…is will the players be able to fulfill their goals before all farmland is spoiled. It’s an impressive game. The box is huge and contains lots of small cardboard pieces. All components have this kind of faded old-fashioned look; the result looks consistent, pretty and historical. Even the box is modeled after an archive box…
New issue of The Games Journal is out. There’s articles about Germany, games with kids, educational games and Essen fair. Reviews include Trans America, Sleuth and Bang! There are rules to a game called WYSIWYG and of course, the letters (including a letter from yours truly!). Go read it, it’s excellent!…
It’s been a while since I last played my favourite computer strategy game, Steel Panthers. I have both Steel Panthers I and II and I loved them both. Nowadays, of course, the game to play is Steel Panthers: World at War. We found out some time ago with Tommy that we both like the game…
…In the end, I managed to sneeze few points — one game-winning move was, for example, to join my one-piece city start to a slightly larger unfinished city. My opponent would’ve got few points from that, which I now neutralized. It was a perfect game, close and exciting and of course, what’s best, I won!…
…I did it with a Mono White deck this time. That’s me and everybody else, of course, because Mono White is super popular right now. It’s the hottest archetype in the Standard meta at the moment, in a couple of different variations. I’ve tried two different versions, one that plays only Humans and uses Rally…
Played a game yesterday; here’s the review of Mykerinos in Finnish. Session report coming up! Mykerinos is the latest game from Ystari and the most recent Finnish release from Lautapelit.fi. It’s nice to see Finnish companies teaming up with foreign publishers to get games released in Finland the same time they’re published abroad. Designed by…
…away, and even if bidding is a strange concept, it still is fairly easy. The scoring is slightly complicated, though: in three-player game every player has four different scores. Pulja (bullet) points are scored for making declared games, heap points are scored when player fails to make a contract (or a defender’s quota) and whist…
…of Baghdad. Players move their thieves between palaces to collect treasure chests. To get in, you must have your own bribed guard in front of the palace and an opponent’s guard (to take the blame for the thieves, of course!). There’s some pretty nice maneuvering, but also plenty of luck with the cards — getting…
…why The Sims is the best-selling computer game ever. It has much wider appeal than your average shoot’em’up. Before, we’ve mostly played Half-Life and Quake and Doom — or I’ve played, and Johanna has watched. Which has been fun, but this is better, as we can play together. The Sims seems to be a good…
…turns (of course you couldn’t stop right after the one, no way) you could stop. But The Sims just goes on and on… And if you’re getting bored with the game, there’s always the commercial expansions and the fan add-ins… Oh my. Wicked! But at least that’s time spent together, which is not bad π…