So, let's talk through every single

combat patrol box set in Warhammer 40k.

How do they stack up against each other

in terms of discount points in the box,

gameplay, and savings, and which ones

are the overall best and

worst. Hello, and welcome back to Warp

Space Tactics, where today we're talking

combat patrol box sets, talking through

every single one of them in Warhammer

40k right now with some of their pros,

cons, and selling points. As I'm sure

most of you will be well aware, 40k

combat patrols are games workshops

standard discount offerings for each

faction in the game. In 10th edition,

they tend to have gone rather heavy on

the battle force box sets, often having

big launch ones to come alongside

codeexes, but they generally tend to be

one and done affairs, usually selling

out a bit too quickly and then going

away. The things that tend to stick

around are the combat patrol sets. Small

forces aim to be a microcosm of the

faction. They'd be generally tending to

go a little bit heavier on the infantry

mounted things and transports as opposed

to big heavy battle tanks and dreadnots

and things as the box sets in 10th

edition have also been made with the

combat patrol game mode in mind and it

feels like Games Workshop has taken out

some of the biggest strongest stuff in

there to allow the box sets to interact

with each other a bit better. Certain

powerful units can just be a bit too

much to deal with at a small game like

that and they might just be unkillable.

In general though, they often tend to be

seen as a good jumping in box to start

an army as they generally have some

discount versus buying the box set

separately. So, tend to be at least a

fairly cheap way to get a good chunk of

an army on the tabletop at least versus

buying other kits in the range. For this

video, let's talk through each and every

one, focusing on them from a Warhammer

40k collector's perspective, a few

metrics like the amount of points that

you get in the box, the discount versus

buying separately, some thoughts as to

the unit mix and the quality of the

miniatures. And then for the order that

we go along in, and in the order that we

go along in, it will be the order of

popularity for you guys. Starting with

the ones perceived as the weakest combat

patrols are moving forward to the best.

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Let's get into it though. And for this

one, I'm going to talk through all the

ones that are currently on sale from

Games Workshop. There are some factions

that no longer have a combat patrol. The

demons one and the Death Watch ones have

both been removed. Out of those, the

demon one, I think, was a lot more

helpful than the Death Watch. Obviously

only good if wanting corn demons, but

you did get really quite a lot of them

in this one. I'm also not going to talk

through the previous ones prior to the

10th edition update though in general a

lot of them can be quite good deals for

their factions given that they're a bit

more likely to have big centerpiece

models in like say the Dark Angels one

with the Redemptor Dreadnaugh which was

rather good or in particular the Dean

Steel Cult one before it was replaced

was a very nice one. Jumping into the

box sets proper though and first up we

have combat patrol Imperial agents only

really newly playable as a faction in

10th edition in its own right. In this

one you get an Eversur Assassin, a

minister or priest, two sets of 10

adeptus RBTs. So the elite Imperial

police and enforcers plus their pair of

cyber mastiffs and a set of

inquisitorial agents henchmen. Discount

versus buying separately. This one's on

the upper end for 10th edition combat

patrols. A big 36% off. In general, 10th

combat patrols seem to be around about

the sort of 25 to 30% mark for the most

part. The points in the box maybe being

a little bit lower middling, perhaps 375

points if you feel the units here. A

little bit of variation on depending how

you field the RBTs with their unit

choice. For the actual content itself,

the unit choices are a bit called

together from kill teams. Imperial

agents doesn't really have a very

cohesive faction theme, though in some

ways that is sort of appropriate for

them. It definitely feels a bit on the

mishmash side of units though and a bit

odd to have two different exaction

squads here if they're going for a mixed

box set. That might just lessen its

utility to Imperial agents players and

might mean that you have too many of

them in here for some people. For

in-game use, the subduction squads are

pretty sturdy chaff units. They're about

as competitive as it gets for Imperial

agents right now. The agent's okay to go

with certain characters. The priest not

really so great in the agents codeex in

my opinion, but can be a super cheap

placeholder unit, maybe an ally for

things like Imperial Knights. The Ever

is currently a bit on the expensive side

for what he does in my opinion. In

general though, the bigger issue is that

Imperial agents are just kind of

neglected rules-wise in general. Games

Workshop doesn't really seem to be

supporting them properly as a faction

with balance patches. The kits

themselves are all nice enough in my

opinion. Fairly recent multi-art plastic

kits. Two of them are more killing

focused ones, which means they've got a

whole bunch of options and fun gear.

Overall valuewise, there's quite a lot

of miniatures here, and the discount is

solidly good. But between Imperial

agents being a niche faction and some

very specific unit choices within that

faction, it feels like there's a pretty

low chance that these will be the exact

models that someone was going to seek

out otherwise. In any case, you guys

have rated this as a single worst combat

patrol box set, giving it 2.2 from a

scale of 1 to five. I'm sure the very

fact that it's Imperial agents probably

didn't help out with that. I feel like

the discount and the amount of plastic

in the box isn't terrible, but it's just

kind of a weird mix of units from a

niche faction that very few people play.

As respondents, 5% of people said they

bought one. for that metric. I'd say

more compared between the Combat Patrols

as opposed to putting too much stock by

the actual 5%. But in any case, this one

was the lowest selling by quite some

margin. Next up, we've got Combat Patrol

Thousand Sons. This one is technically

off sale, but they haven't replaced it

with a new one yet, at least at time of

recording. So, I thought I'd still talk

about it given that it's on the way out.

