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 Mymearan wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
$170 for 14 dwarves and two small vehicles? I've got to be honest, I'm feeling a little underwhelmed here.

The boats and especially the balloon guys are xpensive, yeah.

It also looks like it includes 3 characters, which would be $75 in and of itself.

I can't say for sure but it looks like:
-Gunhauler
-Frigate
-Ballooners
-Arkanaut Company
-Admiral
-Aether-Khemist
-Navigator

If I'm right about the characters(I might very well be wrong, it just seems like the guys in the background are kind of pushed back further than they would be for most shots of a unit) that puts you at $290 worth of product for $170.
You're looking at $240 of product for $170, saving you $70.

Strike the two extra characters. It's the blurry photos killing my eyes, the Arkanaut Company just have two models kind of poked up a bit with the Admiral.

The Tau box is actually pretty good, all kits are relatively new with the oldest being the stealth suits, with enough to build 3-4 elite units and an HQ all with tonnes of options and poseability.

Edit: and $200 CAD for $304 worth of retail kit.

It also makes me speculate about the T'au codex, as it's the only box that doesn't appear to have 'troops' in it.

 Captain Joystick wrote:
The Tau box is actually pretty good, all kits are relatively new with the oldest being the stealth suits, with enough to build 3-4 elite units and an HQ all with tonnes of options and poseability.

It also makes me speculate about the T'au codex, as it's the only box that doesn't appear to have 'troops' in it.

Vanguard Detachment would make it legal though.

3 Elites and 1 HQ.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Vanguard Detachment would make it legal though.

3 Elites and 1 HQ.

It would, but the box still breaks the mould of the others for that reason.

Granted they could just be built around a theme of 'suits that can fly around' but my inner farsight fan can't let crisis troops go.

I was hoping to see these show up (wish they did more). Sadly, I'd only buy an Eldar one if needed, and they barely have enough plastic kits to really do one. I preferred the ones last year which didn't repeat anything from the Start Collecting box --- thought that was a great move.

LAST YEAR'S TAU:


An extremely solid box when combined with the Tau Start Collecting --- so the new one isn't quite as cool to me since you're repeating suits.

 Captain Joystick wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

Vanguard Detachment would make it legal though.

3 Elites and 1 HQ.

It would, but the box still breaks the mould of the others for that reason.

Granted they could just be built around a theme of 'suits that can fly around' but my inner farsight fan can't let crisis troops go.

Assuming Farsight doesn't get their own Codex, I'd expect something allowing for Crisis Suits taken in a Vanguard Detachment to get Objective Secured.


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 Elbows wrote:
I was hoping to see these show up (wish they did more). Sadly, I'd only buy an Eldar one if needed, and they barely have enough plastic kits to really do one. I preferred the ones last year which didn't repeat anything from the Start Collecting box --- thought that was a great move.

LAST YEAR'S TAU:


An extremely solid box when combined with the Tau Start Collecting --- so the new one isn't quite as cool to me since you're repeating suits.

I'd far rather this box to that one. I bought the one last year, don't get me wrong(I even lucked out--mine had 6 Stealth Suits instead of 3 in it...but was missing sprues from the Devilfish sadly)...but Crisis Suits are $75/3. Any place I can get them discounted with a Ghostkeel or Stealths? I'm down.

Chikout wrote:
Apologies for the slightly blurry picture. Price is the same as last year double start collecting. All of them seem to be about a 30% discount.

Is it only this single page? Is it like 2015 where there were different in-store versus online deals?

Praise Tzeench.

Can anyone make out what's in the AoS Death box? I am still sitting on three unopened Flesh Eater Court big-bundles, but am always interested in Death stuff.

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
Can anyone make out what's in the AoS Death box? I am still sitting on three unopened Flesh Eater Court big-bundles, but am always interested in Death stuff.

