Just make a t-shirt with "Rhinos are free" already

A fun idea for a podcast video would be a “what would I put in X army’s combat patrol”

Ironically the Chaos Daemons Combat Patrol is how you're supposed to start a Khorne Daemons army in Age of Sigmar. Still good there lol.

It's such a shame boarding patrols are already announced to be temporary considering they're honestly a better price point to get your friends in to the game

I really want a home brew list of “oops, all scarabs” for necrons now

Boarding Patrol boxes were explicitly "one and done" releases. So some of the lesser ones are, at the time of writing, still available at or below MSRP, but most of the really good ones are already gone unless you pay eBay prices (which makes no sense, since they're no longer much of a discount if you do).

It’s a shame all the boarding patrols seem to be limited runs.

The sad thing is Imperial Knights had an AMAZING box set at christmas: "Chainbreaker Lance". One Knight Questoris, and two pairs of Armigers A Questoris is usually £100 A pair of armigers is £50 The box set was £130. It's an AMAZING box, cannot recommend enough if it gets redone next christmas

Love the exasperation for tzangors everytime they are mentioned

Tyranids being the greatest cosmic threat in all of 40k. Eric: I think the Termagants are kinda cute.

When you guys cite the msrp, I always forget that combat patrols are $160😢Yeah, those space marines boxes get pretty rough at that price

My local games store ordered me the Sister's boarding patrol instead of the combat patrol on accident. Didn't even know the boarding patrol existed at that point. Saw the box and what it had, loved it, had him order me the combat patrol and got both. Best mistake of all time.

I like the pairing of the thousand sons combat and boarding patrol, it gives you a good mix of what they offer, pick up a box of sorcerers and Ahriman after that and you're sorted for a good army

Sorry you guys delayed this video to come out for Boarding Patrols, when there has been every indication they are a limited run and will not be making more of them. The Farsight one especially got me, cause yall were like "get the farsight one" like anyone could! And not like scalpers bought them all the moment they were released.

for those wondering the Boarding Patrol boxes ARE limited time. Once they are gone they are gone. Combat Patrol boxes are the ones they say will not be changing in the future and with them basically saying that Boarding Patrol will be supported for a while into 10th edition yeah those boxes aint long for this world.

As someone who bought a box of Termagants and Hormagaunts like 15 years ago for like £20 and hasn't painted them, looking at casually putting together a cool Tyranid army mainly for set dressing now is terrifying in price

The genestealers combat patrol is such good value its actually insane. Like that box makes building genestealers on the cheaper side compared to some other armies

another great video! Love the edits and pacing. I actually WATCH the video instead of just listening like most podcasts! Keep up the great work, gents!

Your episodes focused on the approach to the hobby are excellent, and the 2 of you have a fantastic chemistry! Thank you for the entertainment!

The great thing about the sister's boarding patrol box is it does come with the non monopose Sister squad with more options for bits.

I really like this idea, it's nice to have a breakdown of what's the best budget option. Unfortunately (Edit: Boarding Patrols) are a limited thing from what I recall :( I do think it's a shame and they should re-print them just due to popularity alone.

The World Eater combat patrol is actually good when you realize that Berzerkers as a unit fulfill multiple roles. It’s a great starting point

Funny thing about chaos spawn proxy. Recently bought a board game, can't recall the name but it's western themed where you and other players delve into a mine and there are eldritch horrors and monsters you fight along the way. In the box are these models that are eldritch abominations that are perfect for Chaos Spawn Proxy as long as you can give them 50mm bases instead of 35. Which I'm definitely going to paint as emperors children and it was perfect timing because I just needed to find a way to dump 75pts into my list. The board game was like 110$ or something? But it has six of those abominations in it so it's technically a huge deal.

I need "Rhinos are free" on a t-shirt

The Monopose Sisters in the Combat patrol are also nice for making lots of sisters look visually distinct. allthough the models in the box are single pose, theyre in different poses from the almost monopose models in the regular sisters kit. if you want to run 30+ sisters like I do, having some visual variety is nice. otherwise youd see the same poses crop up 3 or more times

I’m actually tempted to start a small custodies force. Sorta wish I’d bought the xmas box. I think if the boarding patrol had Wardens and was £10 more expensive, it’d be perfect

I would love to see this done again once 10E drops and see how much changes.

First video I've watched from you two. Both of you were amazing and keep up the content!

