…winner, not by far, but a good strategy to base your game on. It feels pretty efficient, but that of course depends on the routes as well. Still, building slightly weaker routes can be justified if you’re working on a wagon goal. In my two three-player games I won one and came second in the…
I spent the weekend in FinDipCon VIII in Helsinki. It was a pleasant event, as they usually are, with lots of games played. The Diplomacy tournament was of course the main event: the Finnish Diplomacy champion in 2006 is Juho Malin. Another big deal was William Attia’s presentation (or discussion) about Caylus. Unfortunately I had…
…income to the player who owns the connection. There’s no obligation to use one’s own tracks, but of course that’s always the best option. However, sometimes it can be useful to move a cube through one of your opponents’ connections so you can reap the benefits of a long connection. Of course, to balance the…
…players, with unique and unusual custom meeples. Components of this game are very nice (except for the fact that almost every single component says “Sponsored by…”). What do you do in the game? Game proceeds in years. Main action happens in summer and winter, when you place workers to plant vines, harvest grapes, crush them…
…hands to make the winds and the dragons a bit more attractive. Right now they’re quite useless. Of course, they tend to be the first things to discard in regular Mahjong as well, but there you have more special hands and the winds are more valuable with the whole concept of personal wind and of…
I got the Jolly Roger games yesterday and the first one I tried was Nodwick: The Card Game. The title is necessary, because Nodwick is originally a web comic by Aaron Williams. That means, of course, that the game has rather decent graphics. The game, designed by Frank Branham (the author of the brilliant Dia…
…from now on to see if that’s true. Of course, the luck of the tile draw is significant as well (drawing Transfer stations is often bad, for example). Then again, I’ve only played with five players, where the luck is perhaps emphasized as each player has only four strings and not five. Still, it’s a…
A nice session today! I started with a quick(ish) Nile with Petri — it’s still a pretty good two-player quickie, I actually like it quite a bit. I won, of course. First bigger game was Bamboleo, which has recently come out in Finnish. It’s a good-looking game and entertaining to watch. It’s also fun to…
…in debt service. Income, however, is usually less than in Age of Steam. I found that going over 40 income was possible, but staying there for more than one round was hard. So, ending up in a deadly debt spiral is fairly easy. In our game, it was common to take new loans to pay…