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Where did they go? I checked at 8:20 PM PST. Oh no.

 dragoonmaster101 wrote:

geargutz wrote:
im starting tau and the box set will be awesome to bolster my battlesuits. also, since im a sucker for orks i will get that one, which is still a decent deal, but since i rarely play aos, ill most likely convert them to 40k orks. SNAKEBITES, that boar chariot is so going to be a warbuggy

I would recommend you wait on the ork section of your order, if these sell well most factions will most likely receive a starter.

actualy, i would be more willing to buy a fantasy ork starter set then a 40k one oddly enough...i have plenty of 40k orks....too many, but i have been slowly collecting fantasy for snakebites, this just seals the deal.
what the 40k starter set would need to realy get my attention would be mek gunz at a deal.

so I cant find them anywhere on the site at all :/

For those of you that can't find em, they've since been taken down because they're probably not suppose to go live today.

The contents were basically:

SM: Terminator Captain (the Strikeforce Ultra one), 1 Tact Squad, 1 Ven Dread

Tau: Ethereal on Hoverdrone, 1 Fire Warriors box, 3 Battlesuits

AdMech: 1 Dominus, 1 Skitarii Vanguard squad, 1 Onager

IG: 1 Commissar, 1 Leman Russ, 1 squad of infantry (cadian), 1 heavy weapons team (Cadian).

Tyranids: 1 Hive Tyrant, 1 squad of Warriors, 1 squad of Gargoyles.

Necrons: 1 Overlord, 1 Warriors squad, 1 Stalker.

All cost the same, 100CAD or 85USD

If anyone wants to see them, they are currently up on the New Zealand page. That one gets updated first. Just check out those prices, haha.

I'm glad imperial guard has another new formation!

 Kimchi Gamer wrote:
If anyone wants to see them, they are currently up on the New Zealand page. That one gets updated first. Just check out those prices, haha.

The easiest way to turn anyone in north america off of warhammer: secretly switch their default region to New Zealand or Australia.

whats great is that these are cheap formations, and if they have good rules that help synchronize the odd assortment of units in the starter set then these formations easily become a common part of any force (even allies). i calculated the max points of the tau box and it roughply comes to 300pts, thats very cheap for a formation.

Thanks mecha



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Holy throne of terra! how expensive is everything in new Zealand?! Really feel for you guys :(

Canada is slowly getting to Australian levels and starting to rival New Zealand levels :C Our Librarian actually costs more than it's aussie counterpart.

That's so bad, I don't understand how GW can expect people to pay those sorts of prices. I mean the cadian defence force is more than triple in New Zealand as it is here in the UK. Hopefully it doesn't get as bad for you over in Canada but i'm guessing by what your saying it's getting there :(

I would love to see stuff like this for other armies eventually. Ultimately, these kits really do include the core units(kinda, the Tyranid one needs Genestealers or one of the gaunts instead of Gargoyles) of the particular army. For example, a Space Wolves pack would include Krom Dragongaze, a Space Wolf pack, and Space Wolf Venerable Dreadnought. Or they could do something different and have it include Bjorn instead of the Space Wolf Lord.

Blood Angels could have something with their Sanguinary Priest, Jump Pack Chaplain, or Captain Karlaen. Karlaen could come with the Blood Angels Terminators and a Vanguard Veteran Squad.

Eldar could do something with Jetbikes, including a set of jetbikes and a Jetseer. Or they could do something with the poor Autarch that everyone forgets in spite of the fact that the model is so cool, IMO. Too bad there are no units to include with the poor guy.

DA could have an Interrogator-Chaplain or possibly the Company Master from Dark Vengeance, a Tactical Squad with included upgrade sprue, and a squad of Company Veterans. I don't know enough about Orks to make a suggestion there.

Grey Knights don't have a plastic character, but I guess they really can't get one of these sort of boxes (none of them include any new kits).

Dark Eldar would have an Archon, Kalabite Warriors, and a Venom.

Orks would include the Warboss from Stormclaw, some boyz, and something like some Mek Gunz or Killa Kans or a Deff Dread.

The Grey Knights could get a plastic Generic Librarian, since they've been using the generic librarian since 5th edition now.

Unfortunately (from the New Zealand site) it seems that Harlequins, Orks, Dark Eldar and Blood Angels instead got "bundles" that package the codex wit hit, but offer no discount and don't actually have the core of the force in the bundle (well, Harlequins do, but it's only because their range only has like 4 different kits).

 Bottle wrote:
The Skitarii one seems like an incredible deal.

£50 for:

1x Skitarii Dunecrawler (£40)
1x Tech-Priest Dominus (£22)
10x Skitarii Vanguard/Rangers (£23.50)

Wow.

