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Barry Heck 22/01/2025 12:15
hello chat
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dylanka1nth 23/01/2025 09:52
Helloooo
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proud to pledge allegiance to Team Heck the Second YuujiSalute
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Barry Heck 23/01/2025 14:22
battle faces at the ready
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Barry Heck 23/01/2025 14:30
Southbank is a bit of an interesting start location isn't it
14:34
I wonder if people are gonna concern themselves with that side of the river considering last time I played it was relatively uncontested (edited)
14:36
don't really want to leave it until the end of the game and get caught in nine elms again in the middle of a battle
14:37
will be more battle heavy given the 4 teams
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I'm actually not sure it will
14:45
I think the centre of Z1 might just end up being a confusing mess
14:46
wait, I forgot, it's being changed so that you only need 1 adjacent station to battle challenge
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Barry Heck 23/01/2025 14:48
oh that sounds horrendous
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I love it
14:49
I don't actually know if there's much value in initiating them though when in the time it takes to set up a battle you can probably do quite a bit of sweeping on the map
14:55
I'm a bit worried about other people initiating them though
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I think we might want non-aggression pacts with other teams this time
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Barry Heck 23/01/2025 14:55
I remember last time when I played we were very very aggressive at the start
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and it worked pretty well yeah (edited)
14:56
But I don't know if that's what we want to do with 3 other teams
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I think being aggressive in snapping up stations is pretty important, because battle challenging for them isn't very efficient
14:57
and the good ones might go quite fast
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Barry Heck 23/01/2025 14:57
true but I don't want to end up in the sticks like we did towards the end of last game
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(I know there's been a few since the first but I'm talking from my experience)
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I am kinda tempted to start out south of the river because I honestly don't know how contested that area will be
14:58
I don't think it will be at all
15:00
Given all the battles happen later on... I'd rather be in more central areas for em
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Barry Heck
(I know there's been a few since the first but I'm talking from my experience)
there's only been one since, though it wasn't as close as our first game
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Barry Heck 23/01/2025 15:03
well this time we're gonna win so that's not a concern
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I think part of the reason my team won on the first game was because the route we picked was just really efficient. We did get some slow challenges in the start, but we planned to go to all the areas where you could very quickly walk between stations and getting those as a streak was really good.
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Barry Heck 23/01/2025 15:08
yeah I think when heck played we didn't really use the tube at all
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Monument-Bank-Mansion House are really close together. Regent's Park to Kings Cross via Great Portland Street, Warren Street, Euston Square, and Euston is so good
15:09
we caught up at that point while you were taking your time going station by station around the Circle line
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Barry Heck 23/01/2025 15:10
that northern section is very powerful
15:11
I wonder how soon that area's going to be played
15:13
it's a very drastic change in start location
15:13
I do wonder if people are going to stick around there or instantly go up north
15:15
it's not really the best area to play in so I think it's really interesting that's where we're all starting
15:16
slower start I reckon for sure
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I think a lot of this is going to be situational. Battle challenging is going to be easier now, so if another team takes one of those power spots and then is in the lead, we might be well served by walking that way and stacking battle challenges against them
17:03
no point battling teams that are behind, but teams that are in the lead, fair game
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Barry Heck 25/01/2025 19:30
good evening team
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dylanka1nth 25/01/2025 21:41
Bon soir
21:42
What's the strategy
21:42
(looking forward to it!)
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Barry Heck 25/01/2025 22:46
was kinda hoping we'd be able to get this discussion in at some point yeah
22:48
who in here has played before? just me and ratt?
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Barry Heck 25/01/2025 22:49
i'm assuming your friend isn't on discord?
