Reply To: Victory at Sea Understanding the Price

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I’d take the GHQ offerings over any of the upcoming Warlord ones if they are about the same price. GHQ is the “GW” of historicals in offering the best detail at expensive prices. Sorry, but Warlord just aren’t there (yet) in the level of detail they have with their casts (in any range). Where Warlord shine is the sheer range of stuff they do offer across all their product lines.

The new Victory at Sea castings come one piece, with a simple ugly as hell basing scheme (which although does has the benefit of having the ship name embossed on it, so it’s quicker to do and get on the table). But I just don’t feel they are worth the premium prices Warlord are attempting to charge for them.

Warlord do seem to be on a Naval glut atm, with the Coastal Game, Napoleonics, and now larger scale WW2 (I’d expect to see a WW1 variant of Victory at Sea coming next). The sheer amount of the Coastal ships they have released is crazy (do we need that many for the game?). They do seem to be doing a lot of “fire and forget” launches at the moment (and then supporting what sticks). This along with the expense of Victory at Sea this time around make me very wary of taking the plunge (I already have the Mongoose Edition of the rules)