Continuing my Helcon review, see part 1 here, there’s also part 3 and part 4. Preußische Ostbahn. Another Historic Railroads System game from Winsome, fairly closely related to Wabash Cannonball. However, this one’s billed as “German family game”. Indeed, the game is a lot more gentle — yet still quite a challenge. This time the…
…rules too quickly), causing the game to seem a tad tedious. Played correctly Toppo might be an interesting speed game. Nothing like Flix Mix or Set, by no means, but something decent anyway. I’ll comment more once I try this game with completely correct rules. One more part, I think, and that’s Helcon games covered….
Continuing from the part 1, part 2 and part 3. Le Havre. I had already decided to pass Le Havre because I felt it was going to be too long for me anyway. Well, Tommy suggested it for my last game in Helcon and I agreed, because I do want to try it. We got…
Helcon was last weekend. The event was again great success, with lots of good games available. Running the event just week after Essen proved a bit problematic, as some of the games arrived from Essen on Friday, barely in time. I did a day trip for the first time, driving to Helsinki in the morning…
The first part covered Eclipse. Now, the rest. This year choosing what to play wasn’t difficult. Oskari had a list of games from my collection he wanted to try, I wanted to play those games as well so that’s what we did. String Railway was the obvious starter. I ended up playing the game twice….
…Diplomacy player back then). FinDipCon IV, where I played Traumfabrik for the first time, is unfortunately older than this blog, so there’s no records about it. FinDipCon II, back in 2000, was my first board game con. Oh, the memories. Next weekend is Lautapelaamaan, aka the tenth Helcon. Helcon, by the way, is completely covered…
…kept the game small and portable. Masons — Best Colovini game, at least to me. I was initially fairly enthusiastic about this, but another game in Helcon made me drop the rating to seven (well, I did it now, but anyway). Nothing that exciting, but pretty solid family game nevertheless. Memoir ’44: Pacific Theatre —…
…ever in this blog. Lahti games weekend, Saturday and Sunday and Helcon II — Saturday are both similar session reports from cons. Richard Huzzey called the latter epic. Both were fun events, especially the Helcon. I’m unfortunately going to miss the next Lahti weekend, but this year’s Helcon is a must. Bingo! was a bit…
Sunday began with a game of Tom Tube against Ville, who hadn’t played before. I won the game with a single point — it was very exciting and close match. I like the game, definitely. During that game, more people arrived and Mikko K. joined us. I wanted to try Flaschenteufel (one of the Essen…
Helcon III is coming! This two-day gaming extravaganza is scheduled for 6.-7.11. this year. I enjoyed last year immensely and expect this year will measure up. For more information, see the event web site (in Finnish, if you can’t read it but are interested, ask me for more details). If you are still hesitating, just…