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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.games.board
Subject: Re: Railbaron Happening
Message-ID: <842@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 15:50:45 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  6 15:50:45 1985
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In article <1643@cbosgd.UUCP> cad@cbosgd.UUCP (Chuck A DeGaul) writes:
>... to eliminate such moronic play as that (buying a
>superchief as your first purchase) ...

In a four player game, buying a superchief as your first purchase is
quite reasonable.  In a three player game, it is probably a winning
move.  With five or six, it loses.  The loss of early cash is somewhat
made up for by the additional income from making your runs faster, and
when the railroads are all bought, you have a head start accumulating
capital.

By the way, I now think the earlier argument about whether your second
purchase should be a southwestern railroad, or a southeastern or central
one, missed an essential point.  If the group you play with has strong
opinions on the subject, such that they will follow their strategy
regardless of what you do, it rates to follow that strategy.  (I
still think it rates to buy a northeastern railroad first, regardless
of how your opponents play.)

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108