There are three big games I’d really, really like to get right now: Amun-Re, the new Knizia game. Akke Monasso’s first impressions -article sounds very good. Seems promising! Age of Steam is long and complicated, but still it tempts me. Heavy decision-making with severely limited resources is always a good combination. Löwenherz / Domaine —…
I had a nice weekend, when it comes to games. First game I played Friday was an old favourite, Battle Line. It’s always a blast, and I actually managed to win half of the six games I played during the weekend. But that wasn’t the main attraction. I desperately wanted to play Sunda to Sahul….
I got beaten by the key combo of this deck and thought this might be a fun deck to play. Alternative win conditions are fun. Well, alternative – this deck certainly kills the opponent by wasting all life, it’s just that it’s mostly done at once, and it doesn’t really matter how much life the…
…It was fun, and I’d certainly like to play it again now that know how to play it. To end the evening, we played two rounds of Crokinole. It’s certainly a popular game, most people like it and it’s played every time. That’s good, because I wouldn’t want to carry it around for no reason……
…150 points gained I lost 150 points. Ari did a large call for 140, but unfortunately got his more valuable trumps split by some cooperation from me and Juho. That was cruel and fun. I then played two games of Go against Juho and one game against Ari. I beat Ari easily, but lost twice…
…It’s just so frustrating. The game takes some kind of forward planning combined with rather tight resources and little room for error that I just don’t like. I’d like to see someone play the game really well, though — I wonder what kind of scores people get. We were all (except Riku) in mid-fifties or…
…lot of sense, the mid-game comes to life and things get interesting. Collecting lots of shares is important, perhaps more important than playing the board, but that’s not something to miss either. All in all, it’s a pretty good game for something that easily plays in 20 minutes. Samarkand — well, I’ve now played 20…
…afternoon was finished with a game of Sticheln — how could we not play it? Manu was rather good at this, it turned out — rarely a beginner is able to compete from the start. After three rounds he was in the lead. Fourth round was +8 for me and -2 for Manu and we…
…I asked Tuomo for another go – but this time we had only three players. This is clearly a fixed fun game and with three players, there was quite enough fun. I’d certainly play again. Suggest, but only with two or three. Mord in Arosa. Again, I wasn’t impressed after the first play with six…
…Where did Ark Nova come from? How long have you been working on it? How did you begin, and when did Feuerland Spiele come in? How far was the game you submitted to Feuerland Spiele from the released game? Were there any major changes at that stage? I played board games for so long until…