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Blood Angels Battleforce Confirmed !


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While the SM battle force appears to be a better deal monitarily, the BA battleforce has more useful units in it. Everyone can use a Rhino (even if only for conversion), Assault marines are useful in BA and not in SM. Not everyone uses scouts. The death company gives you a lot of nice options. While I'm not happy with the $10 price jump, it is not even among the worst battle forces.
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I would have rather they made the BA battleforce more unique like they have done with the DA ravenwing box or to a lesser extent the SW battleforce. You can start a BA army just as easily with a SM battleforce, and for cheaper too. So with that in mind it would have been nice for it to be something like a furioso, some assault marines and DC or something. We have so many nice units that could have been included to expand existing BA players' armies and probably get a lot more sales, too.

 

Unless I decide to build a company I'm definitely avoiding this box. I've got enough tacticals and rhinos already. RAS and DC cost £39 together, there's much more worthwhile units to spend the other £21 on, unfortunately.

 

Edit: How long has a box of RAS been £18.50?! That's not cool...

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I would have rather they made the BA battleforce more unique like they have done with the DA ravenwing box or to a lesser extent the SW battleforce. You can start a BA army just as easily with a SM battleforce, and for cheaper too. So with that in mind it would have been nice for it to be something like a furioso, some assault marines and DC or something. We have so many nice units that could have been included to expand existing BA players' armies and probably get a lot more sales, too.

 

Unless I decide to build a company I'm definitely avoiding this box. I've got enough tacticals and rhinos already. RAS and DC cost £39 together, there's much more worthwhile units to spend the other £21 on, unfortunately.

 

Edit: How long has a box of RAS been £18.50?! That's not cool...

 

unless you son't want more tacs and scouts, and want the DC with all thier extra parts... (not saying i wouldn't have liked to see it diffrent, but the SM force is a better deal, if you want it all, if not, then no.:P)

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While I am surprised it is so close to the SM set, I am not surprised that they did not include too much other BA specific stuff as they want you to buy other sets as well. I think that 5 Death company, and 15-20 Assault marines would have been a nice BA set
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Howdy!

Neophyte of War here just asking the question. Is the new Blood Angels battleforce worth it? From my initial look I would have to say no. I was dissapointed that this battleforce only comes with 5 assault marines, which is odd because GW's main selling point for BA is that they are assault oriented. Wouldn't it made more sense to have 10 assault marines and 5 tactical marines. Better yet get rid of all the tactical marines and have 15 assault marines? Also why am I going to spend the money on this set when it comes with less than the Space Marine battleforce and costs more?

-NoW

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Who really cares......

Its still not a good deal.... particularly if you get the same horrid sprues totally lacking in options as the normal SM battleforce.

 

 

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its a good deal, it costs less then buyinng them seperate.

 

is it a deal you want, no. but then if you dont want a tac squad, the tac squad box isnt a good deal either, even at 10% off...

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It's a convenient amount of money for a mummy or daddy to spend on a mildly spoiled teen. I think that's a big part of the decision making process. Plus, for older group players, squads can be swapped as the weakest (by popularity; tacticals) are also the most common squad played.
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Were I to be starting a BA force now rather than having owned a number since 3e, this would be a decent starting point.

The force allows you to make a number of configurations:

10 Assault Marines and 10 Tacticals.

10 Assaults 10 foot-slogging DC

10 Tac 5 Assault 5 DC

I imagine there are a couple other configurations one could make.. throw in a SanGuard box and you increase the number radically, allowing for the creation of ICs etc.

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