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dylanka1nth 25/01/2025 22:52
he is on discord; let's get him sorted on this gc before discussing strat
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Barry Heck 25/01/2025 22:52
aight ok sweet
22:54
a lot of the strategy involve, as ratt discussed earlier getting to areas where you can do quick clusters of stations and routing
22:54
the challenges are all pretty quickly solveable (or at least have been previously) so i wouldn't be too worried about them upon opening the challenge list
22:55
i am a bit worried that there's an extra team this time around and also the changes to how battles work, now you only need one adjacent station to initiate a battle which sounds like it could be really hectic
22:56
it also means that there's not really 'safe, uncontestable' stations now which i know the team i was on played around those
22:59
i'm gonna pull this stupidly oversimplified map i stole and then edited out of the gutter
23:01
i really don't like how easy it potentially is to just rock up on one team's station now and continue advancing along the line and battling
23:02
i don't think there's any real reason to try keeping your stations safe from contestion now for this reason unless any of you think any differently
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i'm gonna pull this stupidly oversimplified map i stole and then edited out of the gutter
missing the Elizabeth line but mostly good
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i really don't like how easy it potentially is to just rock up on one team's station now and continue advancing along the line and battling
I'm not sure it's going to be that easy, which is partially what I was arguing about in the call the other day
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 14:56
not going to be easy to win the battles sure, but if you get the first one it's gonna be hella annoying if you do keep advancing and initiating those battles
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i don't think it's too much of a concern
14:56
but if a team's in the lead it's certainly a way to try and slow them down
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Players aren't going to be able to see the status of the queue, and the current ruling is that you can't initiate a battle if you're not already connected
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 14:57
heck, you don't even need to actually partake in the battle, you could just slow a team down by rocking up to that station and initiating one
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so you have to wait for your battle before you can initiate the next one
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 14:57
you have nothing to lose
14:57
all it's gonna do is slow them down in the process
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heck, you don't even need to actually partake in the battle, you could just slow a team down by rocking up to that station and initiating one
true
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 14:58
and if it turns out it's one you can actively participate in? great
14:59
i think this actually could be quite a good strategy if it's used once or twice on a winning team just to get them to slow down but if you do it too much i think they'll catch on and actively not participate either
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you do have to leave the train and go up to street level though
14:59
would take time to waste their time
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 14:59
it's not like you're exclusively getting around on the tube though
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but if you're already above ground, sure, good strategy (edited)
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 14:59
i think it might be worth doing once or twice if we find ourselves in a situation like that
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I think the chances we'll initiate a battle and not at least want to try to win it are slim
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 15:02
especially in those so important clusters you can walk between and get claims relatively quickly i think it'd be quite a good play
15:03
it's not like you have anything to lose by initiating them
15:04
...other than them potentially locking that station, this is true but i'm not sure that's enough of a negative
15:05
i actually wonder if something like this has been thought up in game design because it's certainly a reason why i think the changes to the amount of adjacent stations you need to initiate a battle are somewhat questionable
15:12
it also something potentially annoying enough to end up getting us hard targetted so... maybe that's the balance tool?
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It was changed because there's a suspicion that we're going to run out of stations before the end, and there just aren't enough double adjacent stations
15:13
it will be interesting to see how it works out in practice
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 15:13
even once everything does get claimed it'll lead to a very battle heavy late game so that should be fun
15:14
battles that you are actively going to try and win
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Do you have any preference for where to go first, by the way?
