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6th edition is coming out eventually. What would be your dream starter set be?

Mine would be....Chaos Space Marines and Eldar. A wraithlord, dire avengers and something else for the eldar (Maybe a plastic avatar and guardians), and a plastic Daemon Prince, Chaos Dreadnought, Chaos Marines and obliterators.

I was trying to be realistic with what they could fit in the box. I doubt they could fit an entire unit of jetbikes,defiler or a rhino in the box.

So yeah, what would be your dream 40k starter set?

For me, dream starter set would be Tau v. Nids.

Not for in game reasons, I just like that matchup a lot.

IG vs Tau with 1 leman russ and 1 Hamerhead with 2 infantry and a HQ squad for both treams.

that would be awesome but saddly unlikely

Have they ever done tanks before? I don't think I've ever seen any. They're too hard to make in less than three pieces

Yeah I know but its just a dream starter for me tanks would be awesome.

Maybe GW should start realesing tank battles starter sets.

I'd love to see Guard and Eldar personally to highlight to different armies. However let's face it, it will always be Space Marines vs. ???

Generalstoner wrote:I'd love to see Guard and Eldar personally to highlight to different armies. However let's face it, it will always be Space Marines vs. ???

And one day the kit will be Space Marine vs. Space Marine. God, it'll probably be called Battle for Skulltown or something like that.

Haddi wrote:

Generalstoner wrote:I'd love to see Guard and Eldar personally to highlight to different armies. However let's face it, it will always be Space Marines vs. ???

And one day the kit will be Space Marine vs. Space Marine. God, it'll probably be called Battle for Skulltown or something like that.

Ha ha ha space marines are so lame

My personal favorite would be a Battle for Armageddon box set, with Steel Legion Imperial Guard and Orks. You could just cram in the current Black Reach Boyz, but swap out the warboss for Thrakka, and the Deffkoptas for something else Orky. On the other side you could have 20+ Guardsmen, a command squad, Yarrick, and probably a close-topped Sentinel.

Brother SRM wrote:My personal favorite would be a Battle for Armageddon box set, with Steel Legion Imperial Guard and Orks. You could just cram in the current Black Reach Boyz, but swap out the warboss for Thrakka, and the Deffkoptas for something else Orky. On the other side you could have 20+ Guardsmen, a command squad, Yarrick, and probably a close-topped Sentinel.

Thats an awesome starter set would love to see something like that released

Brother SRM wrote:My personal favorite would be a Battle for Armageddon box set, with Steel Legion Imperial Guard and Orks. You could just cram in the current Black Reach Boyz, but swap out the warboss for Thrakka, and the Deffkoptas for something else Orky. On the other side you could have 20+ Guardsmen, a command squad, Yarrick, and probably a close-topped Sentinel.

That.

That would actually be a really fun idea. But then, there wouldn't be as much variance in the armies. If you simplify it, it's basically horde CC vs. horde Shooty. And the starter sets are always Spess Mehren style elite small numbers vs. Horde something, or at least Black Reach+Macragge were (My memory does not go farther back, were there any other starter sets?)

Personally I would like a Black Crusade/Horus Heresy themed set with SM and CSM. Also a Wolf of Fenris themed set would be cool with Red Corsairs and Space Wolves

Brother SRM wrote:My personal favorite would be a Battle for Armageddon box set, with Steel Legion Imperial Guard and Orks. You could just cram in the current Black Reach Boyz, but swap out the warboss for Thrakka, and the Deffkoptas for something else Orky. On the other side you could have 20+ Guardsmen, a command squad, Yarrick, and probably a close-topped Sentinel.

This would be good. Two horde style armies, one more Shooty orientated, on more CC orientated. Deffkoptas for a couple of Killa Kans or a Deff Dread? And maybe a couple of Sentinels.

A starter set of our dreams hey? Let me think...

I would love to see a Necron verses Chaos starter kit, with the following in each (excuse my spelling)

Necron

1 Necron Lord
20 Necron Warriors
5 immortals
1 Tomb Spyder

Chaos

1 Chaos lord (Nurgle flavored with Mark of Nurgle)
14 Plauge Marines
5 Raptors
1 Chaos Dreadnaught

Would fill the need for plastics for both those armies.

I was thinking...The starter set should have a techmarine and thunderfire cannon. Artillery rules are a bit far-out, most people don't know them. The cannon would be pretty good to explain the rule (like dreadnoughts teaching about walkers and deffkoptas teaching about jet bikes)

Necrons vs Chaos would be funny. A battle to see who can purge the planet of life first.

We have had:

SM Vs Orks
SM Vs Dark Eldar
Sm Vs Nids
and now we have Sm Vs orks again.

barring a totally new race release and with Sm being GWs golden child Sm vs a horde army looks likely.