1 Mortarch (£48) (Or £50 in a Horde box with extra...)
2 Morghast (£36)
20 Skeleton Warriors (?) (£34)
10 Graveguard (£25.50)
1 Wight King on foot (£11)

Looks like that to me

 judgedoug wrote:

Chikout wrote:
Apologies for the slightly blurry picture. Price is the same as last year double start collecting. All of them seem to be about a 30% discount.

Is it only this single page? Is it like 2015 where there were different in-store versus online deals?

Nope. There a more with the terrain and paint deals. You can see some of them on spikey bits.

 Papa-Schlumpf wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:

Chikout wrote:
Apologies for the slightly blurry picture. Price is the same as last year double start collecting. All of them seem to be about a 30% discount.

Is it only this single page? Is it like 2015 where there were different in-store versus online deals?

Nope. There a more with the terrain and paint deals. You can see some of them on spikey bits.

The paint bundle was pic from WD November, the battleforce is not from WD November. Also they clearly wrote

The layout and formatting also appears to be similar to the pages seen in the White Dwarf this month as well (above) leading some to further speculate that these faction bundles are from a separate Holiday catalog that most retailers get around this time each year.

Maybe this is an obvious question, but anyone knows if these holiday bundles usually offered through flgs?
Thanks

Olkhen wrote:
Maybe this is an obvious question, but anyone knows if these holiday bundles usually offered through flgs?
Thanks

Yes they are, I picked up a few last year from online discounters. This year's selection aren't all that tempting for myself, thankfully...

Looks decent, but I still have 90% of the Deathwatch one from last year still in the box, and got a ton of use out of the 2 AdMech ones. Will pass on these this year. More money for terrain at least.

The GW site also has a bunch of "No Discount" bundles up for Pre-Order, all of which are just the contents at standard prices added together.

Except, from what I can see, this one:



Here's the contents description:

Games "What does 'Bundle' actually mean?" Workshop wrote:- A 5-man set of Lychguard, featuring warscythes, hyperphase swords and dispersion shields – these can optionally be assembled as Triarch Praetorians;
- A Destroyer Squadron – this is a set of 3 Destroyers, armed with gauss cannon and complete with a transfer sheet;
- A Start Collecting! Necrons set – this contains 17 miniatures: an Overlord, a Triarch Stalker, a Scarab Swarm and a set of twelve Necron Warriors.

Notice something missing from that description?

The price matched the contents listed there added up, but the picture has 5 Immortals that are not mentioned anywhere. Is that a mistake?

Also, great googly moogly how good does this look?

Does site specifically call them bundles or are these more of nobody but players call them bundles "bundles".

I have yet to see gw call no discount box as a bundle. Rather "this week primaris pre orders" or similar

Y'all gonna make me check 'em all, in'cha? Aiight...

Skaven:
"... this is a great bundle of Clan Pestilens miniatures..."

Tyranids:
"... this is a great bundle of Tyranids miniatures..."

OHIO!:
"... this is a great bundle of Drukhari miniatures..."

Sylvaneth:
"... this is a great bundle of Sylvaneth miniatures..."

Sensing a pattern yet?

Chaos Marine Marines:
"... this is a great bundle of Chaos Space Marines miniatures..."

Deathwatch:
"... this is a great bundle of Deathwatch miniatures..."

Should I continue, or are we satisfied?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The GW site also has a bunch of "No Discount" bundles up for Pre-Order, all of which are just the contents at standard prices added together.

Except, from what I can see, this one:

Here's the contents description:

Games "What does 'Bundle' actually mean?" Workshop wrote:- A 5-man set of Lychguard, featuring warscythes, hyperphase swords and dispersion shields – these can optionally be assembled as Triarch Praetorians;
- A Destroyer Squadron – this is a set of 3 Destroyers, armed with gauss cannon and complete with a transfer sheet;
- A Start Collecting! Necrons set – this contains 17 miniatures: an Overlord, a Triarch Stalker, a Scarab Swarm and a set of twelve Necron Warriors.

Notice something missing from that description?

The price matched the contents listed there added up, but the picture has 5 Immortals that are not mentioned anywhere. Is that a mistake?