I know that this is very much "broad advice" episode, but man, I unironically love every model in the Necron Combat Patrol. Tomb Blades are my new find in my Necron collection that I like, and unless I am forced not to, I will always take at least 10 Tesla Immortals in any list. I think that getting two of the Combat Patrols with Mephrit is actually a pretty insane list, and maybe setting up 10-20 immortals and making Deathmarks once you get tired of Immortals is the way to go. Kitbashing a couple Overlords is what I ended up doing, making both a Scythe+Orb and Staff of Light+Orb variant that I can throw on my CCB. Only issue is that rules wise, both of the Scythe versions are not good, but with 10th on the way, and the Doom Scythe being pretty good in a Mephrit list, I think that can be overlooked for now. Again, if you are a Canoptek/Destroyer enjoyer, the Patrol is just an insta pass, but I think that saying it's a bad box isn't entirely true.

Quick note for the two Tau boxes : Convert the Ethereal into a Cadre Fireblade with the fire warrior spare parts

Love stuff like this. Helps me out so much. Finally getting in / back into the game. Looking at my old stuff, figuring out what I have and what I need yet. Or to help start fresh if I chose to say F it I'm starting over.

Dang, the algorithm is loving you guys. Just watched a 6 day old Eons of Battle vids and it auto played in to a 1 year old podcast of yours.

I’m just glad I managed to pick up an old CSM start collecting from my local store before they replaced it.

You two are great. Keep it up. I love Thousand Sons and getting into Adeptus Custodes, I think I will get the combat patrol.

love the channel dudes! Would love to see videos like this but you guys making your own combat patrols/boarding patrols for both 40k and horus heresy

More great editing. Well done editor.

For space marines what i did is back in the day bought the Recruit Edition and now i picked up the Elite Edition before the new edition hits. From what we saw is very unlikely we will get many duplicates beetween the old boxes and the new ones vs tyranids so taking advantage of those huge discounts the edition boxes offer was a no brainer for me.

So I bought the Eldar boarding patrol, (for kill team mostly) you can take corsairs in Craftworlds armies and they aren't terrible but they don't fill obligatory slots in armies unless the army is all corsairs.

The bikes for Votann are almost an auto take, so it makes sense to me to grab one cp, with the bp, then buy two land fortresses and then more bikes and you’re good.

Great video! Very helpful

I felt like the boarding patrol for csm was pretty good. While I don’t really see myself having too much of a use for Abaddon seeing as how I collect Night Lords, it really helped getting some basic troops to buff out my army which at that point was a Maulerfiend, lord discordant, warp talons, and some terminators.

Thank you for another great analysis video!

Started to get into Sisters of Battle and managed to find a Boarding Patrol at a decent discount. Sad to see that the Boarding Patrols were limited runs since it looks like the Boarding Patrols were better than the combat patrols in most of the cases.

I'm halfway through The Infinite and the Divine at the moment - very much looking forward to the book club

As someone who bought the Custodes Christmas set, and also wanted to get into Grey Knights I just bought one of each of those boxes per the recommendation here. Now my goal is to get them painted up so that I have a 1000 point army to loan a friend I want to try to get into the game when tenth drops, and we can learn both together. Hopefully he will enjoy it enough to branch into one on his own.

i like how they called the custodes not being able to run all their units in the combat patrol gamemode

when it comes to the tau, I'd recommend one of each box to someone starting. To someone who wants to get into tau and is ok with kitbashing, just buy two to three of the boarding patrol-> build one farsight proper, cut the sword off the second and build it as a generic commander, the third is your choice, either trade it for an etherial or sell it or kitbash it into some other suit. Crisis are situational but they are incredibly versitile, and usually earn their points back. The ghostkeel will struggle to do so and the stealth suits might, if you play on tables with excessive cover and always shoot at chaff.

Start collecting boxes that can't even be played legally really make me question if I'm getting into the right hobby here.

Zooming in on the avatars for funny moments is a nice touch.

As someone who bought the drukhari combat patrol and boarding box last week. Big agree lol

Love this episode. Appreciate the talk on value and cut through the marketing hype.

As someone who by now owns 6 Necron combat patrols (I love the models and they're very much playable in opr) I find it very entertaining every time you start talking about how much you hate this box. :D

I really want to get into Blood Angels so I'll probably wait for the box they release with Dante. The Orks and Drukhari boxes are very tempting too.

that aberrant with the little guy next to him made me think about factions that have silly little guys. whatever that was is the genestealer one. imperium has cherubs. thousand sons has brimstone horrors. orks has grots of course. that would be a crazy, grading every factions x.

I got my Sisters Combat Patrol for 97.89 from my LGS. All because it sat there for almost a year and a half. I feel like I'm at a pretty good start for collecting them.

