The April 2024 Preview is here. Well almost.

Hey everyone!

Before we get into the April Preview, here's a quick March update. It was planned to start shipping today, but the wallets came in this week with a print issue (not our fault) and so did the rules (partially our fault - something looked right on the proof but once we got it in hand it wasn't what we expected). It rarely happens for either, but somehow both had issues. It'll take about two weeks to get everything here and moving so we'll be shipping this one out late. Apologies as we run this very tight to the end of the month, and a printing snag like this will set us bank into the next.

Anyone onto April. I say this is almost a preview for a few reasons. We've been working really hard on the timelines to get things in and out the door on time and it's been working VERY WELL with the exception of unplanned print errors as seen above. But we have not been working on the communication side of things. With the overhaul here we could keep things moving well, or communicate well, but not do both so we leaned on keeping things moving. But now that they are moving, I'm looking towards the better communication.

Part of that is having the preview out around the 22-27th ish of each month. We missed that here, but it's because we started setting up a plan to get the whole team on these. In order to do a preview I need the contents card, the cover images , the gameplay example images, the flavor intro text, and the gameplay text. We don't have all of that yet for the April games. We have some of it though, and I'm going to post what we have and skip what we don't. Working hard to have that stuff for May with the shifts we are doing internally.

QUICK NOTE ON THE BELOW: All patrons at $18+ will receive the below items. If you are a level under that, you will not receive these.

Cortiça (Featured Wallet Game)

2 players

NOTE: These descriptions are not final, just taken from BGG for the sake of getting the update out. Our team will be writing new flavor and descriptions.

Cork (Cortiça, in Portuguese. /kuɾˈti.sɐ/) can be used to make a variety of products and Portugal is the world's largest productor of cork. Cork Oak trees take 25-30 years to mature, and their bark is extracted every 9 years. Play as competing farmers, aiming to harvest the most corks.

Every turn the players will shuffle the five actions and make a line of four. Those actions can have one or two spaces in which the players will place their workers.

The actions are resolved from left to right, up to down. When an action is resolved the worker goes in a stack. On the next turn, the players will draw and place the workers from the stack, one by one.

Super Slopes: Snow Report

1-3 Players - Expansion to Super Slopes

NOTE: These descriptions are not final, just taken from BGG for the sake of getting the update out. Our team will be writing new flavor and descriptions.

Snow Report adds weather cards to mess with things.

(Yes that's the BGG description. And it's accurate, but it's the perfect example of why we need our own writing completed before we post these previews. Next month!)

Battlecrest Metronn Imperator II Solo Mode

The Imperator II solo expansion enables gameplay for one player to play as any hero against any other hero using these 6 solo Command cards and that hero’s AI rules insert. You can play these on their own, or combined with the original Imperator cards that were released in our first campaign (and are now available in Battlecrest: Expansion Collection #1).

Just remember, we need more images and text for these still, but I wanted to get the information out early and not wait. We hope to do better next time.

Thanks all!