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Gaming year 2006

Once again the year is over and it's time for the year-end report. Here's 2005 for comparison... Good games published in 2006 Age of Steam: London and Sun, 1830's Pennsylvania and Northern California - I've played one map from each...

Posted by Mikko on January 2, 2007 8:00 AM

Hot Games for Q3/2006

Here's a list of hottest games for the third quarter of 2006 for me. This is based on number of plays, my enjoyment of the game and the novelty value, so new games tend to show up higher on the...

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

Pacific Memoir and rats

My last board game session this summer involved me, Olli and Memoir '44: Pacific Theatre. The latest Memoir '44 expansion turned out to be a blast. Memoir '44 Memoir '44: Pacific Theatre--> We played two scenarios. Japanese counter-attack on Guam...

Posted by Mikko on August 31, 2006 7:18 AM

Rat Hot

Rat Hot reviewed in Finnish. Rat Hot--> Rat Hot is a small two-player tile-laying game from Michael Schacht. It was previously web-published as Dschunke: das Legespiel, but this edition is from Queen Games and Rio Grande Games. The game is...

Posted by Mikko on August 6, 2006 5:25 PM

Small two-player session

My games with Olli continued on Friday. We started with Kahuna - it was the final test. Olli lost big time; he got the first scoring, but then my defensive island network made it quite clear there was no way...

Posted by Mikko on July 29, 2006 6:15 PM

War, trading and hot rats

I met Olli for the first proper game session after Nooa's (that's the name of our boy) birth. It was fun, to have a small break from baby care and maintenance. We started off with Memoir '44, since that was...

Posted by Mikko on July 22, 2006 8:28 AM