Tapestry is a very popular Civ game from Stonemaier Games. Is has great components, plays very smoothly and give you a great feeling of creating your own civilization.
But there are some balance issues regarding the starting civilizations, which become obvious after a few plays. Jamey Stegmaier has now posted the first official adjustments for the civilizations.
Source: BGG Forum
Just when our delivery driver thought he had made it to the weekend, we had another big delivery day.
And this one was full of big hitters:
But it wasn’t all about new releases, we also received restocks of the following games:
The last three ones on the list are perfect stocking fillers: affordable games with a lot going in a small and compact box.
New games galore: another ten new games are now in stock. And that’s not all, there is more coming later this week.
But first we have a look at the new games in stock since yesterday:
Later this week we are expecting Barrage, Masters of Renaissance: Lorenzo Il Magnifico – The Card Game and the highly anticipated Wingspan: European Expansion.
The last two days have been busy with a few new deliveries arriving. Here is a quick look at what arrived yesterday and today:
Wingspan is back in stock. And the new print run now includes the Swift Pack (10 new birds and guides for new players).
From the Netherlands we received two new Essen releases from Keep Exploring Games:
And today we have seen the arrival/release of the following games:
We have updates regarding three hotly anticipated new releases/reprints.
The 3rd print run of Wingspan has arrived in the UK and will be with us before the end of the week. We aim to send out all payment requests Wednesday afternoon to make sure that we can ship all pre-orders before the weekend.
The remake of Dune has arrived in the UK as well but is unfortunately stuck at customs. Depending on the cause of the hold up this can get solved fairly quickly but can also take some time. We will post an update as soon as we hear anything new.
And last but not least: Black Angel, the new game from Pearl Games, will get shipped today from the UK distributor to us and should arrive sometime tomorrow afternoon. We will start sending out the payment requests for pre-orders later today with the aim to ship all pre-orders on Wednesday morning.
Today the winner of the prestigious Spiels des Jahres and Kennerspiel des Jahres award have been announced.
Spiel des Jahres 2019 is Just One:
Just One is a cooperative party game in which you play together to discover as many mystery words as possible. Find the best clue to help your teammate. Be unique, as all identical clues will be cancelled!
(Source: Publisher description)
And Kennerspiel des Jahres is Wingspan from Stonemaier Games:
Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games.
(Source: Publisher description)
You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your aviary. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions).
Congratulations to both games and to everyone involved in designing and publishing them!
Link: Spiel des Jahres website
Last weekend was the UK Games Expo at the NEC in Birmingham. Since we came back, I’ve been asked a lot about the hot games of the show. So here is a quick look at our bestsellers:
Not surprisingly the hottest games were the ones that got released at the show and haven’t been available before like the new KeyForge set or Foothills. Wingspan also flew from the shelves and Wolfgang Warsch dominated the Top 10 with his latest four games.
Another month has gone, time to take a look at the Top 5 of April 2019.
Top 5 Sales:
1) The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth
2) The Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Herb Witches
3) Chronicles of Crime: Noir
4) Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage (Premium Edition)
5) Armageddon War
Top 5 Pre-orders
1) Bunny Kingdom: In the Sky
2) Tiny Towns
3) Euphoria: Ignorance is Bliss
4) Museum
5) KeyForge: Age of Ascension – Starter Set
Wingspan arrived (and left quite quickly again) on Friday. For everyone who likes the artwork as much as we do: the illustrations for the bird cards are available on the website of the two artists for pre-order.
The prints are can be ordered in three different sizes and will ship from May.
Link: Wingspan prints
Friday will see the highly anticipated release of Wingspan, the bird collectors game from Stonemaier Games.
The first delivery of the game is sold out to pre-orders and with the first print run sold out at the publisher it is also not very likely that we will get a restock in any time soon. But the good news is that the reprint is already in the works and should be available late May/early June. We are now accepting pre-orders for the second print run and all pre-orders we have received until Monday morning (9am) are secure, pre-orders at a later date are depended on the stock allocation once the game has arrived in the UK.
Last Friday saw the surprise release of The Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Herb Witches, the first expansion for The Quacks of Quedlinburg. The first delivery quickly sold out, but we have good news: More stock is coming in before the weekend. We will post an update as soon as it has arrived.