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I know many pople hate these things but what do you think is the best. Personally its Tau or Necrons

Why is it a multi-choice poll?

What do you mean 'best'? Best value for money? Best for starting an army? Best mix of units?

Yeah, do you mean best value or comes with the best units?

Best ofr starting and best units thats why its multiple choice

The best to start for me has to be the Space Wolves battleforce on the account you will use most everything in the set (2x10 GH's and a drop pod). It's easy enough to convert a RP, so that's no problem.

Of course, the Necron one is also pretty good. And I think the Tau one is the only one that is a fully playable army straight out of the box though (as it's the only one that comes with an HQ and 2x Troops)

I voted Space Marines/Space Wolves/Tyranids

All you need is a cheap HQ and any of those battleforces can produce a usable army with a good variety. I consider them a good starting point for an experienced player beginning a new army.

Yeah SM shoul drop the scouts and 2 tac squads instead

theninjabadger wrote:
Yeah SM shoul drop the scouts and 2 tac squads instead

Or drop the scouts and add a commander box with options. That would rock.

or drop the scouts add an extra sprue with like ML and PP andd that stuff on and 5 more guys and the comander kit


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theninjabadger wrote:
Yeah SM shoul drop the scouts and 2 tac squads instead

Agreed. They could drop the scouts and finish off that 5 man tac squad. Maybe then drop the Assault Marines and add a commander sprue

Guard has to be the best, although maybe I am a bit biased I suppose. If you want to expand your infantry, almost everything you need is in that battleforce. All you need is a blister or two of plasma/melta and you can make a platoon or some vet squads. You also get a load of heavy weapons and an awesome sentinel.

Ok, so people don't like sentinels because vendettas are 'better'. Doesn't make sentinels useless. Also, the set is cheaper than it's parts even before you add the sentinel.

The Necron one is really good. You get two multi-part kits, The Ghost Ark/Doomsday Ark, and the Immortals/Deathmarks plus warriors and scarabs. All you need to go with it, is a barge kit, and you've got an excellent starting force.

 Trickstick wrote:
Guard has to be the best, although maybe I am a bit biased I suppose. If you want to expand your infantry, almost everything you need is in that battleforce. All you need is a blister or two of plasma/melta and you can make a platoon or some vet squads. You also get a load of heavy weapons and an awesome sentinel.

Ok, so people don't like sentinels because vendettas are 'better'. Doesn't make sentinels useless. Also, the set is cheaper than it's parts even before you add the sentinel.

The Guard one was better when you could buy the box that had a Infantry Squad and a Chimera. It was called like "Armored Fist Squad" or something like that. It's OOP now though.

Well... Necrons and BADGERs are tied at the moment. Shows how accurate these polls are.

Well badgers are a cool army

Especially if the badger army has honey badgers, because they just don't care

But in all seriousness probably the necron army

THIS IS THE FINAL STRAW
GW MUST MAKE A BADGER ARMY
wWHOS WITH ME? FOR HONEY BADGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Badgers FTW.


On a serious note the SW one provides mulitpurpose units and the ability to make an HQ. Its the winner.

Well, I recently bought the Necron battle force. Its quite useful (Warriors, Immortals) but I'm not using the Ghost Ark in competitive play.

The old BT Battleforce obviously. Was an upgrade sprue, a Rhino, 10 Initiates, 5 Assault Marines, and a Command Squad. A FREAKING COMMAND SQUAD. Blam.

While it might not be the best for building a brand new player one shot "I haz army", The Dark Angel's battle force is actually a single FOC slot all on its own. Two of them + Sammy and you have a solid starting Ravenwing army.

All i know is the chaos space marines one is terrible half the stuff is junk.

Where's our Squat option?

10 Squats on Bikes
10 Squats on Bikes with Shotguns
10 Squats on Bikes with Twin-linked Shotguns
10 Squats on Bikes with Twin-linked Twin-lined Shotguns
10 Squats in Exo-Suits
10 Squats not in Exo-Suits
5 Squats on a Train
5 Squats on a Plane
1 Forge-Father HQ with Twin-Linked Plasma Shotguns, Bugman's Best 6X upgrade and Power-fist.

I think that badger is probably best value for money. Also, badger is capable of taking on any army in the game, as badger can move out of turn, always hits, always wounds, and ignores armour saves. The unfortunate thing is that badger cannot be commanded, and is probably more likely to assault the players rather than other models.

Badgers get Furious Charge.

Necrona, because you will use everything in it.

The IG one is awesome because you will use everything in it. The Necron one has the most flexibility. I am also a fan of the BA one because it comes with so many bits. Not a good starting box, but a good box to expand with.

Tau, because it's actually a complete playable army and only has one truly useless unit (the stealth suits) and even they aren't terrible for a newbie who isn't too concerned with optimization yet.

 Trickstick wrote:
Guard has to be the best, although maybe I am a bit biased I suppose. If you want to expand your infantry, almost everything you need is in that battleforce. All you need is a blister or two of plasma/melta and you can make a platoon or some vet squads. You also get a load of heavy weapons and an awesome sentinel.

Ok, so people don't like sentinels because vendettas are 'better'. Doesn't make sentinels useless. Also, the set is cheaper than it's parts even before you add the sentinel.

You are correct. Vendettas don't make Sentinels useless, RAPIERS do.
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/i/Imperial_Guard_Rapier.pdf

The IG battleforce used to be MUCH better, when it was 20x guardsmen 3x HWTs, and a goddamn Russ. This was also back when guardsmen came in a box of 20 for ~$35... oh the good old days.
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I really like the space wolves one as you get a great core, a free drop pod. 2 of those and a hq and you have a good army. Yea tau is playable from the box but it has some bad units in it that you would leave on a shelf most the time.