In this one, you get the infernal

master, the summoner character, then

five scarabactor terminators, and then

the thousand some players favorite unit

in a big squad of 20 zangles with the

40k upgrade sprews to give them auto

pistols and chains. In general, I'm not

particularly keen including the upgrade

sprus in the value as I feel like they

have more value to some people than

others. So, in general, I'll talk about

discount without those. For this one,

it's around about 25% off. So, maybe a

slightly middling kind of discount here.

But he definitely wants Sangors with

their chainsaw upgrades. This does seem

like the place to get them. For points

in the box, it's around about 415 points

at the moment. I guess the thousand sons

coex might change that a bit. This one

pretty middling overall for the combat

patrols. Not super low or high. And in

general, again, it's a box set that's

got some big problems in people's eyes

when you collect Thousand Sons. In

general, you do it for the Rubert

Marines and sorcerers and not a massive

flock of goat bird people. Just feels

like one of the squads of Zangor should

have been replaced by at least some

rubric marines. It's maybe a little bit

odd that the Infernal Master doesn't

have anything to lead here, though I

guess you'll have some rubrics elsewhere

in the army. Kits wise, the Zangors

again have the criticism that they've

been ported from Age of Sigma. It did

feel like a slightly cheap move on Games

Workshop's part at the time as opposed

to creating something 40k for them. The

Zangores are also a slightly older kit.

The Scarabult Terminators from Thousand

Son's main release and a nice enough,

the Infernal Master being one of the

most recent releases for the faction in

game at the moment. As ever, anything

could change in the codeex. The scarab

cult terminators have been a bit on the

ne side in competitive list but

certainly not commonly taken. Infernal

masters have generally been really good,

particularly with the damage enhancement

and a Zangor's kind of so so weighed up

against the other chaff units like

enlightened and cultist. Value-wise, it

feels like an all right amount of

plastic. The discount maybe a being a

bit mid, but perhaps the biggest

criticism, the unit combo just not

really being one that people super want

to pick up. As a result, this one was

voted second lowest, 2.3 out of five,

but considerably more bought than the

Imperial Agents one. I feel like if you

did have the opportunity to pick one up

as a thousand sons player, if you're

going for a fairly big army in the

faction, I would still say it's probably

worth it just literally to add the Horde

Zangle component if you want to have

some of their raised cultist chaff. It

just very much feels like a more of an

add-on box to their core kits that they

have as opposed to the core kit first

purchase that you'd go out to buy. Next

up, we've got Combat Patrol

Astromeitarum. This one being the recent

and really badly received guard one that

came out in early 2025. It's got a

cadian command squad, 10 kasakin, and

then going very heavy on the cavalry

with two sets of fiveill and rough

riders. The discount in the box set is

again sort of middling around 28% and it

has the ignamin of being one of the

single lowest points costs in the box.

Even going for some slightly more elite

guard for troops and cavalry, slightly

less than 300 points to field most of

the time, which is pretty well joint

lowest with the adeptus mechanicus. 1.7

points per dollar is just really not

great in a discount box set. I think

easily the biggest criticism of the box

set is the unit mix for this one. The

actual models themselves genuinely

aren't too bad. The Kazakin and Cadian

command squads are fairly recent and

fairly well done sculpts in my opinion.

The Rough Riders come from Guard 9th

edition refresh as well. I say people

tend to be a little bit more mid on

them. The sort of slightly Barack style

horses, but I must say it's surprising

how different they look just literally

with a simple head swap and a color

scheme to fit in with the rest of the

regiment. They are all strong units in

game as well. The Rough Riders pretty

solid countercharge. Kasakim being super

strong for guard right now and then the

command squad often there to do doll out

the orders maybe paired with some shock

troops for their sticky objectives. No

real massive criticisms games wise.

Again, I feel like the main problem was

just the selection of units meaning that

you've got an even mix of Cadian versus

cavalry. Two really quite different

themes of guard. The command squad can't

even lead the Cadian Kazakin, so you

need some shock troops to go with them.

By going for everything that isn't tanks

and vehicles, you've got very few points

in the box set. And then neither side of

the box set is necessarily going to

appeal super well to people collecting

death core and there's certainly a lot

more of those around after the G release

in 10th. I feel like it probably would

look a lot better if you replaced one of

the units of rough riders for something

else though. Doubling down on them just

didn't seem like a good decision. Feels

like almost any similar priced units

would have been a better choice. For the

money, you could have had an entire

Leman Russ, though I guess they like to

keep battle tanks out of the combat

patrol sets. Overall, the weirdly

cavalry heavy box set again scores super

low. Looks like this one's been bought

even less than the thousand sons one,

though I guess at the same time it

hasn't been around for quite as long.

Next up, we have the Servants of the

Omnisire in combat patrol adept

mechanicus. This one has a Trieste

manipulus, 10qatari rangers or vanguard,

three Cberus cavalry, and five Taxi,

both of which can be built in two

different configurations. Again, sort of

middling discount versus buying

individually at 25%. And as mentioned,

ties for joint lowest for the points in

the box. Less than 300 points again. So,

pretty much epitomizing the mix

reputation for being super expensive if

you could field all the units. In

theory, you could buy six copies of this

combat patrol box set and still not have

hit a 2,000 point army. I feel this has

been partly made the case by going for

all of the ad light skirmished units.

