Regardless, £155 for the core of a Horus Heresy army and a popular Heavy Support Dreadnought is roughly on par with a basic Battalion of 1x Primaris Lieutenant, 1x Librarian and 3x Intercessor Squads (£145).
Similarly, offering the choice between MkIII and MkIV Marines effectively makes this a quick win Starter Set for both Games Workshop/Forgeworld and for new and existing players alike. Removing the Leviathan Siege Dreadnought from the bundle and offering a choice between plastic Legion Tartaros or Cataphractii Terminators would make the starter set appeal to wider audiences. Seeing that a lot of Legion Praetor-Class Characters are circa £38, it would make sense to offer the ability to purchase that character instead of the generic praetors as a swap in option. Something more like the Titan Builder would be better. In this regard, you don’t save any money from buying the MkIII Starter Set and you’re locked into buying those weapons that come with the set for the Leviathan. Whilst most of the MkIII Starter Set is resin and therefore cannot be purchased from FLGS the MkIII Marines are plastic, and available for around £24, such as these from 4TK Gaming. Here’s the thing though, most Friendly Local Gaming Stores (FLGS) have around 10% reduced prices than mainstream Games Workshop stores. It’s not a huge amount, but it’s a start, providing you with the compulsory HQ, Troops and a popular Heavy Support choice. So, you save £12 by purchasing the MkIII Starter Set from Forgeworld. Total cost if purchased separately from Games Workshop and Forgeworld – £167.
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Leviathan Dreadnought, plus Siege Drill and Cyclonic Melta Lance – £74. So let’s break that down and look at the value of the set: This set comes with two 10 man MkIII armoured Space Marines, the Forgeworld Praetors and a Leviathan Siege Dreadnought with a Cyclonic Melta Lance and Siege Drill. There is the Mark III Starter Set on Forgeworld for £155 (at the time of writing). Nice, but once the box sets went out of production, the torsos soon followed suit. Previously, you could purchase Legion starter sets from Forgeworld, but these were effectively just The Betrayal Of Calth box set, paired with some Legion Torsos and other bits. Sets from eBay tend to be of an overinflated price and recently there have been some deceptively named “Box sets” that actually only have the rule book and accessories in them with no sprues. These sets occasionally come up on sites such as eBay and on groups such as Heresy Trading on Facebook. There’s been no plastic starter set for Horus Heresy since The Burning Of Prospero and The Betrayal of Calth sets were discontinued. There’s no relative stagnancy and meta chasing in Heresy like there is in Warhammer 40,000 – but the fact you are able to craft such a wide gamut of army types can be a double edged sword for new players choice suddenly becomes paralysing and combined with high costs for some model ranges, the problems begin. The cost of each army varies too, due to the huge amount of different approaches to the game there are. The potential cost of building an army can often scare new players from the system entirely, unlikely to return. Tough victories, brutal losses, savage battles with immense attrition rates that tell us only of the true horrors of the Heresy.īut the beginning is a delicate time. The Horus Heresy is an amazing gaming system, able to tell stories through dice rolls that not even the books it’s based on can stand a chance against. Ancient Fremen Proverb A beginning… is a delicate time
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