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April Top 5

Thanks to the Easter holidays April is always one of the quieter months of the year for us. But we still had some interesting games coming in and new pre-orders going live. So here is a quick look at our Top 5 in sales and pre-orders:

Top 5 Sales:

1) Azul
2) City of Kings
3) Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle
4) Escape the Dark Castle
5) Port Royal: The Adventure begins

With Azul being back in stock for the first time since December it’s no wonder that the restock took the top spot. Hogwarts Battle is a steady seller thanks to good reviews and lots of Potter fans out there. And Adventure begins, the campaign expansion sneaked in at the end of the month and just made it into our Top 5.

Top 5 Pre-Orders

1) Gloomhaven: Forgotten Circles
2) The Sands of Time
3) Dragon Castle
4) Roll Player: Monsters & Minions
5) Great Western Trail: Rails to the North (German Edition)

The Pre-Orders Top 5 is dominated by expansions for three of the biggest hits of the last year.  Forgotten Circles will not be available before November, but already had a rush of orders coming in for it. Monsters & Minions brings new elements into an already very good game and Rails to the North is perfect for everyone who wants to make the Great Western Trail even bigger.

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Pegasus Spiele needs your help at the UKGE

Pegasus Spiele is back for this year’s UK Games Expo with lots of games. They are looking for volunteers to explain and run demo rounds of their games.

The list of games they will have available is long (subject to change) and also includes games from the Children’s games line:

  • Istanbul – Bix Box
  • Brains Family – Burgen & Drachen (Castles & Dragons)
  • Axio
  • Dragon Master
  • Film ab
  • Istanbul – The Dice Game
  • Port Royal + The Adventure begins expansion
  • Pummeleinhorn – Der Kekfe-Marathon (Chubby Unicorn – The Cookie Marathon)
  • Pummeleinhorn – Der Superkeks (Chubby Unicorn – The Super Cookie)
  • Pummeleinhorn – Mampf Mampf (Chubby Unicorn – Munch Munch)
  • Round the World
  • 4 Seasons
  • Design Town
  • Elements
  • Guns & Steel
  • Sheep & Thief
  • Santo Domingo
  • The Dwarves + Saga Expansion
  • The Dwarves – The Duel
  • Fuchs du hast das Huhn gestohlen (Outfox the fox)
  • Grimaffen (Manic Monkeys)
  • Gute Nacht Monster (Good Night Monster)
  • Katz & Schmaus (The Cat’s Meow)
  • Kinder-Rommé – Bauernhoftiere *NEW*
  • Sei kein Frosch *NEW*
  • Timmy räumt auf (Timmy tidies up)
  • Zauberei hoch drei (Wizardry to the power of three)

Pegasus is asking for your help for 10 hours (2x 5 hour shifts) over the three days of the Expo and are offering the ticket for all three days of the Expo, a Pegasus shirt (you have to wear it during the demo rounds), the game you are explaining is for you to keep and you will get another game from Pegasus of your choice. Friday and Saturday afternoon are the times when they need the most help.

If you are interested, please send us a message and we will send you the contact details of Pegasus, so you can talk to them about the details.

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Three new releases and five restocks (26/04/18)

Today was the release day for Sanctum of Twilight, the latest expansion for Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition.

Sanctum of Twilight is an expansion for Mansions of Madness Second Edition that unites two new investigators against the Order of the Silver Twilight in two thrilling scenarios. With new spells, items, mechanics, and a new monster, this expansion immerses players in the Arkham Files universe as they confront the dangers threatening Arkham from within.

In addition, we have received a delivery with two new games and five restocks.

The two new games are:

And back in stock are:

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This week’s new releases confirmed (23/04/18)

The same procedure as every week: this week’s new releases have been confirmed and are now (partly) online and ready to get ordered.

Incoming are:

Also coming this week, but not online yet are Mystic Vale: Conclave, Legendary Creatures, Sunset Over Water and the reprints of the Memoir’ 44 expansions Winter Wars and Eastern Front. They should go online late afternoon/early evening.

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Pegasus gets Talisman licence

Something I’ve completely missed in the run-up to Christmas: Pegasus has signed a worldwide licence for four new games based on the fantasy classic Talisman:

2018 will be a special year for Games Workshop’s Talisman adventure board game. The mother of all fantasy board games will celebrate its 35th anniversary and the world of Talisman will be expanded by new games. Pegasus Spiele will develop four games with worldwide rights under a license with Games Workshop. The first game will be released in 2018.