Yay we got the burning 'positive' from Eric finally!

might pick up the custodes boarding, like me some golden boys but only when im done building and paint more of my main stuff

Looking back on this video just a few months later as a new tau player and remembering when the tau boarding patrol sold out in less than 5 minutes and is now nearly 300 bucks everywhere. It was a sizable oof when all I had was a pathfinder team and some stealth suits.

The Chaos Spawn are totally legal in Boarding Patrol. You can include one Chaos Spawn Unit and the unit is 1-5 Spawn

I like taking 3 Eldar Combat Patrols and start converting 1/2 the Guardians to Dire Avengers, Convert a Unit of Shining Spears and an Autarch on Jetbike... Its a pretty Nasty list that really only needs a couple small Aspect squads and Falcons to finish rounding out, or Wraithguard if you want to be a little slower but punchier.

I understand, for points value, the Chaos Spawn might not be great for the dollar value. But that kit is a kitbashers dream, especially if your into to weird chaos mutant stuff.

I've got two games stores, one is a dedicated wargaming store that's incredibly neche and out of the way but great prices and one right in the middle of the downtown shopping area that upcharges $10-$15 basically for location, new releases and reputation. I mostly shop at the little store but I had to go to the big one to get my leviathan box.

I bought CSM Boarding Patrol. I don't play Warhammer I just paint them. Abaddon looks great, and plus it's got a lot of plastics for a very reasonable price. I do wish I got into the hobby when their Start Collecting box was still around.

As an AOS Tzeentch player, i have 60 Tzaangor. they throw em in everything, but i love the models. I have been trying to make them work so much, but in Tzeentch they're just not good. In the beasts of chaos last book they were great (you ran 30 blocks of them). but it still kinda blows that in Tzeentch they have never been great, but theyre much better in the new book than the old, but just dont work that well with the army.

For me, personally, Tzaangors are pretty much the coolest thousand sons units out there. Shame they suck and get forced down your throat so much. But they do look very cool

This is the most valuable video to anyone like me who are just getting into warhammer

For new players thinking about playing Tyranids, please hold off until 10th edition releases. If you want an example, I later picked up (on the 2nd run) a box of Indomitous Necrons, i.e. 20 Necron Warriors, the Dynasty Quadrilogy (Skorpekh Lord, Canoptek Reanimator, Royal Warden and Overlord) not to mention 6 scarab swarms (comes with Warriors kits), Plasmancer with 2 plasmacytes, and 3 Necron Destroyers. All of these monsters are at the very least, decent to be used competitively, they were the brand new sculpts (Necrons hadn't had many new models for years) and when I tried to sell the Necron half, nobody would take it because everybody got their hands on it. I borderline was trying to sell/trade them at my FLGS to other people for $90 and the Necron players said "no thanks". You can still sometimes see people trying to sell what is essentially nearly 1000 points of Necrons for $90. The same thing occurred in 8th edition with the Dark Imperium box set, however unlike with Indomitous, the box was not a limited run and ran for years. Deathguard was so overinflated that even after 9th edition was around the corner, you could find 1,200 point Death Guard armies on sale on ebay for about $150, or the Dark Imperium half for $60-80 USD (free shipping). The upcoming box is going to replace decades old sculpts bringing new life into the hobby, new models, and you will likely receive what should be 800 points or more of Tyranids for even $100 online, making it drastically cheaper and just better value in everyway. If somebody tries to sell it to you for $150, it'll probably be including the new (although free online) 10th edition rulebook that is bound to be included.

i think the ork boarding patrol is the coolest. you get snakebites, freebootas, and blood axes.

Great, I think I could start collecting grey knights

Obviously the second stealth ork should be covered in bits to look like a terrain pics to show he’s just that good at hiding.

I honestly would collect T’au for Kroot and Battle Suits and Farsight. I just want them to have more Xenos in their army

My brain can only recognize a box as worth it if the box comes with a vehicle

listening to this while painting my kroot. never have i been called out like this :(

As a grey knights player i may reccomend another boarding patrol as crow if you can find a appropriate sized shield makes a wonderful kit bashed draigo or any other character you want a demon killi sword. And hate resin.

was listening back to this, and its wild how much they didn't really get the Eldar Boarding Patrol. So yeah, as a method to build up a craftworld army, you wouldnt wanna buy multiples and being corsair themed is very slanted. However, in Arks of Omen, because it got rid of the compulsory troops tax, people could run Corsairs as their cheap obsec with good weapons, and Boarding actions was one of the few places you could have a full corsair list because of only needing 500 points. They also included banshees, which right now every Craftworld list is running at least 1 squad of. So the Boarding patrol is actually really nice for someone who didn't get the kill team, and canget two copies of it now in addition to a unit they already would need anyways, and then Jain Zarr on top of that. I am way on a budget so I had to skip it, but that was the most attractive box that they came out in my eyes. So yeah, still good video, its just funny how that one bit feels so off compared to everything else.

