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1841

however is all about mounting potential threats and then making the potentials of those threats ever larger. It isn’t about what you have, but what you could have, and thence what you could then do. So the game is fought out in the future – you’re always fighting to create or prevent something which hasn’t happened, but might.

Auction:

SFTG - the belle of the ball, worth all the money. dominates the track, guaranteed good tokens, can run trains well at any point
IRSFF - i think people overbid for this, not nearly as good as people believe it is
SFTN - fragile flower, vulnerable to external forces, can only run 1 2 for 5 if green doesnt break
SFTC - trash, dont think its viable for a win unless you luck into it
Tuscany - things are tricky here. If you have control over both minors then SFLi will likely be viable. SSFL is a death trap. Both minors are likely to start which means your market will be full unless you have priority and can get out, get lucky and can issue before the SR (unlikely).

Early game - routes are obvious, train purchases are based on whether people want the 3's to break in OR1. SR2 is where interesting decisions start to appear as theres at least 1 player who has nothing

I usually like to buy and sell the shares that started at 144 to limit their issue and start something in the conservative zone. i've seen people do a variety of things: ride irsff, stamp collect the other important thing is there is only space for 4 corps to start daughters before the 4s

so if you start in the CR, theres only 3 operating order to block SFTG from starting a daughter might be critical

overbuying a train type is a good way to go boom. 3's generally dont last very long. starting daughters at 340 is ideal, but sometimes you take what you can get

if the trains are moving youre trying to avoid liability in your daughters for as long as possible, starting new daughters and creating a tower of money and corps

make sure that you can protect these corps if necessary as you begin to issue as theres likely a player out there with high liquidity

usually you only need to protect the first daughter

try to get as many paying shares as possible, people will start to merge here which is a weak move as it limits your paying shares as the get very expensive usually but sometimes necessary

people will start to bankrupt soon from their poor play around the historical events. usually when the 5's break

so the late game becomes some amount of: picking over dead peoples bones, pushing the corps so hard that you run out of charters and people can't merge any more, trying to get share volume in your favor with something with a train and some track

always remember that you dont care about any of the corps you personally dont have shares in

you can easily crush everyone with 6 corps and 2 trains

the irsff split into SB is just comically bad. SB is just so much worse than everything else its not worth having to deal with the BS of paying for IRSFF and being targeted

its almost impossible to have both of them and survive

connecting is extremely rare

its very difficult/impossible to survive at 100 start when people play the financial game

you need a really good predatory steal to survive usually

68 is impossible

theres little cute tricks you can do like starting a 68L corp in milan to get a corp with really cheap shares that lets you get a small share advantage

minors can be great late if you have an extra train, not very useful otherwise

freezing daughter corps is also a good way to get rid of train liability via an ebuy if necessary. difficult to line that up well though

basically, the biggest mistakes i see are: low starts and not understanding the implications of the historical events and being dead

in lower player counts, you can combo some of these corps because you have so much cash and do different things.

squirrel likes SFTG + SFTC low start a lot and he buys the token from SFTG into SFTC

but i find theres even more do my own thing in already do my own thing game at anything less than 5

If people don't play against sftg then they're advantaged to win

What are the 41 Berlin house rules?

"1841 Berlin / German Rules 1.5.1"

Errata

be player 1 is my best strategy advice for 41

max bid sftg and then make everyone try to beat you

Q: It's not clear to me how much $ you need in SR1

A: (144*3)+129

2 2's, 3 tokens, 3t + max issue

tully: par high???

Ken Boucher: 144 is a good par in 41

Martin2D: its very difficult to par lower and not die

Ken Boucher: sftg is the best company, but winning bidding is a little more complicated than Martin makes it. I win all the time without sftg.

Meaning more than my fair share if the time.

Martin2D: i view it as a fairly large advantage, obviously many things can happen

sftg, double minor no SSFL are the 2 best positions imo

everything else is very situational

caveat: ken is assuredly better than me