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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tortoise" data-source="post: 1160720" data-attributes="member: 146">I got a chance to see about $200 worth of these yesterday and I was pleasantly surprised by the detailing of a fair number of them. Yes, some are low end paint jobs and I do agree that more contrast would help in identifying them at a distance. The pre-production models I saw several months ago were cleaner, but these pass muster for me.Over-all I'm sold. I'll be buying some.I also got a chance to play the skirmish game and found it much better than Mage Knight.A few added bonuses I like from a DM standpoint:Cards with the mini's stats on them. On one side the skirmish game stats and on the other their D&D stats. These could be a major boon when running a combat. Put them in order by initiative and you've got everything you need in one place. We put them in plastic card keeper pages and used wet erase markers to keep track of hits and spells during the skirmish and something similar could work during a D&D combat.The entry pack contains a large map with 1 inch squares and then several room or area tiles that can be placed around to create added environments affecting play in different ways. Handy for a quick dungeon setting.The fact that these are cheap, and do a decent job representing the critters from the monster books (MM, MM2, FF) is a big plus. No more "what penny is the kobold and which is the goblin" situations to worry about.</blockquote>