Die Macher preview

Finally I have it. I left work earlier Friday so I could run to the post office and get it. I couldn't wait and opened the game already at the railway station. I couldn't believe my eyes, I finally had it...

I haven't played it yet, but I think I'll say a word or two about it anyway. I bagged it, sorting out all the components and I must say they are very good looking. Not in a flashy, beautiful kind of way (like Tikal, for example), but instead very practical and clear. I like the use of symbols, you can easily understand everything if you learn to recognise few symbols. I'm not sure how practical the regional boards are, but the rest of components are good.

I especially like the cube-shaped tomatoes with bar codes already grown in ;-)

I've been studying the rules and they seem like very logical and elegant. They're complicated, but not in a bad exception-to-exception-style. I'm definitely looking forward to playing Die Macher, as soon as possible! I've even been following the news of German politics a bit more closely in the last few weeks...