…haven’t read the rules or anything. I’m hoping to try before I buy at Helcon. What else… I haven’t been playing games for a while, and I’m really itching to get some action. I’ve got Fauna, Coast-to-Coast Rails and a pretty hot prototype to try. Age of Steam — Zombie Apocalypse sounds interesting, but expensive….
…I’ll have my fun with Louis XIV and sell it then, eventually. I’m probably not selling it at Helcon (if there’s a Helcon) this year, but maybe at some point next year. There are too many games to worry too much about a single game. Then, Modern Art. I used this one in the advertising…
…fan, would have been the perfect opponent for that, but for some reason we didn’t try the game. Maybe at the Helcon, then? Of course, with all the games I’ve planned to play at Helcon, we’ll probably have to extend the event with a week or so. So, anyway — we did a bit of…
I tried Antike with Johanna. It’s certainly not the best two-player game, but it was fun and I got some practise with the mechanics so it’ll be easier for me to teach in Helcon this weekend. So, yeah, it was fun. We played on the Middle-East side, Johanna played Arabs and the Greeks against my…
…someone with little or no trick-taking experience — that takes some adjusting to! We managed to play two hands and I was able to make an utter fool of me by playing recklessly… Well, more of this to come in Helcon, and the Hungarian game seems to me to be the best tarot game so…
…try the game. Everybody liked it. I just wish I’d get a proper copy, I’d prefer that to a “pirated” copy. Playing with hidden tokens, by the way, improved the game. I think that’s the official rule, too — we had that wrong in HelCon. It doesn’t matter much, I like the game both ways,…
…has a somewhat evocative theme (for a such a small dice game, at least) and the basic idea just works. Eclipse. Trying Eclipse in Helcon was an interesting experience. Getting a great designer preview article for Lautapeliopas (in Finnish, sorry!) was also one of the highlights of the year. I’m glad to hear they’re likely…
…And that’s pretty much it. I’m pretty sure there are copies of both Duck Dealer and Le Havre available in Helcon, so hopefully I’ll get to try them there. There will be an obscene amount of new games to try, actually, since Markku from Board Game Society has begged dozens of demo copies of games…
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…
…This needs to get on the table as soon as possible, but unfortunately that looks quite unprobable. Helcon, perhaps? (Looks like I’m going to play about dozen long games at Helcon, where I’ll be probably at most one full day. Yeah right.) I also got Memoir ’44: Pacific Theatre, which looks neat. The new figures…