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Helcon notes, 2009 edition

Helcon was last weekend. The event was again great success, with lots of good games available. Running the event just week after Essen proved a bit problematic, as some of the games arrived from Essen on Friday, barely in time....

Posted by Mikko on November 7, 2009 8:06 PM

Helcon 2008 review, part 4

Continuing from the part 1, part 2 and part 3. Le Havre. I had already decided to pass Le Havre because I felt it was going to be too long for me anyway. Well, Tommy suggested it for my last...

Posted by Mikko on December 4, 2008 9:26 PM

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

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

Back from Helcon!

Another Helcon is gone (well, they're still playing, but I'm already back home) and boy, it was a good one! We started games on the train to Helsinki. Robert managed to get himself to the wrong train (for some reason...

Posted by Mikko on November 4, 2007 12:57 PM

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

FinDipCon VIII

I spent the weekend in FinDipCon VIII in Helsinki. It was a pleasant event, as they usually are, with lots of games played. The Diplomacy tournament was of course the main event: the Finnish Diplomacy champion in 2006 is Juho...

Posted by Mikko on May 8, 2006 10:33 AM

Finnish Board Game Society in BSW

Today is the first Board Game Society BrettSpielWelt event. It started at noon, I had an hour or two to spend there. There was already about dozen people online, and more will come later, I'm sure. It's a nice idea....

Posted by Mikko on March 18, 2006 2:17 PM

Games Saturday with Tommy, Stefu and Robert

Saturday was the big games day of the weekend, when Tommy and Stefu came all the way from Vantaa/Espoo and were joined by Robert of the local gamers. We started around noon and played almost 12 hours straight. It was...

Posted by Mikko on December 20, 2005 5:55 PM

Helcon 2005 - Saturday

Saturday was games, games, games. About 50 people participated, playing lots of games. Few bigger ones were scheduled and the Memoir '44 tournament kept on going. Here's my games: Memoir '44--> Indonesia. Splotter was the theme of the day, and...

Posted by Mikko on November 2, 2005 10:43 AM

Helcon 2005 - Friday

Helcon 2005 was already the fourth time the event was organised. This time we had a new location, a meeting hall of The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission. It was a good location for many reasons: it was clean, had enough...

Posted by Mikko on October 31, 2005 10:32 AM

Ropecon

Ropecon 2005 is approaching fast. It's the biggest roleplaying event in Finland and boasts a wide variety of board game events. There's the Finnish Championships of Catan and Carcassonne, where the winners get to go to Essen to represent Finland...

Posted by Mikko on July 14, 2005 9:57 AM

Game weekend, part 2: Mit List und Tücke, Logistico, Kahuna, Geistertreppe

Here's the rest of the games of the great weekend: Mit List und Tücke was brought by Robert, who had noticed the game on my want list in the Geek. It's a Klaus Palesch trick-taking game and not that far...

Posted by Mikko on June 7, 2005 9:38 AM

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

Lahti board game weekend 2005

Once again I ventured to Lahti and Peter Munter's board game weekend. After all, I had to go and rescue my sleeping bag I had forgotten there last time. For the record, it didn't survive: Munter's dog (a huge Great...

Posted by Mikko on April 4, 2005 8:27 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

Helcon report

Tommy posted a nice Helcon report on his website. It's in Finnish, but English readers can at least take a look at pictures. Few picks: Yours truly studying the rules to Mall World, a very cryptic Sleuth note sheet, Robert,...

Posted by Mikko on November 29, 2004 6:47 AM

Helcon III - Sunday

If you haven't read Helcon III - Saturday yet, that's the place to start from. Sunday began with a meeting, when the Finnish Diplomacy Association had it's last meeting. It's final now: the association will now be known as Finnish...

Posted by Mikko on November 10, 2004 10:50 AM