I was wondering what to grab this month from Lautapelit.fi. I had little idea, until I reached F in the list of games and noticed they had Fresh Fish. When it came out (from Plenary), I wanted to get it, but at the time Safe Haven didn’t have it and ordering from USA was (and…
I’ve found the perfect card game box: Drahtseilakt box (the game’s published by ASS) is exactly large enough to hold the cards with protectors and the scoring sticks. Brilliant. Bambus Spieleverlag boxes are also pretty good, they hold at least two games (especially as Bambus games I have have so few cards). So I can…
…and there’s also majority scoring for both at the end of the game. Choosing which cards to keep isn’t always straightforward, but it’s not terribly tricky, either. Lucky or skillful? There’s always luck involved when there’s a deck of shuffled cards. All the cards in the deck come into play, though, it’s just a question…
I did my first live TV bit today. It was fun, we talked about board games. It was quite light, just five-ten minutes or so and therefore didn’t delve deep into the subject, but still, I had a good time and I think board games got a bit of good publicity. Then I visited Safe…
…to find anything there. The worst mistake was probably Royal Navy — we treated it like any other Legendary Pirate. That was wrong, but fortunately it didn’t come up before the very end of the game. All the special cases make the game’s theme strong, but the rules are rather complicated. Still, it’s a fun…
…My daughter, who is soon three, has started to become interested in games. We’ve played our first real games, and spent lots of time playing with games. Her favourites are Blokus, Kids from Catan and Kayanak. I had to miss couple of cons early in the year, but managed to visit Ropecon and stay overnight…
…also suggestions in another Geek thread. I chose command tables and advanced battles (mandatory, says Chris), leaders (looked like fun), capture of Washington (seemed like a reasonable rule), Northern rail movement (easy and probably useful), like battlefield targets (reasonable) and that’s it. I didn’t use supply, but I should’ve. I avoided it, because Chris said…
…seem to have some expertise on games) and interesting plans to develop their site. Those plans include adding game reviews and translations written by yours truly, so my writings get a bit bigger audience. That’s nice, and their generosity as well, as they’ve promised to give me some games to compensate for my efforts… Splendid….
Yspahan reviewed in Finnish. Yspahan is a game of camels and trading from Ystari Games. The initial buzz over this one wasn’t that big, and I would’ve missed the game altogether based on that. However, Westpark Gamers did a brilliant Windows version of the game (see Yspahan for Windows website), which caused a lot more…
…Sahul, for example, is a daft game in the turns mode but one of my favourites when played real time. Unfortunately Time Control didn’t deliver what it promised. There are lots of problems. First, let’s start with what can be seen. The components. While they look pretty good, they are very flimsy and of poor…