It should be noted that will simple/straightforward, the world eaters combat patrol has one of the highest potential points counts at over 750+ points in the box

One thing i hate about 40k is that for the past few years, I cant find %^& anything. So many things are sold out, then poof back up for a few days in stores or online, and then poof, gone again. It started with Covid but never ended, it's frustrating to go to buy something but I cant find it unless I turn to Ebay and sadly, it's marked up on eBay. This is frustrating. I do like some of the boxes they are making but, I cant find many of the ones I want.

As a Tyranid player, with the release of 10th edition, my condolences are out for all Eldar players.

Incase anyone from the future is wondering about the World Eater combat patrol. I recommend it as a World Eater. You get lots of berserkers which allow you have lots of small squads or massive squads. A unit if jakhals which are cheap stuff to body block with or hold a home objective. The leader can be built as lord invocatus who's very powerful or a lord on juggernaut. Should you get 2? If you like hordes then you could but you'll have no elite options and personally I think two hqs on juggernauts could be too much even if one is the lord invocatus

As a Tau player, I was thinking of running Farsight as a commander in crisis suit.

Great episode :)🎉

When getting into orks, I got the Combat Patrol, then later someone in my playgroup sold me his old start collecting box, then later I preordered the Boarding Patrol. In theory, that'd have been a great start. Except I also bought like 1500 points worth of smaller boxes in between those three purchases. My wallet hates me.

Hey man kroot are cool, as a kid my dad took me to game store and I saw the kroot and fell in love with them. It’s how I started collecting tau. Even if you don’t like the old Kroot you gotta give the new kill team box credit those new models make me hard

I think the CSM Combat Patrol is OK if you use the Havocs to Kitbash Heavy Weapons, but as 10th basically says, "You have to run it as is" then it's sort of up to playtesting now with how the Units now work. I agree that to get a great CSM starter list, One Combat Patrol + Boarding Patrol has you sorted.

I personally started my sisters army with the bp and I am playing bloody rose and thought that bp was amazing especially for that marking my repentia numbers go up

Love the videos keep it up

Rn 3d printed nyds are the place to be, we even have free models comparable or better than 10th edition yet to be released. Now for these box sets I'm thinking starting raven guard on the phobos combat patrol

I think I am going to buy the Thousand Sons boarding patrol becuase I live on an island, and shipping costs are crazy here. I'd rather buy 1 box then 3, even if the 3 are a slightly less price.

The ork kommandoz were in the Killteam release, exactly those, so might be a route to get just them?

I need about 40 more of these 'free' rhinos for my chapter sized chapter. Been buying even chaos ones off people to fix up.

Whats funny is i got the opposite, someone at my lgs bought the leviathan set for the Tyrinids and i bought the space marines off him for 100$. It was nice for me starting out in the hobby just a few months ago.

As someone who's starting by collecting Sisters of Battle... Ooooff. On one hand, the boarding patrol seems solid. 3 full squads of good units. On the other hand, the combat patrol offers a lot of variety, which is very exciting if you want to practice painting, but might not be as useful, since squads come in strange numbers (1 penitent? 2 flagellants? 4 repentias? ) Plus, with the changes to army builds coming with 10th edition I can't predict how useful everything will be anyway.

Just a headsup about votann combat patrol: due to current point values you can get almost 1000 points from 1CP so it's a solid starting point

I love the flash gitz kit

Pro tip, If you play CSM in 9th and want a good value box to add to your army. Its The thousand sons boarding patrol. Flamer rubrics are arguably better in standard CSM then in their own legion.

So, I'm standing there preparing smoked corn on the cob, and hearing "if you like Khorne" about 8 times in a row made me lose it. I'm gonna play that over when my wife takes a bite.

You can build 3 extra Plague Marines from the Poxwalkers sprues. So the combat patrol is legal.

Have you considered using the HH starter box for CSM or SM to make a army cheap?

As some one getting into 1k sons, im trying to figure out how much to spend on them. I got the court of the Crimson King Holiday set and I picked up Ahirman and a box of terminators. I should I get the combat patrol too or the boarding patrol? IS it worth it or just pick things up as I go?

Does anybody know if after seeing the content of the "leviathan" box is still not worth to buy the CP of the Tyranids? Ordered the leviathan box and found an store in my area that sells the Combat Patrol for 106€.. as a new player i would really appreciate any tipps