Hello as a New Player in this franchise, i fall in love with it of course, but i want to say this is totally True a comment i read in the Kickstarter post about the Lore. I think in other games, like warhammer for example, and with the box of the game i receive a book with lore of the game. Ok, this is not Games workshop i dont expect a 300 pages hardcover. BUT, i pay 60€ for the box with a RIDICULOUS, i want repeat.... RIDICULOUS pamphlet with less than 2 pages of Text (like 10 pages but with a minimun text, and all images. And this ridiculous pamphlet is for free as pdf in the web.
So with my new box i have no idea about what is Battletech, what is world, what is the technology, what is absolutly nothing.
But, the problems here for me as a new player are various.
-First, if i compare the previous box of the game, for the same price I would have received a more than 55 pages book, with the lore, houses, what is a mech, etc etc....
And i cant understand why all the people is super happy with the new bpx. Ok, the miniatures are awesome, but we are in 2019 we can not demand less, before the new box this company was offering in full 2019 miniatures of zero quality. And as a new player I get scared to see that in the beginer box I put a paper, telling me that if I want to expand my collection of figures of a game for which I paid € 20 can pay the ridiculous figure of € 180 (100 with the super offer, how lucky I am) $ 100 for 12 pieces of metal, with a prehistoric modeling, and poor quality. Only for $ 100 !!! Give me 4 packs please.
It's because of that quality jump in the figures that I do not see anyone complaining about the contents of this new box compared with the previous box but it is not fair that by neglecting the quality of the miniatures do not demand a minimum in other sections, as in putting a little lore as they offered in the previous box.
Being honest, if we compare the new box with the one of the previous edition, the new one can be said that it is a true deception.
For the same price € 60 in the previous edition we had:
-2 hard cardboard maps, not paper that gives panic touch it, the material quality of the maps is.
-25 mechs vs 8 of the new box. Yes! 25 !! Of worse quality that yes. But only with the box you have a huge variety. While cartons come in the new box.
-A book with the Lore of the universe of more than 55 pages of Lore, campaigns, factions, explanation of what are the mechs and their mechwsrrior and not a shameful pamphlet of 5 sheets as it brings now, that is above in free pdf in its Web.
-The Rulebook of 78 pages extends in more rules than the current one and with a lot more content, like several more scenarios, a section of armament well detailed with the description of which is each weapon (This is lore, as I will know what the hell is a PPC if I have to end up looking for it in google) etc ...
-A minibook with the explanation of how all the chaos of products and lines that these people have for the game works, since it is truly a chaos. And what they should do to attract new players is to cut the root of the 99 publications of the time of chromañon that they maintain, as well as having a web in full 2019. That the first time you enter the web makes you laugh .
- Another pamphlet of 16pag with the "Hobby" part of Battletech, on how to paint the figures, colors of the houses etc. In the new box there is NOTHING.
-The Quickstart rulebook, with the simplified rules, which now does not bring but sell it separately in the beginer box, pay more! .
-The sheets of mechs, come many more, with sheets also for infantry and vehicles.
-2 Tables of cardboard with the tables of the game to consult, 1 for you and another one for the rival, now only comes to you 1. By God it is a cardboard, that will not be worth 10cent
-1 Giant poster of the inner sphere of two faces.
The ridiculous Pampleth, and the Maps are for me the most disappointing.
Ok, I love the game and lore so I try to ignore it.
Now I find that the new content for the game, and the next step for me as a new player is seing how the company needs to do a Kickstarter, which probably takes 1 year to receive.
And I see that with the new box I will receive another pamphlet of 16 pages to tell me something as important and relevant as the game Clan invasions. That as a new player, anything you investigate mentions this part of the lore so important.
16 pages .....
So you can say that you are paying $ 50 for 5 figures, and the new regulation.
Because a pamphlet of 16 pages of lore, and a mini novel (that honestly gives me little, what I want is LORE, if I want to read a whole book I will look for it, not 20 pages that will leave me half of a universe that I want to learn) dont have value .
The worst thing is that I see that this company only makes reprints and reprints and reprints of material from 20 or 30 years ago, but when it comes to taking out a new box they are unable to put a small book with the lore that they also have Written from the previous edition of the box.
And of course it is expected that these two new maps, will be of that pathetic material that they use, for something that when given a little use will end up breaking. And if you do not like it, then spend $ 30 on a Neoprene one. I insist remember that in the previous box had some real quality board.
And to top it off it saddens me to see that for Alpha strike they are unable to put a letter for Mech, so they do not have to be turning them around, so be careful not to ruin the company by putting 4 more cartons.
And all this remembering that like all Kickstarter I am going to finance (with the risk that it entails) that they take out the products.
I'm sorry if I look angry, it really bothers me because I've fallen in love with the game, I think it's a Diamond in the rough, very badly managed by the company. And English is not my mother tongue and I needed a little Google translator.
Thanks for read me.
Love to Battletech !!!