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 15:15
i would like to potentially look at starting south of the river because i don't think it's going to be an area anyone's going to try to go for at the start
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We start about equal distance from both Waterloo and Embankment
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 15:15
i think everyone's immediate play is going to be to head up north
15:15
it's also something i'd like to get out of the way
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I think taking Waterloo and then walking to either Southwark or Lambeth South might be a decent play
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 15:16
there's pretty decent bus connections to vauxhall from battersea power station i remember
15:16
waterloo was my thoughts too (edited)
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there's pretty decent bus connections to vauxhall from battersea power station i remember
hmm, I don't think going west would be the play
15:17
stations are further apart
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 15:17
yeah we got caught up in that game 1
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but realistically getting from down there to the most station heavy part of the map doesn't take ages
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i'd like to at least sweep that southern section
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if we want to grab as many stations as possible then we either probably want to go north or go Waterloo-Southwark-London Bridge and then take the triangle by Monument
15:18
Monument-Bank-Mansion House are all very close together
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 15:18
only thing i worry about is i think that's where everyone else is going to go
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that was what my team did in the first game where we left Oxford Circus
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 15:18
is anyone in that team playing in this game
15:18
other than you
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 15:19
because if it worked out last time for em then i'm sure as heck we're not going to be the only ones
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that strategy was also done by the winning team in the December game
15:19
it is likely to be a hotspot, yeah
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 15:19
this is the thing i worry about
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might be all the more reason to at least situate ourselves nearby so we can rush in for battle challenges later
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 15:20
is there a less attractive looking station located next to said hotspot so we can set up base for battling into that region later into the game
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I think London Bridge would be a decent station to aim for
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 15:21
yeah i agree
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and if that triangle is really heavily contested we could always skip over it and go for Moorgate
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 15:21
i also think it's quite safe from contestion
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maybe Borough first as well
15:21
maybe not Borough, it's a little out of the way
15:23
From Moorgate we have a shot towards Kings Cross and that walk to Regent's Park
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 15:23
if we start waterloo we can then very easily get to london bridge
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i do wonder if it's actually worth going for both of them when they're both connected to bank
15:24
i actually think london bridge is much more appealing and safer also
15:24
from a numbers standpoint, yes
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There is one really risky strategy we could do, and that would be talking with another team before the game starts
15:25
tell them not to go our way or they'll be fighting us
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 15:25
i don't know how i feel about this
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fair enough
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 15:34
i'd quite like to get the opportunity to get some discussion in with @dylanka1nth and his friend but idk when they're online
15:35
dylan's friend i don't even think is in this server yet?
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hola 🙂
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 16:03
friend!
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these are absolutely brilliant 😭
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dylanka1nth 26/01/2025 16:04
yep
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dylanka1nth 26/01/2025 16:05
Become Geoff Marshall 😍
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Barry Heck 26/01/2025 16:13
oh they're fantastic aren't they
16:13
i don't like how many curses there are; the 'no train' ones are actually not too bad
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Barry Heck 28/01/2025 13:05
Can't wait to keep my phone permanently attached to a power bank in case of the guess phone charge battle challenge (edited)
13:07
Oh it's no longer on the list
13:07
sad
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dylanka1nth 28/01/2025 23:14
id probably guess 0% 😭
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my phone runs out super quick nowadays
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We're holding a treasure hunt to celebrate 25 years of TfL and the Jubilee line extension
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Barry Heck 30/01/2025 11:04
can we delay by a day
11:04
nah, somewhat an unfortunate coincidence but ye
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dylanka1nth 31/01/2025 09:46
excited for tomorrow !
09:46
start at festival pier? what's the first move/gameplan
09:47
everything seems to be running fine in z1 tmr except for waterloo+city (as usual for sat)
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 09:55
I think the consensus is that we at least want London Bridge or Waterloo
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09:55
That north east section of the map is the most heavily contested so we want to set ourselves up for a position where we can battle into that region later on if needs be
09:56
I don't want to head straight up there because it's been such a hotly contested region in the past, I believe it's what won all the other games but I'm just worried about it becoming a bit of a bloodbath
09:57
There's a lot of stations up there within very short walking distance you can quickly knock out (edited)
09:59
Everything south of the Thames has historically been pretty untouched in this game so I think it's a pretty good area to just play clean up on the map without worrying about other people but I'm not sure @ratt feels the same as I do
09:59
There's an extra team this time which is where the majority of my concerns come from
10:01
The no public transport curses also make that side of the map more powerful because you just don't really need it
10:02
(outdated but relevant) (edited)
10:04
Buses are also incredibly valuable
10:05
We have, in the first game, (and we did consult on this one so didn't break any rules) started a claim by sending our selfie while on the bus
10:05
and then carried on towards the challenge while on the bus
10:08
clusters = good
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 10:18
Our plan is to win the game
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 10:39
if all else goes to fail we bribe helpdesk with spoons
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dylanka1nth 31/01/2025 11:33
ok so we'll head waterloo first? then what
11:33
east to ldn bridge/southwark
11:34
or we could go south to lambeth, elephant, battersea/9elms?
