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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • It’s fairly trivial to clean up the game in a way so the components don’t spill around. First, ditch any vac-formed insert or at least don’t rely on it to ‘hold’ anything. Then basically just pick whichever edge will become the ‘bottom’ on the shelf and stack all the components against it. Start with the heavier things like decks of cards on bottom and lighter bags of tokens on top. A full shelf allows games to hold their neighbors closed. When taking a game from the shelf you can rotate a neighbor on its Y-axis fill the gap and press against the other boxes (if needed). For particularly troublesome games, silicone x-bands are a good option. (edit) Perhaps I should clarify that we store all components in small ziplocs or food storage containers.

    My main grip with horizontal storage are the hassle getting games in and out of the stack. There’s also the issue of dishing and split corners from the weight of the boxes on top pressing on the boxes below. And, if they’re stacked ziggurat style, then it’s not efficiently using all the storage space available.






  • Lacerda games aren’t for me. I’m fine with heavy, but they’re all complexity for complixity’s sake without adding any value to the decision space or immersion or anything (IMO, of course).

    Lacerda games are also by and large guaranteed to be printed and available on EGG’s site (if no where else ). In your case, the wait and see approach seems best. Wait for playthrough videos, wait for the other 100s and 1000s to receive and play their copies and see if the game really holds up. Worst case, if it turns out the game is amazing and you’re group is actually down to play it, you might have to pay $15-20 more for it (maybe). An extra $20 bucks for something you’re sure about vs. pledging and having it just sit on the shelf seems like a no brainer…