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Curiosity pisze: ↑24 maja 2019, 08:21 (...) SZERSZE o 2mm karty błogosławieństw (...)

Hey guys,

Quick comment from our side – first of all, we were really excited to ship Lords of Hellas second wave to backers. This was an extremely huge project for us to finish and it took a while longer then expected. It was the very first project we have done in 2 waves – it also took so much time to complete as we were trying to make our Stretch Goals and Expansions a true gameplay changers, not just “more of the same”. And JUST the Strech Goal box had more content then original Core Box and there is so much more then Stretch Goals there! All of the above made this very complicated process with a lot of pitfalls.
Anyway – as with every shipping, there are a small hick-ups and while we know they must be somewhat annoying, so far we do hope they are not crucial for the game. Answering 1 by 1:

1) Mini cards might have slightly different size – to be honest at this stage we are not sure if it is only in some cases or in all. Between the waves we have changed the production plant and while looking hard on making sure the components will be same, this must have slipped. After checking, it actually turned out, that printing house that produced Core Box have made the mistake and cut a little more then was in the files – so probably this is what cough us off guard, as the sizes in all files we delivered were correct and exactly the same.
But, only few cards (5 neutral artifacts) are mixed into the core box decks, rest is independent decks. While the difference is possible to spot, during the game it should not be problematic. Probably our biggest regret would be if someone already ordered a sleeves that would not work – but with small size different we hope this will be a very rare occasion.
All in all, we certainly understand this might be annoying for some of you and we will make sure anything like that will not happen again in the expansions to follow.

2) Yes, one of the lines are not perfectly aligned. On proofs they were ok, but then on each cardboard elements there can be around 2-3 mm shift during production (that is why you make special overlays on punchboards). We should make this connecting line in a way to account for that 2-3mm shift. Certainly a lesson learned.
Again, while we know it somehow breaks immersion, from gameplay perspective it does not have any impact, as you clearly see where the lines go – it just looks a bit silly.

3) Difference in Sundrop is something that can always happen – this is a mass production process and it sometimes can differ between the miniatures. We feel that after 1st wave (our very first sundrop EVER) we have learned a great deal about sundrop and thus we implemented our knowledge.
One of the important thing was bases – flat bases was a huge problem for sundrop, as wash tend to dry on them leaving ugly splatters (that we had to clean one by one manually) – so this is part of the decision on adding texture bases to new wave. Another part is that they look just better

4) Quest token – probably oversee on our part during the proofreading. Thanks for pointing this out!

All in all, we are sorry for those hick-ups to happen. You guys can and should expect a bigger attention to details from us and earlier this year (in the middle of those expansion production) we have already started to make a lot of changes in procedures and hire new staff dedicated for QC. We really put a lot of heart and development time into those expansion and we do hope that those small issues will not ruin the overall experience of playing Lords of Hellas expansions. And there is so much to discover and try!