…your permits are more valuable than those of the other players and you pay some compensation gold to those players whose permits you use. There’s also limited space, particularly on the better areas (the rows that match the most common die rolls six and eight). Fortunately you can build over smaller buildings, and if you…
…game comes in a small tin that’s perfect for carrying along anywhere. Rating: Enthusiastic. Pantheon. The latest from Bernd Brunnhofer. He has a really good track record and Pantheon doesn’t fail. The game’s very good. The game’s a bit complex and hard to explain briefly, but it’s basically about tribes expanding around the Mediterranean. However,…
My last board game session this summer involved me, Olli and Memoir ’44: Pacific Theatre. The latest Memoir ’44 expansion turned out to be a blast. We played two scenarios. Japanese counter-attack on Guam was faster thing, while playing through the Iwo Jima Meat Grinder took almost an hour. Both were interesting, well-developed scenarios. The…
Latest review on my Finnish site: Bang! Quick and dirty English review: Bang! is an interesting game, with a solid theme. The underlying mechanics, which have more than little in common with Werewolf are less impressive. I prefer games with more structure and less fun, or else the fun must be more spectacular. More like,…
…nice. I’ll definitely play the game again with six players, even though I might prefer it with less. After that I didn’t have time for longer games (so no Goldland this time, either), but I played my latest short-game favourite Isis & Osiris which was, yet again, excellent fun. Finally, I tried a new game…
Congratulations are due to Greg Aleknevicus and The Games Journal! The latest issue, featuring several interesting articles, marks the fifth anniversary of the journal. It’s been a long time, and I’ve been reading it for years already. That’s quite an achievement and I really want to say thanks to Greg for pushing on with the…
…like the game — how can I hate a game which I win every time? We also played Hansa. It’s one of the Schact games I don’t like (Paris Paris is other example) too much. Sure, I’ll play it, but it feels uncomfortably unintuitive. The rules weren’t that difficult, but still — it’s a bit…
Review in Finnish. Pacific Theater is the latest expansion for Memoir ’44. Like Eastern Front, it adds new figures, new rules and new scenarios to the basic game. This time the fighting is between the Japanese and the US Marine Corps. Japanese forces never surrender (that is, always ignore the first retreat flag), attack with…
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…me twice for something like that… So, right now I’m writing a book on new board games (it’s called Uudet lautapelit or The New Board Games). It’s made of 150 or so description of games (both those published in Finnish and other good games easily available in Finland) and a bunch of other stuff, mostly…