Thanks for watching and subscribing everyone I really appreciate it! While I did manage to figure out who this box was made for, it remains one of the weirdest Battleforces I've ever reviewed. Battleforce Playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PL1E9rFzw_L85wd2N9E_Da888NlMG4wylV.html
I'm brand mew to playing the tabletop game, but am a LONG time T'au lover! I just picked up my first combat patrol, the new pathfinders kill team, and am reaaalllly loving the look of this battle force!
True, crisis suits box are a terrible price for points or models. Any method to get a discount and it would be a rush for it and many times too many mad they could not get one.
Really good reviews! Seeing the sample lists to build toward is really helpful as a new player trying to decide what to get and trying to plan a full army build.
Another group of people this box is good for, is people who do not play the game and simply want to paint, they do look like a nice project to paint ;) But yeah this box looks very meh to me.
Exactly! I dont play 40k but im collecting everything from every faction. I love to pose them on dioramas and paint them as project. Occasionally i play 40k in house with my wife, but we just like looking at them This box wouldve appealed to me a lot if not for the fact that I already gotten ghostkeel, commander, and riptide
The box is 100% missing some crisis suits. But if this is £140 it’s a terrible saving as you can pretty much buy them all separate cheaper online else where..
@@EmpireofWargames im going to assume the official prices are going to be around the estimates give or take 30 bucks. Third party will be the best way to go if i want one.
GW came out and said the battle forces were supposed to work with the combat patrols. This would be awesome with the combat patrol but the double up on the commanders is so fucking disappointing. As for the riptide, I picked one up last edition and it was about 60-70. I bought it to help turn my start collecting into a 1k list. It was a great point for dollar getting around 2-4 points per dollar. They slashed the points/rules and raised the price to make them more comparative to crisis suits and ghosts keel.
@@mangohub3252 that wouldn’t really work since there wouldn’t be a character in the box. The combat patrol should have had a fireblade instead and had the hammerhead upgrade sprue.
You forgot people lile me. Someone who hasx10k points worth of their original army and are starting to build their second army. This is perfect for me. Good rebate and meshes perfectly with the Tau combat patrol pack.
Not really you end up with 2 commanders. 2 More broadsides or a team of battlesuitd instead of the commander would have been better in combination with combat patrol.
I was hoping for your opinion on expanding my army. I currently have the army box (kroot) and vespids from the kill team box. My original plan was to get the combat patrol and a box of crisis suits and adding that to the army box. This box didnt really impress me when it was announced, but Im not sure if it would be more beneficial to get this battleforce, or just stick with my original plan.
The price keeps going up. These are some of the more expensive minatures. If your playgroup does not mind alternative then gunpla to build them. HG is a good size for a riptid and Gundam Artifacts could make for limited pose crisis suits.
I didnt have any Tau until last night but I was thinking of grabbing 3 of the battleforce i sort of like the idea of running triple riptide, triple ghost and gives a full unit of broadside super heavy on the battlesuits but im planning a bit more for 3k point games with friends not competitive, i did just buy the "new" combat patrol last night along with a box of cadian shock troops and a box of Kasrkin was going to use the Cadian shock troops as Pathfinders and Kasrkin as a Strike team, with bits/weapons from the combat patrol, and ill be getting Tempestus Scions for a breacher team, and Tempestus Aquilons to run as Vespid sting wings. I was going to grab Farsight, 3 stealth suit boxes, 4x crisis suit boxes and a cadre fireblade to lead the breachers, i think it will put me at about 3k points
@changrcaterham5784 I always thought that the rules and point cost do not reflect the $ cost and the size of the Riptide. That thing could easily be a really cool 270 points model with more impressive weapons and stats. The same applies for most of the suits tbh.
I agree that this battle force is weird, but telling people not to buy more than one is just flat out wrong. This is the best deal you'll get on riptides, broadsides and ghostkeels. If you were starting from scratch and you aspire to play this faction competitively, buy three. You won't go wrong in the long run.
@@mangohub3252depends on how many crisis units you are running, you would want a commander for every unit most likely, so if you are running 3 or 4 units of crisis suits you can use all the commanders from 3 battleforce boxes and 1 combat patrol, or you could repurpose extra commanders with extra weapons from the broadsides in the box and kit bash extra broadsides using commander bodies. if money is a concern, and you can only build a single 2k point list and have no room left over for moving units in and out then buying 1 battleforce makes more sense so you can get more crisis suits with the money, but if you want to be flexible and feel like hey you might want 3 riptides for a game, or maybe you want to run 3 ghost in a game, its better to get them all in the battleforce x3 knowing you get 3 free riptides.
Thanks for watching and subscribing everyone I really appreciate it!
While I did manage to figure out who this box was made for, it remains one of the weirdest Battleforces I've ever reviewed.
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The box is perfect if you have all the small stuff, and have no big armour. GUILTY! Three of each in this box closes all the gaps
I'm brand mew to playing the tabletop game, but am a LONG time T'au lover! I just picked up my first combat patrol, the new pathfinders kill team, and am reaaalllly loving the look of this battle force!
I wish they dropped the ghost keel for a crisis suit team or two
I honestly feel like GW has enough room to include the crisis suits without removing the Ghost Keel
True, crisis suits box are a terrible price for points or models. Any method to get a discount and it would be a rush for it and many times too many mad they could not get one.
