…have free reins to dominate the countryside, even though he spread his influence wide around the land. Among the pockets of resistance, a rebellious hero rose, carrying the banner of people’s favour. Alas, the rebellion wasn’t to succeed. First, the Chancellor bought it out, tossing favours around to bribe the people to complacency. The revolution…
I broke my trend of starting the year with an Asian game and played Dawn Under with Johanna. I got some childish games recently, you know, with Niagara completing the set (I also got CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Boardgame, but that’s another story). Dawn Under is a childish memory game about vampires trying to seek…
…in Two-player 1825. With previous experience, we did the setup very quickly, but the playing time wasn’t much reduced: we played for three hours and fifteen minutes or so. Instead of pen and paper calculations, book-keeping was done in a spreadsheet. I had a simple sheet with columns for each player and company. The money…
…themselves, but when laid on table with other tiles, they look fine and the information – lots of it – is clear enough. Components are generally fine, with no major complaints but won’t wow you. First edition had badly cut tiles, requiring careful punching. What do you do in the game? On each turn you…
Yesterday’s session was a disaster: Mari arrived at 16.20 or so, I arrived at 17.00 and Make arrived at 17.30 — none of us stayed long enough to meet each other. Way to go! However, today was much better. You see, I’ve been spending quite a bit of time outside in the Kaukajärvi parks with…
Finncon was in Jyväskylä this year. It’s a major Finnish science fiction con (biggest free SF con in Europe or something like that), but it also had some games, as local board gamers organized a game room. I was in Jyväskylä at my mother’s with the kids and was able to leave for the Saturday…
…Or no, it is there, but not explicitly stated. More detailed examples of combination ordering would be useful. I’ll definitely fix that with the Finnish rules. I also picked up Kogge from Post office. It wasn’t a completely free review copy, but a fairly good deal anyway. The game looks home-made, but interesting. Unfortunately, the…
…that: he bid eight, I couldn’t bid misére without the widow because I had an ace I had to dump, so he played the game successfully. It wasn’t comfortable for him, but he did it. In the next hand I bid misére again and played it, finishing the game: I had earlier played a seven,…