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In this third expansion to Wingspan, we welcome new species to our habitats by exploring the vibrant, intriguing, and magnificent birds of Asia. These birds were chosen from the over 2,800 species that live in Asia.
Wingspan Asia is several different things: A stand-alone game for 1 player or 2 players (Duet mode that can be used with any bird/bonus cards), a card expansion to the original Wingspan (any bird/bonus cards across any Wingspan game or expansion can be combined), and a 6-7 player expansion via the new Flock mode (for which the player components from the core game are necessary).
Release Details: Wingspan Asia was available for preorder from Stonemaier Games as of November 2, 2022, followed by preorder fulfillment throughout November from fulfillment centers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. The retail release followed in December (Dec 2 for local retailers and Dec 9 for online retailers). Wingspan Asia is available on Tabletopia.
Donation: For every preorder launch notification request we received for Wingspan Asia, Stonemaier Games donated $1 to charitable organizations that benefit birds in Asia. We split the donation total of $13,130 equally among BirdLife International, Animals Asia, Flight, and the International Crane Foundation.
For Wingspan Asia, we announced the continent well before the recent full reveal and proceeded to release 1 spoiler card a month (sometimes through our social media and sometimes through others). Did you enjoy that style of reveal? If so, we can do it again in the future.
In the photo on this post you can see the answer to a frequently asked question: The player mats in Wingspan Asia are double sided: One side has the Oceania art and mechanisms; the other side has the standard mechanisms and Asia art.
The Nesting Box, which will be available at the same time as Wingspan Asia in early November, is an organizer/storage box for all Wingspan content and cards (sleeved or unsleeved). This modular box is designed for all past, present, and future Wingspan content.
This is a very expensive product to make and freight ship, so it will only be available directly from Stonemaier Games and our localization partners (retail availability would require too much of a markup). There is a maximum of 1 Nesting Box per order, as they are prepackaged and will push our shipping size/weight thresholds.
How does Wingspan Asia fit into the Nesting Box? The mats, duet map, and rulebook go on the top layer. The action tokens and goal tiles go in their respective slots in the setup tray, and the eggs and Duet tokens fit well into any of the three trays used during the game. The cards go in any of the three areas designated for cards (the upright section of the middle layer, the bird card insert in the middle layer, or any bird card inserts you keep in the bottom layer).
Asia is home to over 2,800 bird species, so it was quite a challenge for Elizabeth to narrow them down to a reasonable quantity for an expansion. She used suggestions from the Wingspan Facebook group and the bird request form on our website along with some of her favorites from research and top picks from each of our localization partners in Asia. If your favorite bird is missing, feel free to still suggest it here (we may someday make a promo pack of the most popular birds we missed):
Among the bird powers in Wingspan Asia are all 5 core bird powers (brown, pink, white, teal, and yellow), but no new bird power. With Wingspan Asia as a standalone game for 1-2 players, we figured there were already more than enough power categories for new players to learn.
At the same time, there was still plenty of design space within the 5 power categories for Elizabeth to design a vast variety of birds with new mechanisms. Some of my favorites are the push-your-luck birds, which give you a chance to accumulate points (through caching or tucking) or stop when you already have a point or two.
Wingspan Asia includes 14 total bonus cards. Among them are 11 new bonus cards, and we saw this as a good opportunity to reprint 3 bonus cards with updated word lists: The Photographer, Cartographer, and Anatomist.
We found that the balance for the Duet goals was crucial to keep the competition fun. Automa scores the Duet end-of-round goals as you do and when she was too strong, players started ignoring the Duet map; too weak and the interesting, puzzly decisions lost their magic. For the design, we settled on an approach where sometimes she bases her choice on the Duet end-of-round goal and other times she places at random. Automa is still fierce on the Duet map but if you play well, those goal points are yours.
As a stand-alone expansion, Wingspan Asia offered an opportunity for us to revisit the Automa rulebooks and incorporate some of the disparate rules that were added within each expansion, into a comprehensive whole. Though polished, the rules remain the same.
