Reply To: BattleTech: Mercenaries – CGL does a shipping booboo? Internet rages!

[jamescutts 6937xp 2]

My pledge also arrived yesterday. Not near as big as dawfydd but one large 5.3kg arrived safe and sound yesterday morning, amazing given it was delivered by Evri.

As for the cookbook, your really not missing out on anything, having gone over the pdf, its a waste of time, cheap copy and paste off the internet of recipes and photos with vague BattleTech names added.

So initial thoughts:

Boy I’m glad this saga is just about over for me, not been a fun campaign to have backed, my first and last by Catalyst. I can only hope it finishes soon for those still waiting, and they get a similar sense of relief when it does finally hopefully ™️ arrive! I was still undecided if it will all be kept or at least some sold off, however a friend doing a unboxing stream and sharing his love of Battletech has kind of kicked the spark again.

Packaging by GamesQuest was great. A battalion pledge all in one box. No wasted space, but equally all well protected, the only damage if you could call it that is a slightly warped art of war book, but I don’t think this is packing related, just poor quality, and i was already disappointed in the book from the pdf.

Evri, amazingly delivered fine, however the only notification i got was from GamesQuest, not evri who had notification of the parcel long before, and i usually get notifications in the evri app for any dispatched parcels, i can only assume that contact details where not passed on to evri hence me getting no evri notifications. This may explain why people have been getting mystery deliveries with no notification.

As best as I can tell everything has arrived, though I’ll be honest I lost track of the salvage box situation long ago. On the face of it without unboxing everything seems reasonably decent in quality, inner sphere battle armour, acceptable, not as melty as some but comparatively poor based on other miniatures. Turns out there was the extra “free” compensation salve box incuded, backer kit said 3 Mercs salvage boxes, i got 4.

My general complaints about packaging remain, the wasted space in the force packs which are about 80% empty space must have significantly contributed to shipping costs and just all round feels like a massive waste, this is particularly evident with the Battlefield Objectives force pack. The two aero space fighters are about the only things i think the packaging is decent for.

Dice, I’m not sure at what level by you get a pair of “free” chevron dice, these are garbage, weighted and all round poor quality, in face the dice in the main box are not much better.

All round, initial thoughts, relieved its arrived and for me at least I can draw a line under the fiasco.