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Starting in 2018, adventures in the fantastic world of Talisman can be experienced in four new games. The first game – a children’s game by Lukas Zach and Michael Palm (The Dwarves board game) – will be released in the second half of 2018. An expandable card game, a role-playing game and a dice game will follow. The release dates for these games will be announced at a later time.

Pegasus is also stocking the 4th Edition of Talisman from Games Workshop, so from next week on we will have the base game and five expansions back in stock.

Link: Pegasus announcement

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Top 5: November

November is behind us and it is time for another Top 5. This is the first one post-Essen and some of the top games were a surprise for me:

Top 5 Sales

  1. Altiplano
  2. Calimala
  3. Santa Maria
  4. Azul
  5. Indian Summer

Calimala and Santa Maria are the two surprise on this list. Both are really good games with very positive feedback after Essen, but not the big hits I was expecting here. But their success is also based on the fact, that they haven’t  been on general release in the UK (yet???) and we luckily managed to get stock in shortly after Essen.

And this list doesn’t include big Essen hits like Nusfjord, Charterstone and Photosynthesis, because they have been delayed and are only arriving now.

Top 5 Pre-Orders

  1. Rajas of the Ganges
  2. Clans of Caledonia
  3. John Company
  4. Bunny Kingdom
  5. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

Again, a few surprises here: Rajas went a bit under the radar at Essen (a bit like Ulm last year, so maybe it is also connected to the publisher), but it is a new Inka & Markus Brand game, which are always quite popular. No surprise with Clans of Caledonia, it was only stopped from taking spot #1 by a limited number of copies available. John Company is another surprise: Sierra Madre Games is normally known for very heavy games that are only interesting for a very small number of gamers, but this one has an interesting theme and is apparently more on the lighter side.

And again a small footnote to this Top 5: there are none of the big hitters like Azul, Nusfjord, Charterstone etc. included, because for most or all of these the pre-orders closed shortly before or after Essen based on the high demand and us wanting to make sure that every pre-order customer will get a copy.

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Next week: 10 new games

Another Friday, another update what game we are expecting next week. Confirmed arrivals are:

  • Through the Desert (Thursday)
  • A Game of Thrones: Catan – Brotherhood of the Watch (Thursday)
  • Sub Terra (Wednesday)
  • Nations: The Dice Game – Unrest (Monday/Tuesday)
  • Clans of Caledonia
  • Transatlantic (Wednesday/Thursday)
  • Concordia: Aegyptus / Creta (Wednesday/Thursday)
  • Rob n Run (Wednesday/Thursday)
  • Cosmogenesis
  • Arkham Noir

Not 100% confirmed yet is Queendomino, hopefully, we will hear more from the UK distributor (also about Photosynthesis) on Monday.

And there are also a few restocks coming in: Istanbul – The Dice Game, Merlin, Azul and all the Exit games.

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Pegasus Spiele event this weekend

On Saturday, the 25th November, we will run a special Pegasus Spiele event at the shop from 12pm until 5pm.

Pegasus has sent us a box of brand new games:

  • Istanbul – The Dice Game
  • Indian Summer
  • Azul (Pegasus is publishing the German edition)
  • Noria

These games (and other Pegasus games like Memoarrr or 4 Seasons) can get played at four tables during the afternoon.

Because on Saturday is also the Christmas lights switch on in Crediton parking at the High Street or the Market Square will be nearly impossible. The best option is the council car park at St. Saviour’s Way (£1 from 9am to 6pm).

 

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Two new Pegasus games

Two new games from Pegasus have arrived yesterday afternoon: 4 Seasons (a 2-Player trick taking game) and Memoarrr!.

Memoarrr! (from Edition Spielwiese / publishers of Cottage Garden) is a memory game with a twist: You have to open a card that has either the same animal or the same backgroud on it as the last card in the chain to stay in the game. The last player left gets a victory point card and the new round starts with all the cards in the same place so in theory from round to round you should get better in building longer card chains. An expert rules variant adds special powers of the animals to the game.

We played it twice yesterday (without the special powers) and it was good fun. Easy to explain, short playing time – a nice family game or as someone in our group said a good candidate for a drinking game.