hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle 40k is expensive and games workshops pricing
schemes make absolutely no sense so here are my five best value kits and the five worst
the game's workshop website is a strange web of weirdness with kits that are three days old and
30 years old and the prices given are completely incomprehensible like why is a primaries captain
35 dollars but the primaries captain in phobos armor is 36 where did that extra dollar come
from is it from this little guy i have absolutely no idea my top 5 list will have the best possible
value for your money in my opinion and the five worst will be just awful investments also this
is not a mathematically perfect list with graphs and charts this is just my picks so here we go
for my first pick i choose warhammer 40000 recruit edition and warhammer 40000 elite edition these
are an obvious pick and i promise the rest will be more interesting but these are just great value
and games workshop did this on purpose obviously these are the getting into warhammer 40k boxes
and should be good value my pick would be the recruit edition because that fifty dollars is
really the sweet spot in terms of price two friends could take a risk on a fifty dollar
game for one hundred dollars you gotta know what you're doing no one accidentally drops a hundo
at 50 you get 10 warriors which games workshop in their infinite wisdom sells separately for 45 yeah
for five dollars more you get a royal warden a necron hq a space marine sergeant and five
space marine intercessors that's a deal and if you can splurge for the elite edition
you're getting the 10 warriors at 45 value 5 intercessors at 30 value 3 outriders for 60 bucks
3 scoreback destroyers for 55 dollars a space marine commander and a necron lover lord and
those two aren't even available yet but when they are they will be 35z's so slap another 70 on that
260 dollars of retail product in a 99 box kind of makes you wonder what this stuff really costs
for my second pick i'm going with the start collecting demons
this is another value through volume it's a hundred and fifty dollars a product for ninety
dollars and there are some start collectings that are in the similar boat but the demon's
box hits a little harder you could say it slaps you get some bomb ass models particularly the pink
horrors which are just sweet if you want to learn how to paint skin this is a good way to do it and
the screamers of zinch lightning struck when these models came out on the sprue it's dated at 2011.
nine years old and if you drop these on warhammer community today no one would bat an eye they look
that good you also get flamers and a herald of zinch and a burning chariot what's not to love
next on my list the dark apostle this one i picked because it might be one of the best models games
workshop makes these sculpts are sick and you get three awesome dynamic and grim dark guys
for 35 that's not too bad considering 35 could get you this bland ass guy
three lovely chaos worshippers is a bargain this is a model that i would love to paint
and i would also like to tack on one more to this third pick because it's my video and i can do what
i want blackstone fortress cultists of the abyss it's eight cast cultists for 25 bucks that's great
this is perfect for kill team you get a flamer and a heavy stubborn and even if you don't play this
is just a good way to get some bad guys to paint i mean look at this guy he's an absolute legend
next up the croot carnivores this one shocked me when i was browsing the game's workshop web store
they're sold in 16. that doesn't even make sense nothing else is sold in 16 you don't
get 16 orc boys you don't get 16 tyranid organs and they're good models if you scraped off some
of the techie bits on the guns you could fit right into a bunch of different games they have
nice dynamic poses good detail if you want 16 bird lizard warriors you know where to get them
and last but not least for the value kits i nominate the orc luda burna kids now this one
is not amazing on its own but if you can add some more orc boy body parts and orc players
we have some extra body parts laying around let's be honest it becomes an amazing kit with more legs
and torsos you can build four ludas four bernas a spanna an orc boy with big shooter and an orc boy
with rocket launcher it's the swiss army orc box and the spana could just as easily be a mech if
you just say so because they look almost exactly the same and that's one more unit you can get out
of this box it's quality those are the best value kits i could find now on to the worst this list
was a lot easier to come up with here are the five worst value kits from games workshop in my opinion
number one robert gurley man reboot day gilliman i've seen this model in person it's tiny why is he
60 dollars gas ghoul mag uruk thraka is 65 dollars which is a lot too but at least he's the size of a
grapefruit rabute is the size of a grape he's a head and shoulders taller than a primary marine
also he looks like a gold gilded buzz lightyear that doesn't have anything to do with his value
i just think he looks silly he's a tiny little model that does not fill up his 60 millimeter
base he's supplied with he's my first pick moving on number two efrenel stern and kygonel
this is a two pack for dollars and twenty five dollars a piece for characters
ain't bad by games workshop standards but you don't get them separately you must buy them
together and it's a sister of battle and an eldar i get that they're from a book and that's cool but
for the rest of us it's a sister and an eldar to the sisters of battle players the eldar guy has
no value and to the eldar players the scissor battle lady has no value but they're shackled
together neither can be bought at a reasonable price while the other is there it just doesn't
make any sense you can buy inquisitor eisenhorn without having to buy tau commander shadow sun
because obviously that's how it should be number three the adeptus mechanicus sidonian dragoons
this one personally hurt me i tried to get into schitari when they came out in 2017 i bought a
pair of these things and they were way too much model for their rules it's a big ass model that
cost 55 bones but in game it's a little 45 point cavalry unit it's not that exciting i would have
needed at least six of these things and that's way more money than i wanted to spend these should
have been at least two per box like the baby nights but being a squad unit sold in singular
just puts this in a really awkward spot i ended up selling mine number four this primaris lieutenant
the primaries lieutenant is probably the plainest unique character out there games workshop sells
a small handful of these guys and each one has a little something special about it the blood angels
has a neat sword and a little dick towel the dark angels has a spooky robe and a plasma pistol but
the vanilla lieutenant is completely plain why buy this when you could easily kit-bash it out
of a normal primary marine it's also kind of an awkward pose he's not pointing with his sword
or swinging it he's just kind of holding it up there's just nothing there that jumps out at me
with this model it looks pretty lame it wouldn't stand out in a crowd and it can be yours for 35
number five all the assassins when these guys dropped they were expensive as hell
unfortunately everything has since risen up to meet them in price
but even in 2014 when it dropped these were insane and these guys are regular human size so they are
absolutely tiny models they are insanely small and to cost more than any other hq at the time is
maddening more than a space marine captain more than an orc war boss more than a necron overlord
these little noodles were and are absolutely unacceptably priced oh and also they are an
example that games workshop is in fact sexist the three male assassins all cost 36 dollars
but the only woman assassin costs four dollars less it seems the glass ceiling is alive and well
at ye olde games workshop that's just so weird why would she cost four dollars less these models are
unbelievably small and unbelievably expensive and it hurts because i really want to get them
and paint them up but not 140 dollars for the set they should be sold all together for 45. you
know what i'm feeling generous to games workshop fifty dollars but as is they are just ridiculous
oh that was rough i should have ended with the good stuff now i just feel empty inside
but those were my picks for the best and worst games workshop models out there
ages sigmar is a little cheaper maybe when i figure that game out i could do another list
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