Poll - Do you want to continue to see sampler sets?

I don't think this has ever been done in 1:32. I'm not sure I would bother much with this option even if it was. Perhaps if you wanted to get an additional pose. I could see that there might be something to be gained with the command sets where an extra standard bearer, drummer or officer might be useful. Alternatively if sampler sets were actually supplementary sets which gave you new poses but I suppose that defeats the object of them being sampler sets. If it causes any delays to getting the main sets out I would be against it if HAT is using sampler sets to test the water on the viability of sets rather than something to run alongside main sets for those that don't want to buy a full box of figures. We've have had to wait long enough to see any kind of resumption of 1:32 sets which thankfully we seem almost on the brink of. Can we see the SYW Austrian sets sent to those of us who have crowd funded the project in the near future?

There is some demand for them so I'll probably vote yes.

However as pll alludes to above if dedicating resources to them causes delay to new sets or restocks then no.

And on the subject of restocks it would be really good if some key sets were always available if at all possible - such as Zulus, Zulu War British Infantry, Zulu War Service Wagons, British Peninsular Infantry #8186, Early War WW1 British Infantry etc...

They can be a good way to tell if you want to paint an army or not. Some sets of figures seem to paint up easily while some seem to be a struggle to finish. May be that's just me.

Yes...but the darn things sell out so quick. Always good to have a few extra figs to replace 'battle casualties'...

Definetily, yes. Ia a good option to wargamers and for complementary use of mean boxes.

Personally I am not to bothered whether they continue or not as long as they do not take too much time and resources away from new sets and re-stocks.

I did buy a Sample box of the Nap. Prussian Infantry, the reason for buying was I really liked the box artwork and I do not care too much for the small boxes the Command figures come in so I thought this box would be a nice place to store my command figures.

The Bigger picture I am not quite sure if the sales are going well I am guessing Hat would not ask the question if sales were good and I am not sure who these sets target as we are already committed Hat buyers.

However I think the sampler sets MAC all in a single box is a very good way of attracting new buyers especially kids if they can find their target audience, they are in a nice compact box that does not take up too much shelf space if only they can a find more shops or a chain of shops to stock them.

Another way would be for collectors like us to give them as presents for Birthdays and Christmas etc to kids and perhaps a friend or brother that used to play or collect them, so for these reasons I am voting to keep them. 

In My opinion, like a collector, I should say yes, but I agree that for modellers or wargamers, that need a lot of figures they are not so useful... Usually I find little "boring", for example sets of marching, with only two, three "poses" (in effect only one - marching), except for these upcoming sets of marching of ACW, that seem to be very exciting and I'm looking forward to get very soon (I hope). And I find redundant Command: Why I have to get all those officiers, drummers, buglers or flagbearers!? I really like very much only Action sets. I'm joking, of course, but I really found very useful for us collectors big boxes with 100 figures (and less expensive than buying three singular ones), where every sprue was effectively one independent unit.