Looks like it’s Friedemann Friese’s nite as we did two of his games… Powergrid and Factory Manager. The Korean map of Powergrid pose the interesting question of whether you buy resources from the North or South Korean market…. Read ayheng’s report of his winning session and pick up one or two Powergrid strategies from him. Also, find out what is “Powergrid Director’s Cut”. Enjoy!
Yes the report you’ve been waiting for! First impression of IMPERIAL 2030 from it’s very first play in Malaysia last Fri 22/1. Read on to find out how Imperial 2030 rates.
Another awesome OTK evening with 7 games played over 9+ hours. In addition to faves & oldies like Long Shot, Acquire, Perudo, we also did Monopoly Deal, Funny Friends, RA the Dice Game and open the shrinkwrapped on the latest IMPERIAL 2030.
Legend has it that once some powerful Jedi Lords frequented a quaint looking cafe called OldTown. These Lords were mysterious.. they came in the evening when the sun has set and left only in the following morning when dawn breaks.
Keeping with our momentum of doing new Essen games for 2010, we checked-listed another new game ie Spain & Portugal map for Powergrid. Read on to see how we rate it.
Puerto Rico is now back to it’s #1 ranking at Boardgamegeek!! Now the only thing left for Alea to do is to roll out a Premium Edition (ala Caylus)… For those of you who luv this game (as much as me) but don’t get enough play-time, do check […]
Second part of our 8/1 meetup report. This time CK writes about the 18EU game that ended at 5.30 am the following morning. Read the report and find out why it is good to hold 30% shares in someone else’s company! (muahahaha)
2nd Meetup of the new year, and we did a brand new Essen 2009 game for the 1st time in M’sia – GREED INCORPORATED. Read Hiew’s write-up of this game to find out if this is also a game you’ll like.
The first meetup of the new 2010 saw us doing three brand new games from Essen – Long Shot (a fun horse racing game), Factory Manager (the much-awaited spin-off of Powergrid) and Rise of Empires (Wallace’s sequel to his great Struggle of Empires). Read ayheng’s report to find out what we think of these games. 🙂
A visiting Meetup organizer Nate from the Chicago Boardgames Meetup group prompted an impromptu meetup session at Old Town Pavilion where we also learned something about the Chicago Boardgame Designer scene.
Part 2 of our Fri-the-13 meetup report where jack208 wrote about a great 18TN session. If you have always wanted to find out how 18xx plays, this is a good report to read!
A Friday the 13th meetup…. where we did Galaxy Trucker, Santiago (a fave of mine), Bang, Agricola and 18TN. If you wanted to find out in details how Galaxy Trucker plays, this is the report to read.
2009’s Chinese New Year gaming starting off with Knizia’s SAMURAI followed by another delicious 6-player ACQUIRE. The evening – or rather morning as we finished at 7.30am the following morning – was capped off by AGRICOLA and BRASS.
Chinese New Year gaming where four OTK regulars attempted German politics in Die Macher. Earlier we did a session of Le Havre where the infamous Picket Line was in play!
The 2nd part of the meetup report for 9/1 that featured our first write-up of the Le Havre game plus photos of King of Siam, Stone Age and Ice Flow.
Imperial No-investor-card variant was the highlight of this meetup. Read this report to find out how the No-Investor-Card variant compares with the standard Investor-Card version. China Moon, King of Siam, Hey That’s My Fish, Ice Flow, Stone Age, Perudo Dice and Le Havre were also played.
The 2nd part of the 2/1/2009 Meetup report where you can read about what I thought of Dominion and Le Havre. Did Agricola’s designer follow-up with another great game in Le Havre?
The 1st meetup for 2009 and an old fave of mine IMPERIAL was brought back to the table. We also did Cash-n-Guns, Dominion and Le Havre. Find out what we thought of Dominion and Le Havre.
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