(or here’s a list of what launched yesterday that might deserve a closer look)

Project: Orange Swan: Pacific 1941-45

Designer: Emanuele Santandrea (Blocks in the East, Moscow ’41, Stalingrad: Inferno on the Volga)

Artist: Emanuele Santandrea (Blocks in the East, Moscow ’41, Stalingrad: Inferno on the Volga)

Publisher: VentoNuovo Games (Blocks in the East, Moscow ’41, Stalingrad: Inferno on the Volga)

Genre/Mechanisms: alliances, area majority/influence, area movement, dice rolling, movement points, scenario/mission/campaign game, wargame, world war II

Player Count: 1-4

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “Orange Swan is a block wargame covering WWII in the Pacific from 1941 to 1945. As in all other block games, both the Fog of War and Unit strength reduction/increase by rotation, drive the gameplay in ORANGE SWAN, as a player cannot know the identity or the strength of an enemy block until it is revealed in combat. During any Victory Check (two per each Season, one at the end of the Axis Turn and one at the end of the Allied Turn), the game immediately ends with a Total Victory if either the following conditions are met: Tokyo is enemy-Controlled, the Atomic Bomb Event triggers, or Japan controls 7 Strategic Land Areas or has a Production of 75. Additionally, a special Victory Check is made at the end of the each year of the Campaign game, or at the end of a Scenario.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $119

All-In (w/shipping): $261

Campaign Ends: 7/8

Game Ships: Mar. 2022

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 255% with 12 days to go.