Hawk & Badger Railroad Forum

While playing Los Angeles, the screen went colored boxes, then went black, while the music kept playing but all other game sounds stopped. Upon rebooting, it did the same thing when I tried to load auto save. Actually, the load game screen is what went weird and eventually, darkness. But, when it cr...

***IMPORTANT*** DO NOT INSTALL THE GAME TO THE “PROGRAM FILES” FOLDER IN VISTA! Vista does not allow you to write data to this folder (instead it uses a virtual folder when you try to write data there). Besides being confusing, this causes problems with our game. The above quote came from the Q&...

Comments seem to have died on this one, but I will revive it. I played it once and scraped out Bronze in July 1900 on my first try. This scenario made me do things I don't normally do, like buy industries early. In a way, I'm glad I did as my ROI was pretty good on those industries throughout the sc...

Gold is easier than you think. It's only 1 RR, unless you went to Iowa. You get a game victory point for each fixed RR. I did not think that most would be happy with fixing railroads, so it's optional to fix more than one, or the number you need to get to 3 points.

I hope to be done with creation for a while. There are too many scenarios out there that I haven't played and I only do my own when I get a bug you know where to do something that no one else has done. I just finished a scenario that you and Bel already did, and am now trying one that is a year old ...

In the initial instructions, I said that you could build the railways however you wanted to, as long as you connect to the required cities with company stations. I have only tested it by building as I've stated before, according to the instructions , and by connecting to cities that the track ran th...

I basically followed the advice that AROP suggested earlier, as with this kind of map, you need to get the trains rolling quickly to overcome the large maintenance costs that come with a prebuilt railroad. I thought about buying cheaper engines, but instead opted to buy Consolidations. Sure, some ro...

I always run my trains with up to 8 cars, unless going thru mountains, but in this map the hills aren't too bad and my Altoona line trains had 6 cars and ran fine. I did spend time finding a good route to keep the grades down, however. Engine maintenance gets very high very fast in RT3 and it pays t...

Some stations become traffic jams, so you can't run there. Some stations may stay accessible because the owner may not have access to your current line's states.

I usually lose track of the engines, so I stopped putting minimum loads on. Also, even if there is nothing at this station, somewhere down the line could be lots of cargo. In normal scenarios, I usually have one engine serving 3 or 4 stations, or 2 engines if one of them is ugly, but in scenarios li...

Ray: I like the way that you work out the problems. I originally thought that this was not a good scenario for you (Earlier PM), but now I realize that I was wrong - this scenario does exercise what you wanted to exercise.

Actually, the lawyer in me says that the 1st comment is correct but you did not interpret it correctly. 1. you called it the 2nd comment and 2, just because you can get an all connected message without actually connecting all of the cities does not mean that the statement I made was incorrect. OK, i...

Ray: The ledger does not say that "all the xx cities are connected". It says something like - xx cities are connected and then tells you to check the Breifing to see what cities are needed. You can connect the whole map but leave out one of the required cities and you ain't gonna get squat...

It is also my intention that players build all of the track for each railroad if they want to reproduce the Rail Baron map, but if they want to do something else, so be it.

Stoker: I just went back to my test map and took over the RF&P at start, built some track between Harper and Baltimore, then went back to the B&O and connected the 2 cities using the RFP track. It worked and Company stations are required.

Stoker - I did not have that problem. On one occassion I think that I used some AI track. And, in an early version of Bridging, I built foreign track to the west of the E&K station in East St. Louis and was only able to build the E&K Mississippi bridge by connecting it to the foreign track a...

Belbincolne: All named cities need company stations. Other cities that you pass thru or that are not specifically named don't need anything, but it is probably a good idea to either place a station or use another railroad's station. If the status page does not say that you have connected to all of t...

Did you wait until the end of the month? Does the Briefing say NYC? Have you taken control of the NYC?

I hoped you would figure it out, but here goes. (edit - you must be a Snoopy or WWI flying fan. So, how many of you out there have locked on to plane or flock of birds instead of a train?) When you complete your goals for a RR, a message comes up and then the status page goes blank and stays blank u...

Thanks. I will be looking foward to King Coal.