From the monthly archives:

December 2005

Yours truly on Radio Free Finland

December 12, 2005

Phil Schwarzmann from Finland for Thought, who you also might know from Spielfrieks or BoardGameGeek, hosts a weekly live podcast called Radio Free Finland. Every week he interviews some guests about a topic or other, and this week I was on the show. We talked about board games, Finnish blogosphere and my experiences in Who [...]

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Tom Vasel interview

December 9, 2005

I’m flattered: Tom Vasel wanted to interview me for his Interviews by an Optimist series. The resulting interview talks about board games in Finland, evolution of board gaming, blogs and whatnot. It’s pretty neat, if you ask me.

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It’s all about packing

December 5, 2005

It was something I have thought about and wondered for a while now, and the answer is yes: you can fit the base game, both expansions, the extra map and all sorts of stuff you printed from the web into the Memoir ’44 box. It isn’t a perfect fit, but everything goes in the box [...]

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Top ten games

December 5, 2005

Here’s a list of games. Can you guess the order behind this top ten? Go Puerto Rico Carcassonne Die Macher St. Petersburg Age of Steam San Juan Gang of Four Sunda to Sahul Lost Cities It’s a list of games I’ve mentioned most often in this blog. Go and Puerto Rico really stand out (mentioned [...]

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Train session, Age of Steam Germany and Mogul

December 4, 2005

Johanna was having a movie night with her friend, so I invited guys over for a friendly game of Age of Steam. To advance my mission to play all the maps, I chose to use the German map — despite one of the players being a newbie. It was a tough fight. I thought Berlin [...]

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