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Roads and Boats for three

I was able to organize a longer game today. We ended up playing Roads and Boats, which was certainly welcome. I bought the game back in 2006 and played the only game so far back in 2005, so I'd...

Posted by Mikko on August 16, 2009 5:59 PM

Tracon III

I spent most of my yesterday attending Tracon. Tracon is a yearly convention here in Tampere, this was the third time it was organized. Tracon is mostly about anime, manga and role-playing games. In the first two Tracon's, I don't...

Posted by Mikko on February 17, 2008 8:21 PM

Roads and Boats missing component

My copy of Roads and Boats came with two lower wonder boards but zero upper wonder boards. If your copy, by chance, has two upper boards and you want a lower board, drop me a line and we can switch....

Posted by Mikko on August 26, 2006 5:45 PM

Roads and Boats

Woot! I'm a proud owner of a spanking new third edition Roads & Boats. Now I only need to find time to play it... And I also have to visit a fishing supply store to get some tackle boxes to...

Posted by Mikko on August 25, 2006 4:42 PM

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

Roads and Boats by Web

There's a PBW implementation of Roads and Boats! It's called Roads & Boats by Web and it's currently in early testing. I want to test, too! I set up a two-player game for testing purposes. You can join the game;...

Posted by Mikko on July 10, 2006 1:56 PM

Antiquity is here!

Antiquity arrived, finally! It had taken a detour, visiting three Tampere post offices when it should've come through just two. That's why I didn't get it last week... Well, that's all behind, now I can enjoy having the game around...

Posted by Mikko on August 2, 2005 8:11 PM

Game weekend, part 1: Roads & Boats, Manila, Industrial Waste, Memoir '44

We had a really good games weekend last weekend. Tommy came over Friday afternoon with a bunch of interesting games to try. We were joined on Saturday by Manu and Robert. After dinner Manu left, but was later replaced by...

Posted by Mikko on June 6, 2005 9:24 AM

Games weekend at Tommy's

Last weekend was the traditional annual games weekend at Tommy's. Third time already! Unfortunately the weekend wasn't quite the success it set out to be, as I fell sick and had to leave. We did get an evening of games...

Posted by Mikko on January 31, 2005 12:27 PM