Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2017?

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From: Eddie Anderson
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 02:40

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Ross Ridge wrote:
> Eddie Anderson<yourname@net.invalid>  wrote:
>> 1830 - SimTex's DOS version of the board game; I enjoy many
>> of the mechanics of this game (auction, playing in the stock
>> market, building train routes, buying trains, etc. (all with
>> perfect info)) and have come back to it many times over the
>> years.
>
> I really like this game.  It has pretty good AI,

Agreed

> It's up there with Alien Legacy
> as my favourite "hiddem gems" of the DOS PC game era.

I don't remember`that game.  I'll look for it.  Thanks.

> I never never played the
> 1830 board game,

Me neither.  From what I've read, many players prefer other 
18xx games to 1830.

> and it's been close to two decades since I've played one.

I've never played any other 18xx games.  I wish that I'd had 
the opportunity while I was still relatively young.


-- 
Eddie

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