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alternatively we could do a sneaky and get national rail to vauxhall.. is that allowed ?
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 11:41
all public transport is allowed
11:42
I want to sweep the southern side of the map particularly because it's relatively safe
11:43
ideally I'd like to do as much of it as possible while getting some safer stations that are positioned for us to be able to battle up north
11:43
I like Waterloo because it gives us reach
11:45
I don't know what going straight to vauxhall and starting there would get us because it's not really a power starting position other than being safe
11:46
Unless you wanna go for Waterloo, jump on a train to vauxhall and then romp back up the bank northern (edited)
11:47
Does seem rather time inefficient though
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Barry Heck
Everything south of the Thames has historically been pretty untouched in this game so I think it's a pretty good area to just play clean up on the map without worrying about other people but I'm not sure @ratt feels the same as I do
Hm, I like the idea of going to London Bridge, but those stations to the north of the river are just so valuable
17:03
They're a very short walk, and if we end up there before the other teams I don't think that's an advantage we should pass up
17:04
The name of the game early on is speed, and the advantage of the eastern stations north of the river is that they're just so close together
17:05
I wouldn't even be entirely against just skipping London Bridge and getting first dibs on that area
17:07
There's also the issue of the 12 public transport block curses in the challenge deck (edited)
17:08
If we can burn those while in a spot where we can walk between stations, that won't be hanging over us for the rest of the game
17:11
I think it's risky going for the valuable stations and risking a fight, but skipping them is also very risky. They're a target for a reason, they've been part of the winning runs of both teams because they give you a lead that's difficult to overcome
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 17:18
I wouldn't be concerned if there were 3 teams and would be down but there's 4
17:20
I can foresee a footrace to embankment
17:21
And I don't particularly foresee that being something we win
17:25
Unless you wanna go straight to London Bridge, draw a challenge and then try and complete it on the way up to Monument
17:27
if we're going to do it we need to get there first
17:33
...I think the uber boats might actually be the quickest
17:33
how frequent are they
17:34
the first one isn't until 9:36
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boooooring
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 17:41
hopefully we get a cheeky 30 minute delay to the start time
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(jk)
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Unless you wanna go straight to London Bridge, draw a challenge and then try and complete it on the way up to Monument
I mean yeah, that's more or less what I was thinking. Waterloo, walk to Southwark, train to London Bridge, then snap up as many of Monument/Cannon Street/Mansion House/Bank as possible before continuing north
17:52
There's more good stations to the north like Moorgate/Liverpool Street, and the mass of stations up by Euston
17:52
There's also the two Aldgate stations further east
17:55
Buses are a good strategy and I think it's a good idea especially in the middle game before rush hour, but they've got nothing on single digit walking times between stations
17:57
Unless the strategy is to make ourselves as small a target as possible and try to win on spamming battle challenges, I just think that going for the far apart stations to begin with is going to make us play catch-up the entire game
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 17:57
do we want to bother with those first few stations then because I think it might honestly be faster to jump on a train at embankment and then ride it to the cluster
17:59
i am of the belief that if we want to do it we need to get there first
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It's a known strategy at this point that as you say has won games
18:00
No doubt other teams will go for it
18:01
if we want to do it we have to do it first
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I mean we could. That checks us out of the initial fight for Embankment and Waterloo but that might be a good thing (edited)
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 18:13
I think that will be the initial fight though
18:13
People know how valuable that area is
18:14
We have two games of experience
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Every team has people that have played before
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I honestly think it's going to be a mad rush there
18:15
Hence why I initially wanted to stay out of it but if we're doing it I think we need to be there first
18:16
Given how easy it is for teams to initiate battles that's why I wanted to build a set of safe stations and battle into that area
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I honestly think it's going to be a mad rush there
I'm not sure, both times previously teams went for the easier targets and the team that went for it took it uncontested
18:17
I don't think many people overthink the strategy like we do lmao
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 18:17
