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Project Update: Happy Holidays and plans for 2026 - Bardic Armadillo
This will be our last message of 2026 and the last about the crows. What a year!
Thanks to your support, our games found some great new homes and we made fantastic new friends.
We hope that this holiday season you get a chance to enjoy your crows, mermaids, family, and friends, and that 2026 brings you joy and new adventures.
We are gonna relax for the holidays, and then get right back to work on the next project: Fish Out of Water! The cozy RPG of mermaids on field trips.
So stay tuned, and we'll see you in 2026!
Cheers,
Bardic Armadillo
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Project Update: Broken Wings - Crows versus Cats
We are very sorry. If your crows arrived with broken wings, or got blown off course completely, we understand how disappointed you are. There is something truly awful about anticipating something and then being let down when it arrives.
We are going to fix this. All UK and EU packages will be repacked and reshipped early this week (we aren't taking chances that you're not happy; we're resending to everyone, just in case). This means studier materials, more bubble wrap to protect the crows, and secure, larger cardboard sheets to protect the art. For US customers, please let us know by email if there is anything you are unhappy with in your package and we'll make it right.
You deserve beautiful crows and to be happy with your support of Bardic Armadillo.
No excuses. Just a heartfelt apology and assurance that we'll make this right and do better in the future (crows are good at learning and so are we).
To backers who reached out and let us know about the broken wings, thank you. We appreciate that you let us know, so we can fix this.
We'll keep you updated on this issue.
Cheers for now,
Bardic Armadillo
My package arrived this morning in a plastic Royal Mail envelope titled 'Item damaged before arrival in UK'. It contained a torn, hand addressed paper envelope, a piece of cardboard too short to prevent the art cards from being bent and damaged and 'Mermaid's Song'. I hope you didn't send such flimsy packaging to all your backers because, if everybody's items were delivered in a similar state to mine, replacing them may be costly. The Mermaid's Song is relatively intact but I would be grateful for replacements for the damaged art cards.
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Project Update: Where are those Crows?
You're probably wondering where your crow art and other items are. Well, after a bit of a think, we decided that rather than sending things in multiple shipments, we'd do it all at once. But this meant, we had to wait for the Crows games to arrive at our center and then put all the packets together.
Don't worry, the Crows are on their way to us (with some flight assistance from FedEx), and then they'll be on their way to you.
They should be flapping to you in plenty of time for Christmas.
Thank you for your patience.
Cheers,
Bardic Armadillo
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Project Update: We're back from Spiel and ready to ship!
We just got back from Spiel Games Expo in Germany where we got to see (and sell out of) Crows versus Cats in its final form, and we were not disappointed. The game looks great and the cards shuffle really well.
Don't worry! We kept your copies safe and sound and ready to ship out.
In fact, that's the next step. We'll begin shipping this weekend, with art and stickers sent in one package, and the games sent is another package. We don't want to make you wait, so we've decided to do it this way to cut down on time.
We'd like to say a special thanks to the backers who found us at Spiel, and a great big thanks to every backer who made this possible.
Cheers,
Lindsey B.
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