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Aye - and now we start again! - which ruleset for the initial Launch?
An initial launch would suggest perhaps the START ICBM rules ? Players agree to progressively reduce the number of stations allowed until there are no stations left, Mornington Crescent being the first station removed from play (although when players agree to that they're usually lying).
Or perhaps something more tactical and less nuclear - the 1972 Spassky-Fischer rules ? From memory Elephant & Castling is allowed provided none of Kingsbury, Kings Cross, Stamford bRook, or SnaresbRook have yet been played, although I believe there's a special clause about Elephant & Castling to the BarKingside. Liverpool Street can only be played on a diagonal from a station of the same colour. I can't recall much else offhand...
Edit: I vaguely recall that the Spassky-Fischer Rules allow Mornington Crescent to be played en passant, which can be very confusing.
What about the old Tudor rules?
mornington crefent
An early Tudor version of the game. This was played at court with each move having to be officially sanctioned by the king who acted as umpire. Only a short extract from the original rule parchment survives:
If ye wilt come unto Mornington Crefent
Stray not within the bounds of the mighty Thames.
Nor can Tyburne be reached without sacrifice of
Ruffels Square, Cock Fofters, or Feven Fifters.
Aren't those the Mock Tudor Rules, as commonly used by Ye Olde Medieval Mornington Crefent Reenactment Society, who aren't averse to a little creative anachronism.
And didn't the old Tudor rules usually end up with everybody being sent to the Tower ?
(Which probably explains why the Mock Tudor Rules became prevalent)
Indeed.. There is a theory amongst Crescent Historians, that the Tower was the progenitor for Nidd... not a place you'd want to be headed (the Tower, not Nidd)
As I recall, a great many folk were headed at the tower! There were the Boelyn gals, there was King Charlie, and Tom Cromwell, and ...
Charles I was executed at the Banqueting House in Whitehall, but yep, lots of other heads rolled at the Tower..
Indeed, then. let's start the next round!
I'll start it (considering the way this discussion went) ---
Tower Gateway
Unless I'm much mistaken, wasn't it the Lancashire Chapter of Ye Olde Medieval Mornington Crefent Reenactment Society who had "To The Tower With Ye !" emblazoned across the front of their team gambesons, and "Death Or Nidd"* across the back ?
*or was it "Nidd or Glory" ?
Anyway, ignoring not only both the obvious Barbican and Elephant & Castle plays, but also the slighty cleverer Archway and Queensway, I'll make a rather more tactical shimmy (as in smooth glide, not as in shaky dance - try that on the Underground nowadays and you'll be in quarantine quicker than you can say "Nidd" !)...
Tower Gateway >
Tooting Broadway
Tower Gateway >Tooting Broadway >
And so by the time-and-film-honoured tradition of Jumping-From-Moving-Trains-Onto-Other-Trains, we transfer betwixt the South Wimbledon and Mordam stops onto the east-bound car for
West Croydon
(with interchanges for National Rail).
By the way... which rule set are we actually playing ?
Yes, exactly. Probably something by which one must make it to Mornington Crescent before tea-time (though the exact date and relevant time-zone are yet to be determined). But so long as one does make tea-time at M. C., we should be good.
I say we should use the Tudor Court Rules
tudor court rules
As many will know this was the version of the game formally adopted by Henry VIII, and one which Shakespeare himself is likely to have played. Obviously the playing area was considerably smaller than today and many streets were out of bounds due to the plague, but it is basically the same as the modern game. According to the popular Arden edition of the Tudor Court Rulebook - At the passing of the cod piece, tis the holder who may nominate, except when out of Croop.
Is the already played sequence of Tower Gateway >Tooting Broadway > West Croydon permitted by the Tudor Court Rules ?
If so then it would appear that that's the ruleset we're playing by...
...and I believe that means that you're now holding the codpiece,
Huzzah ! Hooray !*
*I was convinced it was "Huzzah!".
**Creative anachronism - Elizabethan, Tudor, Medieval...
Well barring someone receiving any letters from Mrs Trellis of North Wales. It seems the last time this rule set was proposed she sent a positive deluge of letters demanding a clarification of subsection D, but as the Tudor Court rules don't have a subsection D it was decided that Mrs' trellis letters should be filed in the round receptacle on the floor.
The last time I got a missive from Mrs. Trellis it was a reminder that "if you want to put the cat out, use a quality extinguisher!"
The wisdom of Mrs Trellis came in very handy for me after we got married (myself and my wife, not myself and Mrs Trellis)
"Ignore those trendies who say size isn't important. I believed that... and then my new wallpaper fell off!"
We decided not to use wallpaper and simply painted the bare walls.
The paint peeled off - it appears that size matters.
I've just done the monthly check of my PM inbox and it's jam-packed with nearly two messages from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales. She types:
"Dear DAZ_Somebody, my sister's very worried by her son Eisteddfod's job-hunting. Apparently he's written to you asking to become a PA at DAZ. Can you imagine the humiliation ? My nephew, who's very good at the computers, making tannoy announcements at a washing powder company ? No, no, no ! This will not do ! Yours indignantly, Mrs Trellis (North Wales)"
Tower Gateway >Tooting Broadway > West Croydon
So it appears we are playing by Tudor Court then. With all the court intrigue, being forewarned is four armed (I thought that was the Rice Burroughs Barsoomian rules, but never mind), so blocking the five point turn is now a rather risky tactic, since everybody will now be preparing their counter-moves.
So instead... with a "Hooray!" to distract everybody, I'll snatch the codpiece, present a signed doctor's note that I'm free of Croop, and perform a Ten Pole Pogo. Which inevitably takes us to...
Lambeth North
Wunderbar !
But arrival at
Tower Gateway >Tooting Broadway > West Croydon > Lambeth North
by the snatching of the codpiece really only leaves one proper follow-on move: I am compelled to take
Maidenhead.
Tower Gateway >Tooting Broadway > West Croydon> > Lambeth North > Maidenhead And from there directly to
Earl's Court
by any one of 3 different routes, each of which has at least one right turn.
Tower Gateway >Tooting Broadway > West Croydon> > Lambeth North > Maidenhead > Earl's Court >
I'll follow that with the classic Tuduriaid Penmynydd play to
Park Royal
(I have to congratulate Eustace Scrubb on the snatching of the codpiece and taking of the maidenhead, one of Henry VIIIs favourite plays)
Well played.. Seeing as its a Saturday allows for the "ye olde wekend" varaitions to be used, and as such we declare: (especially since there are no missives from Mrs Trellis!!)
Tower Gateway >Tooting Broadway > West Croydon> > Lambeth North > Maidenhead > Earl's Court >Park Royal>
High Street Kensington
I think I see what you're trying to do there... very cunning indeed !
Let's see if somebody else falls into your cleverly prepared trap...
Well, the ington at the end is certainly ringing a bell - if only I could recall what goes with it.
No no no not going there instead I think I will try this little diversion
Tower Gateway >Tooting Broadway > West Croydon> > Lambeth North > Maidenhead > Earl's Court >Park Royal > High Street Kensington >
Parsons Green