the first game no one had any experience so that's out of the question
18:17
people have an idea of what they're doing now
18:18
I'm happy to go to that region but I really think if we do then we need to be the first ones
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Another out of pocket first move would be to go straight for Regent's Park
18:19
do that northern line of stations to the east
18:19
And then we have a good range of options once we're at Kings Cross
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 18:20
Yeah I think that's potentially safer
18:20
It's also not exactly a long journey
18:27
I'm more set on going straight for monument though
18:27
There's more there
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If we were going from Embankment we'd get to Mansion House first
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 18:35
I think it's less valuable though
18:35
Scrap that nah I'm dumb
18:35
yeah let's go to mansion house
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I don't really mind which strategy we go with, I just think anything where we intentionally go for slower stations because we're wary of the other teams would be self-defeating. Straight to Regent's Park or straight to Mansion House would both be good, and I don't have any particular objection to going for Southwark and London Bridge first, because that still keeps our options open with all the walkable stations to the north we could target
19:40
If we get a really easy challenge at the first station we get to we should probably even consider doing that (edited)
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 19:49
Depends how fast helpdesk are
19:50
If they manage to give us a challenge before we get through the barriers, sure
19:51
I mean nothings stopping us from doing that challenge near the station... right?
19:56
The other main problem I see with clusters like that is just how vulnerable they are from attacking teams (edited)
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I mean nothings stopping us from doing that challenge near the station... right?
Nope, we can take the selfie, travel, and do the challenge where we've travelled to
20:15
Likely though that it'll be claimed before we arrive if it's contested
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 20:15
Awesome
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The other main problem I see with clusters like that is just how vulnerable they are from attacking teams (edited)
Barry Heck 31/01/2025 20:16
The only thing that really worries me about this is that a bunch of the challenges seem like things that would be easier in higher density areas with naturally more stations especially around by bank and later in the game when we've finished in that region and are more on the outskirts we're in a much more disadvantageous position
20:19
Especially given you only need 1 adjacent it's a lot easier for a team to just stroll up and change the map
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Which is in turn why I also think it's a good idea to get as many central stations as we can while they're on offer
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 20:27
Aight
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Also the curses, we want them to fire early while we can deal with them
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 20:29
The other thing as well with starting mansion house I think it's a much stronger opening move but I also think it's going to be contested from game start so I'm only really 100% happy to do that if everyone's willing to leg it to embankment
20:29
if not, regent's park
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We'll have to leg it either way
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 20:30
@horjei @dylanka1nth you up for a morning run to start off the day?
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Festival Pier was chosen because it's the approximate midpoint between Embankment and Waterloo
20:31
so whatever strategy we choose we're still going to want to get to one of those ASAP
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@horjei @dylanka1nth you up for a morning run to start off the day?
dylanka1nth 31/01/2025 20:47
Can do ! Can't promise ill be that fast tho 😅
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I don't think Regent's Park would be a terrible opening move either, once you've walked to Kings Cross you have plenty of flexibility
20:51
Plus you already have 6 stations in the bag at that point, 7 if you managed to take Waterloo on the way out (edited)
20:52
That said, finishing at Bank is very nice and central as well so it's not a huge difference
20:53
I'd say they're about equal in value
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 20:59
waiiiiiiiiit a second
21:00
am i right in saying that battles don't lock stations to the winning team
21:00
i can't find anything about it in the rules
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good spot, that should probably be added
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 21:22
what y'all thinking then
21:22
london bridge -> walk up to monument or embankment -> mansion house
21:23
what's quicker
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 21:33
either way we have to absolutely book it but i'm now starting to think london bridge because we'll have more time to try and claim it versus embankment where we're starting the claim and then jumping straight onto a train
21:34
and there's no faster ways to london bridge...