They tend to be the ones that tend to

cost a lot of money but not really cost

many points in game. Otherwise, for unit

choices, I feel like that manipulus

might like some breaches to lease. It's

just not really all that good with on

his own. For in-game use, I feel like

they're all solid enough units. You're

always going to want battle line to

provide buffs. Sky stalkers or maybe

sterilizers are nice for secondary

objectives. The manipulus works well

with breaches as mentioned. Maybe the

Cberus cavalry are a little bit more

niche than some, but I feel like a unit

or so of them ranging forward with

tactical oblique is nice enough. For the

model kits themselves, I feel like they

mostly look really quite cool. I

personally quite enjoy their Cberus

cavalry, even if you don't get much

plastic in the box for the money

normally. They actually do have a bit of

a reputation for being pretty painful

models to assemble and paint, taking

quite a lot of time and effort for what

eventually turns out to be a humansized

jump infantry, but with some big fancy

wings bolted on, they're not the easiest

to transport either. Overall, despite

some cool and fairly recent models, it

just means that the units here just

aren't really enormously threatening in

game. Don't cost many points on the

table, and they don't have a standout

discount on them either. So again, I can

see why this one was voted lower. It

seems that they're pretty much tied with

the Guard and the Thousand Sons on 2.3.

And again, really not too many people

buying them, even if they do offer a

discount on a bunch of units that work

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Moving on though, next up, we have the

Space Marines. Their combat patrol is

with a Terminator librarian, Terminator

captain, five terminators, and five

Infernace Marines. So, a subset of the

Leviathan box basically. And as ever

with this one, the first thing to say

about it is not to buy the actual combat

patrol box set, but instead to get it

through either the ultimate starter set

or buy the standard 40k starter set plus

a Terminator librarian. The latter

option is just directly cheaper. Plus,

you get free tyrannids. And the ultimate

starter set means that you could split

that with a friend. As a result, it's

kind of hard to calculate discount. It

depends on how generous you are. If you

buy the combat patrol box set itself,

it's pretty terrible at just 13%

theoretical discount, potentially even

less. But if you did manage to go halves

on an ultimate set for £62 or $105, it's

around about 40% off. Points wise, that

gets you 430 points on the table right

now. For the kits, they're really quite

nice, good quality ones from 10th

edition. The new Terminators in

particular were super wellreceived. So

to get seven of them going cheap is nice

if you've not already got them. The main

criticism of this one though is that the

terminators are the monopose variant. So

you don't get cyclone missile launchers

and things like that. So when

calculating discount, we're not really

comparing like for like there. For the

unit choices, it doesn't really get you

all that much plastic on the board.

That's just 12 miniatures there. Plus

the Terminator's teleport homer, which

Games Workshop takes that and says 13

miniatures in the box set of course. And

having two characters in the set does

mean it's one of the lightest ones in

terms of plastic. Though bear in mind

that you should be paying significantly

less than the other combat patrols for

this one, so it does even out. Finally,

for their use in game, the units are all

a little bit mid for Space Marines right

now. Unfortunately, Terminators have

just been solidly merely okay for

basically the entirety of 10th. Not too

bad for casual games, but very rarely

played in competitive. And the same is

true of Infernace Marines despite their

recent blow up with some extra AP.

Compared with the previous ones, this

one's rated significantly higher. 2.7

out of five versus the 2.3 for the

previous three. I do feel like people

might be being a little bit on the

unfair side and weighing this up against

full combat patrols like for like if you

can split a 40k start collecting box

with a tyrannid player and then pick up

the terminator librarian. It's just

massively cheaper and it does seem that

a whole bunch of space marine players do

have this. The single highest on this

poll at 28% though I guess quite a lot

might have got that from the Leviathan

box set. I guess that is the other

weakness of this one that a lot of

people collecting space marines for 10th

edition probably picked this up through

Leviathan so already have the models.

Next up, we've got the sisters of battle

with the adept Aoritus combat patrol.

For this one, there's a canon, a squad

of 10 battle sisters, five sacraants,

and 10 arco flagagulants. Middling

discount once again on this one at 26%

365 points in the box. So again, it's

one of the lower ones here. It's not

really a particularly standout one on

those two metrics. The models themselves

are all nice enough ones from the

current era of Sisters of Battle. I feel

like for miniatures that attract people

to the faction, there's generally a big

focus on the power armored sisters

miniatures more so than mintor and

pitant freaks like the flagagulants. It

feels like a fairly sensible box set in

terms of getting some core choices on

the board. There's the core troops and

the central leader for the faction and

then two squads of fighty elites in

their own ways. In game at the moment,

I'd rate all of them solidly usable

enough. The battle sisters are quite

nice, particularly when split with an

imulator for sticky objectives and

sacrosans are pretty standout at the

moment. They're likely in units of 10.

Overall value-wise, I'd say it probably

amounts to being just solidly usable for

collect in the army. The discount isn't

awful, and the points kind of represent

just how expensive it tends to be to

collect sisters. Maybe the plastic

content doesn't feel overwhelming due to

it all being humansized miniatures, but

at least the unit mix is fairly good and

does feel like the sort of box set that

you could get two of if you had a mind

to. Overall, we rated this one a little

bit higher than the Space Marines. We're

still very much towards the bottom end

of the table, though, at the moment.

This one is the most bought of the ones

that we've seen so far, besides the

Space Marines that came in the Leviathan

box set at

12%. Next up, we've got the Space Wars,

which seems like it's on the way out, at

least at the time of recording, this one

seems to have been removed in the UK and

EU. I'm sure the Sons of Bruss will be

getting a new one alongside their codeex

and after their battle force box set.

