News

01.06.2004 - New game in BSW: Power Grid / Funkenschlag

Friedemann Friese's super great game have arrived at BSW! Jippi!

08.03.2004 - New game room owner in ET: K_Oz

Big congrats to K_Oz for reaching level 15!

08.03.2004 - New game room owner in ET: Lepidus

Big congrats to Lepidus for reaching level 15!

06.03.2004 - New game room owner in ET: Jdgreen

Big congrats to Jdgreen for reaching level 15!

29.02.2004 - New game in BSW: San Juan

San Juan enters BSW. You can play the game in Bibi's house /game C10-191 and in FiredUp1's house, /game C10-93

22.02.2004 - New game room owner in ET: Verti

Big congrats to Verti for reaching level 15. Thanks to Verti you can now play Manitou in ET. /game C10-132

18.02.2004 - New game room owner in ET: fopkovic

Big congrats to fopkovic for reaching level 15.

10.02.2004 - New game room owner in ET: Bibi_org

Big congrats to Bibi_org for reaching level 15.

09.02.2004 - New game room owner in ET: ehalsh1

Big congrats to ehalsh1 for reaching level 15. You can now play Puerto Rico in ehalsh1's house. /game C10-79

08.02.2004 - New game room owner in ET: colossus

Big congrats to colossus for reaching level 15. There are now a Tongiaki room in his house. /game C10-105

01.01.2004 - New game room owner in ET: FiredUp1

Big congrats to FiredUp1 for reaching level 15.

01.01.2004 - New game room owner in ET: Ren

Big congrats to Ren for reaching level 15.

01.01.2004 - New game room owner in ET: general

Big congrats to general for reaching level 15. You can now play Café International in his house. /game C10-216

21.12.2003 - EnglishTown end 4th in the first BSW Olmpic Games

Despite relatively low participation from EnglishTown players because of European time schedules EnglishTown end 4th in the Olympics.

A big contrats to all the winners - and three times hurray for Ren. Impressive!!!

EnglishTown medals:

Gold:
Zoomer for Vabanque
Ren for Siedler
FiredUp1 for TopRace

Silver:
Thoth in Yinsh
Ren for Puerto Rico
Ren & bliss for team Siedler

Bronze:
general for Can't Stop
Nikita for TransAmerica
Nikita for KuK

06.12.2003 - EnglishTown host the first BSW Olmpic Games

EnglishTown build the Olympic Stadium and the first BSW olympic games start.
Olympic info.

29.11.2003 - New game room owner in ET: Redeye

Big congrats to Redeye for reaching level 15. Will be exiting to see what game he will pick for his house :-)

27.11.2003 - New game room owner in ET: Kiwijam

Big congrats to Kiwijam for reaching level 15. You can now go and have a Royal dinner together with King Lui in Kiwijam's residence - /game C10-181

23.11.2003 - New game in BSW: King Lui

11.11.2003 - EnglishTown buys more land

EnglishTown is now 110 x 110 squares. Room enough for everyone to build their own house when they reach level 12.

02.11.2003 - New game room owner in ET: Platnick

Big congrats to Platnick for reaching level 15. We can now look forward to a lot of great PR parties in Platnick's house - /game C10-186

24.10.2003 - Attika game rooms in ET

After the latest game room changes you can now play Attika in lorna's house - /game C10-55, Karnak's house - /game C10-87 and helen's house - /game C10-71

24.10.2003 - New game room owner in ET: helen

Big congrats to helen for reaching level 15. helen have picked Attika for her game room. You find it in /game C10-71

18.10.2003 - New titles in BSW

Some of the rank titles in BSW have been changed. This means that level 12 is no longer called landgraf and level 15 is no longer called Fürst (but level 14 is). From now on we will start refer to the rank levels just by number.

17.10.2003 - New game in BSW: Attika

Attika is EnglishTown member Meuterer's newest game. Will it be game of the year 2004? Let's hope so :-)

15.10.2003 - Will ET be the host of the first BSW olympic games?

EnglishTown deliver it's application to host the first BSW olympic games. Several towns are interested in hosting the games, and the Olympic Committee will decide where the games will take place. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

14.10.2003 - New gameroom in ET: Settlers

ET got it's fourth Settlers gameroom. When all the other Settlers rooms are full you can now play Settlers in /game C10-177. This game room wasn't exactly meant to be. At the same time, when the accident first happened, settlers is among the games where another gameroom could come in handy.

08.10.2003 - New game in ET: TurnIt

ET got it's first Lighthouse building. You can now play TurnIt in /game C10-174

05.10.2003 - New game in BSW: Yinsh

The new GIP project game, Yinsh, can now be played in ET, /game C10-173

01.10.2003 - New Fürst in ET: Thoth

Big congratulations to Thoth for reaching Fürst! There will be Doppelkopf in his house, /game C10-91

30.09.2003 - New Fürst in ET: Karnak

Big congratulations to Karnak for reaching Fürst! Level 11 to 15 in one day! WOW!

