Fow bloggers of Finland Unite and take over!

We have now 3 active bloggers here, 1 not so active :). Collaboration is good for heart and makes more stuff to any readers we have here. Anyone who wants to put there ideas, minis, AAR's or whatever that is about FOW or similar is welcomed here.

Basically, everyone, you don't need to be Finn to post here.

Kind regards,
Mikko 'Vonrichtofen' Hellemaa

Your average wargamer in Finland - isn't.

Had a discussion with my old friend couple of days ago, when he told me about encountering these younger dudes at company sauna party (-not that kind of story-). He has the Vault Boy from Fallout tattooed on his chest, having been an avid gamer since the fire was brought to Finland. And this 25 something fellow identified it and they started talking about games in general.

Later, the summer help guys joined them and started going on about how the gamer's were considered nerds in their past, when they were young... My friend asked them how young was that and that's when they figured out the tattoo on the rather hill-billy, old Ford pick-up truck driving, bald, bearded gentleman, and promptly fell silent.

I started thinking about the Gaming community I'm part of and you can't really identify any common trait on the appearance or in their way of interacting with the world around. We have all sorts of people, theater directors, entrepreneurs, bartenders, IT industry folks, generally educated people though, self or schooled.

Wife has been rather fascinated with meeting these old friends of mine and learning that I've met them through role-playing games or blood bowl, instead of the Military service or perhaps a Motorcycle gang. :)

Looking for collaboration / Kiinnostaako Flames of War blogi yhteystyö?

Writing a Flames of war blog alone is something I like to do but if somebody wants to do posts here, I'd like to hear from you. Any ideas how to make the blog more interesting would be something I'd like to hear.

- Finnish language posts?
- AAR's
- Tactics
- Cartoons
- Painting stuff
- Another games

Please contact me at mikko.hellemaa(at)gmail.com

Location Change - Moving is hell... Nothing to do with Fow

Well, now I can safely say I've lived in all kinds of accommodations, barring igloo. We just moved after living in a wooden house built post-war for almost 3 years. The owning a house really opened a new world to a city-dweller. I still think it's the optimal form of living if you don't consider your own time really expensive...

I've done my share of gardening, branch-cutting, mole-hunting, mouse-trapping, cutting down trees and the myriad stuff that the interior of an old house needs to be done in order to keep rolling... I even changed the windows of the thing before we sold it. The last three years were also snowfall records here in Finland...

Selling a house in the economic climate of today is another thing I don't really like, especially a fringe-of-city one, still we managed to get that done, so might be getting more gaming done in the near future.

Our sons have aged from 5-3-  to 7-5-2 years old during the stint to the country-side, and happy to move to apartment in the capital, as they tend to sense the emotions of the parents. Funny enough, now we've got beach less than 500 m from the house, not to mention the public transportation, the shops and social life :) As in the small town we got rumors, cars and petty politics..

It's quite heart-warming when your neighbors are really sad to see you go, never imagined myself as the good neighbor type...