This one is very much a more generic

primary spacewolf set, though, the

unique primaris battle leader. It might

be the highlights of the box for actual

Space Wolf collectors. Then five reavers

that you can field as hounds of Morai,

10 intercessors, and an invicta tactical

war suit. There's also two Space Wolf

upgrade frames as well. And overall, the

discount doesn't really add up to that

much unfortunately around about 17% if

you're not counting the upgrade sprews

and then only going up to 28% if you

are. So, not even particularly stand out

if you're generous there. Four points in

the box. It's fairly middling at 430

points per dollar. Not terrible, not

great. The models and the choices

themselves are all fairly recent.

Primaris and nice enough in terms of

their sculpting like several of the

divergent chapter box sets though. Aside

from the leader, it's much more of a

generic primary space marine box set

rather than a dedicated spacewolf one

and kind of depends on how much you want

the invict tactical war suits and their

reaver equivalent. In game I'd say the

units are a bit on the niche side

really. Intercessors are certainly

solidly usable. The rest may be a bit on

the niche side and overall for feels on

points and plastic. I feel like it does

an okay job. Nice to have a big chunky

centerpiece vehicle unit, but again, I

feel like it's probably the unit choice

that puts people off this one more than

some. The discount in the box set also

isn't great at all if you're not over

enamored by the spacewolf bits. Overall,

again, sort of more lower mid on the

table and similar sort of sales numbers

to the sisters. Moving on, we've got the

other divergent chapter, but generic

primaris box set, which is the dark

angels one. That one with a gravis

captain, five hell blasters, 10

intercessors, three blade guard

veterans, and then two of the primaris

upgrade sprews. So, the small ones for

the Dark Angels, not the newer 10th

edition one that they've released. The

discount in this box set really isn't

very good at all. It's only 14% if

you're not counting the Dark Angels

upgrade frames. So, kind of minimal

savings there. And the points in the box

set of 435. For criticisms of the

content, I feel like probably the

biggest one is that it's just not really

a Dark Angels box set. That does have

the positive of being more useful to

other space ring chapters out there if

they have a mind to get one. But what's

maybe a bit peculiar given that they

could have put some Deathwing knights or

some inner circle companions in there

just to give it a bit of Dark Angel's

flavor. The other odd choice is the

Gravis caption as well with no unit to

lease. So you need to get him some sort

of resin you unless you're doing weird

gladius things with artifiser armor. I

feel like Gravis characters don't tend

to be super emphasized for the dark

angels with their big Terminator focus.

For the units themselves, they're all

pretty solidly usable. Interesters are

fine. Hell blasters are quite a good

general purpose and easy to use new

player style units. Maybe not super

common in competitive list though and

blade guard looking way better after

their points cut. I feel like it's a

fairly good representation of standard

primaris units to have as a start of the

chapter and I feel like for actual core

space marine units it's not really a bad

box set for people jumping into space

marines in general. Maybe the biggest

criticism being the minimal discount

that it has. Overall again you ranked it

a little bit on the lower mid side but

not by too much. Giving it a three out

of five. And this one's more bought than

any of the previous ones. 13% of people

saying they bought one. Again, not

including the space marines, which

people likely got via Leviathan. It

seems that we're three in a row for the

Divergent chapters. And next up, we have

the Blood Angels combat patrol. This one

having their unique captain sculpt, 10

assault intercessors, two sets of three

sanguinary guard, and there's two blood

angels upgrade spruce in here as well,

which maybe have a bit more relevance to

the Blood Angels, given that that means

that you can feel the assault

intercessors as death company, at least

as they are. Now, discount wise, again,

it's a slightly mid one at 25%. That one

is excluding the upgrade sprews though.

So if you wanted to buy exactly these

models compared with the space wolves or

dark angels, it does a bit better there.

And I feel like the blood angels upgrade

sprews do add a bit more value given

they actually have wargeear choices and

things on. They're also just a bit more

generous than the smaller primaris ones

that the dark angels and space wolves

get. For points in the box, it's the

best one that we've seen so far at a big

490 points here. Sanguinary guard cost

quite a lot of points in game and 10b

space bream box sets tend to do okay for

points as well. So, good stuff for the

assault intercessors there. It does get

you a reasonable chunk of force on the

board. For the unit choices, I feel like

it's a pretty reasonable selection, at

least with what the Blood Angels are

working with. You get a themed captain,

who certainly is a very strong choice in

game. Probably the most appropriate

troops choice for them in the assault

intercessors. And again, they're also

very nice when paired with captains and

fielded in the liberator assault group.

And then the Sanguinary Guard are the

factions only unique infantry kit now.

So, getting two sets of them in the

combat patrol box set is kind of fun.

And again, they're very strong in game.

I say maybe the weak part about the box

set though is people's impressions of

the miniatures. The new updated

Sanguinary Guard kit is maybe one of the

worst received updates of Space Room

models in a while. People not enjoying

the wings going missing and the general

styling of the helms and the armor. It

might be for the best that they didn't

build the assault intercessors as Death

Company on the box art really as well as

that would just add insult to injury and

underline the fact they didn't really

get a proper sculpted model kit. Maybe

they'll have some chance for 11th

edition though. Also, value-wise, while

it's not a terrible discount, and

there's a lot of points in the box, it's

not super heavy on the plastic. Only 16

fairly normal size infantry miniatures

here. Isn't the greatest feel for a

combat patrol for $170 or

£100. Overall, between all the hats,

people have given it a fairly middling

three out of five, and 13% bought it.