30.09.2003 - Alhambra game rooms in ET

After the latest game room changes you can now play Alhambra in four ET game rooms: Tintin's house - /game C10-126, klutz's hours - /game C10-80, puyo's house - /game C10-67 and Nikita's house - /game C10-19

23.09.2003 - New Fürst in ET: puyo

Big congratulations to puyo for reaching Fürst! And what an excelent timing - on EnglishTown's second birthday :-)
You find a new Alhambra room in his house, /game C10-67

16.09.2003 - New Fürstin in ET: Shileah

Big congratulations to Shileah for reaching Fürstin! You now find a new KuK room in her house, /game C10-114

11.09.2003 - New Fürst in ET: paeanblack

Big congratulations to paeanblack for reaching Fürst! You now find a new PR room in his house, /game C10-146

10.09.2003 - EnglishTown is expanding!

EnglishTown has bought more land. We are now counting 90 x 90 tiles!!!!

08.09.2003 - New game manager and SPV tools in BSW

A new game manager and SPV tool is launched in BSW, and the confusion is complete. Follow the discussion in the ET forum: http://www.brettspielwelt.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=EnglishTown;action=display;num=1063066034

08.09.2003 - New Fürst in ET: ukgamer101

Big congratulations to ukgamer101 for reaching Fürst! You now find the great game of Medina in ukgamer101's house, /game C10-62

05.09.2003 - New Fürst in ET: glebi

Big congratulations to glebi for reaching Fürst! glebi have picked Siedler for his gameroom in /game C10-54

04.09.2003 - New Fürst in ET: Tintin

Big congratulations to Tintin for reaching Fürst! The game room is yet to be decided.

18.07.2003 - New Kurfürst in ET: Lehm

A big welcome to our newest member Lehm. In his house there is now an Attribut game, /game C10-135.

17.07.2003 - New Fürst in ET: coredump

Big congratulations to coredump for reaching Fürst! There is now a GO game in his house, /game C10-85.

09.07.2003 - New Fürst in ET: spectremac

Big congratulations to spectremac for reaching Fürst! There is now a new RA game in his house, /game C10-112.

22.06.2003 - New Fürstin in ET: Comete

Big congratulations to Comete for reaching Fürstin! There is now a Geister game in her house, /game C10-82.

12.06.2003 - New game in BSW: Clans

You can now play Clans in BSW. In ET you find the game in /game C10-71 and /game C10-19. Rules are to be found from the ET game page.

11.06.2003 - ET build Top Race Guildhall

We congratulate the Top Race Guild with their new Guildhall!

09.06.2003 - New Fürst in ET: xandern

Big congratulations to xandern for reaching Fürst! There is now a CCHuB room in his house, /game C10-89

09.06.2003 - New Fürst in ET: Ravnwyng

Big congratulations to Ravnwyng for reaching Fürst!

07.06.2003 - New game room: Ligretto

You can now play Ligretto in /game C10-116

20.05.2003 - New game in BSW: CCHuB - The Builders and Traders expansion to CC.

The Builders and Traders expansion has arrived in BSW. There is a game room for it in /game C10-106

20.05.2003 - New game in BSW: English version of Attribut.

There is now an Attribut room in klutz's game room, /game C10-80. To start the english version of the game give the command /option set english before you start the game.

15.05.2003 - New Fürst in ET: klutz

Big congratulations to klutz for reaching Fürst in what must be considered record time.

12.05.2003 - New Meuterer room in ET

Because of increased Meuterer play in ET Nikita's game room, /game C10-19, is now a Meuterer room.

01.05.2003 - Paris Paris comes to ET

There are now paris paris game rooms in /game C10-52, /game C10-55 and /game C10-78. Thanks to lorna, RichardT and RicoSuave for putting this game in their houses!

08.04.2003 - New game in BSW: Paris Paris

There will be a new game Paris Paris launched in BSW at 18:00. You will find the game true the SPV-tool. English rules are available from the BSW rule page (link can also be found from the ET game page). Looks like a fun game :-)

06.04.2003 - New furst in ET: RicoSuave!

Big congratulations to RicoSuave for reaching Fürst! Will be exiting to see what game he will pick when May 1st comes.

30.03.2003 - New game room: PuertoRico

You now find a new PR room in /game C10-96

29.03.2003 - The PR expansion is here!

The new PR buildings have arrived in BSW! If you want to play PR with the new buildigs you write /option extended before you start the game. To play "the old way" you write /option base before start. To get a random mix of buildings you use /option random. You find a link to list with the new buildings from the games page. PR can be played in the following ET game rooms: /game C10-43, /game C10-53, /game C10-64 and /game C10-96

22.03.2003 - New game room: Top Race

You now find Top Race in /game C10-94

18.03.2003 - RichardT reached fürst!

Big congratulations to RichardT for reaching Fürst! There is now a Fursten game in his house, /game C10-52

17.03.2003 - Halali in ET!

Paradox99 has choosen Halali for his game room, /game C10-37

16.03.2003 - Change in Tichu room numbers

Because of a bug irisdepiris had to re-enter ET. Because of this her Tichu game room is now in /game C10-51, and not in /game C10-47 as before (the .prop-generator has been updated).

