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Session reports

Nile and Tzaar

July 28, 2010

I met my brother yesterday for some games. We started with Nile, the new set-collecting game from Minion Games. It’s actually pretty good! At least as a two-player filler, that is. The game is about farming. There are five crops to plant and harvest. Each turn starts with a new flood card, which displays the [...]

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Casual games at Finncon

July 18, 2010

Finncon was in Jyväskylä this year. It’s a major Finnish science fiction con (biggest free SF con in Europe or something like that), but it also had some games, as local board gamers organized a game room. I was in Jyväskylä at my mother’s with the kids and was able to leave for the Saturday [...]

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Lessons in bankruptcy

June 23, 2010

We played Age of Steam today on Ted Alspach’s Oklahoma Land Rush map. It was a pretty rough match. Bankruptcies are pretty rare in Age of Steam, despite the reputation of the game. After today’s game, the amount of bankruptcies I’ve seen so far probably multiplied, as three out of four players went down.
Let’s start [...]

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Steam Barons and Die Aufsteiger

June 17, 2010

It was about time to try Steam Barons. I bought it when it was released, but haven’t tried it for some reason. Yesterday we finally got it on the table with three players on the UK side of the board.
In short this Steam expansion always puts six companies in play, owned by different players. The [...]

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Rails in South Carolina

June 13, 2010

So, the Age of Steam. I met with Olli and we played the other two-player map in the Bézier set of 1867 Georgia Reconstruction, South Carolina and Oklahoma Land Rush. I’ve already played 1867 Georgia (but haven’t blogged about it for some reason) with Robert back in October 2009, and it was a bit of [...]

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Shopping and building: Tori preview

May 30, 2010

Designer Kimmo Sorsamo sent me a copy of his latest game Tori. I still haven’t tried his previous game, Epäillyt, which is a murder mystery in 1930’s Helsinki. Let’s just say that one didn’t get a very good reception among board game hobbyists and I doubt I could convince my friends to give it a [...]

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American Rails, first go

May 26, 2010

Another long-owned game finally played: I was able to get American Rails on the table today. This game by Tim Harrison is heavily influenced by the Winsome Historic Railroads games — it wouldn’t miss the mark badly to call it a Chicago Express or Wabash Cannonball variant.
That’s what it is. The game plays a lot [...]

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Duck Dealers running wild

May 6, 2010

Hooray! I bought a copy of Duck Dealer right after Essen 2008. It took couple of months to arrive, I think, as it was delayed, as were some other games in the same order. Still, I’ve had the game for almost year and a half, unplayed on my shelf. Now was finally the time for [...]

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Lighter games and Tarock

April 21, 2010

With my regular Wednesday games cancelled thanks to Johanna’s plans, I had to come up with something else. A friend has a game day every Monday, so I went and checked out that party. It was good, so maybe I’ll join them again some other time.
We had planned some Tarock, but were missing few players, [...]

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Endeavor and Kayanak

April 15, 2010

One of the buzz games from last Essen was Endeavor. It took a while to arrive at our group, but finally we got to play it. We got the full compliment of five players and started to explore and colonize the world after a somewhat complicated rules explanation.
It’s a fun game, and looks really good. [...]

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