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War dreams

I must confess. The guys at the Board Game Society forums have been talking about Advanced Squad Leader a lot, particularly the starter kits. Despite what I've said earlier about preferring these detailed strategy games on computer, I'm feeling a...

Posted by Mikko on July 12, 2006 4:14 PM

Industrial Waste vs Power Grid

I was asked a question by Jacob in the comments of an earlier post: Hey, could I trouble you for your opinion of Industrial Waste vs Powergrid? I've played neither and I'm intrigued by both. Powergrid is ranked really high...

Posted by Mikko on July 3, 2005 10:03 PM

Board game club session: Spinergy, In the Shadow of the Emperor

Saturday's board game club session continued: Another game having some buzz about it was Spinergy. We got nine players to play it, which was nice. Spinergy is highly creative party game, where one player spins three words from a device...

Posted by Mikko on April 17, 2005 10:12 AM

BSW session: Diamant, Attribute (finally!)

I did two BrettSpielWelt sessions today. I tried to recruit folks from Boardgame Society forums, but with no luck. I got some general interest, but nobody joined me. On my first visit I played seven games of Diamant. It's a...

Posted by Mikko on April 15, 2005 11:20 PM

BrettSpielWelt session

It's been a while since my last BrettSpielWelt session. Six months, actually! Well, nothing's changed over there, just a new game or few. However, playing anything except the standards proved to be pretty hard, as usual. I got in five...

Posted by Mikko on April 9, 2005 10:26 PM

Games of 2004

Another year gone, another report of year's activities. Once more, there's probably more information than anyone wants to know, but it's more for me anyway. Once again I played more than 100 different games - 113 to be precise. That's...

Posted by Mikko on January 1, 2005 9:11 AM

Spielboy and The Games Journal

The latest issue of Spielboy is out. Check it out - it's the typical mixture of interesting articles and, ehm, artistic pictures. Most interesting article this time is Do I Offend?, which takes a look at the ways how games...

Posted by Mikko on September 2, 2004 11:22 AM

Power Grid and StreetSoccer

First: this is entry #500. Now that's something. I dropped by Brettspielwelt today to play some games. My main interest was to try StreetSoccer in realtime after playing so much of it in Little Golem. It was fun, though I...

Posted by Mikko on August 24, 2004 3:45 PM

Power Grid

I spent some quality time in Brettspielwelt playing Power Grid. I hadn't tried it there before, but the interface turned out to be rather obvious. I had only one problem: the message window was only one row tall when I...

Posted by Mikko on August 15, 2004 12:27 AM

Weekend gaming session, Friday

I'm here at Tommy's having a wonderful little gaming weekend. Today's cast included Tommy, me, Stefu and our crippled American reinforcement Phil. We started it off in a light-hearted way: playing few rounds of the semi-legendary Loopin' Louie. It's a...

Posted by Mikko on May 15, 2004 1:29 AM

Electric news

I heard Rio Grande Games is doing an English version of Funkenschlag. The new version will be called Power Grid. It has - obviously - better components and also streamlined rules, so it should play in two hours or less....

Posted by Mikko on January 31, 2004 8:49 PM