Similar to the previous, I feel like for

a new Blood Angels collector, it's a

pretty useful box set. There's

definitely big criticisms that you can

make of it. Next up, we've got the

Genestealer Combat Patrol for 10th

edition. This one the slightly fast

attack focused one. A jackal alpha

spiker leader leading a squad of outr

rididers with their wolf quad gun

support and then anchilles ridge runner

providing a bit of fastoving fire

support. They do have some core troops

in the box set as well with two sets of

acolytes that you could also build as

metamorphs compared with most 10th

edition kits. Again, it's one of the

ones that has a slightly bigger discount

than most at 35% off. The points in the

box maybe being a little bit on the

lower side though at 360. For the unit

choices, it very much feels like the

generic cult fast attack set. And

overall for those, it definitely felt

like a big downgrade on the very general

purpose core unit one that we had prior

to 10th edition. It means it can build

one element of the army, but maybe isn't

the central box set that you'd start

with and build around. I would say that

having two copies of the acolyte kit is

pretty useful, though. They're generally

models needed in good numbers in most

forces. For in-game use, there's some

winners and losers there. The Achilles

Ridgerunner is excellent with its AP

debuffing. Acolytes are in almost every

list and can serve multiple different

roles. Maybe the Jackals and the Alphas

are just a touch more niche. the alphas

more so than the jackals maybe at least

at the moment. If you like the jeans to

the cult aesthetic, they're all nice

enough kits from their recent era of 40k

things. The entire range is quite a new

one and fairly well executed. I feel

like their combination of mutant freaks

and mining gear is maybe a slightly

retro feeling one that appeals to some

people a bit more than others. And

overall value-wise, it doesn't feel

terrible. A good discount paired with at

least an all right amount of plastic,

though the points are a bit low. Again,

this one's also been a lower mid three

out of five for you guys. a bit less

bored than a few of the previous ones. I

guess partly due to gener being a lesser

played faction. Moving on, we've got the

green skins and the orcs combat patrol.

In particular, this one was a very beast

snagger one with a beast boss, 10 beast

snagger boys, and four squig hog boys.

They're really not bad if you want a

bunch of savage orcs at the heart of the

army. All nice recent sculpts that I

think were really quite well done. The

squig hogs have a lot of fun factor, but

the unit choices maybe mean that it's

just a bit more niche appeal compared

with a more general orc box set. Not

every single orc player wants to play

beast snagers. For the discount in the

box set, it's a middling one at around

about 26% off. Not stand out, not bad.

And the same for the points as well. 430

to fill them at the moment. And overall,

it feels like a slightly middle of the

road combat patrol. Middling discount

points. They may be a little bit more

impressive than average on the plastic

quantity. They are all quite big chunky

miniatures in game at the moment. Beast

nagger boys paired with a beast boss can

hand out a pretty brutal amount of melee

violence on the charge. particularly the

beast boss taking down big stuff with

his mortal wounds. The squig hogs maybe

feel a bit on the mid side for orcs at

the moment. Fairly durable and fairly

dangerous, but don't tend to make it to

most competitive armies. Overall, you've

rated them on the mid to lower mid sort

of side. It does seem lots of people

have picked up this one though, a big

14% buying it. Again, out of the actual

combat patrol box sets, that's the

bestselling one so far. Orcs being a

really quite popular faction probably

help with that though. Next up, and also

rated around the same level, was the tow

empire one. This one gets you a battles

suit commander, a devil fish, one set of

fire warriors, and one set of

pathfinders. And they have a few drones

hovering around in support. Compared

with buying separately, these have a

discounter around about 27% off. Again,

middling there. The points are a bit on

the low side, as often seems to be the

case with tower right now. Units feel

really quite cheap to field in game.

It's only 355 points in this one. For

the unit mix, it doesn't feel awful. The

commanders pretty much the most central

HQ for the faction. Nice to have the

core troops with a transport that's

relevant for them. Breach then devilfish

are definitely a tried and tested one.

Maybe the pathfinders tend to be a unit

than some additions as being very useful

but more so than others. Maybe more

going for a sort of scouty special

weapon fire sort of role in 10th. It's

maybe not so ideal to have a commander

without some crisis suits to attach to

him within the same box set. It feels

like tow players are probably going to

have that fairly high on the purchase

list. Otherwise models wise most of them

are from the more recent generation of

tow miniatures. The devil fish is by far

the oldest miniature in the box set. So

I think it holds up all right and

overall feels like a useful enough box

set. Good unit mix at an all right

discount. Maybe a bit low on the point

side is the main criticism from me.

Again, you guys ranked it slightly lower

mid there. 3.1 out of five. And again,

it's one of the more popular board

combat patrol box sets. Tao being a

popular faction. And I guess this was

the discount box set for Tao in 10th

edition given that their battle force

one was a crew one. Next up, we have the

Tyrannids and they have their big

subsets of units from the Leviathan box

set, the winged prime psychoage, 20

Turagans, two ripper swarms, five

barborns, and three von Ryan's leapers.

Compared with just about every other

combat patrol box set, you get far far

more plastic in this one compared with

most of the rest, which in itself is

fairly impressive given that this one

again like the Space Marines, you'd

expect to pay far less for it. You'd get

it cheaper alongside some space marines

and bought the barb wand separately. Or

if you split the ultimate starter set

with a friend who collects space

marines, even if you just bought the

actual combat patrol box set, which is

the worst way to get it, there's still a

theoretical 47% discount on this one,

which is just off the charts compared

with the rest of the 40k combat patrols

out there. If you split the ultimate

starter set and pay half of that, then

it goes all the way up to 65% off for

the unit choices. It's quite a nice mix

of tyrannid things, some swarms, one

leader, some infiltrating beasts, gun

beasts, and a small monster. I think

that's a nice enough mix for the

faction. Maybe criticisms if any of them

is there's nothing for the wings prime

to lead in this one. And I guess the

other most major one is that a lot of

people already have these miniatures

from Leviathan. The vast majority of

Tyrion players who wanted these

miniatures this edition will already

have got them. I guess one other

criticism is that all those terminants

don't come with the weapon options. So

you wouldn't be able to fill them with

spine fists or devourers from this set

nor have their special weapon options.