Really good reviews! Seeing the sample lists to build toward is really helpful as a new player trying to decide what to get and trying to plan a full army build.
2:40 damn that's exactly me, no wonder I want this box so much
Another group of people this box is good for, is people who do not play the game and simply want to paint, they do look like a nice project to paint ;)
But yeah this box looks very meh to me.
Exactly! I dont play 40k but im collecting everything from every faction. I love to pose them on dioramas and paint them as project. Occasionally i play 40k in house with my wife, but we just like looking at them
This box wouldve appealed to me a lot if not for the fact that I already gotten ghostkeel, commander, and riptide
I'm actually amazed that this box review is longer than 10 mins 😂
The box is 100% missing some crisis suits. But if this is £140 it’s a terrible saving as you can pretty much buy them all separate cheaper online else where..
The savings for Aussies is brutal with this battleforce.
@B1-997 Keep in mind that pricing is not confirmed yet. It's weird, however, how "cheap" the Riptide is over there.
@@EmpireofWargames im going to assume the official prices are going to be around the estimates give or take 30 bucks. Third party will be the best way to go if i want one.
GW came out and said the battle forces were supposed to work with the combat patrols. This would be awesome with the combat patrol but the double up on the commanders is so fucking disappointing.
As for the riptide, I picked one up last edition and it was about 60-70. I bought it to help turn my start collecting into a 1k list. It was a great point for dollar getting around 2-4 points per dollar. They slashed the points/rules and raised the price to make them more comparative to crisis suits and ghosts keel.
Commander needed to be the normal suits
@@mangohub3252 that wouldn’t really work since there wouldn’t be a character in the box. The combat patrol should have had a fireblade instead and had the hammerhead upgrade sprue.
You forgot people lile me. Someone who hasx10k points worth of their original army and are starting to build their second army. This is perfect for me. Good rebate and meshes perfectly with the Tau combat patrol pack.
Not really you end up with 2 commanders. 2 More broadsides or a team of battlesuitd instead of the commander would have been better in combination with combat patrol.
Yeah i have the old combat patrol rn so idk if i want a second ghostkeel lol. Specially since i have shadowsun
I was hoping for your opinion on expanding my army. I currently have the army box (kroot) and vespids from the kill team box. My original plan was to get the combat patrol and a box of crisis suits and adding that to the army box. This box didnt really impress me when it was announced, but Im not sure if it would be more beneficial to get this battleforce, or just stick with my original plan.
The price keeps going up. These are some of the more expensive minatures.
If your playgroup does not mind alternative then gunpla to build them. HG is a good size for a riptid and Gundam Artifacts could make for limited pose crisis suits.
I didnt have any Tau until last night but I was thinking of grabbing 3 of the battleforce i sort of like the idea of running triple riptide, triple ghost and gives a full unit of broadside super heavy on the battlesuits but im planning a bit more for 3k point games with friends not competitive, i did just buy the "new" combat patrol last night along with a box of cadian shock troops and a box of Kasrkin was going to use the Cadian shock troops as Pathfinders and Kasrkin as a Strike team, with bits/weapons from the combat patrol, and ill be getting Tempestus Scions for a breacher team, and Tempestus Aquilons to run as Vespid sting wings. I was going to grab Farsight, 3 stealth suit boxes, 4x crisis suit boxes and a cadre fireblade to lead the breachers, i think it will put me at about 3k points
Buy three of them. Triptide is still good. Triptide is always good. Triptide is eternal. Triptide is love, Triptide is life.
I have my third not built as I am using it pieces to help with converting some gunpla to riptides.
525 points?!? No wonder t’he people were pissed, I t’hought t’hey were more pricey t’han t’hat
@changrcaterham5784 I always thought that the rules and point cost do not reflect the $ cost and the size of the Riptide. That thing could easily be a really cool 270 points model with more impressive weapons and stats. The same applies for most of the suits tbh.
Never in my life have I played xenos. Is this the moment to go alien?
This box is so perfect for me, im aiming for THREE
To be honest, I'm the kind of player this is targeted to, as I just have the new CP and I got into T'au because I really really like battlesuits.
i'm getting one
Tau is more expensive than people realize.
You watch the poorhammer video about?
That,s a no for me!I already have all of them!
I agree that this battle force is weird, but telling people not to buy more than one is just flat out wrong. This is the best deal you'll get on riptides, broadsides and ghostkeels. If you were starting from scratch and you aspire to play this faction competitively, buy three. You won't go wrong in the long run.
Is the saving even good? After you have a couple of commanders the savings are nothing and you’ll probably have one from the combat patrol
@@mangohub3252depends on how many crisis units you are running, you would want a commander for every unit most likely, so if you are running 3 or 4 units of crisis suits you can use all the commanders from 3 battleforce boxes and 1 combat patrol, or you could repurpose extra commanders with extra weapons from the broadsides in the box and kit bash extra broadsides using commander bodies.
if money is a concern, and you can only build a single 2k point list and have no room left over for moving units in and out then buying 1 battleforce makes more sense so you can get more crisis suits with the money, but if you want to be flexible and feel like hey you might want 3 riptides for a game, or maybe you want to run 3 ghost in a game, its better to get them all in the battleforce x3 knowing you get 3 free riptides.
@@mangohub3252 could kitbash the three extra commander suits as beefy looking crisis suits?
@@B1-997 aren’t they way bigger?