Its not just whats out there, its that they appear to stop caring about a game the moment the KS ends and they move on to the next KS. Take Reichbusters (RB) for example as its the one I’m waiting on. They delayed releasing it for some time as they wanted to put extra polish on it. Great. I can get behind that. Except from what I’m hearing, the rules are badly written and full of mistakes. The boxes are mispacked with double some of the french stuff and some of the enlgish stuff is missing. Stat cards are wrong. Some minis are wrong or just broken, and the quality of sculpts and their clean up varies wildly between boxes. I backed it on the idea of the campaign, and now I’m hearing that its little more than a long tutorial. Everything feels rushed and half arsed. And thats ignoring the current delivery delays, which I’m blaming on Meeple Logistics. They have been refusing to deliver outside of france saying there are no international deliveries at the moment. Meanwhile everyone is receiving international deliveries, even from france. If they don’t want to deliver and put their employees at risk thats great, I support that. Just say that. What they have been doing is outright lying to us and presumably to Mythic. it’s the lying and the not knowing that’s the issue.

I also have Mythic Battle Pantheon on my shelf. I haven’t played it much, but on the whole it seems like the big box of KS extras are just stuff. The main box has missions and what it laughably calls campaigns, and Pandoras Box (of KS extras) has nothing. Just models with stat cards. Just stuff. Reading through the main box missions they all feel a little hollow, like an afterthought. it all leads me to fear Mythic come up with a core idea and then don’t really develop it. They just overwhelm their customers with exra stuff and cool minis and pretend that box contents is “content”, when it isn’t. A good game is more than a long list of components.

Then I check the RB KS every day to see if anyone has heard anything about deliveries starting and I’m always reminded that JoA had a KS for v1.5 on day 1, that Solomon Kane is massively late, that people are still waiting on JoA. All in all, there is a lot of upset amongst their customer base and a lot of people who say they wpon’t be backing them again. For the record, I want RB to tutn up and I want it to be awesome. Despite the faults I am hearing the game is good. I do fear a RB V1.5 hitting KS, possibly even before my copy arrives, and that I’ll need it to bring my game up to the state it should have been at release.

Anyway, rant and cynicism over. I’m off to watch the backstager and to get some painting done.