Yes—-I bought all 5 boxes. Frankly it is still unpunched though I took out all the orc minis for general use. They are quite good orcs.
What's interesting is that with the exception of Battlesystem every other war game they've sold has been a skirmish game. In general concentrating on having synergy with the RPG with the kinds of battles you run in a skirmish game being similar to what you'd do in a roleplaying session. Explicitly with the Chainmail, 3.5 D&D minis and later D&D Heroscape they were trying to double dip the minis between people who would buy them for the skirmish game and people who would buy them to use for RP. There's overlap in those two groups but they were hoping to get people to buy who were outside of that overlap.
Part of the problem with Battlesystem was finding minis to use at all. Waldenbooks and the like sure didn't carry any minis at the time, and Ral Partha only made a handful of sets for the system (I have the gnolls set, myself). If you wanted to make an army of miniatures you either had to buy multiples of singles (a fairly expensive proposition at the time) or hope you had a FLGS that also had a decent historical minis section (mine did not).
You're funny.
What are you talking about? What illegal 3D printing?
I think they mean folks getting their hands on stl files and printing their own instead of buying authorized minis. I know that many miniature tournaments require "official" brand minis.