13.03.2003 - Essie and Paradox99 reach level 15!

Big congratulations to Essie and Paradox99 for reaching Erzbischöfin and Fürst! It will be exiting to see what game they pick for their game rooms

20.02.2003 - New game in BSW: Top Race

BSW have got yet a new game: Top Race. You find it in /game C10-19. English rules is to be found from the ET game page.

16.02.2003 - /dev/joe reach Fürst!

Big congrats to /dev/joe for reaching Fürst! Roumors say there will be a new LC game in his house in the begining of March.

29.01.2003 - Changes to the play partner tool

Mahjong have been so nice that he have translated the explanation of how the new play partner tool works.

30.01.2003 - New game room in ET: Dvonn

There is now a Dvonn room to be found in /game C10-83.

26.01.2003 - New TA game room

ET has got a new member that was already Herzog, Mahjong. He have picked TA for his game room, you find it in /game C10-75.

25.01.2003 - ET grows

We have now done the town expansion. Plans for the expanded city is to be found under city plan.

23.01.2003 - New Fürst in ET!

Big congrats to TheBoomer! Finaly Fürst! You can now play Puerto Rico in Boomer's house - /game C10-64.

18.01.2003 - New Fürst in ET!

Big congrats to lorna, our new Fürst! You can now play Emerald in lorna's house - /game C10-55.

08.01.2003 - Medina is online!

The new game Medina is online, you find it in /game C10-19.
Rules: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=1643

05.01.2003 - Bluff has finaly arrived in ET!

There is now a Bluff room in ET, you find it in /game C10-69.

01.01.2003 - New Emerald room in /game C10-68

There is now a new windmill with Emerald in (located beside the Sticheln mill).

29.12.2002 - New game in BSW: Emerald

Emerald was launched today. You find it in /game C10-19. Game intro: http://brettboard.dk/cgi-bin2/webdata_games.pl?cgifunction=form&fid=1012233394

29.12.2002 - New Fürst in ET

A big congrats to rom, our new Fürst! There is now a new CCE-game to be found in his house /game C10-59

19.12.2002 - New Sticheln rom: /game C10-65

Sticheln was launched today and we have already built a game room for it in ET. Rules can be found at http://gamecabinet.com/rules/Sticheln.html

06.12.2002 - New CCJuS rom: /game C10-38

Down for essies house there is now a windmill hosting the CCJuS game.

06.12.2002 - Nikolaus have been discovered in BSW

Nikolaus have been discovered in BSW, walking around giving out gifts. If he asks you if you have been nice (or anything else), remember to answer: yes

06.12.2002 - 3rd PR room in ET

/game C10-19 is now a PR room

05.12.2002 - New game in BSW: GO

The game is found as GO in the game menu of the play partner tool. Rules can be found at: http://gobase.org/.

01.12.2002 - New French Town in BSW: Carcassonne-Plage

kasskados have left ET to form a new French town. We wish him the best of luck!

24.10.2002 - New game in BSW: Carcassonne Jäger und Sammler

The game is found as CCJuS in the game menu of the play partner tool. Thanks to Agent86 you can now also read the game rules in English.

19.10.2002 - ET is now a Hanse town!!!!!

The town hall is up, and the ET members can now join the guild of their choice! Use the command /possibleguilds to see what guilds you can join, and the command /accedeguild followed by the name of the guild will make you join.

09.10.2002 - ET got it's first Fürstin!

A big congratulation to irisdepiris, the first member of EnglishTown we can call Fürstin! It will be exiting to see what game Iris will pick for her house.

24.09.2002 - ET got a new Fürst!

A big congratulation to Shlimazl, the second member of EnglishTown who managed to become Fürst! I think we can anticipate a new PR game in his house with the next reset of BSW.

05.09.2002 - The forge have been built!

EnglishTown now has a forge where we can produce tools from wood and ore. The forge is placed beside the mill, just opposite the town tower in /game C10-48

02.09.2002 - ET got it's first Fürst!

A big congratulation to kasskados, the first member of EnglishTown who managed to become Fürst, and by this got to host a game in his house. You now find Ligretto in his residence.

30.08.2002 - August requirements fullfilled.

EnglishTown has managed both the food and cloth requirements for August. The 16 most infrequent players of ET have been asked by e-mail to respond to us if they still want to be a member. Only two have responded and the other 14 have be removed from EnglishTown this evening. This was not something we wanted to do, but if the town are going to move forward we felt there was not much of an option...

30.08.2002 - Note about Landgraf housing added.

The help page in regard to housing have been expanded to also contain some lines about Landgraf housing.

24.08.2002 - Resources visible!

All EnglishTown citizens now have access to see the town's resources. The resources will be shown to the right in the town screen when you enter /room C10 (if you use IE and are directed stright to EnglishTown when you enter BSW you have to use the /room C10 command and re-enter ET to get the resources to be shown).
The resources from top to bottom are wood, stone, ore, wool, food, cloth, and tools.
The requirements for the month can be found here.