• Designers Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson have worked frequently with publisher Osprey Games on the Undaunted series of games, but come October 2023 they will release something different, a game Osprey describes as “the first ever worker-placement wargame” — General Orders: World War II.
More details on this title are coming in mid-March 2023 courtesy of Candice Harris, but here’s a teaser for this two-player game:
• German publisher Spielworxx has teased three releases for 2023, starting with a new edition of Aaron Haag‘s Yunnan, which Argentum Verlag released in 2013. Developer Uwe Blennemann notes that this edition features improved two-player rules, “some add-ons and a bit of rebalancing and completely new graphics”.
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Dolcissima Vita, which is labeled “Italian trilogy #1”, is a 2-4 player game from Giansimone Migoni that has no description — only a prototype shot from 2022 that you can examine:
Cover draft
Angel’s Share is a design by Scott Almes, for which I had shared a teaser image in late 2020:
Cover draft
Finally, Spielworxx has released info about El Burro, a standalone game from Michael Keller and Andreas “ode.” Odendahl that features gameplay elements similar to their 2014 title La Granja. An overview:
Cover draft
In a game round, you play cards, draft dice (one at a time) to conduct actions, deliver goods to your own market stands or to local markets, and bring them all the way to the port of La Palma.
Prototype at SPIEL ’22 (image: Amadeusz)
During the game, you score some points for deliveries, and at the end of four game rounds, you receive more points based on special cards and other elements. The player with the most points wins.