Hawk & Badger Railroad Forum

Before I started with the new map in view of your previous comments about Great Republic I thought I'd try that again because I couldn't remember it. Are you sure you've got the right scenario? I played it on Expert and got Gold in 19 years (11 early) with absolutely no problems at all. It was one o...

Well I achieved Gold objectives a year early and had $181k CBV and $187K PNW - but got nothing!! Clearly the targets only apply to Illinois - and I suspect so does the Chairmans salary because the comments and pay decisions are nonsensical. For years I was on $1k although making some $20m profit a y...

O/K I've now downloaded the new version. I was (and obviously still am :D ) going to post that I've discovered how you can get gold without cheating. For some reason the scenario works incorrectly when you take over a railroad. I bought into Great Northern and my own company (keeping some of my own ...

Thanks - doesn't look very promising even at about £4 - mind you thats about $8 nowadays :)

I had AofE3 but it wouldn't play on my computer so gave it my grandkids. They say its great (but I've never seen them play it!).

Anyway reason for posting is that I've just seen Railroad Pioneer on the cheepo racks. Anyone any idea what its like?

Well I'm now up to 1914 and am still befuddled :o I took over Grand Western and am very profitable (but still the directors don't reckon I'm any good!) and now I've got my first tax call $6m just like last time. Clearly I can't pay this much in dividends so from on my PNW is going to go down and I m...

Cant help you on the scenario cos I played it so long ago I can remember nothing about it. On High scores my advice is don't worry - however difficult the scenario you always get the same score (150?) for a Gold on Expert so after a bit its cluttered up with these. The only difference is that if you...

Well followed this stratagy and was doing well until the big offer came along. Obviously I took it but that put me in the red and as I (and 1 other) had 100% of both companies I couldn't buy stock back and selling off from the AI simply put me further in the red so every share I owned was sold off :...

Haven't played this again but I don't think you should make the AIs any stronger. The game is very easy to win by the load carrying route and impossible by the takeover route hence its that area you should be making a bit more difficult because so far (I think) virtually everyone has got Gold some 1...

Well wouldn't you think Cotton was in any dictionary???!!! It actually is English - Portugese but not Portugese - English (could that be because I can't put in the sguiggle above the ao? Anyway makes no odds because I never carry any of the goods according to my Almanac despite all those trains with...

I'm totally befogged by this scenario, and simply can't understand how anyone can get any medal on any setting the way it plays on my computer. I've just retried on Expert and the cost of laying rail is prohibitive. About the same time as the tax was slapped on industry a message came up to say some...

O/K I'm just off to children for Xmas so HAPPY CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR to everyone. One last thought on AIs. I'm now playing Age of Steam with 5 AIs - all are extremely profitable and none have gone bust and basically its virtually impossible to buy over 50% in any so is it correct that you need to h...

Haven't posted before cos I've been playing the other new games but now seriously into this. Great scenario and the events (and info) are fabulous. If I'd entered the "Notify" button before I started I'd have read your hints but as it was I went in blind and didn't accept any of the offers...

Downloaded this some time ago and have been playing on and off since (its a 50 year scenario so takes some time). Despite not understanding Portugese its pretty easy to follow except that you have to carry algodao and I cant find a translation for this! Start is really hard because of the mountains ...

Well I'm very impressed that anyone can get Gold on Expert. My best is Bronze although I was only a year off Silver but could never have got Gold cos my Company had virtually no cash expenses eating up all revenue. Personally I was also bankrupt with only a few shares left in my own company so could...

Well I've played to the end and there was still one AI left - it was doing awfully and I had three attempts at taking over offering double the book price but all were overwhelmingly rejected and as I'd won 10 years earlier I'm still of the opinion that the idea of being the sole surviving company is...

Just a quickie to say that on Easy I did get Gold after 20 years and now, after 24, I've only got three companies left to takeover. One is in the bag but I've not got a majority of the shares in the other two (and there's none left to buy) so I'll have to pay double and whether I can raise the cash ...

Yes thats the way a takeover works just as in real life. You and other players get cash (thats why you need to have as many shares in the AI as possible - to stop enriching the other guys and letting them have cash to buy shares in other companies with and thus frustrate further takeover attempts). ...

Hey, yes, thats a great idea. However in this scenario I only own a bit of my own company cos I need the cash to take over the other 20 companies and, even on Easy, I simply haven't enough for both. Mind you as mine is probably doing a lot better than all the others (but a lot of that is thanks to t...

Well I got fed up with trying to win on Expert. My main problem was making money but I also had a huge job connecting two towns at a sane expense - on Normal (& Easy - see later) you can just link them for say $200k but on Expert you had to dig a tunnel and it came nearer to $1.5m. Thats between...