Hi Julian, Nuremberg is not the fair to playtest like Essen is. There you have to squeeze in a few words "whatsallaboutit" and the retailprice and publication date and the spiffed up traders don´t give you more than 150 seconds. Since the Gathering in April 09 - first under the title "Patrizier Manager" - this neat mediumweight had been tested constantly. As always the designer, the illustrators and the editor´s mates all over the world shared their valuable 2 cents. It plays up to 5 and takes around 30-45 minutes and aims at the same type of gamers as Havana did. Special feature is a very quick entrance: you get your meeples, get your 5 coins, a few cards are displayed and their values and benefits are quickly explained and off you go. Again Peter Eggert went out of his way and had real metal coins designed - with hanseatic mintage. You can cliccee-tee-clac with them like poker chips, if you want ;-) Olivier Arneodo from the French Magazine Jeux sur un Plateau made a short videoclip. Production is scheduled in the second half of March, at least in the German and English versions and Speicherstadt is expected to hit the shelfs in Germany at the beginning of April.
