I say kudos to all the volunteers for all their hard work and also double kudos to Catalyst for realizing what an untapped resource they had with the MM crowd and other rabid fans of CBT.
I was about to post in the errata thread about the lack of WOB Demon BA but then I noticed the rule about "if it doesn't have a record sheet yet, it's not in the MUL". That struck me as terribly odd. We already have stats for these units, we have their BV, so why weren't they included?
Not having a record sheet seems like an odd criteria for exclusion, eventually everything is going to have a record sheet, so why hold it back until it does?
We fans have Heavy Metal Pro, so we can make our own record sheets (even if we have to jimmy in custom weapons or equipment), or we can just do them up by hand, so it's not like these units are in a sealed vaccum playwise until released in an RS book, in home games or on Mega Mek.
I understand the desire to get this product out to us, but we've been waiting for it for literally years (as was stated in the blog) so if it was pushed out minus these units so that we could get our hands on it faster then I just have to chuckle and scratch my head.
I'm sure that everyone here loves it now that they have it and wouldn't want to give it up, but I'm also sure that since we haven't had it for so long, taking a few extra months to furbish it with every unit and making a true Master list would have gone without complaint as well.
Please share your thoughts on this decision.