I have just received my order of the Battleground Set for HoBR as well as the Bad Moons expansion, and the print colours are much paler compared to the HoBR Core Box I own. While Bad Moons look acceptable on the Core Box terrain, the combined terrain looks kind of awful.

I am wondering if this is the same for the whole batch, or did I draw the short straw? It might be that my Core Box is the problem, but then again, all other expansions have matching terrain colours (Drop Pods, Reinforcements, Castellum, etc). Of course, stock images for the products have exactly the same colour as well. I don't know if opening a support ticket is gonna help.

Mine don't match and look terrible.

The overall print quality is okay, icons and terrain elements are readable.

After looking at the tiles in detail, I noticed that the new tiles have a grid of small dots all over them. This applies to every new piece that I received (Sewers, Drop Pods, Battleground Set). The Core Box terrain does not have that. Light sources above the new tiles also reflect off of them, not really the case for the Core Box terrain. Different printer/technology? It's like comparing matte laptop screens to glossy laptop screens.

The worst part is that the colour of the water changes between the two canal tiles in the Battleground Set. They are not even consistently different 🙁

Below is a close-up shot of the tiles, Core Box on the left, Battleground Set on the right:

I don't mind that, for example, the Sewers are printed with the new "glossy" printer since they are a standalone product. However, it does look like the factory messed up for the Battleground Set. We know that DPG received production samples a few months prior to the shipment, weird that they didn't notice or were okay with that (based on the comments, I assume this is a global issue).

Quote from chomechome on [01/08/2021] à 09:58

After looking at the tiles in detail, I noticed that the new tiles have a grid of small dots all over them. This applies to every new piece that I received (Sewers, Drop Pods, Battleground Set). The Core Box terrain does not have that. Light sources above the new tiles also reflect off of them, not really the case for the Core Box terrain. Different printer/technology? It's like comparing matte laptop screens to glossy laptop screens.

Wow. Those look very off.

Quote from Nostradunwhich on [02/08/2021] à 06:59

Now, I must admit what exactly constitutes the HoBR portion is not my strong suit, as I am not a huge HoBR player… was the core box reprinted or just some add-on terrain?

It's the add-on terrain from the HoBR P500. Since there is a chance that DPG is unaware of the issue, I will open a support ticket. At the very least, it might help to avoid that with future products.

Quote from Nostradunwhich on [01/08/2021] à 05:08

I cannot tell from the pics…are all the icons and terrain elements readable? How about Defense Bonuses?

I have the opposite isdue with the Heroes of Stalingrad/Normandie expansion called "woods&hills"… It is so darkly coloured that is quite difficult to spot icons and color coded "terrain lines" and such… Like the hills' border or the woods one, or the valleys ones…

What the heck happened? That color shift is REALLY bad! 🙁

Quote from Octarine8 on [25/05/2022] à 04:02

Wait, this stuff was shipped-out last year?! My P500 still hasn’t been fulfilled 😯 😥

Contact Customer Support via the CONTACT link, choose Order issue and let them know so they can help sort it out.

I have no idea if it will ever get a reprint. It is certainly not on the Roadmap DPG published, while the HoS reprint was on the roadmap. That leads me to believe it is not planned, at least not through the end of 2023.

As far as we know that is THE roadmap… As in all of the roadmap. For the time being that is.