Review on Windward: Master The Skies With This Strategy Board Game For 1-5 Players by Alexis Guiney

I found this game at a steep discount, and I believe I know why. The quality of manufacture is quite poor- but the gameplay itself has the potential of being great; if this game is polished and released as a "finished” product.To start off; I found this for around $25 on sale so I’m not too disappointed for that money spent. However, the lack of quality really annoyed me, to the point of wanting write a review so others can have the proper expectations.The copy I received had multiple flaws that aren’t game breaking, but are enough to warrant note.The cards included are very poor quality. Mine came with indents that appear as of a small child bit one a couple times, they are curved (if you play MTG, it’s similar to the way some foil cards bend) and even a simple shuffle creases them.The minis are really cool, original, and there’s a lot of them. However all of them had minor flaws that just should be fixed. One of the main ships is separated at the casting seam so that it is unusable without repair. The cloud bases are all uneven, the clear color is strangely discolored, one appears as if someone attempted to paint it but then wiped the paint off. The paint on the minis is appreciated but spotty and frankly just bad. The dyed minis of a similar color almost looks like other colors due to differences. I believe I may have gotten a play tested or demo copy but all pieces and the box came in plastic wrapping.The player cards, packaging, cards, and instruction manual all contain tons of misprints, misalignments, and missing words. Again perhaps a minor annoyance but in at least one case a missing word in the rules caused major confusion on a play. Also worth mentioning there are some pretty glaring omissions of rules that I think should be included but I won’t make opinion calls.Aside from these factors the gameplay could use some minor polish and was overall fun and made my group really think about plays in the cooperative mode which we were able to win once and lost once. Fairly well balanced but I just don’t get the impression this game is a finished product.