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Reply To: Hobby Weekender 31/08/2018 Thank you very much.

August 31, 2018 at 3:39 pm #1260965

biggabum

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@mage Well Outlaw Miniatures (the original guys) didn’t do a lot to promote the game, it was more a word of mouth thing. The game itself was pretty good, although it did have some flaws, and the miniatures were fabulous so i’m guessing it was the failiure to push the game outside of the US (they were an American company) that stalled the game. It was so hard to get Mini’s here, very few places sold them and even fewer actually held stock on their shelves and none held the complete range. This meant whether you ordered here or from Outlaw themselves you ended up with at least two weeks wait for your mini’s (wierdly it was actually quicker to order from Outlaw… but the postage… ouch)

When Warcradle (actually an arm of Wayland Games) took over they pretty much ripped up the rulebook and rewrote the whole thing. They kept the setting, factions and Mini’s but the rules were a new game entirely. Promotion wise they were all over it like a rash, not just here but all over the US and europe as well. They have also sorted out the supplier issue I get new alerts daily of stores that now stock the game and there are clubs forming and tournaments being announced.

Oh and the team are very community oriented too. If you post a rules quiery or general question on their facebook page, one of the design team usually pops up to answer.