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Catch-up: Resistance, Age of Steam, Arkadia
Last Wednesday was a nice day of games. Some Die Dolmengötter, a quick and brutal Innovation and first go at The Resistance, the new Werewolf-style game which is faster and removes the player elimination. It’s an interesting game. Players form two teams. Leader chooses a group to go on a mission. The players on the…
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New photoblog
BoardGameGeek recently reintroduced the blog feature. I thought ‘why not?’ and started a photoblog using the Geek blog system. I’m posting board game photos there, discussing photography. It’s a simple interface, easy to add Geek photos and drop a few lines of text, and the audience is already there. There was already some interesting comments…
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Poseidon, first go
I got Poseidon from my Secret Santa. The box promises 90-120 minutes playtime, which fits in my weekly game sessions, where I have 2.5 hours of time. Sounds good so far. Of course, it wouldn’t be the first box to lie. We managed the game in less than two hours. Four players, including rules explanation,…
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1860 PBEM game
I played a game of PBEM 1860 with Justin Rebelo. It was one of our quick games, played mostly in couple of sessions over just few days. Justin did a great session report on Geek, check that out if you’re interested. It was an exciting match: Justin got some early lead, I took over and…
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Homesteaders, SNCF, others
I’m coming here to write a blog post of this week’s games, only to find a draft of last week… except there’s nothing else but the title. Sloppy me! The sessions are, fortunately, compatible, as I played Homesteaders in both of them. I’ve been pushing the game a bit, because I like it and want…
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Weekend games, photo edition
Here are some game photos from last weekend (session report here). Most of the photos are from Flickr, as not all can be uploaded to Geek. That’s a dilemma, there – take photos of popular games, well, Geek’s full of them already. Take photos of unpopular games, and nobody’s looking at them. In any case…
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Weekend games: 7 Wonders, Finca, Dominion, Samarkand
Another weekend in Jyväskylä, more classics. The photos are still in the camera, so I’ll probably have to do a follow-up post with the pictures. 7 Wonders. Five games, won four. Highlight was the round, when I collected 7 points in all categories, except one – and that was science with whopping 62 points (16+16+9+21).…
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Slovenian Tarok and others
A good game session today! It’s been a while since I last played Slovenian Tarock, so I was very glad to give it a go when Hannu suggested it and another Mikko was eager to join. Ville joined us as a new player, and was soundly beaten. We managed a good 13 hands, with all…
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Let’s Catch the Lion photoshoot
I took some photos of Let’s Catch the Lion. It’s a tremendously cute game and well worth all the photos. I still haven’t really played it — I should start carrying it for our game meetings in case there’s a short two player opportunity — but thought I’d give it a go as a photoshoot…
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Neue Heimat
Yesterday I finally got Neue Heimat on table in our game group. It’s been a while since I bought it. We played a full game of three rounds. Despite the extra length, I think that is pretty much the only way to play. I tried the one-round game in Helcon, and it’s easy to tell…