OK so there is quite a bit to unpack here. (And lets be clear here there does seem to be a bit of you taking offence on other peoples behalf a little – but I’m gonna take everything you say at face value and talk through them 🙂 ok?)

1) With the 1.0 and 1.5 rulebooks for JoA issues

JOA was a massive project – hugely ambitious – in fact, I’m working through the boxes of it at the moment and it is frankly pretty incredible what they achieved in terms of deliverables of that project. Kickstarters on a project like this are ‘one-shots’ JOA could not have existed in any other business model – it just couldn’t. So the are pluses and minuses to this, we as gamers get something delivered that would NEVER EVER have been possible before, but… the company delivering it doesn’t have a huge amount of breathing room to deliver it. They will be crucified if it takes longer to get right, and they will be crucified if they get it out but there are issues. There is no put it out a bit at a time because of folk (ie you) won’t pay for multiple shipments where it would be drip fed out every month or two months. So If there are issues a company only has limited resources with which to fix it. On the whole though how anyone can complain about JOA after seeing what they achieved is beyond me.

2 the severe delay on Solomon Kayne

And here we go – solomon kane is delayed as the game needs extra work to get right – again its ambitious – but here it is in your list of complaints ‘because they are trying to get it right) See my poit above of damned if you do and damned if you dont.

3) the whole Meeple Logistics disaster and communication issues in Reichbuster (I’m not fully up to speed on this yet so will address it when I have actual information on hand about it) – But leo was telling me that cards etc will be re-sent to backers for free.

3b) -the bodged rulebook for Reichbusters – The game is sound – its probably one of my favourite games ever. And it’s big and beefy, Rulebooks always have mistakes – that is, unfortunately, part and parcel of our hobby. And that is what FAQ’s and second and third editions are for. These are parts of our hobby, if you expect rulebooks without mistakes it’s not going to happen… ever… – the game though is very playable – and I was playing the early editions of it. If the company is given time to pull the feedback in and improve it I think PDF updates of the rule book are perfectly acceptable.

4) How it’s impossible to pack Reichbusters back up decently after unpacking and unpunching it. – really I’m really struggling to take this one seriously. Just what lengths do you think a company can go to? This is an extraordinary complaint. I’m gobsmacked by this.

5) I have seen a couple of reviews of reichbusters – and frankly one springs to mind where the reviewer hasn’t a clue what they are talking about. These games are meaty they will only ever be truly unlocked by the ‘wargaming enthusiast’ – this is a level or ten upon the scale of tabletop gamer. So if someones passion only extends to pushing a couple of meeples around a track – I’m not going to be surprised if they struggle to fathom something like JOA or Reichbusters. The game is excellent – trust me on this, the components are beautifully produced – its again a once in a lifetime project that could never deliver any other way than Kickstarter.

6) Treatment of UK team. As far as I’m aware the decision was taken to pull all development back into the core of the business as the distributed nature of the setup was causing delays and was difficult to get the quality right. A business has a right to try and improve things (especially when these are the very things you are asking to be improved), if the UK setup had been working as they wanted it – they wouldn’t have closed it (it’s as simple as that) as a young business they will make many mistakes as they grow and find new and better ways of doing things. Really you an I would really need to be in the business to fully understand how and why decisions come around – because in my experience these decisions are never easy, and never straight forward.

7) JOA copyright – So I have seen this – its a contract dispute pure and simple. There is a contract in place and both sides are interpreting it differently. But from my reading of the statements the creator has not understood the difference between GROSS and NET. But its a very simple thing to solve. Call in the solicitors and have the contract examined, if they cant thrash it out then have a judge decide. Again why you are taking such personal offence to issues like this and the UK team is a bit beyond me – these are none of your or my business – the fact that someone wants to play it out in public suggests to me that they believe that will be more effective than the legal route. Be careful how you let your empathy for folks be utilised mate. (I have seen cases of this in our industry before – always ask yourself could this be sorted out using the legal system – if yes – then why are they not doing that?)

OK sorry for the long post, but I wanted to give you as full a response as I can as you directly called our integrity into question. We keep a pretty close ear to the ground in this industry, and ‘storms in teacups’ are treated by us as just that. To be impartial means keeping a close eye on context and ensuring that events and issues are strictly contained to the events that relate to them only – otherwise you get these spiralling conspiracy theories and dwarven book of grudge type lists.

Finally, me and you don’t need to agree on any of the above. But the above is what my assessments currently are with the information I currently have available to me. So those assessments are what we are currently working with.

no you’re right I went back and watched them and he’s actually called Ramon in Fistful. For some reason I always think of the one gloved hand as being his schtick in A Few Dollars rather than in the original.