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So i'm sure everyone and their mother is looking for missile launchers for their devastators...

What kind of alternatives do we have to paying $8 for a set of arms. This game is expensive enough and I refuse to subject myself to that lame pricing.

Has anyone found decent alternatives?

Thanks.

Do you have a lot of spare bits lying around? I've seen HK missiles from vehicle bits converted into infantry missile launchers.

Or you could scratch build them out of plastic tubing.

I try to be creative with mine. Aside from two normal Launchers (one that came in the box, one that I traded from a friend's Space Marine kit), I've got one guy holding a grenade above his head, football style (used a flamer canister for the grenade, then just inverted a left bolter hand), one using a Hunter Killer from, IIRC, the Razorback kit, and one guy using a Tau Burst Cannon, using a missile shoved down the tube instead of the barrel.

Oh, my personal favorite is the one from the new squad - he's toting the Power Fist hand that points, and there's a Tau Missile Launcher glued on top of it for a wrist-mounted missile system.

The obvious alternative is to trade for them. If you have bought a Devastator squad, you have a whole slew of heavy weapons to trade for other peoples' Devastator or Tactical Squad Missile Launchers.

You can shop around. You'll find stores that have missile launchers for less than $8.

Or you can convert one, from the aforementioned HK launcher or tubing, or from the IG version.

Personally, I think the Space Marine Special Weapons Pack is a really good deal for what you get, since meltaguns, flamers, and Missile Launchers are the three weapons I can never seem to keep on hand.

lol I just realised there's a bit of fail on the second pic in the weapons pack link. "Plastic and Resin Components not included". I know what it means but yeah, poorly worded

Imperial Guard rocket launchers are easily converted up. I've never done this. but it's worth looking in to.

Commander Endova wrote:Personally, I think the Space Marine Special Weapons Pack is a really good deal for what you get, since meltaguns, flamers, and Missile Launchers are the three weapons I can never seem to keep on hand.

Wow thanks for that bit of info! Now I can trade out those plasma guns for meltas and give my LFs some MLs at the same time.