Wednesday 28 May 2014

Blitzkrieg: Clones of Poland?

I started work on my Early War Polish boxed set from Warlord and must say I am very disappointed with the contents. The figures are decent enough, but the amount of duplicated figures in the 24 miniature box really sucks. I wasn't overly happy with the amount of duplication in the French box but this takes the biscuit...


Looking at the picture of a Polish section taken from their website above, you can see that not only do I have six of one particular miniature and three of two other, but there are different figures I don't have any of. I appreciate that with a large section like the Poles had there will be some duplication of miniatures, but to throw in six of one and none of others I don't have does not make for a happy Steve!

Suffice to say I will not be buying any other boxes of WW2 miniatures from Warlord where I cannot see the contents...

8 comments:

  1. I always advocate giving Warlord a call when you have an issue, their customer service is excellent. I am confident they employ actual real trolls to pack their orders, which is why mistakes are so common (so very, very common) but I will always go back because they have sorted out my problems by going above and beyond every time.

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    1. I bought it from a third party supplier a few months back, I didn't think to check the contents at the time. In future I will buy figures in blisters or individually.

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    2. As long as you have the box, you could drop them a line and see if they could help you out in rounding out the numbers. Perhaps even express a better method of packing to give variety showing your example and disappointment. Their customer service is good when it comes to resolving issues.

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    3. Wait until Black Tree has a 35% or 50% off sale, grab some extra Poles then to add variety, granted they only have riflemen but would mix things up. I did that with my French - Crusader, Black Tree Design and Warlord all are in my army.

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    4. Complain anyway just in case, I did once with a third party supplier and it turns out all he had to do was walk across the road to Warlord's HQ which he promptly did and solved my problem for me!

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  2. This is the second post I've read in has many days knocking Warlord. I hope its not a trend developing, by that I mean they start to let customers down in some way. I must admit that I would be disappointed like you if a found that a product I had bought from them did not live up to expectations; I for one like variety in figures particularly for skirmish games. So come on Warlord don't start to let us down.

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    1. I think this may only be with the older sets and lines that they have not addressed yet. I just got the Last Levy boxed set and it was very nice, not only that it had bases in it! Wooden Sarissa ones...Again, as I said, feedback helps them make improvements....I got a batch of bad dice from a retailer about a year ago, cracked and chipped after I opened the packet. Warlord sent me a new pack, I showed them photos of the defects and they took care of me promptly. Also, the old dice quality is the reason why they changed over, I wasn't the first to have that happen to.

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    2. I tend to take good snaps of all the stuff on my blog if you want to see the quality of stuff they are producing.

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