To anyone considering this game.

Let me start off by saying I have been incredibly excited to try this game Warcrow. I know some people see the models and they think generic fantasy, but as someone who loves World of Warcraft and orcs I saw these models from the starter set and decided I needed to have them. Couple that with a desire to pull away from GW games because I don't really care for the way that they treat the customer base and we have what should be a real a winning formula in the form of Warcrow. So what do I do? I sell some of my GW miniatures and use that money to buy the winds from the north box. After reading some of the early reviews, I expected to have to do some cleanup working with the new siocast, but what I got was really really appalling. The miniatures that I received in this box are incredibly bad. The pieces don't even fit together no matter how much cleanup I try to do. No matter how much work I try to put into it, the models simply do not fit together. The gaps in the miniatures are also insane. I have never seen anything like it. When I reached out to the store that I bought them from about a replacement box, they told me that I would need to reach out to Corvus Belli directly. That's what I did and Corvus Bellis told me that they couldn't help me because I bought it from a third party. Fair enough. I suppose that's the risk you run when you want to buy things for a little bit cheaper. But then I find that my Alborc miniature is broken. He's not just warped. He's not just badly cast. He is broken and that just kind of sent me over the edge. Corvus Belli agreed to replace him because he's broken but that's as far as they went.

I'm a gamer first and a hobbyist second but everyone else in my wargaming circle would say the opposite and I am never going to be able to get them into this game if the quality of the miniatures is this bad. You might say I got a bad box, but for the cost of these miniatures that is unacceptable. When I look at the releases that have come out since the starter, the miniatures average like $12 to $20 a piece and if I can't expect that they are at least going to fit together then that's not a cost I can justify.

Now I want this game to succeed because I want there to be real competition in the fantasy skirmish space. I love the aesthetic of this game and I think the rules look interesting but this game will not survive if this is what is being passed off as quality. This is not just a startup company. This is not a tiny little outfit that is putting out their first game. This is a company that has been making miniatures for at least a couple decades. And, I don't really know how they can defend this. I've heard people say that they went with a siocast because it's cheaper for the consumer, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Now if you bought this box and the minis were great then I'm genuinely happy for you. I'm just not sure how Corvus Belli expects people to drop more money per miniature than they would on a GW game and get this horrible product. It isn't a risk that I would advise taking. I wanted to make sure that I let people know what my experience was because all I see and all I've heard from others online has been, "yeah you have to do some cleanup here and there but that these minis are pretty good and at the siocast isn't too bad to work with" but that wasn't true in my case.

Edit: I'm seeing a lot of people calling me a liar about Corvus Belli refusing to replace my box. I've got the email but can't seem to post any photos. I did volunteer the information that I bought it from someone else in my email because I couldn't fathom that making a difference. It wasn't the LGS fault that the quality control was garbage so I didn't imagine it would matter. They did replace the broken piece although I think you could make the case that such garbage minis that don't fit together are worse than "broken".

Edit 2: So I just busted the terrain pack out to actually try playing the game and THE PAPER GAMING MAT IS NOT IN MY BOX. This is ridiculous.