Read the Kickstarter update, nice to see them finally acknowledge internation customers, still the choice of calling US “domestic” speaks volumes, I know Firelock for example always referred to actual region name e.g. North America or US. I find the terminology “secured VAT” a bit odd, they must mean customs clearance as you clear customs checks and pay any import duties and VAT?

It looks like we might possibly see shipping start with the next month or so, depending on those estimates of shipping understocked items, that US shipping started first doesnt bother me, its pretty common. It would have been nice if they included infomation on whos actually doing the distribution and shipping though! Otherwise, is nice to see them give a clear and defined update, why it’s taken them that long to get that organised will forever be a mystery.

On the other hand, the cookbook seems a complete self inflicted booboo, it was a stretch goal so I think people are quite reasonable to expect something better to have been put together, what we got was basically google things out of copyright and give them cool names, even the imagery is a bit of a give away, its lacking a consistient style. That said I didn’t expect it to really be anything much more than a bit of fun, as a pdf its a nice lightharted inclusion, I wouldnt be happy if I paid for it though!

In fairness to CGL the end product of the books and the mechs for BattleTech as a whole is a good package but I will agree @tankkommander that the cook book does seem to illustrate how they operate, take money and then cheap out where they think they can to maximise profits, also illustrated by a community manager on a contract rather than as a permanent member of staff. I’d much rather they employed more permanent staff to manage organise and communicate for a project than have a world wide tour for the higherups.