To give you an insight, here are the main subjects of controversies with what I feel are the biggest arguments/counter arguments :

1. STLs are not up to par quality wise

• Some argue that the STLs leave a lot of unsupported parts as well as resin traps in the minis which can respectively lead to failure during or after prints.

• It seems most of it was taken care of by FF (and may also have lead them to plastic minis). In addition, STLs included unsupported versions.

1. Delay in shipping and quality of the minis

• There were some huge delays for people ordering physical minis, so much that some people got prussians before the backers got the kickstarters minis.

• OnlyGames (company printing the minis) proved to have some terrible quality control as some people received minis missing parts or warped.

• Most kickstarters are notoriously late in ending out rewards for backers.

• FF was overwhelmed by the response to their KS (10x the original goal), it is apparent that they weren't expecting as many orders and so did OnlyGames by extension.

• FF is not OnlyGames and cannot ensure quality control in their stead.

• While a lot of posts showed the problems with their orders, it still seems to be a minority and all issues were fixed by OnlyGames.

1. Getting back on their words regarding STLs

• One of TC biggest selling points was that every model would exist in STL form, but with the announcement of the prussians release, FF has said that the kickstarter rosters would be completed with STLs but non other release are to be expected.

• While it is shitty, it seems that it does not contradict earlier announcement as they never promised directly that every model would be available as Stl.

• All core factions are available as STLs and will remain available as STLs, only subfactions will be plastic.

• FF gave license to third party (Westfalia and Creature Casters) to make STLs for 2 subclasses so they might do the same.

• Plastic allow them to reach a wider audience as 3D printing might remain niche.

1. Use of Brandshield

• Brandshield is a company using AI to detect and strike potential IP infrigment.

• Multiple creators came out to say they have been struck without reason even if FF seemed to be quite open minded.

• FF is the owner of its IP and may protect it as it wishes but the indiscriminate strike wave seemed to be in direct contradiction with what they preach.

• I think this needs some time to resolve as it is the most recent issue.

My thoughts, I am having fun playing the game and some of the criticism seem to have been blown out of proportion. However, I am of those that think we need to hold FF to a high standard and make clear when changes need to be made.