21:37
why is the first boat at 9:36
21:37
so annoying
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We'd take it from Embankment at 9:25 I think
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 21:39
we can beat google maps walking times
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But still, to take it to where we'd want it we probably want to go all the way to Tower
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 21:40
yeah it'd be irrelevant
21:40
i really wanted to take the boat
21:40
would be cool
21:40
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london bridge -> walk up to monument or embankment -> mansion house
Embankment to Mansion House is faster
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 21:41
it's also a quicker walk isn't it
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I don't know if we need to worry too much about capturing Embankment
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 21:41
iiii don't think we do
21:42
but it's a +1 at the end of the day
21:42
not a priority +1
21:42
we will have it at some point hopefully maybe
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it's also a quicker walk isn't it
About the same
21:43
7 minutes to Embankment station, 6 to Waterloo but I doubt it matters once you're in the tunnels
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 21:43
does this include the tube station entry/exit faff
21:44
*is there a bus
21:44
I had a vague look earlier
21:45
21:46
oh the bus stop's in quite a nice location too
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could we make this
21:48
I think we can
21:49
It's stupidly tight
21:51
I say we keep our eyes on this bus
21:52
if it's delayed we go for it
21:53
+when's the next train if we miss the 907
21:53
we do that then
21:54
even the 912 gets us there quicker than the tube or bus would
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I mean we could do that but it's a decent risk only to get us to a station in the same amount of time as if we'd just travelled to Mansion House or Regent's Park
21:57
and we miss out on potentially being able to claim Embankment/Waterloo
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 21:58
there's an entrance to waterloo east inside waterloo station
21:58
we can go, initiate the claim and then jump on a train to london bridge
21:59
i think both waterloo and london bridge are quite valuable
22:01
i'd also like to decide on a team meeting place
22:02
/time
22:02
i'm gonna aim to get into victoria relatively earlyish ie before 8am
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I'm going to get into St Pancras just before 8 and I plan to just go straight to the meetup location
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 22:08
in that case, i might head there too
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Will take a bit for me to cross London because I'll probably want to walk to Euston
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Barry Heck 31/01/2025 22:09
yeah that's fair
22:09
wanted to a bit of talking with the other two also but unsure if they're online rn
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 05:37
I don't think we can start Mansion House
05:38
I think we have to go straight for bank
05:39
I just have that feeling we're not going to be strolling there uncontested and based on how much connectivity to other stations there is bank is the clear one for me
05:39
if other teams come from embankment it also means we won't be contested there
05:39
i just think they're gonna go straight for mansion house or monument first
05:41
either they come from embankment or they come from waterloo and if we get to waterloo east we're faster
05:41
it's too much of a speed difference not to pass up
05:42
by my estimations if we get the train from waterloo east we can get to bank by 9:20 at the earliest
05:43
i just don't see mansion house as that powerful of a start move
05:46
oooh i'm gonna look like a right idiot if we're the only ones there
05:50
i also think we need to be pretty on it with battles early on even if we don't win them we're going to lock stations which even if not in our favour and we lose might disincentivise other teams from trying to play in that area later on (edited)
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I think if we're going directly for the triangle then Embankment > Mansion House > walk to Cannon Street ect. is the play. If we're going to London Bridge then walking to Monument then to Bank is what we should do
05:51
If we skip Monument then why are we even going to the triangle?
