Trainblock

[tractakid]

I'd be keen to try an in-real-life version of TrainBlock with multiple people competing. Large version of map printed, with counters used for visited stations and current positioning.

[The Orange One]

A: Canary Wharf.

That was a short one!

Anyone care to start another?

[The Orange One]

I'd be keen to try an in-real-life version of TrainBlock with multiple people competing. Large version of map printed, with counters used for visited stations and current positioning.

I would definitely join in. But where would we keep this map?

[GuyBarry]

I'd be keen to try an in-real-life version of TrainBlock with multiple people competing. Large version of map printed, with counters used for visited stations and current positioning.

For a moment I thought you meant with players on actual trains in real stations. Might be a bit difficult to keep track of where the other players are!

I like the idea of this as a conventional board game as well. Wonder if we could market it somehow? There'd be copyright issues with the map of course. I'm having second thoughts about whether it could work with more than two players though - the problem is that one opponent could block you in from each side in a sort of pincer movement, e.g.

A: Wapping
B: Bermondsey
C: Westferry

and A has already lost.

[GuyBarry]

A: Canary Wharf.

That was a short one!

Oops! Well I did say it was an experimental game

Just to clarify one thing before we start - in Trainblock (unlike Tubeblock) Paddington, Hammersmith and Bank/Monument are all SINGLE STATIONS, as is (e.g.) White City/Wood Lane. I think it's too difficult to try to define things otherwise.

Anyone care to start another?

A: Queenstown Road (Battersea)

[The Orange One]

B: Imperial Wharf

[GuyBarry]

A: Victoria

[The Orange One]

Another short one!

A: Acton Central

[GuyBarry]

Wasn't even sure that I'd won last time!

B: Kensal Green

[The Orange One]

A: King's Cross/St Pancras Complex

[GuyBarry]

How on earth did you get there?

EDIT: Finally got it - Richmond, Clapham Junction, Balham, Clapham North/Clapham High Street, Peckham Rye, London Bridge. You bastard

[The Orange One]

LO to Richmond
District to Victoria
Southern to London Bridge (skirting round the bottom of the Bakerloo)
FCC to St Pancras

[tubeguru]

Is it me, or is the first player on team B deliberately starting close to team A?

[GuyBarry]

A: Holland Park.

In reply to Tubeguru: yes. Do you think those are bad tactics?

[The Orange One]

You mean B: Holland Park of course.

A: Kensington (Olympia). And a win.

(crossed the Central line through City Thameslink)

I think tractakid did actually mean one with people actually at stations. Would probably work with each team having a "mission control" by the map to give instructions.