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Gaming year 2008

So, how was the year? Pretty wild, if you ask me. Good new games (2007-2008 games) Dominion - Well, I played 28 games of this, and most of them outside BrettSpielWelt. That's a pretty nice number, considering how late this...

Posted by Mikko on January 1, 2009 7:46 AM

Gaming year 2007

Another year of games is soon over. Gaming year 2006 was good, but I think this one was even better! At least in quality, not necessarily in quantity... Good new games (2006-2007 games) Agricola - This year brought two very...

Posted by Mikko on December 31, 2007 7:18 PM

Hot games for Q1/2007

This was a pretty quiet quarter, with basically one hot game and bunch of other games with just one play each. Previous quarter was a tad more active. Combat Commander: Europe - The obvious one. I was enthusiastic, but now...

Posted by Mikko on April 3, 2007 9:54 AM

Games day with Tommy

As the tradition goes (last year, the year before that, the weekend before that, the year before that...), I met Tommy for a day of games. So, this year it was just me and him, and just a single day....

Posted by Mikko on March 28, 2007 9:12 AM

Combat Commander: Europe

Review of Combat Commander: Europe in Finnish. Combat Commander: Europe--> I'm definitely an eurogamer - fond of fairly simple games that manage to create complex gameplay from a small ruleset. Yet sometimes I want more. This has been particularly true...

Posted by Mikko on March 13, 2007 9:16 AM

Fighting for the chateau

I met Olli over Combat Commander: Europe yesterday. If I count solo games, this was my fifth game so far. I've played the first four scenarios and one randomly-generated (had to try it; the generator is easy to use and...

Posted by Mikko on March 6, 2007 1:38 PM

First impressions of Combat Commander

My copy of Combat Commander: Europe arrived on Monday and after evening spent with a knife cutting off the counters, I got the game ready to play. I met Olli yesterday for a quick battle.Combat Commander: Europe--> We played the...

Posted by Mikko on February 21, 2007 9:57 AM

Latest crush

I've got this thing with war games. I'd like to have a tactical level war game in my collection. I like Memoir '44, it works well for what it tries to be, but I'd like something with more detail, more...

Posted by Mikko on February 3, 2007 5:19 PM