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Thursday session: Wabash Cannonball and Dolmengötter

Yesterday's session started with an interesting game of Wabash Cannonball. We only had three players, so it was a different game to start with. I managed to lose the game on the first round. I got shares of PRR...

Posted by Mikko on March 27, 2009 3:10 PM

Board game club: Steel Driver, Torres

I had a great time at today's board game club (yeah, the baby's still waiting for a nice day to be born -- perhaps next week?). I started with quick five-player game of Formissimo, which is a simple speed...

Posted by Mikko on January 11, 2009 8:42 PM

Board game designs by Sampo Sikiö

Sampo Sikiö did the really cool redesigns of Preußische Ostbahn and Wabash Cannonball, but it doesn't stop there. Go take a look at some real talent! His Flickr photostream has more pictures of his work and also general photography, while...

Posted by Mikko on January 9, 2009 11:38 AM

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

Helcon 2008 review, part 3

Let's see what I didn't cover in part 1 or part 2... see also part 4. GemBlo Pyramid. This dice-pyramid game is apparently good, if played with the expert rules. Well, we couldn't figure them out, so we tried the...

Posted by Mikko on December 3, 2008 9:03 PM

Helcon 2008 review, part 2: Preußische Ostbahn

Continuing my Helcon review, see part 1 here, there's also part 3 and part 4. Preußische Ostbahn. Another Historic Railroads System game from Winsome, fairly closely related to Wabash Cannonball. However, this one's billed as "German family game". Indeed, the...

Posted by Mikko on December 3, 2008 7:22 AM

Helcon 2008 review, part 1

Helcon came and went. It's by far my favourite board game event, and once again proved to be excellent. It's small enough, about hundred people or so, yet offers plenty of good board game action. I travelled to Helsinki with...

Posted by Mikko on December 2, 2008 8:31 PM

Thursday session: Erie Railroad, Secret Blueprints

When I arrived, the guys were waiting and hungry: it was Wabash Cannonball time. Hannu and Petri, the two main Wabash fans in our group wanted to give the new Erie Railroad expansion a go. KJ and Tapani, both...

Posted by Mikko on November 14, 2008 3:13 PM

It's Essen time again

The Christmas is coming, by which I mean Essen. There's a pile of new games getting published, but I'm really not very interested in most of them. I mean, there's plenty of nice stuff coming, but in the end, I...

Posted by Mikko on October 17, 2008 7:04 AM

Thursday session: Chinatown, Wabash

I'm a bit busy with all sorts of stuff, and my blog writing tends to suffer. I finally got the playing-card review posted - I scanned the pictures in June and the blog entry was created more than a...

Posted by Mikko on August 17, 2008 12:42 PM

Thursday session: Dolmengötter, Pampas Railroads

Our latest game session (actually on Tuesday) got a good start with Die Dolmengötter. It's a favourite of me and Hannu, and the others were happy to play the game as well. Mika was the only newbie around. Petri...

Posted by Mikko on June 26, 2008 1:47 PM

Thursday session: Dutch InterCity, Modern Art

As my order from Northumbria Games arrived in just two days, we started our games with Dutch InterCity. We had four players, but fifth arrived just when we were about to start. Five, then. Dutch InterCity--> Dutch InterCity is...

Posted by Mikko on June 13, 2008 5:17 PM

Thursday session: Wabash Cannonball, Canal Mania

Oops. I noticed I had missed blogging our previous Thursday game session. You see, I got sick (stomach flu, fortunately Johanna and Nooa avoided the same bug) the night after that, so I had something else to think about for...

Posted by Mikko on April 10, 2008 12:46 PM

Hot games for Q1/2008

Oh my, another quarter gone! The previous one was good, how about this one? Wabash Cannonball is the hottest of the hot, and no wonder. I've loved every game so far. I'd like to try a five-player game at some...

Posted by Mikko on April 3, 2008 1:11 PM

Games day with Tommy and Stefu: Trains and stuff

Tommy and Stefu came over to spend a day playing games. Johanna was very kind to take Nooa to her parents so we could have our place for us. A chance to play longer, meatier games in such a great...

Posted by Mikko on March 30, 2008 2:29 PM

Thursday session: Wabash Cannonball, Great Wall of China

Thanks to Easter, we had to reschedule our Thursday games to Wednesday. I started the session with Don. It's been a while since I last played this little filler. Too long, actually, as I was already getting hazy with...

Posted by Mikko on March 20, 2008 12:51 PM

Thursday session: Wabash Cannonball, Thebes

More Wabash Cannonball. Hannu was keen to give the game another go and so was I. We were joined by Petri and Make, both newbies. It was an interesting game... This time we played for long, it took us...

Posted by Mikko on March 14, 2008 12:14 PM

Thursday session: Wabash Cannonball, Tarot

Thanks to series of unexpected delays, I waited and waited for my copy of Wabash Cannonball. Apparently there were problems in just about every part of proceedings. Well, the game did arrive last Wednesday, just in time for our...

Posted by Mikko on March 7, 2008 11:52 AM