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The starter set is pretty good value. You get the rules, advanced rules, cards, scenarios, markers + 12 planes for £40.The squadron sets seem overpriced. £20 just for 6 planes and a few cards.The aces are grossly overpriced. £20 for one plane and a couple of cards? Come on.The game itself is great, but I'd really like it if they released the cards for all the different planes as a separate pack so I can use my existing models.
I think Warlord will find that the market for aerial wargaming especially period specific gaming, and soon to be released coastal naval wargaming in the near future, is a pretty limited sales market compared to foot figures spanning centuries of warfare.
I don't think Warlord are the best at marketing. As far as I know, they make very little attempt to build hype around their games other than that they exist. They could host in depth gameplay videos for their stuff, but they don't. They don't even put much about how the games work in their product descriptions. The worst example of recent times was them having Black Powder 2nd edition up for pre-order without saying anything about what had changed or why anyone should want the new edition. Only after its release did their newsletter contain anything like a "let's play" and that was them visiting the Beasts of War guys (a channel that does a lot of peoples' heads in...).
I don't think Warlord are the best at marketing. As far as I know, they make very little attempt to build hype around their games other than that they exist. They could host in depth gameplay videos for their stuff, but they don't. They don't even put much about how the games work in their product descriptions. The worst example of recent times was them having Black Powder 2nd edition up for pre-order without saying anything about what had changed or why anyone should want the new edition. Only after its release did their newsletter contain anything like a "let's play" and that was them visiting the Beasts of War guys (a channel that does a lot of peoples' heads in...).[/quoteAgreed. There's a video appeared featuring Mr Preistley doing a demo game with a member of Warlord staff that has just appeared on the WI page. It's about an hour long, so if you can spare that much of your life to watch about 4 rule changes explained then its all there in glorious technicolour for you. Personally, I'm disappointed with BP V2 although it is laid out a lot better than V1. A lot of money for about 4 rules changes if you don't include rockets, and some scenarios which could have gone online.