In game use, most of them are a bit on

the middling side for tyrannids right

now. None of them outright bat. that

tend to be more niche using competitive

lists as opposed to spammed in

multiples. Weirdly, maybe the psychopase

might be one of the ones that's slightly

more commonly included these days. Quite

nice alongside monsters and particularly

in Assimilation Swarm. Filled it

together, the points cost isn't overall

super standard. 455 points, definitely a

bit on the upper end, but maybe less

than you'd expect for a fair few

slightly on elite choices for a box set

with this many models in. Overall, for

value rating, you gave this a 3.1, which

to be honest, I feel like this is

probably the single one that I disagree

with most. I think just objectively this

one's far better than the average combat

patrol. Even if it was priced the same

amount as the others, I think it would

be really great. The fact that you can

get it for basically twothirds the price

or potentially less than that just takes

it to the next level. I feel like people

are just rating this one a fair bit

lower due to lots of people already

having had it. So maybe felt like a bit

of a rerun of Leviathan and the units

maybe not being quite so exciting in

game that you'd want more right now. In

any case, it clocks in as only narrowly

behind addition launch space marines

with 24% saying that they've got these

miniatures. Next up, we've got combat

patrol leaguers of Votan. In this one,

we've got UA the destined or a car, five

cathonian berserks with their big moles

or axes, three hung pioneers on their

jet trikes, and then 10 halfkim

warriors. A fairly middling discount of

26% off and a slightly low points cost

of 365 points bought separately. Leagues

of Votan units being a bit cheaper than

you might have expected at the moment

due to some big points cuts early in the

edition because their rules launch dead

week. For the unit choices, the leagues

of Votan don't exactly have a huge

miniature range right now. I'm getting

four different units out of them,

including the generic troops and the

faction commander all seem like a really

reasonable mix. I guess for add-on

units, most of the foot troops and the

berserks would probably like sags to

transport them around, and that feels

like that could be an obvious expansion

for that. The miniature themselves are

all recent new votes. Well enough

realized. I feel like all their units

have some quite different aesthetics

here. Some might appeal to individual

players more than others. And in game at

the moment, all of them are solely

strong units. Hearth and Berserks are

staples and competitive lists inside

Sagitos. Plenty of list of running

multiple squads of pioneers. Maybe the

Carl actually is the single most

questionable thing in optimized armies,

but he still adds a lot of value with a

unit buff and handing out some extra

judgment. Overall feels kind of middling

valuewise. The amount of plastic in the

box isn't terrible. Medium discount, but

kind of low points currently. This one

has been received just a bit better than

some of the previous though. Sort of

getting into the mid to upper mid ones

at 3.3 out of five. A bit less aboard

compared with some of the combat patrols

at 11% of people. It does seem like a

box set that you could get in multiples

if you're starting leagues of botan.

Next up we've got the Nekrons. And in

this one we've got the Overlord, the

core leader for the faction. That's the

sculpt that you got in the Indomitus box

set. 10 Nekron warriors with their three

scarab swarms. And then three scorp

destroyers with their plasma sights.

frenzy killing machines with plasma

blades and a Koptic Doomstalker to

provide some heavy fire support. For the

discount in this one, it is one of the

sort of lower saving combat patrols at

19% off, though it does get you at least

a fair amount of points on the board.

455 points, so on the upper end here.

For the unit choices and the miniature

quality, I feel like they've got a solid

balance of really recent miniatures.

They're generally all Wells miniatures

that came out in 9inth edition. Lots of

miniatures that have some good feel of

them. And you've got the generic faction

commander, the most well-known troops

choice, two danger units of different

flavors, both of which have quite fun

models in my opinion, and then some fun

scarab swarms hangers on from the

warrior box. It's a nice mix and good

feel factor to the models. In game, most

of them are kind of usable, though not

crazy standout. The scorp destroyers can

be nice with a scorp lord in awakened

dynasty. The Koptic Doomstalker is maybe

a bit on the overcosted side, but is

good in Koptic Court. Warriors may be

needing certain combos, such as Orken

with a four plus invulnerable save to

make them a bit better. I think they're

perhaps a little bit less standout than

people might like at the moment. Overall

value wise, again, it feels like a

medium one to me. Fairly good amount of

plastic. Pretty nice in terms of the

recency and appearance of the kits. A

good number of points on the board.

Maybe the only thing it falls down on is

a slightly lower discount than most get.

In any case, between all that, it was

enough for you guys to rate them in the

upper mid of combat patrols at 3.4 out

of five. And again, a pretty well bought

one at 15%, kind of similar to the other

popular Xenos factions like Tower and

Orcs.

