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Settlers of Catan Junior

I tried Settlers of Catan Junior with Johanna yesterday. The game is a simplified version of Catan with an age recommendation of 6+. It has all the basic elements of Catan: production rolls, trading and building. Everything is just...

Posted by Mikko on February 5, 2008 11:40 AM

Struggle for Rome (Kampf um Rom)

Here's a review of the latest historical Catan game. The same review in Finnish.Struggle for Rome--> Struggle for Rome is based on real-life history: it covers the time when the Roman empire was in decline and the eastern barbarian tribes...

Posted by Mikko on February 11, 2007 12:40 PM

Board game club session: Struggle for Rome

Yesterday's board game club was a bit of a short affair for me, but I got what I wanted: a game of Struggle for Rome, the new historical Catan game. Struggle for Rome--> It's pretty neat game, I think. There...

Posted by Mikko on January 29, 2007 7:45 AM

Catan World Championships

The Catan World Championships were played in Essen last week. The new world champion of Settlers of Catan is Markus Nuopponen from Finland. Markus won three out of the four games in the first rounds and kicked butt in the...

Posted by Mikko on October 27, 2006 12:30 PM

Catan card game

I got Settlers of Catan Card Game, so of course I had to try it. Nestori agreed to test it out with me and off we went to Catan. The card game is a two-player version of the board game,...

Posted by Mikko on April 4, 2005 3:41 PM