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Steam Barons and Die Aufsteiger

It was about time to try Steam Barons. I bought it when it was released, but haven’t tried it for some reason. Yesterday we finally got it on the table with three players on the UK side of the board. In short this Steam expansion always puts six companies in play, owned by different players.…

June 17, 2010
Gaming Year 2009

Time for another of these yearly reports, huh (see the 2008 report). This was a fairly quiet year for games. Last year was really good, but we got the second kid this year (see Gaming impact of children)… So, from last year’s 284 plays to this year’s 130 plays and some very quiet time (just…

January 1, 2010

Rating scale

Here’s the rating scale I use, and how it corresponds to BGG ratings:

Enthusiastic: I love the game and want to play it. (9, 10)
Suggest: Good game, I want to play it and will usually suggest it. (7, 8)
Indifferent: I’ll play the game, if necessary, but won’t suggest it. (5, 6)
Avoid: I don’t want to play this game. (1-4)

(Thanks to Brian Bankler)

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Of green

The green colour of the sidebar is the Brunswick Green used by Nationalised British Railways – Western Region:

“A different color, also called “Brunswick green”, was the colour for passenger locomotives of the Grouping and then the nationalized British Railways. There were three shades of these colours and they are defined under British Standard BS381C – 225, BS381C – 226, and BS381C – 227 (ordered from lightest to darkest). The Brunswick Green used by the Nationalised British Railways – Western Region for passenger Locomotives was BS381C – 227 (rgb(30:62:46)). RAL6005 is a close substitute to BS381C – 227. A characteristic of these colours was the ease for various railway locations to mix them by using whole pots of primary colours – hence the ability to get reasonably consistent colours with manual mixing half a century and more ago.”

Wikipedia: Shades of green

There is a difference from play with dice, because the latter is open, whereas play with cards takes place from ambush, because they are concealed.
– Girolamo Cardano: Liber de ludo aleae (1564), translated by Sydney Gould as The Book on Games of Chance (Princeton University, 1953)

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Tag: Steam Barons

Steam Barons and Die Aufsteiger

Gaming Year 2009