors, and its forthcoming successor, and losing the lot in browser fubars both times, I've decided to KISS this time.)
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 08:31pm on 12/04/2009
Indeed it be. And I'm hoping to get to the sequel this year if I can sort out my travel to Worldcon in a compatible way.
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posted by [identity profile] alaimacerc.livejournal.com at 09:40pm on 12/04/2009
Having to the Great-Grandcon of them all, Conjunction, and since to all the Gloranthocentric followups, I've toyed with going to some of the BRSish ones, but haven't managed it to date. I should work on fixing that, sometime...
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posted by [personal profile] shannon_a at 05:24pm on 12/04/2009
A fun game, but I suggest playing it with no more than 3, else the downtime starts to make it unenjoyable.
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posted by [identity profile] alaimacerc.livejournal.com at 06:15pm on 12/04/2009
Quite intriguing. By no means heavy, but with plenty of "chrome" to make it feel specifically Metro-ish, and not just Yet Another Connectionist Train Game.

Definitely a bit of a "local optimisation problem" game in terms of tactics; doesn't feel quite as utterly devoid of top-level strategy as, say, a Torres, but perhaps getting that way...
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