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Guess it wasn't just a rumor after all.... A measly $11,690.00. I'm sure everyone will pick up a dozen on the way home from work.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440270a&prodId=prod2160196a

ETA:
This pic shows what GW actually thinks the chapter organization looks like, though.

So who's brave enough to calculate how much you can "save" with a single click?

Also, my price is saying $14,140...

Sweet googly. Though if I had won the lottery.

that 14,140 in Canadian?

Does it at least come with a commemorative box that says "You'll never paint all of this in your lifetime" on the cover?

Read the extras as well they're pretty awesome; Jervis Johnson comes round your house and says he wishes they still did Epic and the RRP should be lowered by a third as long as you don't tell anyone, Jes Goodwin promises to listen to your ideas for how to make Squats cooler than Dark Eldar and Jeremy Vetock says he'll read your fan fiction when he gets a minute.

There's a bunch of vehicles included in that, too. Almost every squad has some form of transport. (Shown in individual company pics on the website.)

Well, as the last thread was locked..

This collection includes
1 box of Marneus Calgar and Honour Guard;
1 Chief Librarian Tigurius;
1 Chaplain Cassius;
1 Space Marine Captain in Terminator Armour;
1 Space Marine Terminator Chaplain;
1 Captain Sicarius;
1 box of Space Marine Masters of the Chapter;
1 Space Marine Captain: Lord Executioner;
1 Space Marine Captain: Master of the Marches;
1 Space Marine Captain: Master of the Rites;
1 Space Marine Captain: Master of Relics;
3 Space Marine Command Squads;
2 Space Marine Librarians;
1 Space Marine Librarian in Terminator Armour;
1 Space Marine Librarian with staff & book;
1 Space Marine Librarian with Force Sword and Bolt Pistol;
1 Space Marine Librarian with Force Axe and Plasma Pistol;
3 Space Marine Chaplains with Crozius and Power Fist;
3 Space Marine Chaplains with skull helmet;
1 Space Marine Chaplain with Crozius and Bolt Pistol;
1 Space Marine Chaplain with Crozius and Plasma Pistol;
1 Space Marine Chaplain with Jump Pack;
8 Space Marine Terminator Squads;
4 Space Marine Terminator Close Combat Squads;
4 Space Marine Vanguard Veteran Squads;
4 Space Marine Sternguard Veteran Squads;
39 Space Marine Tactical Squads;
47 Space Marine Rhinos;
4 Space Marine Drop Pods;
14 Space Marine Assault Squads;
14 Space Marine Devastator Squads;
12 Space Marine Centurion Devastator Squads;
4 Space Marine Razorbacks;
2 Space Marine Techmarines;
4 Space Marine Thunderfire Cannons;
7 Space Marine Dreadnoughts;
5 Space Marine Ironclad Dreadnoughts;
1 Space Marine Sergeant Chronus;
7 Space Marine Land Raiders;
3 Space Marine Land Raider Crusader/Redeemers;
7 Space Marine Stalker/Hunters;
2 Space Marine Vindicators;
5 Space Marine Predators;
3 Space Marine Whirlwinds;
3 Stormraven Gunships;
7 Space Marine Stormtalon Gunships;
13 Space Marine Bike Squads;
1 Space Marine Bike; 5 Space Marine Attack Bikes;
11 Space Marine Land Speeders;
1 Space Marine Sergeant Telion;
10 boxes of Space Marine Scouts;
4 boxes of Space Marine Scouts with Sniper Rifles;
5 Space Marine Land Speeder Storms;
6 Space Marine Strikeforces.

 Necros wrote:
Does it at least come with a commemorative box that says "You'll never paint all of this in your lifetime" on the cover?

Dude have you SEEN the apocalypse armies some people have?

Wow... in that photo, it looks like they are tiny. You can almost imagine them being very small (lets just say 6mm tall as way of example) and surrounded by tanks, titans and that kind of stuff? You could even make up rules that worked well at that kind of scale, and with that level of abstraction..

I wonder why they never thought of such a thing?

'Cos no one would ever want to play like that!

They might have more luck selling individual companies.

Pic doesn't show all the vehicles either....

I would pay it, IF it were all painted in the chapter of my choosing & came with lmtd edition codex & lmtd edition rulebook & carry cases for everything, plus dice, templates, Apoc lmtd book(s).....

and a thank you card....

all hand deliverded by Kayden Kross....

Man up. I am getting my chapters.

 bu11etmagn3tt wrote:
Pic doesn't show all the vehicles either....

I would pay it, IF it were all painted in the chapter of my choosing & came with lmtd edition codex & lmtd edition rulebook & carry cases for everything, plus dice, templates, Apoc lmtd book(s).....

and a thank you card....

all hand deliverded by Kayden Kross....

