Reply To: Bersaglieri and french D1 & D2 tanks

A major and oft repeated criticism of Warlord I hear from gamers is that the rules should be either included in the rulebook or available as updated PDFs from the website.

Unit profiles ultimately end up in the army builder software packages that almost everyone I know uses, so there is no reason to buy a book for a unit profile.  The problem is units that don’t have profiles.

I would rather see army books focus on the armies themselves rather than unit profiles. How the army changed, when certain units became available (without the profiles) simply showing when they showed up and where.

Campaign books focused on the campaigns with scenarios to simulate features of the campaign and discuss any special rules that apply to the army because of unique aspects of the campaign.

Instead, I tend to shy away from buying many of the books because of how they are done.

I think Warlord leaves a lot of money on the table.  I do think their new subscription army builder software will be “home run” and at some point, incorporating more “value” into the software will be more important, than trying to extract some marginal revenue from selling a few books.