Hey PI-Fans,

With the world appearing in absolute shades of grey this week, we recommend a touch of colour in your life, so out with those zombie apocalypses and pandemics (though if those are your thing, we also have them in stock and won’t judge).

If you’re like us, and just want a world where things are going back to normal. Here are the surprisingly brightly coloured releases for this week.

Hey PI-Fans,

Designed shortly after the Clone Wars and produced in surprising quantities by MandalMotors, despite Empire supervision a rather surprising number of shipments of M3-A Scyk fighters would disappear due to administrative errors – these lost Scyks would inevitably wind up in the hands of the Hutt clans and the Zann Consortium.

The Games @ PI team has recently come into possession of one such cache of Scyk fighters and in traditional Mandalmotors style, we’re making them available to X-Wing Scum & Villany players everywhere.

Get two X-Wing 1E M3-A Interceptors free with every Star Wars X-Wing Scum & Villany Conversion Kit Purchased.

Hey PI-Fans,

With arrival of new stock of Hail Hydra and Resistance Avalon and the launch of Crossfire and Ravnica: Inquisition, by some odd quirk of fate, this week looks to be a week of deception themed games.

But if that isn’t your thing, consider picking up a copy of Ultra Tiny Epic Kingdoms and Ultra Tiny Epic Galaxies, the teeniest tiniest, most portal 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate) games you’ll find.

This comes on top of the usual rolling restock including the Tiny Epic game line, King of Tokyo, Mysterium, Chronicles of Crime and the (oddly popular) Pandemic.

Hey PI-Fans,

In this most abnormal of times, Games @ PI is happy to keep things chugging along. Shelves get filled up, new titles keep appearing on our shelves. Normalcy!

If you’re huddled together waiting for things to blow over, spend some time with Sherlock Holmes: Carlton House and Queen`s Park, a standalone set for Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective as you crack open the case files of the master detective. Solve the presented mystery and match your deductive abilities against your opponents and the master sleuth himself, Sherlock Holmes.

Alternatively, raid the sushi bar with Sushi Roll, a high-speed dice drafting game which sees players raiding a sushi joint. Grab dice, representing different dishes from the sets of dishes as they are handed to you, and build your own scoring sets of dishes. Earn points for winning combos like two tempura or a set of sashimi, grab a menu to re-roll your dice or use chopsticks to swap with an opponent and be sure to save room for pudding at the end!

Hey PI-Fans,

We previously rescheduled our previous X-Wing event. With things a bit more under control, the Star Wars X-Wing Fly Casual rookie event will instead be run on Sunday, 15th March, 2020.

You can preregister at the link below. Do note signup priority will be given to new players.

Since Ticket to Ride took us to Japan last week, why not get your otaku on and visit an idol concert? Consider picking up Starlight Stage, a game of idol talent management as you manage a team of aspiring starlets as a producer in a resource drafting deck building game.

Of course, if that isn’t up your alley, consider busing yourself down to London with Ticket to Ride: London that sees players building routes of London’s iconic double-decker buses in a fast playing variant of classic Ticket to Ride.

This week also sees the return of the classic Chinatown, as players negotiate, haggle and horse-trade their way to ownership of properties. Build your empire and claim ownership of sections of city blocks, establish businesses, and build your fortune.

Hey everyone,

Games@Pi is currently preparing a new batch of orders from Reaper Miniatures soon!

While we’re restocking our wall of Bones Miniatures, if you’re interested in ordering any specific miniatures from Reaper, do let us know on our Discord where we’re compiling orders and we can have them in with the next shipment.

Orders close 6th March, so if you’ve got special requests, let us know.

“Stop the world, I want to get off” goes the song. With the way things are going, perhaps it’s time to go on a long trip.

Except… as evidenced by Terraforming Mars: Turmoil, things aren’t going so well up there. Between navigating the political power struggles between ideologies and sending your own delegates to influence the handwringing Terraforming Committee, you’ve got your work cut out for you… if the new global events don’t ruin things entirely.

Okay. So maybe Mars is a bit far. We think Japan sounds nice. Ride the Shinkansen in the Ticket to Ride Japan/Italy Expansion. Weigh your options carefully between your contribution to Japan’s growing communal Bullet Train Network, a rail project with routes which are shared with all players and scoring your own individual tracks. After all, nobody likes a free rider and those who skip out will have penalties levied accordingly.

And for those who’d rather stay and veg… recommending Point Salad might be a little over-literal, but that doesn’t stop it from being a great game. A fast playing card drafting game, Point Salad has players drafting ingredients for their score piles, with a unique system where cards represent both the vegetables you need to fulfill the objectives and the objectives themselves – players must choose between grabbing vegetables to rack up scores, and grabbing the scoring objectives themselves.

Hey PI-Fans,

We’re preparing orders for another wave of Feldherr product, so if you’re after a specialist case or two for your miniatures, now’s the time.

Games @ PI is taking pre-orders for Feldherr Cases at a Singapore dollar price of 1.7x the Euro listed price on the Feldherr Website (https://www.feldherr.net/).

Please make a full deposit upfront for orders. Final date for orders is 29/02/20.