Probably the correct one is the desciption, it's not rare for GW to make mistake like this. For example the "The enemy below" bundle show no Trygon but one of the 3d review pic is the Trygon.

Also back from Gatherring Storm 2, they have the "Reborn Bladehost" bundle which show the old resin Harlequin kit being sold, which is probably wrong.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Y'all gonna make check 'em all, in'cha? Aiight...

Skaven:
"... this is a great bundle of Clan Pestilens miniatures..."

Tyranids:
"... this is a great bundle of Tyranids miniatures..."

OHIO!:
"... this is a great bundle of Drukhari miniatures..."

Sylvaneth:
"... this is a great bundle of Sylvaneth miniatures..."

Sensing a pattern yet?

Chaos Marine Marines:
"... this is a great bundle of Chaos Space Marines miniatures..."

Deathwatch:
"... this is a great bundle of Deathwatch miniatures..."

Should I continue, or are we satisfied?

One would be enough seeing i see none of those. Only preorder i found was sigmarite one.Well that's a first. All the time people complain about gw bundles with no discount there's never been word bundle.

There is a Death Watch army bundle in Novembers White Dwarf I think, No Primaris Marines bundle

tneva82 wrote:
... i see none of those.

Probably because your pre-orders aren't up yet. Change your flag to a country from the future (NZ, Oz, etc.) and you'll see 'em. They put up tons of them alongside some of the new terrain bundles (that actually are bundles).

tneva82 wrote:
All the time people complain about gw bundles with no discount there's never been word bundle.

Probably best that you head here to get some assistance.

What's in that Ork bundle? It's hard to tell.

I was about to comment on what poor value the army deals are, but then I realised that they were just "bundles".

Doh!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:


Also, great googly moogly how good does this look?

As a self-confessed terrain junkie, how many are you in for?

What about a side order of ruined sections?

Happy about the Tzeentch one, wish I knew beforehand though. Going to just have more Cultists than I planned for

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:
I was about to comment on what poor value the army deals are, but then I realised that they were just "bundles".

Doh!

They do the one-click bundles every week or so, tied in to the armies shown on Warhammer TV/Warhammer Live's Twitch games.

@Chopstick: My bad. I mistook this sets for the christmas bundles. But as others have stated, they are just like the one-click-bundles.

alphaecho wrote:
As a self-confessed terrain junkie, how many are you in for?

What about a side order of ruined sections?

Oh I already have a full ring of the Khorntress stuff.

The ruined wall sections though, I'm still deciding on 1 or 2 sets.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Y'all gonna make me check 'em all, in'cha? Aiight...

Skaven:
"... this is a great bundle of Clan Pestilens miniatures..."

Tyranids:
"... this is a great bundle of Tyranids miniatures..."

OHIO!:
"... this is a great bundle of Drukhari miniatures..."

Sylvaneth:
"... this is a great bundle of Sylvaneth miniatures..."

Sensing a pattern yet?

Chaos Marine Marines:
"... this is a great bundle of Chaos Space Marines miniatures..."

Deathwatch:
"... this is a great bundle of Deathwatch miniatures..."

Should I continue, or are we satisfied?

Maybe actually doing the math to show you kind of made a mistake and ALL of them have discounts?


Ironjawz consists of 10 ardboyz (45EUR) 5 brutes (42EUR), and 3 goregruntas (67EUR) these jackasses alone costs a whooping 151 euros...the box costs 141 and there's two more heroes.


Sylvaneth has a treelord (50EUR) 3 kurnoth (46EUR) 5 tree revenants (29EUR) and a branchwych (18EUR)... which adds up to 143EUR on a 140EUR box that also includes 20 driads (which would be like 40EUR, give or take).



Deathwatch has 10 veterans (58EUR) a Corvus Blackstar (52EUR) and a dreadnought... which all combined cost less than 137EUR and also include the watch master and captain artemis.

Not that there are amazing discounts, mind you, but you get a better bang for your buck on GW than normally. And they do have discount.