Relax - it's just cardboard...
Oh, what a happy weekend! Look, what came with the post today – some nice brown little parcel right from Defiance Games in Massachusetts. It came pretty quickly, just eight days after I got the information that it had been dispatched to me.
Yeah, I know it's just plastic... but it's making me happy...
Inside I found my box of United Americas Marine Corps Infantry and some nice little piece of paper informing me that the free Gunny will come a bit later… he sent a free sprue of Marine Infantry instead, to ease my sorrows while waiting… can’t complain about that one.
But they're in the centre of my attention - 24 Marines, soon to fight for me!
Anyway, the centre of my attention was – and is – the actual box with my 24 models. I have to say that already the Cardboard box is stylish. I pretty much like the design they used here – much better than what Mantic or Games Workshop come up with.
Even the box is made with care - with bitz pictures and background chatter...
Sure, a box is a box is a box, but I like it when it is filled with photos (including some of all the different parts included the set), description and even some background text. Always a sucker for those…
Sprues, sprues, sprues... and most interesting stats...
But of course it’s the models itself that count. As is fitting for a company like Defiance Games, it is tightly packed with twelve identical sprues, each with the parts for two marines. The bases included were originally cast with the infantry sprue, but for several reasons (one being that they couldn’t else fit everything in the box) you only get sixteen on the sprues themselves. The final eight come in their own little plastic bag.
Finally you get a colourful pretty stat card of your Infantry for use in the upcoming Alien Wars game. I will probably spend quite some time with that, hoping to find out more about the mechanics of this game…
Thank me? No, thank YOU, Tony! Made me really happy!
Not to forget that Tony of Defiance Games wrote a personal “Thank You” on my invoice… really, this is all very touching. Or would you expect something like that from Games Workshop? I don’t…
All in all, a great set of great miniatures…
Sadly, it will be some more time until I can write up a proper review of this box… I am right in the middle of some terrain projects I want to finish first… and of course I won’t have access to a proper camera for another month – and there is no way that I assemble those boys without giving you something out of that, too.
Still, you guys from Defiance Games, you really made my weekend! And even without those upcoming hardsuits – with those sprues in my hand I am now sure the UAMC are the right force for me. And I doubt that this year will pass without me ordering something more from you…
