Let’s talk through the first four Combat Patrol boxes in Warhammer 40K 10th Edition, and a few of the pitfalls of each one…
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0:00 Intro
1:25 Tyranids
3:19 Space Marines
5:09 Adeptus Mechanicus
8:50 Necrons
11:21 The Future?
14:17 Outro
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I have 5 Doomstalkers
3d print this stuff, don’t give these people any money, and maybe they’ll get the message
Do NOT buy.
I feel like the Grey Knights, Drukhari, Custodes and Genestealer Cult Combat Patrol will be panic bought now
Also GW: "I wonder why 3D printing has become so popular in our customer base."
Are the Combat Patrols going to be online only now?
This video was so insightful, I learned so much.
These are the worst, but only because it isn’t next year yet
I would love to see a Iron Hands Combat Patrol
Really like the video auspex but think it missed a step. You only included games workshop pricing to calculate discount on a combat patrol. It would have been nice to show the discount you get compared to buying from third party retailers. As theses new combat patrols only seem available from gw it would have been nice to see how much of a discount they are compared to buy from 3rd party retailers.
A quick eg. Kit separately for necrons combat patrol from element games is £99.03 that meaning you only get a discount of 4.07%
Looks like upcoming custodes patrol will have like 10 prosecutors, 10 witchseekers and centura…
Was hoping for better. Necrons from indomidus plus combat patrol wasn't bad
Dont forget too these boxes are meant to be played against each other. 270 points for Admech in a 500 point format. And they have neither a tank nor any anti-tank.
Sorry GW.. I couldn't hear you over the sound of my 3d printer.
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Ahhh, the continued trend of late stage capitalism: selling you less for more.
I was at my local shop and had the old Tyranid combat patrol in my hand…idk if I need 30 more Termaguants though, but I don’t have the other models, i actually have the leviathans set and the 20 termaguants and 2 rippers that come with Space marine 2 board game.
Idk anyone think that the old Combat patrol could nearly round out my army(70 Termaguants and a handfuls of other models)
I sell these at 10% off in my shop. So "Online Only" boxes are still available to order from 3rd party at a discount!
Necrons discount is 19%, lgs give up to 20%, buy seperate models from your lgs
I'm just so sick of not being hyped about Warhammer. I love this hobby and we're treated like F2P game whales rather than a loyal fanbase.
I agree, GW is just plain greedy, and treats its customers like crap. I shall get Necron patrol, to expand my Kill Team. I do like the AdMech patrol, but it just is not worth it points wise, a pass .
However you slice it, these boxes are bad. The AdMech box is a truly awful entry into that army given the low point count (no, it doesn't matter for that game mode, but it does matter if, like GW, you want people to build an entire army and not just the combat patrol). The Necron box having such a bad discount is particularly weird given that if you were going to get into Necrons, you were probably going to do it last iteration when there were many discount options. And discount options are still floating around on ebay; this is really the sort of deal I'd expect in 11e when all those leftovers have dried up.
Both boxes really just need another unit in them. AdMech would go over much better with a Sicarian unit (because now you can build the Kill Team at the same time, even though the points aren't massively improved) and the Necrons really need another unit for flexibility and utility in that combat mode. Immortals/Deathmarks would do great at really fleshing out that line and giving us a lot more options, plus significantly raise the discount value at probably very marginal cost for GW.
GW's business model very much thrives on FOMO. I wouldn't be surprised if they made a calculated decision to push out really bad boxes at first (SM/Tyranid players already have starter sets and Leviathan, Necron players just had 9e, and AdMech players get kinda hosed but that's par for the course) to encourage people to buy the existing combat patrol boxes up and then release 30%-ish discounts on the other boxes moving forward. That way they can be like, "golly, the community's right, so we made a change" while simultaneously driving FOMO to cause people to pick up combat patrol boxes that may not be relevant in 12-18 months.
I know it is a worse value, I know it isn't as competitive. That said, I like and want essentially everything in the new ad mech combat patrol.
The Necron one is even less valuable now then it was on announcement, when it was announced the Indomitus pattern Overlord was still exclusive to the starter kits, now it’s getting an individual release
The marine box just being a watered down version of the Leviathan box is pretty disappointing. Not sure why they would just automatically eliminate any potential buyer who bought the Leviathan box which wasn't released that long ago.
For a company so concerned with getting new players, they're not exactly shakin their moneymaker here, are they?
you say you feel like you are being a bit negative because they are least doing discount boxes now but in your own words the first two boxes aren't discounted because you can just piecemeal it with the starter and either a character or a single box. And then the second wave is objectively less valuable than what we currently have. This is a huge step down and going to have long lasting negative effects on the hobby as a whole as new players can buy into other hobbies for significantly cheape
The poor hammer podcast have done a similar review but on the combo boxes
Why yes, they are.
They are all terrible, and I'm expecting this to continue all edition.
Blood angels needs a rework. Hopefully with jump marines
GW abuses its customers. If you think the boxes are going to get better you probably believed go when they said rules would be free like every other game
For the love of god I hope they release more chaos daemon combat patrols.
Khrone is awesome but where are the other 3 gods :c
Can someone tell me what is the base size for a Carnifex? All I've seen is conflicting information online
The necron CP despite being less points is still a better box, I just hope Destroyers get improved in the codex. I cant say anything for the Ad Mech other than its a new discount box even at a 19% discount. At least GW had the smart idea of having both boxes be playable for CP. Unfortunately, given how good the Ork CP is, I think its gonna get replaced with a Beast Snagga CP just to switch it up with more recent models. More than likely it will pair well with the recent Battleforce and include units that werent in that box, similar to how the other battleforces paired well with their CP. I just hope GW could keep both around since other factions get variants like SM and Eldar
GREEDWorkshop us ensuring more and more people will go to 3d printers. You can't even tell which of my intercessors are 3d or GW now. Itz getting better and better, GW will regret these constant price raises
They couldve at least added a chicken walker on the ad mech combat patrol…
Games workshop is gouging!
The decreased value lately (not just the prices themselves, also the points per euro) made me only buy new models from third party stores now. Before, I supported my local Warhammer shop despite knowing that I could get a lot of stuff 10-20% cheaper elsewhere. Not anymore…