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Tooor!
After playing the game yesterday, I wrote a review in Finnish of Maaali! aka Tooor!, also known as the new edition of Finale. Tooor! is a fairly simple football game. Each coach fields a team of 11 players. Each player has a value from one to five, depicting the skill and the strength of the…
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Memoir, football and Blue Moon
I wanted to try the Memoir ’44 expansions and invited Olli H. over to give them a go with me. Here’s what we played: We started with the Suomussalmi scenario from Eastern Front. It’s the only Winter War scenario and thus a must. It’s also quite an interesting one. Russians are holding the village of…
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Ta Yü rules
Since Ta Yü is generally available for a very cheap price (well, at least in Germany), I thought translating the rules might be a good idea. Thus, I present to you: Ta Yü rules in Finnish.
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Play-by-web Puerto Rico
I want to try the play-by-web Puerto Rico at PR-Game.com. The interface is, erhm, interesting, but I want to see how it turns out. I’m missing Puerto Rico action, so I thought that might be a good avenue. So, anyway, I started a game for four players. Hop in if you’re interested. Players of all…
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Yours truly on Radio Free Finland
Phil Schwarzmann from Finland for Thought, who you also might know from Spielfrieks or BoardGameGeek, hosts a weekly live podcast called Radio Free Finland. Every week he interviews some guests about a topic or other, and this week I was on the show. We talked about board games, Finnish blogosphere and my experiences in Who…
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Tom Vasel interview
I’m flattered: Tom Vasel wanted to interview me for his Interviews by an Optimist series. The resulting interview talks about board games in Finland, evolution of board gaming, blogs and whatnot. It’s pretty neat, if you ask me.
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It’s all about packing
It was something I have thought about and wondered for a while now, and the answer is yes: you can fit the base game, both expansions, the extra map and all sorts of stuff you printed from the web into the Memoir ’44 box. It isn’t a perfect fit, but everything goes in the box…
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Top ten games
Here’s a list of games. Can you guess the order behind this top ten? Go Puerto Rico Carcassonne Die Macher St. Petersburg Age of Steam San Juan Gang of Four Sunda to Sahul Lost Cities It’s a list of games I’ve mentioned most often in this blog. Go and Puerto Rico really stand out (mentioned…
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Train session, Age of Steam Germany and Mogul
Johanna was having a movie night with her friend, so I invited guys over for a friendly game of Age of Steam. To advance my mission to play all the maps, I chose to use the German map — despite one of the players being a newbie. It was a tough fight. I thought Berlin…
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God, Candyland and the travels of Die Macher
Yehuda wrote an article called The Designer’s Rules in the Gone Gaming blog. Go read it, as it was both funny and educating! And God said, “Let there be choice!” And there was choice, and each player now had two pawns, such that when they flipped a card, that player had to choose which pawn…