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Has anyone ever noticed that a SM battleforce is £80 GBP, while the other marine forces are lower?

SM: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440270a&prodId=prod1060108
BA: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440190a&prodId=prod900148a
SW: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440278a&prodId=prod300001a

SM: £80
BA: £70
SW: £65


Just thought that I would put that out there.

what is the ratio of each ones's components to final cost?

SM separate components: £93

BA: £107

SW: £84

SM:BA:SW

93:107:84

The battleforce prices / separate component prices:

SM: £80 / £93
BA: £70 / £107
SW: £65 / £84


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I repeat; Lol wut?

Battleforces are still giving you a better buck for buying the components separately, but that's only because said components are obscenely overpriced to begin with. Really, no Battleforce should surpass the $90 mark and actually be viable starter sets (i.e. an HQ) if they want to draw in more players.

Ebay is where you find real deals for these kinds of purchases though. I got 20 Guardians, 10 Dire Avengers, 4 Jetbikes, Vyper, Wraithlord, and a Falcon for $160 on Ebay.

Harriticus wrote:Battleforces are still giving you a better buck for buying the components separately, but that's only because said components are obscenely overpriced to begin with. Really, no Battleforce should surpass the $90 mark and actually be viable starter sets (i.e. an HQ) if they want to draw in more players.

They are, but their choice of pricing is perplexing.

Most expensive components: BA
Second cheapest box: BA

Harriticus wrote:Battleforces are still giving you a better buck for buying the components separately, but that's only because said components are obscenely overpriced to begin with. Really, no Battleforce should surpass the $90 mark and actually be viable starter sets (i.e. an HQ) if they want to draw in more players.

Ebay is where you find real deals for these kinds of purchases though. I got 20 Guardians, 10 Dire Avengers, 4 Jetbikes, Vyper, Wraithlord, and a Falcon for $160 on Ebay.

Completely agree. That is where I get most of my stuff.

Interesting. I know if you kitbash everything in the BA box as death company (so just buy astaroth) you can get about 1000pts

Wrakkar wrote:Has anyone ever noticed that a SM battleforce is £80 GBP, while the other marine forces are lower?

SM: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440270a&prodId=prod1060108
BA: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440190a&prodId=prod900148a
SW: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440278a&prodId=prod300001a

SM: £80
BA: £70
SW: £65


Just thought that I would put that out there.

New player? because this is common about GW (prices)

Capt. Camping wrote:

Wrakkar wrote:Has anyone ever noticed that a SM battleforce is £80 GBP, while the other marine forces are lower?

SM: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440270a&prodId=prod1060108
BA: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440190a&prodId=prod900148a
SW: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440278a&prodId=prod300001a

SM: £80
BA: £70
SW: £65


Just thought that I would put that out there.

New player? because this is common about GW (prices)

Long time player, but only just noticed the difference between these three boxes. I don't play either of the armies.

I make the BA as £91.50. Making it back into second place, which fits it's discount band, sort of.

htj wrote:I make the BA as £91.50. Making it back into second place, which fits it's discount band, sort of.

Is that with or without two boxes of death company? There's ten in the box set, but only five per separate component.

Wrakkar wrote:

htj wrote:I make the BA as £91.50. Making it back into second place, which fits it's discount band, sort of.

Is that with or without two boxes of death company? There's ten in the box set, but only five per separate component.

That doesn't appear to be the case. Which box set do you mean?

htj wrote:

Wrakkar wrote:

htj wrote:I make the BA as £91.50. Making it back into second place, which fits it's discount band, sort of.

Is that with or without two boxes of death company? There's ten in the box set, but only five per separate component.

That doesn't appear to be the case. Which box set do you mean?

Oop, mis-saw what was in the set.

Yes, I'm pretty sure that the CSM battleforce has gone up to £80 as well.

I think they raised the price on the SM box set just recently. While youre at it take a look at what a storm raven costs now....

Billagio wrote:I think they raised the price on the SM box set just recently. While youre at it take a look at what a storm raven costs now....

A nice, clean £50

In the US for me its $82.50, which is roughly 53 pounds?

Billagio wrote:In the US for me its $82.50, which is roughly 53 pounds?

I don't know which one you're talking about, but the cheapest battleforce I've seen is the eldar one, which is still $105

The blood angels and space wolf ones are $110