Next up, we've got the recent Eldari

combat patrol. That one's got a squad of

wraith guard or wraith blades with a

spirits here to guide those ghost

warriors into battle. And then three

sets of aspect warriors, two sets of

five Dire Avengers, and then one set of

five warp spiders, finally redone in

plastic. For the discount in the box

set, it's 32%, so maybe on the upper end

slightly for 10th edition combat

patrols. And for points in the box, it's

on the upper end of the metrics there,

all the way up to almost 500. Though at

least a part of that is due to the Dire

Avengers probably being a bit on the

overcosted side currently. For the unit

choices, it seems to have adequately

pleased people. Maybe two different

themes within the craft worlds with

wraiths plus aspects, but the Dire

Avengers maybe feel like halfway to

being a sort of troops choice style

unit. And between then and the Wraiths,

it feels like you've got a fairly sturdy

heart of the army. And the support

choice makes sense for the Wraith units

at least. For the model kits, the wart

spiders are the nicest miniatures in

there. I think more modern games

workshop plastics with some fun wargeear

options for the exarks. The Dire

Avengers are a bit older and have some

mold line problems and maybe some

difficulties with assembling the torsos

onto the legs. Not unworkable, but not

famed for being Games Workshop's nicest

kits. The Wraith Garden Blades are also

a slightly older kit compared with some

though hold up pretty well. Overall, not

too bad on value metrics. I feel pretty

good discount, pretty good points, and

at least an all right amount of plastic

in the box set. I feel like the fact

that all the aspect warriors are at

least fairly elites maybe helps the feel

of that a touch at least in terms of

feels in game. The Dire Avengers maybe

feel on the overcosted side currently.

The wraiths and the spirits here are not

super common in top lists though have

some interest. The war spiders maybe

feel like the single strongest thing

there with their big flicker jumps and

torrent attacks. Overall fairly positive

for people for this one though. 3.4 out

of five. A little bit less bored

compared with some of them. That might

at least partly be due to it being a

fairly recent release. It hasn't been

around for all that long. Talking of

kits that haven't been out for long,

next up we have Combat Patrol World

Eaters. This is the new updated one

that's just come out this past weekend

for pre-order. And in the box set,

there's the Chaos Demon Prince kit, the

Master of Executions, which is another

generic Chaos Space Rain unit, 10 Corn

Berserkers, the Chain Axe Wielding Foot

Troopers of the Blood God, and then 10

Jackal Cultists kind of middling to good

discount for 10th edition combat patrols

at 30% off. a little bit higher compared

with a few of them at least and mainly

due to the demon prince and the corn

berserkers. The points in the box are

fairly good, almost 500 points based on

the previous digital points from the

codeex. For the units, it feels like a

nice enough mix. Good to have the core

troops and a generic leader for them.

The jackal cultists tend to be useful

enough to have in games for grunt work

that your elites don't want to do. And

having a nice centerpiece focal monsters

is quite nice. Maybe not super ideal

that there's two miniatures that aren't

in the small world eaters range here,

but at least you can kit bash the master

of executions with a berserker head as

you can see. And the demon prince does

have a corn themed head. I feel like it

wouldn't have been a bad idea to replace

the master of executions with a

juggernaut lord though given that he's

got the two different builds. Models

wise, most of the miniatures are fairly

recent. The demon prince and berserkers

were both wellreceived and well liked.

Master of Executions is a tiny bit older

and perhaps the jackal cultists are just

a little bit less sought after with most

world eaters players primarily wanting

to go for the space marines of the army.

Rules-wise, it's still early days with

the codeex at this point. Berserkers had

their changes with a much bigger blood

surge move, but also being a strength

four wasn't great for them. The match of

executions doesn't add so much, but at

least it's cheap. Demon princes feel a

bit or nothing could be all right for

some big combos, and Jackal Hortis is

just generally quite strong in game.

Their sticky objectives rule is nice.

overall seems to have been enough to be

ranked on the upper mid of combat

patrols. Seems a good chunk of people

preferred the old one with the mascorn

berserkers in it. This one still feels

like a useful box set to me though I've

not done buying data for this one due to

it being released so recently. Next up

we've got the Black Templars, the

Zealous Crusaders of Sigman. Here we've

got the Templar Marshall unique

miniature basically their captain

equivalent. 10 Primaris Crusaders which

include four neophites, a fiveman

intercessor squad and an impulser and a

copy of the Black Templar upgrade frame.

The upgrade frame again is maybe one of

the better ones here. It has some

meaningful wargeear choices like

upgrades for the scouts on the crusader

squad plus a multi melter for vehicles

too. I quite like their relic options as

well that get modeled on it. Again,

rating the discount will depend on

whether or not you're counting upgrade

sprews. It's 23%. If you don't, so still

not terrible, but not great. If you did

want the Black Templar upgrade sprew,

it's 34%. As mentioned, I feel like I'm

a bit more inclined to include that one

compared with a few of the others.

Points wise, it's 400 points in the box.

And the units are solid enough in game.

I feel like the impulser is quite a nice

one for Templars, given that it can

deliver some sore brethren in it. The

Crusader squads are the focal troops

choice. It's nice to have their generic

leader as well. Maybe the intercessors

feel like the most out of place thing

out of anything. They just perhaps feel

a bit redundant when you've already got

a squad of 10 troops. Feels like they

could have been something else. For

their model kits, it's all either fairly

recent Primaris. And in particular, the

Templar range refresh was very

wellliked. I think they did a good job

of realizing their tropes on the

primaris design. Overall though, besides

a few minor criticisms, this one seems

kind of fine. Sort of middlingish

discounts, middling points, and an all

right amount of plastic and quite nice

to get one of the generic transport

vehicles for the Primaris 2. Again,

overall rated just on the upper mid side

of things at 3.4 out of five, and 10% of

people bought it. Maybe more reflective

of Black Templars being a slightly

lesser played chapter compared with some

others. Next up, we've got the Chaos

Space Marines. In their combat patrol,

we've got a master of possession, a unit

of five possessed, a squad of cultists

and a squad of Chaos Space Marines. The

discounts on the sort of middle to low

side at 23% off buying separately. The

points in the box are medium at 410

points. And overall, I feel like the

unit mix is a pretty good one here.