This expansion provided a lot of fun challenges for the team, and we cannot wait to hear what you think when you give it a try. On behalf of Issy and the rest of Team Automa, we thank Elizabeth and Jamey for including us on this project. Have fun!
One of the biggest challenges of making Wingspan Asia both a standalone game for 1-2 players and an expansion was the rulebook. We needed the rulebook to stand alone yet also teach the Duet and Flock modes for people who already know the rules.
As a result, we decided to make a single comprehensive rulebook for all of Wingspan. That way you only ever need to reference this one rulebook instead of juggling rulebooks from the core game and other expansions (though please keep your appendices!). The result is the 16-page rulebook you can find on our website now (and, of course, in the Wingspan Asia box).
A core component for each player in Wingspan is the player mat on which you play birds and select various actions. With Wingspan Asia being a standalone game for 1-2 players in addition to being an expansion, we needed to include 2 player mats.
Wingspan Asia uses the same player mat as the core game, but we thought it would be nice to create special art for it rather than use the original art. So Natalia and Ana illustrated the new mats, and in doing so they added an Easter Egg that has been missing (for good reason) from Wingspan.
The challenge with higher player counts for most games (including Wingspan) is that the extra players increase downtime between turns and the overall playing time of the game. The solution Elizabeth implemented in the Flock mode (specifically for 6-7 players) is to always have 2 active players instead of 1, using a double-sided dial to track the current players.
With the core game of Wingspan covering the birds of North America, our hope has been to cover each other continent in an expansion. First was Europe, then Oceania; we selected Asia next at least partially because we have a large player base, multiple distributors, and a number of localization partners in Asia. The remaining continents (in no particular order) are Antarctica, Africa, and Latin America.
When Elizabeth and I discussed some ideas for the expansion (beyond just more birds), I proposed the possibility of making it playable without the core game for 1-2 players. Thus it could invite more people into the world of Wingspan and hopefully do something unique at those player counts, especially during the pandemic.
I recently purchased the base Wingspan game and incrementally also bought both the European and the Oceanic expansion. Me and my friends had a blast so I decided to also buy the Asia expansion. I only then realized that the base game and both the other expansions have been released in my native language, Swedish, but the Asia expansion only exists in English. Based on advice from this page i contacted your publisher in Scandinavia, Asmodee and enquired about the Asia expansion. I was then told that there were no plans to release the Asia expansion in Swedish, which really sucks. I was unfortunately under the assumption that all expansions could be purchased in the same language as the base game.
Is there anything I can do? I am not interested in buying the expansion in a different language from the rest of the game. I guess the easiest solution would be to buy the base game and the other expansions again but in English, which is something I am not very excited to do.
We just bought Asia and it turns out that the font size on the bird cards is different than those from the original game, Europe and Oceania.
The colour of the food tokens is also not the same but a lighter shade.
Verditer Flycatcher:
Power: WHEN ACTIVATED: If you have gained a [invertebrate] from the birdfeeder on this turn, gain 1 [fruit] from the supply.
Clarification: You may apply this power to [invertibrate] gained before or after activating the Verditer flycatcher.
For the Duet mode, when spending any two resources to serve as any one resource, for the purpose of the duet map, can you place your token on the two resources you spend to substitute as the one? Or do those two resources represent the required food and you place it on the appropriate food icon?
Will the other expansions to this game, especially Wingspan Asia, make it to the consoles? We have the original game and European exp. on the Switch and are eager to play the new ones. The digital format is really convenient for us adhd players.
In addition, once you place a Duet token in the reset space on the Duet map, what do you do with the token once you pick it up and use it? Can you use it again, or is it set aside to not be used again in the game you are playing?
I really like the penguin that was introduced in the Oceania expansion. I would like to see more of those! How about a very small Antarctica expansion consisting just of new bird cards and maybe some goals? More penguins would also increase the number of flightless birds.
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