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Liberty!
Yesterday I met Olli on the fields of battle. Setting was the independence war of the America, fought with Liberty. The game’s been a bit in the shadow of Hammer of the Scots, I’ve only played it once. Back then I felt the game was a bit messy, I didn’t get the rules well. Now,…
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Board game club session: Killdog, Amazonas, Sunda to Sahul
Yesterday’s board game club session was quite splendid. I got to play several interesting games. It was also great to see Robert, now back from a few month trip to Singapore. Don kicked off the session. Even though Don has pretty neat chips in itself, I instantly replaced them with my spanking new poker chips…
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More Mhing
Since I get very controversial comments on Mhing‘s two-player suitability, I wanted to try it myself. Johanna was up for the task, and we played few rounds last night. As Johanna was new to the game, I didn’t teach her scoring, we just counted winning the rounds. Johanna enjoyed the game and I too think…
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Essen guide
Ward Batty’s Essen traveler’s guide has been widely blogged already, but it’s pretty nice. There’s one thing I’d like to know, though: since we now have a laptop with a WiFi capabilities (a rather splendid PowerBook, even) and as my hotel room doesn’t feature WiFi, just ISDN/modem (WiFi is for business class rooms, it seems),…
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Games weekend in Jyväskylä: Mhing!
I visited Jyväskylä last weekend and played quite a few games. I had just few games with me, so the games were repeated more than usually. That’s different and to be honest, I quite enjoyed it. Lost Cities: I brought a brand-new Finnish copy of the game as a mother’s day gift and ended up…
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Decisionmaking
I wanted to comment on something Shannon Appelcline wrote in his blog. He has banned comments from non-LiveJournal users so I’ll just have to say it here: So at EndGame I usually try and be really considerate of what people might enjoy and do all the consensus twaddle about what we should play. Today, because…
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KillDog
I was browsing Bruno Faidutti’s Ideal Game Library, when I came across KillDog (Geek entry). KillDog, named after Kill Bill and Reservoir Dogs is a bluffing game. Players are gangsters fighting over a pile of loot. Each turn, four bills worth 5, 10 or 20 are turned over. Each player chooses whether they are ready…