Personally I would like to see:

Necrons Vs Eldar. Guardians, a weapon platform or two along with a warlock or two. maybe a vyper or a walker thrown in to keep it interesting

Crons should have warriors maybe a plastic wraith or destroyer and a basic plastic lord.


Gw could probably get some mileage out of multiple starter kits or themed kits so they could have the obligatory SM VS bad guys but also have a few packs with other races, enough to tempt new players and people wishing to try new races.

Well, SM will always be in the starter set. Hands down.
Personal preference what the other race concerns.

dream starter set eh? armageddon ork hunters vs orks.... would give GW an excuse to bring back the ork hunters rules. sentinels with linked assault cannons? yes please

Chaos Daemons vs Eldar

Daemons

hearld of khorne

10 blood letters

3 flamers

2 beasts of nurgle

Eldar

farseer

10 dire avegures

avatar

3 jet bikes

Dream starter set?

Everything.

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Imperial Guard:

Lord Commisar

Platoon

Veteran Squad

Chimera

Leman Russ

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Tyranids

Hive Tyrant

15 Gaunts

15 Gaunts

10 Genestealers + 1 Broodlord

Carnifex

That would make me cry...

WANT: Chaos Marines VS Orks
Chaos:
Lord/Sorcerer
2 Chaos Spawn
10 Chaos Marines (Flamer, Melta)
1 Chaos Dreadnought
5 Terminators
5 Havocs

Orks:
Warboss
30 Boyz
2 Deff Dreads
5 Nobz
5 Flash Gitz (GOOD LUCK! GW won't make new plastic models!)

It won't happen but for some reason IG's sounds good for starters.

Maybe up against Chaos of some flavour.

from a selfish point of view, SW's vs DE's as they are my two armies

Haddi wrote:

Generalstoner wrote:I'd love to see Guard and Eldar personally to highlight to different armies. However let's face it, it will always be Space Marines vs. ???

And one day the kit will be Space Marine vs. Space Marine. God, it'll probably be called Battle for Skulltown or something like that.

Battle of grog pass.

It will contain:

2 drunk captains (one puking, the other falling over)

20 disciplined marines
10 terminators
2 dreadnoughts with casks on their backs.
a rhino with a drinks machin in the back
and a drop pod that transformz into a bar.

IG vs Tyranids. Two horde armies, one shooting, one Close Combat.

IG:
Command Squad
20 Guardsmen
3 Heavy Weapon Teams (preferably Mortor or Heavy Bolter)
3 Sentinals

Tyranid:
Hive Tyrant.
30 Horma? Terma? Close combat gaunts.
3 Lictors.


Not exactly that, but something that makes IG want to hole up and the Nids to charge in. Something that makes them represent the hopeless, backs against the wall fighting nids feel.

IMO, In addition to the existing starter, they should make "scenario pack starters" where they'd bundle two fixed posed starter armies:

Battle for the Webway

Eldar:
Plastic Female Farseer
Plastic Guardians x10 w/ EML platform
Plastic Dire Avengers x5 w/ Shimmershield / Powersword Exarch
Plastic Wraithguard x5

Chaos:
Plastic Demon Prince
Plastic Thousand Sons w/ Sorceror x5
Plastic Summoned Daemons x10
Plastic Spawn

Terrain:
Plastic Webway portal Objective

Eye of the Swarm

Tyranids:
Plastic Broodlord
Plastic Genestealers x5
Plastic Genestealers x5
Plastic Termigaunts x10
Plastic Lictor x2

Imperial Guard:
Plastic Comissar w/ Powerfist
Plastic Guardsmen (Veterans) x10
Plastic Guardsmen (Veterans) x10
Plastic Ogryn x5

Terrain:
Tank Traps x3
Barricades x2

Captain Solon wrote:

Haddi wrote:

Generalstoner wrote:I'd love to see Guard and Eldar personally to highlight to different armies. However let's face it, it will always be Space Marines vs. ???

And one day the kit will be Space Marine vs. Space Marine. God, it'll probably be called Battle for Skulltown or something like that.

Battle of grog pass.

It will contain:

2 drunk captains (one puking, the other falling over)

20 disciplined marines
10 terminators
2 dreadnoughts with casks on their backs.
a rhino with a drinks machin in the back
and a drop pod that transformz into a bar.

I really wish they'd do tanks in the starter sets. I wants a leman russ or something. Even a cheap-o predator would make me happy (I have no predators, since they suck for chaos)

For me I like what they have been doing. I know this is your dream starter but really I would be more happy to see more people getting into the game then pleaseing just me. But really space marines vs anything would work well and sell good.

I wouldnt like a sm vs csm even though I play csm just cause it would just be the same stuff on both sides really.

I will admit though to xenos races in a starter would be pretty epic since this is gw and anything NOT sm is always a blast.

Tau vs necrons??

Guard vs Chaos Marines