Skitarii are crap from the gaming point of view.
But from the painter or collector point of view they are great.

 MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
The Grey Knights could get a plastic Generic Librarian, since they've been using the generic librarian since 5th edition now.

Unfortunately (from the New Zealand site) it seems that Harlequins, Orks, Dark Eldar and Blood Angels instead got "bundles" that package the codex wit hit, but offer no discount and don't actually have the core of the force in the bundle (well, Harlequins do, but it's only because their range only has like 4 different kits).

I suppose they could do that with the librarian, but their armor doesn't exactly match that of the Grey Knights. Hooray on the bottom tier codex bundles at no savings. That will certainly help move kits!

 wuestenfux wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
The Skitarii one seems like an incredible deal.

£50 for:

1x Skitarii Dunecrawler (£40)
1x Tech-Priest Dominus (£22)
10x Skitarii Vanguard/Rangers (£23.50)

Wow.

Skitarii are crap from the gaming point of view.
But from the painter or collector point of view they are great.

I've found Admech to be a competitive force, especially as an ally force.

HoundsofDemos wrote:

 wuestenfux wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
The Skitarii one seems like an incredible deal.

£50 for:

1x Skitarii Dunecrawler (£40)
1x Tech-Priest Dominus (£22)
10x Skitarii Vanguard/Rangers (£23.50)

Wow.

Skitarii are crap from the gaming point of view.
But from the painter or collector point of view they are great.

I've found Admech to be a competitive force, especially as an ally force.

True. It's a decent ally force able to fill gap in your army.

Tau and AM boxes will be nice additions to my armies. The Lizardmen box is tempting.

The Daemonkin box seems like the most bang for your buck, as you can use them for 40k and AoS (if you know people who play AoS).

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
There was a 40k ork one released last week by the looks of it.
It's a terrible deal though, an Ork Codex and some Flash Gits and a Mek for what looks to be no discount... (Harlequins got a similar bundle, with their Codex a Troupe and the Psyker).

EDIT: Never mind, It's a terrilbe deal.


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SirSertile wrote:
Where did they go? I checked at 8:20 PM PST. Oh no.

I check my history (IE 9, if you were wundering), and I get "Error 404, All records expunged from library)

Dark Eldar one is crap. No actual discount, just a bundle.

The absolute best thing about these IMO is the price point...

Perfectly priced for little timmy to pick his own army and get mummy and daddy to stump up and get some fresh blood in the hobby. A few paints and a paint brush, out the shop ready to hobby for ~£75... Very accessible.

Something to be proud of GW. Well done you!

But the stuff is unplayable. Even unbound with formations, it is as if they picked the bad units of a codex on put them in one deal and called it a day.

quote=alasta 675038 8352952 7e4d697a8ab65e649389a922595c3d77.jpg]I'm glad imperial guard has another new formation!

Indeed, the Daemonkin box looks quite good. However, the Necron box is garbage if you ask me.

The Necron box has one of the lower % discounts and it has to compete with its own Battleforce which is a fairly good set of units to start an army for a similar % discount. Shame they couldn't match the value of the Tau box. Even bigger shame that the Orks didn't get a starter box. Orks could of used a good box set after that cluster gak that was the Mek Mob set.

Makumba wrote:
But the stuff is unplayable. Even unbound with formations, it is as if they picked the bad units of a codex on put them in one deal and called it a day.

 alasta wrote:
I'm glad imperial guard has another new formation!

What does it do?

The boxes themselves include an as-of-yet unseen formation for the box's contents.


The AoS ones seem to blow the 40k ones out of the water in terms of discounts. As for the good value ones in 40k, the AdMech, Tau and Tyranid ones are the best. The rest are more like "buy these units and get a free character".

I can't say our prices are that bad at all. I'm not paying anywhere near as much for things as New Zealand and Australia. Ontario here.

Then again I have like a 27% discount the majority of time.

Oh man that Space Marine box is a steal! I want!

Tin foil hat time, but it is definitely interesting that the arguably two worst codices in the game at the moment (tied with Grey Knights and Orks, CSM doesn't count) got one click bundles that don't appear to have any discount. What is going on! Inquiring minds want to know!

 Gamgee wrote:
I can't say our prices are that bad at all. I'm not paying anywhere near as much for things as New Zealand and Australia. Ontario here.

Then again I have like a 27% discount the majority of time.

You might wanna check out the cost of the Wraith Knight in Canada compared to NZ and Aus. Or the Terminator Librarian.

And pre-ordered After a pre-order discount from my FLGS and sales tax, I ended up paying about $3 more for the Skitarii set than a single Onager Dunecrawler. I'll be curious to see the included formation, since I really dig the Dominus mini, and I'd love to have a way to field it in my Skitarii army without going Unbound.