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 05:52
to start with
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That misses out all the advantage of going to somewhere we can easily walk
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 05:52
i'm only thinking about our first station claim
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I figured our first station claim would be London Bridge
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 05:53
we'll roll a challenge for sure
05:54
but if it's something that's gonna take us time then we need to cut our losses and head up north
05:54
we could get incredibly lucky and get a public transport ban which would be so good
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Barry Heck
(outdated but relevant) (edited)
It's a very short walk from London Bridge to Monument/Bank
06:02
I don't think considering it part of our walking route would be bad
06:03
I think we can deal with trying to complete London Bridge properly as our first station
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 06:12
agreed
06:12
i've got two power banks on me btw, both are fully charged and fairly beefy ones at that so we should be good
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I've got one
06:14
and my phone is basically it's own power bank
06:14
It has an enormous battery
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 06:28
small thing but oyster payments I believe are quite a bit faster than Google or Apple pay
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sadly that is not an option for me (edited)
06:29
I'll just use regular contactless payments
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I've got to say, I'm not hugely confident about our ability to make Waterloo East in time for the National Rail train
06:56
Especially if we're going via the main Waterloo station
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 06:59
they're quite high frequency
07:00
There's one basically every few minutes
07:00
every 2/3 minutes
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If we miss the first one we'd be better served just going to Waterloo and taking the Jubilee line I think
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 07:04
I believe even the second and third are faster
07:04
are Google maps times fare gate to fare gate
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I double checked, you're right. Weird that Google doesn't think we can make it to Waterloo East in time to take anything but the 9:19 train
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 07:09
Google maps things
07:10
have you watched h+s japan lol
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dylanka1nth 01/02/2025 07:10
hehehe
07:10
what does citymapper say?
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my gear for today: Phone Charging cable & plug Power bank Pens and Pencils (graphite & charcoal) Water bottle A metal fork
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dylanka1nth 01/02/2025 08:14
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 08:16
I've heard of a possible 9:30 delay
08:16
the riverboat could be back on
riri pinned a message to this channel. 01/02/2025 08:32
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Max (v3rtico) 01/02/2025 08:34

Pre-Game Briefing @Team 4

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I have shared my location. Can you confirm you can see me?
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 08:38
@Helpdesk
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@Helpdesk
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dylanka1nth 01/02/2025 08:38
@Helpdesk
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Hello!
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 08:38
Evening
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Are you Will?
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riri
Are you Will?
Yes
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We can see you!
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I'm having problems pinging helpdesk for some reason
08:40
Told Fahmi. Some weird mobile client thing
08:40
Shouldn't be a problem, just thought I'd mention
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ratt
I'm having problems pinging helpdesk for some reason
can you try again ?
09:02
I mean it's not working
09:02
Sorry
09:03
I am on the beta program for Discord
09:03
I'll try disable that
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we are doing a power play
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First tube journey of the game 1 and a half hours in
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You've been rickrolled by Team 3
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 10:30
yeah good one
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 13:27
Our pace is bonkers
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you might wanna be careful
13:40
if team 1 wanted to, they could switch tactics and just try grief you
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 13:40
too bad we're about to execute sicko mode
13:42
noone will stand a chance when sicko mode activates
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 13:56
and it activates soon
14:00
We are in position
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@Team 4 guys
17:17
I take my eyes off you for one second
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dylanka1nth 01/02/2025 17:17
Bond street Elizabeth line
17:17
Hanover square entrance
17:17
Meet us there
17:18
Elizabeth line east entrance
17:18
not jubilee / central
17:20
wya
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Barry Heck 01/02/2025 17:20
@ratt where are you
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Main entrance
17:24
Bond Street
17:24
And my map isn't working
17:24
My internet isn't working
17:24
I can't search where you are
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dylanka1nth 01/02/2025 17:24
Elizabeth line entrance ratt
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This is an Elizabeth line entrance
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dylanka1nth 01/02/2025 17:24
Look at the pin
17:25
Other side of platform
17:25
East end
17:25
Walk down platform going east
17:25
Come to end and up
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On my way
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dylanka1nth 01/02/2025 17:41
Bois where r u
17:41
Took me 3 times to send on correct group
17:43
Which side of road r u on
17:43
did u cross
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We didn't
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dylanka1nth 01/02/2025 17:43
ok
17:44
meet us by the screen in pic circus
17:44
By boots
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We have new Burlington mews on our left
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dylanka1nth 01/02/2025 17:44
ok?
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*right
17:44
We're on our way
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