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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…
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Month of Wallenstein
Our game of Wallenstein ended after about a month of play. I came third. Winner was, unsurprisingly, the only player who had played before. My placing was pretty good, considering I didn’t really understand the game (for example, I had no clue of the scoring). It was ok, but I don’t think I’ll play the…
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Monday Go Session
This time we had a proper games meet. We started with two games of Huutopussi, both of which were won hands-down by Juho. I don’t know how he does it, but he’s rather superior in the game. Memorable moments of the games include yours truly missing 150 point call by one point, thus instead of…
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Geek Badges
Talk about silly and useless features… BoardGameGeek allows users to create badges, for the measly sum of 50 geekgold. I got one for myself right away… See We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges for more information. My badge? Green and white "GAME BLOGGER". Of course…
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The Games Journal is out
A new issue of The Games Journal is out. This time it’s a slightly thinner one, with articles about not figuring out games and the duration of games and a review of Werewolf.
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Alex Randolph R.I.P.
I’m sure most of you have already heard that Alex Randolph (see list of his games at the Geek) has passed away. Leo Colovini has set up a Book of Condolences.
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Hammer of the Scots, rules v.2.0
As I promised earlier, I hereby announce the version 2.0 rules for Hammer of the Scots have finally been published. You can go get them from Columbia Games Hammer web site. I don’t have Acrobat Reader installed on this computer, so I haven’t taken a look at them, but if they incorporate the changes mentioned…
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Boardgames To-Go moves in
Mark Johnson’s boardgame blog Boardgames To-Go has moved in! Hopefully his archives will soon follow.
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Hexen Werk starting rule
This is the rule regarding starting player from Hexen Werk by Yun Games: "The player who resembles a witch best begins the game. In case no player looks like a witch, the player with the biggest nose will start. In case all have similar sized noses and no one looks like a witch, oldest player…