From the monthly archives:

July 2011

Acquire

July 22, 2011

Yesterday’s game session was a bit of a disappointment. I wanted to play Colorado Midland, as I’d just picked up the Winsome Essen set. Unfortunately, waiting for a while didn’t produce an extra player, so we couldn’t get a game going and had to play Sahara to spend some time in the lack of better [...]

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18xx map and tile generator

July 15, 2011

I’ve been thinking about doing a new 18xx map and tile generator to assist in playing PBEM games. There are currently two good solutions I know of, but both have flaws. Rails Rails is a popular and easy to use program, that handles everything: map, tiles, shares, money. Rails also knows the rules and can [...]

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Harzbahn 1873 summary

July 15, 2011

I studied the rules of 1873 Harzbahn. Here’s a summary I created. It’s based on the July 5th 2011 version of the rules available at the Geek. Start Auction Round first bid for first purchase right high bidder goes first, rest in the reverse order of passing high bid is Start Premium first bidder must [...]

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Stone Age, Moto Grand Prix

July 8, 2011

Last Wednesday was another successful afternoon of games, with plenty of people playing games. I started with Jälkipeli, since I had learnt that I had got one small but critical rule wrong. This ruined the game, particularly with three players. Too bad I had already written a review of the game based on the wrong [...]

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