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United we Command

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:25:06 +0200

I consider myself an avid wargamer, I have a handful (provided you have gigantic hands) of wargames underneath the staircase collecting dust and eagerly waiting to be opened and lovingly played. I've collected them to represent a mix of different eras and mechanisms so that I would always be able to find a suitable game for any occasion. Well, those occasions are far in between, so I've started looking into wargames on the PC. No, not wargames like Battlefield 2 or Call of Duty, but as much like a traditional hex-and-counter game as possible, with all the added benefits of having the computer do all the complicated calculations and book-keeping.

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Mount & Multiplayer: Awesomesauce

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:34:06 +0200

A while ago a YouTuber I was following for his Minecraft-videos started pumping out Let's Play:s of another game by the name of Mount & Blade by Taleworlds

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Banana Boom Gang

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:10:02 +0200

I really wish Steam would allow tagging games in your library with more than one category. Then my "indie"-category wouldn't be so crowded. Is it just me, or are - not only indie games, but brilliant indie games - being released all the time now? It appears to be the time for indies. Minecraft and Frozen Synapse are two of my new(ish) favorites, and recently I've been playing a lot of Pineapple Smash Crew.

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Kick that Pig!

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:43:06 +0200

American Football has fascinated me for a long time, but I never really investigated on the fascination. Until recently. I've been a huge fan of the GFL-series (Galactic Football League) by Scott Sigler for a long time (wrote a blog entry about it a few years back...), and so has my friend Shinan, who a while ago wrote that he had started watching the real deal - inspired by Siglers' books. He had picked a team at random and started following their progress. I decided to follow suit.

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Got to get them all!

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:37:03 +0200

Many have told tales of being caught in the money-pit that is Magic: the Gathering or indeed any other CCG (Collectible Card Game), TCG (Trading Card Game), CMG (Collectible Miniatures Game) etc. Marriages have been ended, careers lost and credit trustability questioned because of excessive spending on these. I'm the other way around. For years I tried to get in to collecting in a game.

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Year 2011 in Review

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:51:02 +0200

Last year I did an end-of-year review, where I listed the video-, boardgames and movies that I liked the most that year. The year is not yet completely over, but I don't think my opinions will change that much in these next few weeks. So here you go, my year 2011 in review...

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Freeze!

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:49:03 +0200

Having watched some YouTube-video recently I got inspired to get back into a game I bought a while back, after Total Biscuits WTF is-video (oh, how much money that man has cost me!) but had since been forgotten. So many games to play, so little time to do so. I'm talking about the most excellent indie tactical turn-based strategy game Frozen Synapse.

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NaNo Game Over?

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:23:07 +0200

As I was listening to episode 7 of the The Shared Desk - a writing podcast from noted authors Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris - I asked myself the same question as they did about NaNoWriMo; Why is NaNoWriMo during probably the busiest month of the year?

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National Novel Writing Mo... First Week

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:05:01 +0200

Today marks a few milestones. It's been a year since I moved to Porvoo (which the municipality remembers by leaving us without water - guess it's back to drinking beer?), eight months since I started at my new job and one week since I started writing my first NaNoWriMo novel.

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A Slow Race

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:45:04 +0200

My second Play by E-mail (PbEM)-game came to a conclusion, and this time I lost. We played one of my favorite wargames, Clash of Giants II by GMT Games, which I've played (for real) a couple of times before. I knew the system would work very well as PbEM, so I was eager to try it out.

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