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Ok you have to improve battlefrces BUT you may add 1 plastic unit and but must drop 1 and it MUST be plastic

You first...

add an extra special weapon sprue and drop the scouts for 5 more marines for space marines

The special weapons sprue is a problem with Tactical Marines in general I believe. You have to remember that Battleforces are the only decent deal from GW. If you look at all of the new packages they have listed (The 1-click, the Drop Pod + Tactical, the Daemons sets, etc) they price out to be the EXACT cost of buying them separately. Battleforce boxes are the sole items left to be good, and even so a lot of armies find them pretty worthless. So let's be glad we have them at least =/

But yes they can definitely be made more worthwhile by doing a few things:
#1 - Let each army have 1-3 boxes opening up various play (Tervigon + Termagaunts + other troop, Eldar Jetbikes + Vypers/Falcon/Fire Prism, etc in addition to the current battleforces)
#2 - CHANGE the Battleforce boxes at all, update them so that they're viable for current play. EG: I don't know if they still have Possessed Marines in the Chaos Battleforce but I think it could easily be replaced with something else.
#3 - Put more stuff in it/lower prices. Duh

Marines, drop the Rhino and pick up a Dread. Done.

For space wolves, drop the pod and put in a rhino, then make it the same style for vanilla battleforce.

Blood Angels-drop the assault marines, put in another death company for the cool assault bitz

make them all legal, playable armies.

Example 1: Space Marines
Drop the 5 man combat squad, add the plastic commander.
You now have 1 HQ, 2 Troops plus transport, and 1 Fast Attack

Example 2: Necrons
Drop the Ghost Ark, add catacomb Command Barge
You now have 1 HQ (Foot overlord from CCB kit), 2 Troops (10 man warrior squads), 1 Elite (Deathmarks), 1 Fast Attack (scarabs), and 1 Heavy (Annihilation Barge)

Space Marines:
Drop: Scouts
Add: Commander box

Space Wolves:
Drop: Wolf Scouts
Add: SM Commander Box

Necrons:
Stays as is; No plastic HQ available.

Orks:
Stays as is; Viable list already.

Dark Angels:
Stays as is; Viable list already.

Chaos:
Drop: Rhino
Add: Daemon Prince Kit

Blood Angels:
Drop: Assault Marines
Add: Commander Box

Imperial Guard:
Drop: Sentinel
Add: Command Squad Box

Dark Eldar:
Stays as is; No plastic HQ available.

Tyranids:
Drop: Genestealers
Add: Second Warrior Brood

Eldar:
Stays as is; No plastic HQ available.

Tau:
Drop: Kroot
Add: More Fire Warriors

Chaos drop the rhino wtf drop the posessed

IG drop sentinel and add Russ with demolisher weapon options as well. or go overkill and replace sentinel with shadowsword

Tau: I'm going to go rogue here and say Drop Stealth suits, add second Crisis suit. (since someone else already mentioned drop kroot for more firewarriors)

Dark Angels: Leave it as it is.

IG: Drop sentinel for Vendetta.

Dark Angels: add special weapons sprue
Space Marines. drop combat squad and scouts add second tactical
Blood Angels: drop rhino and tactical replace with two assault squads

Eldar :drop guardians bring dire avengers to 15
Orks:needs more boys
IG: replace sentinel with a russ

CSM: drop possesed add second tactial

Dark Eldar: choose either kabalites or wyches.

Necrons: leave as is

Tau 2 battlesuits 2 fire warriors

Honestly these battle forces should be picked up to start an army and there for should be 1 basic HQ , 2 troops and a transport.

Ralis wrote:
Tau: I'm going to go rogue here and say Drop Stealth suits, add second Crisis suit. (since someone else already mentioned drop kroot for more firewarriors)

Dark Angels: Leave it as it is.

IG: Drop sentinel for Vendetta.

I completely agree stealth suits are fun though


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Look what they need to do is Bolster packs like the current BFs and then starter packs 1 HQ then 2 Troops of your Choosing then an optional unit like Harlequins or an assualt squad