edinburgh to ethina is by far the worst objective

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jigglypuffan
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Re: edinburgh to ethina is by far the worst objective

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you are forced to get marseille to paris quick to have a chance of good game with ethina-edinburg.. you also have to hope to be fine to get the road with purple.. and what worst , you dont get a lot of good objective from this long road (edinburg-athina) .. i literally hate all objective with venezia-zacrab-sarajevo.. they are so bad , small road + small point objective.. in 4 players with normal setting its awful i find.

personally i would put a rank like this

1- eruzum to kobenhawn
the 4 others other are pretty equal
6- edinburgh to athina
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jigglypuffan
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Re: edinburgh to ethina is by far the worst objective

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no idea i dont play at 2 players.. but at 4 , its bad, long road with few good objective in that road
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Re: edinburgh to ethina is by far the worst objective

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ddichandra wrote: 23 September 2024, 17:42
For 1912 how would you rank the blue tickets including new one such as Pamplona-Kiev, London-Sochi, etc.?
Im coming back here after months of playing Mega Europe exclusively. Before talking about the new routes I need to restate what I suggested a few posts above. On Mega Europe Edinburgh-Athens jumps from not just becoming good, but transforming into the best route. London and Athens get so many new routes that Ed-Ath ends up absorbing 3-4 routes. Its insane.

About the new routes, they are not that easy to rank, but I can state they are subpar to the main 6.

On paper Pamplona-Kiev seems like a dream, composed of double routes and 4-train tracks, a new Brest-Petrograd. In reality, I barely pick it up. It does a terrible job blending with other routes. The opposite of Ed-At.

On that same paper, Riga-Brindisi looks awful, being short and going though Central Europe. It doesnt really blends with a lot of new routes. However, it does have the advantage of being stealthy. In most games you are being left alone. Its very luck based on getting good routes but its not a bad choice.

Essen-Angora shouldnt be a blue route. Its completely absorbed by Copenhagen-Erzurum, that being said, it does the job of blending with other routes like the original (Berlin-Wien, a mid-priority route in Vanilla mode, becomes high commodity in Mega Europe). Avoiding the LGBT train is a big plus. It might be the best of the expansion routes.

The other 3 routes are almost the same. If I had to rank them I would but London-Sochi last as that pink Dieppe-London is the first claim in half of all games (because Ed-At will always be claimed). Paris-Sevastopol is a bit better than Amsterdam-Kharkov
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Urziel
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Re: edinburgh to ethina is by far the worst objective

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Yup, if you go via short routes and just play your regular game and got for Athens directly you will most likely end up with a large number of short route. But there is valid option with a rich access to tickets tickets and a decent train average:
Going south to Brest on from there via all 4 to Palermo. Then either 3 and then 4 to Athens or 6 to Smyrna then Athina.

Why it's actually good? with south route:
5 x 4 trains routes + 1 x 6 route + 3 x 2 routes = 3.55 train cart on average (32 trains for 49 points - over 1.5 point per cart)

Tickets:
Brest-Marseille (7)
Roma-Smyrna (8)
Palermo-Constantinople (8)
Madrid-Dieppe (8) (extension required)
Brest-Venezia (8) (extension required)
Venizia-Constantinople (10) (extension required)
London-Wien (10) Paris-Wien (8) and Edinburgh-Paris (7) as the all require extensions, but getting to Wien gives a lot of options.

Loads of options and this could look like you are doing Palermo - Moskov. Two most important routes are: bottom 6 and Marseilles - Rome tunnel.
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