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The molding tool for plastic pieces for our game Tank Chess contains a total of 12 pieces, out of which one model is repeated three times, one twice, and the other ones only once. Most of these pieces are intended for the basic game, while others are part of the Fun Set expansion. Since it was impossible to make a tool that will contain all the pieces according to the exact quantity needed for the basic game, we started thinking how to use the surplus pieces and soon we came up with a new game: TANKBALL. It uses two types of figurines called Light and Heavy Tanks (in the game Tank Chess, they have the role of Recon Tank and Super-heavy Tank).

DHL, the world's largest courier delivery service has recognized the potential for collaborating with our company, so they offered us a long-term cooperation contract intended for important clients. Their services are indeed quite expensive, but they have adjusted their price list and offered the same price for all shipments up to 1500 grams, no matter the destination (the closest being Croatia and Hungary, and i.e. Australia as one of the furthest). We are satisfied with the terms so the contract has been signed and from now on we will also use DHL services for shipping. For shipments lighter than 1500 grams and for some nearby countries, we will continue to use Post Express services.

As promised to the backers during the campaign, the shipping of the basic version of Tank Chess has started in June. Soon we will start shipping other versions of the game.

We have invited all of the backers to take a photo while playing Tank Chess or with a Tank Chess box near a landmark in their current place of residence and to publish it on Facebook and Instagram. The best photos will be rewarded in October 2018, December 2018 and February 2019.

To fulfill the needs of the serial production of the game Tank Chess, we have made a molding tool for the plastic pieces. The process of making this tool has several phases and is a very complicated task. We are very pleased with the looks and the quality of the molded pieces. This molding tool permits us to make large batches of the basic Tank Chess game very quickly. Currently, the molding tool for the Fun Set is being done.

A Japanese printed Banzai Magazine dedicated their front page as well as 7 pages to our games. Following the introduction: "Get ready for some Serbian war games", they published a few articles about our war games that are currently being sold in Japan. We are especially proud of the interview where Predrag (founder of Forsage Games) explained how it all started and what was his inspiration for creating board games.

The new edition of Water polo has improved mechanics and some additional rules. As far as we know, our game is the only one in the world that represents a simulation of the Olympic sports of water polo.

The great success of our Kickstarter project allowed us to modernize our workshops and our design studio. In the future we will have far better working conditions and soon we will even be able to make large batches in our own workshop.

All of our games come wrapped according to international standards. In order to speed-up that process and to improve precision, we have acquired a semiautomatic machine SMIPACK SL55 that does sealing and shrinking of the film in one operation. That machine is now in our new storage department.

Since recently, a few of our war games are available in Japan!

http://petitslg.shop-pro.jp/?mode=cate&cbid=2412527&csid=0

At the end of February we were in Cannes at the International Games Festival, which is one of the biggest game festivals in Europe as the board games are concerned. We put all the emphasis on Tank Chess, so we presented the basic version and the prototype of the 3D expansion that attracted a lot of attention. We played dozens of games with the visitors, mostly on the 16x16 sq. board so the public could familiarize themselves more quickly with the basic rules, and the game was received really well. We were once more assured that the basic rules are very easy to learn even for the kids under the age of 10, but at the same time the game provides enough depth to be very compelling to expert strategists, avid chess players, etc.

As a part of the preparations for the serial productions, we’ve acquired two more 3D printers that will be put to work on the realistic tank models. For the regular, stylized pieces we decided to order some plastic molding tools that will speed-up the serial production, since the number of backers and the interest from retailers from all over the world greatly surpassed our estimates.

Although our company hasn’t invested any money in advertising, many articles about Tank Chess were published during the campaign, which means that the editors and journalists have recognized the quality and the potential of the game. It’s needless to say that the reviews have been extremely positive and that it certainly helped the Kickstarter success!

Our Kickstarter campaign has just finished and we are speechless! After some intense and mostly sleepless 25 days, our project has managed to attract more than 2000 backers and raise a sum that is 50 times bigger than what we asked for. A big thanks to all of you who have made this project come to life!

Right after the start of the Kickstarter campaign, we were invited to present Tank Chess at Belgrade’s GAMES CON that took place from 15th to 17th December. We are very glad to have had the opportunity to meet the community this way and to answer all the questions regarding the project and the game itself. After that, we are convinced Tank Chess will have its place amongst the most popular games on Serbian market in the future.

A respectable magazine which writes about historical themes, ARMCHAIR GENERAL (with columns: War College, Stuff We Like, History News, Tactics 101, Carlo D’este, Acg Magazine, Books, Electronic Games, and Boardgames), has published a very positive article about our game "Naval Battle in Archipelago" with title Torpedoes Away!

http://armchairgeneral.com/torpedoes-away-naval-battles-in-archipelago-conquers-the-seas-game-review.htm

Our long-awaited campaign for the abstract strategy Tank Chess on Kickstarter has finally started! We hope to raise enough funds to be able to bring this awesome game to all the strategists, chess players, tank aficionados and board game lovers out there and we sincerely believe that this project has all it takes to become one of your favorites!

On Saturday, December 2nd, we had the pleasure of presenting our new Tank Chess project at the Festival of board gaming and pop culture – Krack fest, that took place in the city of Kragujevac from 1st to 3rd of December.

In the 25 years of designing board games, Forsage games has created dozens of great concepts and entire games and some of them will be presented during our future Kickstarter campaigns.

As our followers on social networks probably know, last few months we have been announcing a Kickstarter project that involves a game called Jump Jet Maneuver. However, due to the fact that we want to surprise our fans right before the end of 2017, we are happy to reveal that our next KS project will be a game called Tank Chess!

We are proud to say that we have the means to produce almost all of the elements for any board game by European or global standards in our two workshops. However, we continue to rely on the services of other companies for high quality digital printing (DigitalArt) and paper lamination (Alfa plast).

In order to increase our production capacities, we have decided to rent another workshop. It’s not too spacious, but it has two levels, so it’s sufficient for our current needs, considering that our main computers, the 3D printer and a small production line will remain in our old workshop.