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Weekend gaming session, Saturday
Saturday was a fun-filled day of gaming as well. Tommy’s brother Miikka joined us. He’s not a gamer the way we are, but likes to play games. We kicked the day off with a four-player game of Attika, a well-known favourite. It was a tough match, which I was finally able to win by connecting…
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Weekend gaming session, Friday
I’m here at Tommy’s having a wonderful little gaming weekend. Today’s cast included Tommy, me, Stefu and our crippled American reinforcement Phil. We started it off in a light-hearted way: playing few rounds of the semi-legendary Loopin’ Louie. It’s a children’s action game, where a guy flies his motor-driven airplane in a circle trying to…
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San Juan fever
Yeah, more San Juan at BrettSpielWelt. This time I played three games: once with two, three and four players. I won the two-player game! It was a snappy game, clocking in below seven and half minutes. I did phenomenally bad in the other two games. At least I think I’ve finally learned that it’s not…
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Today’s games: BSW and live
I played a game of San Juan at Brettspielwelt this morning. This time there were four players, so I got some feel of the game with more players. It works as smoothly as the two-player game, with extra thought required as in Puerto Rico. You must take your opponents’ strategies into account when you choose…
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San Juan
I popped in BSW for few rounds of San Juan. I lost both games I played, so obviously I haven’t quite figured out the strategies yet. That’s nothing new — it took me quite the while to understand Puerto Rico. I hope San Juan is less complicated. Fun it is, that’s for sure. Both games…
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Tournament scoring system
There’s been some talk on Spielfrieks about tournament scoring systems. Paul Sauberer suggested awarding chances at prize draw, instead of ranking points. Now that’s a neat idea! It could be worth using sometimes. Paul’s idea of five chances for winner with some bonuses for the length of games sounds good, too. That way winning every…
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More San Juan
I’m back at BrettSpielWelt, it seems. The new user interface changes have made it more pleasant to use, so I might start visiting the place more often. Today I popped in three times. First time all I played was two rounds of Lost Cities. It was bit quiet and also the server restarted right after…
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San Juan learning experience
I did get to play San Juan after all! Gameblogger was kind enough to teach me the rules — it’s an easy game, if you already know Puerto Rico. In return, she did get probably one of her easier victories… I lost dramatically, but I didn’t quite figure out what my buildings did (I didn’t…
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Age of Steam maps
Age of Steam will get another expansion set in the Autumn (it’ll be published at Essen, like the previous one). The double-sided map includes Scandinavia and Korea. This information is from French Gone Cardboard site and confirmed by Martin Wallace, who also told me the Scandinavian map doesn’t include Finland. Also, the Western US and…
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Puerto Rico at BSW
It’s been a while since I last visited BrettSpielWelt. Today I did go there and ended up in a game of Puerto Rico. That’s fine with me, though I’d like to try games like Yinsh, Tongiaki or San Juan. However, I don’t know the rules and I’m too modest to ask someone to teach me…