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Category: Session reports

  • Amazing game of Caylus

    Manu was picking up his games for the German order and had time for a game, so we played Caylus, since he’s getting it in the order and hadn’t played it yet. It was just the two of us, but as we all know, Caylus is a particularly excellent two-player game. The game was superb!…

  • Another quick BSW session: classics, Einfach Genial

    My BSW session today was very classical, one could say. I played San Juan (and well this time, too), St. Petersburg (pretty close game, even though I thought otherwise in the beginning) and Puerto Rico (two games I didn’t win, quite a few stupid moves from me). Could it be more typical? I also played…

  • Quick BSW session: San Juan and Caylus

    I popped in BrettSpielWelt to play few games. San Juan didn’t go too well for me: everybody else had Prefectures and Quarrys, I didn’t get any… It was an obvious loss, and I don’t think I did that many mistakes, either. Well, the cards giveth and the cards taketh away, that’s what you get. Caylus,…

  • Board game club: Antike, Antike!

    Board game club met last Sunday. It was a good meeting, with lots of people, some new faces and active gaming. After a warm-up game of Flix Mix (I’m still unbeaten in this game), we started a six-player Antike. That was one of my main wishes for the meeting, trying Antike with five or six.…

  • Blue Moon session

    I met Olli for some Blue Moon. We played for few hours and hey, Blue Moon is already on my 5&10’s list this year. We had time for exactly ten games. Interesting enough, a first player to act won all games. That wasn’t the case last time, but it sure is curious. There’s an advantage…

  • Making a very small fortune playing Poker

    I’ve been playing online Poker recently. It’s one of those things I’ve been thinking about. I ended up not doing it originally — I would be happy to play play money games at one site, until I could make profit with that. Which didn’t look like happening. Well, then came Christmas and a 10 euro…

  • Games Saturday with Tommy, Stefu and Robert

    Saturday was the big games day of the weekend, when Tommy and Stefu came all the way from Vantaa/Espoo and were joined by Robert of the local gamers. We started around noon and played almost 12 hours straight. It was pleasant, efficient and very entertaining. Here’s what we played: Flix Mix. I played this with…

  • Memoir, football and Blue Moon

    I wanted to try the Memoir ’44 expansions and invited Olli H. over to give them a go with me. Here’s what we played: We started with the Suomussalmi scenario from Eastern Front. It’s the only Winter War scenario and thus a must. It’s also quite an interesting one. Russians are holding the village of…

  • Train session, Age of Steam Germany and Mogul

    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…

  • A new prototype!

    I came up with a simple game idea today; it was so simple I didn’t even need to write up the rules to try it. It was fun, and definitely something I’ll develop a bit more. It does have a good pedigree, since the idea is very much based on Fresh Fish and Alien City.…