I agree with you, not the Kayden Kross bit but more with the sentiment that for the amount you're paying you'd think they'd offer a bit more incentive to buy it as opposed to just offering a mountain of the standard boxes of units.

For all of it's pomposity It seems fantastically unimaginative. Apart from the big price tag, where's the 'wow' factor?

Add some Thunderhawks, super limited to just this bundle type stuff. Some individual books, signed by the staff.

If you were serious enough about Warhammer 40k to want to splash out £7k in one go you'd hit the discounters, right? Mind you, said discounters would never be able to get that much kit in for one purchase, I guess.

They do give a few "extras," but I'd bet they're added to the cost.

Alongside the entire Chapter of Space Marines you'll also receive a signed copy of Codex: Space Marines; a signed copy of Insignium Astartes (the definitive guide to the heraldries and squad markings of the Ultramarines); a full Chapter organisation chart; a breakdown of the composition of each of the 10 companies; a signed art print of the Codex: Space Marines book cover; and a signed art print of Paul Dainton's painting of the Ultramarines assembled for battle.

My two cents:
7k on ebay.

let me boldly assume...

Assembed race of choice.

And probably a quarter of that army primed/painted?

Cheers.

Wow... in that photo, it looks like they are tiny. You can almost imagine them being very small (lets just say 6mm tall as way of example) and surrounded by tanks, titans and that kind of stuff? You could even make up rules that worked well at that kind of scale, and with that level of abstraction..

I wonder why they never thought of such a thing?

Pfft. Probably because it would be dumb. I mean, who would ever think of playing something like that? Good god, even if people actually liked it (doubtful) GW would just kill it off and then all the fans would have to support it on the internet, and people would pray for more minis and GW would ignore them, even though they already have molds in existence and would make sales.


Yeah...right. That's likely.

Soooo - who's going to figure out how many points this would be in the new codex?

Buy a whole chapter... ain't nobody got time to assembly and paint it all!
Buy a whole chapter... ain't nobody got time to find an opponent that want to play over 1500pts

Any other ?

Epic!

I have no idea what kind of person buys this? A multi-millionaire? That's the only kind of person that could dump $12,000 at once like that for something like this.

This made me laugh

These kits comes supplied unpainted and require assembly - we recommend using Citadel Plastic Glue, Citadel Super Glue and Citadel Paints... and you're going to need lots!

£7,065 and they can't throw in a few pots of glue...

Has no forgeworld, worst buy ever

Why on earth would you expect FW included in a core GW bundle.

GW main and Forgeworld are seperate

If you reallly REALLY had a hard-on for Marines and wanted to spend a week happily gluing a whole chapter together, it could be a good deal (as long as you were seriously mondo wealthy enough not to care about the price tag).

Then you could buy whatever you wanted from FW to finish it up.

 Scrub wrote:

 bu11etmagn3tt wrote:
Pic doesn't show all the vehicles either....

I would pay it, IF it were all painted in the chapter of my choosing & came with lmtd edition codex & lmtd edition rulebook & carry cases for everything, plus dice, templates, Apoc lmtd book(s).....

and a thank you card....

all hand deliverded by Kayden Kross....

I agree with you, not the Kayden Kross bit but more with the sentiment that for the amount you're paying you'd think they'd offer a bit more incentive to buy it as opposed to just offering a mountain of the standard boxes of units.

I dunno, if she did deliver it to your door then I'd consider the purchase.

In my currency that saves 11% off the retail price.
As it includes 6 strike forces, which themselves are 30% off the retail price then the savings is more.
You also get signed copies of the codex, insignium, and artwork.
There don't appear to be any scout bikes in this deal.
I think for the price they should also throw in a year's subscription to WD. Or is this their way of admitting that WD is just an advertising publication so someone who's just bought a chapter isn't likely to be buying anymore minis for awhile?

Has anyone bought any of the various company box sets?

GW should have sold a company-sized box and marketed it as $1,000 complete with paints/glue/FW stuff and a codex. They could actually have gotten somewhere with that, imo.

If you're wealthy enough to afford this, you're probably wealthy enough to hire someone to help assemble and paint this. I'd think this would make a good group buy though. Of course any group with the money to buy this probably has loads of marines anyway. We shall wait and see.


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 Harriticus wrote:
GW should have sold a company-sized box and marketed it as $1,000 complete with paints/glue/FW stuff and a codex. They could actually have gotten somewhere with that, imo.

No thanks, a boxed company is pricey enough in one go, having to spend an extra few hundred on paint when I already have paint would put me off buying such a thing. A lot of people don't use GW paints anyway. Including a complimentary codex which could then be on sold is not a bad idea though. Some super glue for any finecast or metal models though would be nice. Plastic glue I'd prefer to source myself.

Edited by AgeOfEgos--let's keep the back/forth out of this thread please.

Edited by AgeOfEgos--let's keep the back/forth out of this thread please.