Now the criticism of this product.
To first time not detracting from the overall picture, I would like to mention the really beautifully designed wooden box. She's worked very cleanly and accurately. The color in the mahogany with gold lettering makes a real head turner and it would be really on the inside ...
But not only a Disillusioned, but disappoints in many things.
First the landscape many parts, because it consisted of a simple thick pressboard and not wood. But that's not all, the beautiful motifs from the 3rd Edition are applied so poorly that they have errors and louder Macken (image with red circles). Adventitious that you had some separate from each other only once, because the glued by adhesive residues together. Then I noticed that although the landscape motifs were from the 3rd edition, but the construction cost cards have been designed so carelessly that they just do not want to really fit into the picture (picture with building costs card). Likewise, the terrible card holder made of plastic, but this was seen already in the advertising image.
Let's talk about the game pieces. I was very happy on the pieces of the Viking Edition because they are all very pretty modulated and made of wood, which the distinctive character and charm of the first accounting for "Settlers of Catan". However, here also a little disappointment. First, the streets of some colors are working very badly. I streets here that are only half as long as a normal road and some that need to be broken at the edges in the production and I have a road while the entirely has no profile of a road (image with streets). Now of course the voices coming up that say it is ultimately a natural product that is fully correct, but I would expect that to be controlled in manufacturing the components and have at least a minimum degree of accuracy to land in a ANNIVERSARY EDITION. But that's not enough, when I got the houses of each color looked to me, I noticed again the inaccurate work and massive damage to the base material, from which the individual parts have been cut out (image with two houses and image with red house).
Unfortunately, the rest of the equipment of the box is not also convinced. The pieces were unfortunately only stored in plastic bags and not in small cloth bag. The settlers Almanac is unfortunately only of normal, with no signs for the anniversary or the wonderful story of the game. Although the resource cards waiting for the really pretty designs from the 3rd edition, unfortunately, could not save the picture.
Finally:
Besides a beautiful packaging has not really anything of this product. I can only advise everyone to the 3rd Edition to buy and who (like me) want to necessarily play with wooden figures, simply buy the corresponding Viking sets the Catan Shop.
