I'm not sure if Maelstrom Games will be able to fulfill those orders that have been placed, or whether suppliers will allow them to given the current parlous state of the organizations finances. I'm not fully aware of your rights under UK or EU law if you have any outstanding orders placed with Maelstrom Games.
As always with such things I extend the benefit of the doubt to anyone, but questions will remain unanswered, and I will be seeking answers from all parties over this.īut what of the fourth party in all of this? You the customer? Well it looks like you've been shafted. But, there will be questions over whether that was Wayland Games ultimate motive or whether it was an attempt at buying out, or crippling a competitor. He of course has every right to protect his supply chain and to do so in whatever legal way he sees fit. He has said it was to do with securing his supply chain, and that Simple Miniatures being out of pocket was a potential risk for them, because of the debt owed by Maelstrom Games.
I have spoken to Richard Lawford about why it was that he brought the debt in the first place. Finally there is the third party to all this Wayland Games. I understand that at times companies feel the need to extend credit to their clients, but to allow such a huge tab seems to be exceedingly unprofessional, and while I have the greatest amount of sympathy for them, because it is they who were owed the funds, I have to question the wisdom of allowing more and more credit to an organization that was either unable, or unwilling to pay off its previous debts. Secondly, I'd have to question Simple Miniatures for allowing the debt to get so out of hand. But, on the point about building up such a significant amount of debt I can not defend him or his company and the way it was run. Firstly how the hell did Maelstrom Games allow their debts to get to such unmanageable levels, it isn't professional, and I'm sure many of you will know I have a more than cordial relationship with Rob Lane.
All I will say is this, I don't really think any organization comes out of this situation smelling of roses. This didn't happen for various legal reasons, and given the litigious nature of the activity I did not want to put my own financial ass on the line as it were. I have spoken with individuals at Maelstrom Games and Wayland Games about this, and asked them both to clarify the situation for customers primarily. I uncovered the fact that Wayland Games had purchased roughly £100,000 of Maelstroms Debt's to Simple Miniatures around the end of October. I would strike a note of warning here that this is Maelstrom Games version of events, and although I have known for some time now that this was the situation I will be personally seeking confirmation from the other parties included, namely Wayland Games and Simple Miniatures.Īs I have said I have known of this situation for about a month or so now, and I can only apologise about not being in a position to confirm this state of affairs, as none of the individuals involved were willing to go on the record over this. It seems though that the Internet rumour mill has indeed got it right, and it seems Maelstrom Games are indeed going to the wall with quite significant debts. You can of course see it for yourselves here. Yet despite my personal suspicions I have never once had a problem with Maelstrom getting me the stock I've ordered, and the only time I had a slight issue it was sorted within 24 hours and that was the Hell Dorado book turning up water damaged.īut today they posted a statement up on their website, which has replaced the holding statement that the website was down for maintenance: but that recently evaporated as a plausible reason when you looked around at other stores and saw they weren't having the same issues Maelstrom Games were having. At first I brought the fact that they (Privateer Press) were struggling to keep up with demand. Then there has been the perennial problems they've seemed to have with getting a ready supply of stock, in particular Privateer Press stock over the last year or so. I guess that was the first sign that things were not all that good and rosy in Mansfield. You can read Maelstom Games Battlefront Miniatures statement from that particular incident. There was the issue with Battlefront Games and Gale Force 9 that actually resulted in them pulling supply of their product to Maelstrom Games, and the resulting fall out all of that caused. There have obviously been rumours about issues at Maelstrom Games for quite some time now.
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