i want to look carefully at the christmas bundles this year and
tell you why you might want to think carefully before pulling the trigger
hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle and the holiday bundles have been revealed and they're
what you'd expect it's the same as we've gotten before it's a bunch of normal kits that have been
shoved into one box for hopefully a discounted price we got some space marines of course adaptive
sororities adeptus mechanicus death guard necrons and orcs these boxes are something we rarely see
from games workshop a deal but are they that good of a deal i'll get into that later but first let's
take a closer look at these boxes the space marine battle force shield breaker strike force
this kit looks pretty great it is loaded up with troops and i think that might make
it a little bit better for a new space rain player than an existing space rain player as
most people probably already have intercessors assault intercessors and blade guard veterans
but all in all this looks like a great box completely loaded up with stuff
the adeptus sororitas battle four's purgatoes mission this box is dope the dog mata and
celesty and sancho saints are pretty new and a lot of players probably don't have them already
and you can't go wrong with a good old battle sister squad and it's great to see two of the
most expensive kits available to the sisters of battle the two tanks available in the discount box
i think this box would be really really good for veterans and newbies the adeptus mechanicas battle
force the omniscience talon this box looks great and this is what i like to see from a christmas
box a little bit of everything i particularly love the cerberus raiders and the patraxxy skystalkers
there's fun models and i bet this box wouldn't make a lot of sense tactically but it looks like a
really really fun box the death guard battle force plague fester warband i'd say this box is okay
the death guard don't have as many unique units as other armies so what's in this box is kind of what
you'd expect but it's still pretty good you can't go wrong with death guards and maybe the only
problem is the three mythic blight haulers you have to really like those models to want all three
the necron battle force the world scour legions wonderful box really good picks it's everything
that didn't come in the indominus or the necron combat patrol the psychomancer is dope and it's
really good to get a discount on the flayed ones because they are super expensive if there's one
thing i didn't like it's probably the two doom stalkers it feels a little redundant and i
know redundancy is really really good in game but it's christmas i would have liked to see one more
different unit that's just more fun for me and the orc battle force the kildaka warband i think
this one might be kinda bad i don't know i would only recommend this to a new orc player because i
don't think any work player out there needs more gretchen more boys and more knobs and speaking of
the boys it's a bizarre pick where they have the monopoles boys from the new comet patrol
and they're good models but anybody who already bought the combat patrol is not gonna want 20
more of those boys it's just kind of weird it also has the flyer and flyers aren't everybody's cup of
tea the death kill of war trike is pretty cool and it's nice to see the big mac with shock attack gun
make an appearance but overall it just seems kind of meh in my opinion so that was all the boxes and
taking another look at them in terms of value i've broken it down based on games workshop retail and
for any local game store 15 off this space marine star collecting is gonna be 330 retail from games
workshop or two hundred and eighty dollars and fifty cents parceled out from a friendly local
game store with the fifteen percent off this one is probably the most money or the most savings but
i feel like the savings are a little bit lessened because of the space marine tax space rain kits
are just really really expensive most armies don't spend 60 dollars for their elite infantry and 65
for their medium vehicles yet the sisters of battle battle force comes to 305 retail from
games workshop or 259.25 cents parceled out from a funny little game store this one is good and
you'll see a trend the adaptus mechanicus battle force the omniscience talon comes out to 303
retail from games workshop or 257 dollars and 55 cents parceled out from a friendly local
game store with a 15 off deal the death guard battle force plague fest warband comes out to 310
retail from games workshop and 263 dollars and 50 cents from a friendly local game store the necron
battle force is three hundred dollars even retail from games workshop and 255 dollars parceled out
from a friendly local game store and the orc battle force kill daca warband comes out to
a frustratingly low 286 dollars retail from games workshop or 243 dollars and 10 cents parceled out
from a friend and local game store the clear loser and it doesn't really make a lot of sense but
eh i guess one of them had to be low so we don't know the official prices yet but if
games earthshop decides to charge 250 there's essentially no deal you'd be paying right around
what you'd be paying if you bought all this stuff from a friendly local game store or non-games
workshop online retailer for 15 off if they do charge 200 like they have in the past then it is
a deal but i don't know if it's a great deal and 200 is what they charged for last year's bundles
although there was a little 10 weirdness going on the astra militarium space marines and chaos base
rains were all 200 even but the tau tyranids and necrons were all 210 dollars and i can't really
imagine how they worked that out would a 10 loss on three of the christmas boxes really have killed
their profit margin last year kinda odd i wonder if it was a way to test consumers to see if they
would be willing to cross that 200 threshold i don't know that's complete baseless speculation
but it's almost certain that these boxes will cost right around 200 and they will be a deal but
i think it's a little bit dangerous to only look at these things from a games workshop perspective
now you might think wow look at those necrons 300 of value for only 200 bucks sign me up but that's
looking at things incorrectly in my opinion games workshop does offer other retailers to sell their
stuff for a maximum of 15 off and that is really nice it means that we can buy from our friendly
local game stores and favorite online retailers and it basically means that games workshop
official sources like warhammer stores and their online store are the least attractive places to
buy games workshop models from it does devalue their product just a little bit when i think about
intercessor space marines i don't think of them as a 60 kit i think of them as a 51 kit because that
is the price i know i can get them for so that necron box has 300 of value and is being sold
for 200 but i don't consider that a 100 savings because i never would have bought all that stuff
new from games workshop retail i would have gone to an independent retailer and got a deal
so it's really a savings of 55 and it would be 45 if the box costs 210 dollars like it did last year
and for 45 bucks that's not really a savings that really lights a fire under me to get to
get in on the deal and make sure that i get a copy if the savings of these boxes was like 50
i would dude perfect my credit card from here have it helicopter across town and land in the
card reader of my warhammer store but the deal isn't 50 off it's just a medium deal it's a deal
for sure but it's not a big one and it takes a big chunk of change to unlock that medium-sized deal
so if you have your eye on one of these bundles and you got 200 bucks burning a hole in your
pocket and you know that you want every single model kit that comes in that box then for sure
try and pick it up but for me and the savings offered by these boxes and they're just not
that exciting you really get about one thing free in each box and that is still pretty darn
good for games workshop but for me i think this christmas season i'll probably just maybe pick up
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