Since starting my new chaos space marines project, I've been looking at all the different battle force sets that GW offers for the armies. Some of these are ridiculously great deals, some of them not so much. Lets take a look shall we?
Note: if it is not possible to get a certain number of models in the battle force as opposed to the correlating squad box, then I will average out the price from the squad box (squad box price divided by number of models in the box multiplied by how many are in the battleforce)
Chaos Space Marines- Contains 8 Khorne ‘zerkers*, 15 chaos space marines (1 10 man squad box and a 5 man squad box), a Chaos Rhino, and a 5 man possessed squad.
Cost of models if bought separately: $140
Savings: $50
Dark Eldar- Contains 20 warriors, one raider, 5 jet bikes and plastic trees!
Cost of models if bought separately: $140
Savings: $50
I don’t know how much the plastic trees can cost, if you can even get them now.
Eldar – Contains 1 Guardian squad with heavy weapon platform, 5 man dire avenger squad, one wave serpent, and a war walker
Cost of models if bought separately: $115
Savings: $25
Imperial Guard –
Cadian Battle Force- Contains 20 guardsmen, 3 heavy weapon teams, a leman russ, and a set of plastic ruins, oohhh goody!
Cost if bought separately: $110
Savings: $20
Catachan Battle Force- Contains 25 guardsmen, 3 heavy weapon teams, 2 sentinels and some trees!
Cost if bought separately: $128.75
Savings: $38.75
Necrons- Contains 28 warriors, 7 scarab bases, and 3 destroyers
Cost if bought separately: $141.67
Savings: $51.67
Orks- Contains 20 boyz, 3 warbikes, and a trukk
Cost if bought separately: $109
Savings: $19
Space Marines- contains 15 tactical marines, 5 scouts, 5 assault marines, and a metal boxe…erm, Rhino…
Cost if bought separately: $135
Savings: $45
I realize that I did not include some of the other space marine battle forces such as the space wolves and the dark angels box, but if you want to do this, feel free to add them!
Tau Empire- Contains a devilfish apc, a crisis suit, 12 fire warriors, 12 kroot, and 3 stealth suits. Drones are included respectively.
Cost if bought separately: $136.25
Savings: $46.25
Tyranids – Contains 16 guants, 8 genestealers, 3 warriors, and a carnifex.
Cost if bought separately: $145
Savings: $55
Average Savings on a battle force set: $40.07
I was a little surprised to see that the tyranid battle force was the best deal. Not surprisingly, both flavors of SMs are pretty good deals, along with the Necron and Tau sets. The Dark Eldar one looks pretty good, but I don’t know how dated these are and whether they are worth the money or not.
Orks don’t seem to be getting any love from GW, having the lowest savings of all the battleforces. The Imperial Guard Cadian box doesn’t seem to get as much as other boxes do as well. Also, why the IG sets are the only new sets to have terrain included in them is beyond me. I’d gladly trade the ruined buildings in the Cadian set for 5 more men. At least the Catachan box is close to the average savings for a battle force. Eldar also fall in place with the worst deals.
I would very much like to get help from people to figure out some ball park points values to whats in these battle forces to see if that is how GW decides what to put in them. The Cadian battle force has a points value of around 400 points, depending on how you equip it, and the Catachan battle force would have around 350 pts.
Thoughts and opinions?
***If I made any errors, please post them and I will work as fast as possible to correct them.***