You've got the faction's core troops,

cultist to be cannon foder or chaff of

objective work, a dangerous squad of

funnel elites with some big hitting

melee, and then the unique leader for

the elite squad. Feels like quite a nice

well balanced introduction to the army.

The kits are all nice enough. Chaos

Space Range had a good chunk of their

range redone over the past few editions.

In particular, I feel like the possessed

and the master of possession are some

really fun sculpts. Maybe the only

criticism would be that the legionnaires

don't get their kill team upgrades in

this set to my knowledge. So, you might

be missing some bits like the bailfire

tome and the reaper chain cannon. In

game at the moment, the vast majority of

the army is really quite playable as

well. Cult is nice for objectives and

sticky objective things. These ner is

fairly big hitting with chaos lords out

of rhinos. Possessed are a nice mix of

fast tough and dangerous. They might be

better in certain detachments though

like creations of bile or maybe renegade

raiders to get them a bit more AP. The

only real let down on the gameplay side

of things is the master of possession

which games workshop just didn't really

do very well with his rules and it

doesn't add too much meaningful to the

possess squad. Overall though feels like

a fairly solid box. A good mix of units

with fairly wellreceived models I think

is always going to be popular and then

sort of middlingish discount and points.

Again, this has all been enough to land

them on the sort of upper mid side of

things at 3.4 out of five. And it seems

that this one just noses ahead of the

other more popular ones that we've seen

so far. 16% of people have bought a

combat patrol chaos space marines, at

least by the population pulse. I guess

they're a faction with a whole bunch of

collectors out there, one of the more

popular ones. And kind of makes sense

that if they get a fairly nice general

purpose box set that a lot of those did

sell. Next up, we've got more Chaos

Marines of the Seni variety. And this

one's Combat Patrol Emperor's Children.

In this one, you get the Lord Exultant,

the sort of generic faction commander,

two sets of three flawless blades, the

Sleneshi Boon augmented elite warriors

with big swords, and then a set of

tormentors or infractors. It can either

be assembled as the sort of shooty

ranged version or the dueling saber

scout rush version. The discount in the

box set is at 28%. So, sort of

middlingish there. The points in the box

set on the higher side again, 470

points. Elite space sprints often

tending to put a few more points on the

table compared with some I suppose. For

the unit choices, getting two sets of

the flawless blades basically means it's

the box sets that if you want to get

those, this one's probably a good idea.

And then you have the generic HQ and the

troops for the faction. I feel like the

troops are a particularly handy one to

have in given that you can build them in

two different ways. I think it would

have made the box set more helpful to

swap out one set of flawless blades for

a set of noise marines. That would have

been a really well-rounded one. though,

as it is, I guess it pairs in a not too

bad way with the recently released

Champions of Celest Box. Miniatures

wise, they all fairly wellreceived

Emperor's Children's sculpts. The vast

majority of their range went down really

quite well. I would say that these ones

maybe didn't tend to be the absolute

pick of the range. I think the best

voted ones and best loved were these

Noise Marines, Lucius and Forgrim

himself. But overall, they were pretty

nicely done. In game at the moment, both

the Tormentor and Infractors are pretty

great. Tormentors are excellent for

objective purposes. Infiltrates and

sticky objectives playing the mission.

Infrared can rush forward super fast

with the Lord Exaltant and between the

pair of them they're a massive melee

threat. Flawless Blades on the other

hand are commonly considered to be a bit

on the overcosted side at 110 points.

Though hopefully that might mean that

Games Workshop could put them down a bit

in the future. Overall, it feels like

it's a good one on some metrics. All

right, discount. Good points and fairly

wellreceived models. Maybe the biggest

criticism might be that you just don't

have that many miniatures in the box

set. Only 17 here. Perhaps feeling a bit

similar to the Blood Angels box in that

regard. Overall, seems that Emperor

Children players have been pretty hyped

for this one, though. You guys gave it a

3.6 out of five. So, definitely putting

it towards the upper end of the Combat

Patrol list. Now, out of the options,

you basically put this 1/5 best. Next

up, we've got the Knights of Titan with

Combat Patrol Grey Knights. In this one,

there's a Terminator Librarian, a squad

of five strike marines with their

nemesis weapons and power armor, five

terminators that you can also build as

paladins, and you can build the strike

squads as the other power armored

variants as well, and then the nemesis

dread knight. For unit choices, you

couldn't really get more perfect for the

Grey Knight Army. They mainly revolve

around these three kits, and it means

that you could get this box multiple

times if you wanted to. Certainly, you

could just pick it up three times and

have a competitive Grey Knight 20,000

point army on the go straight away. It's

also particularly standout in a points

in the box perspective. Depending on

variant built, it's around about 655

points. So, blows everything else that

we've seen so far out of the water. One

of the highest from that perspective for

quite a way there, around about 4.1

points per dollar. The only place where

it really falls down in the metrics is

the discount, which really isn't all

that big. Definitely on the lower side

here. 17% off the kits bought

separately, though I feel like people

tend to overlook that a bit given that

the unit mix is basically exactly what

you want. So, it does seem like a bit of

a no-brain purchase here compared with

it getting the kit separately. If you do

want to build up a fairly even mix of

all the Grey Knights have to offer in

game, they're literally all pretty

strong units at the moment. Dread

Knights maybe being an absolute staple

due to needing to deal with tough stuff.

The terminators are nice enough maybe

with cowor drago and strike squads are

good for objectives and intercessors and

purifiers both nice as well. Besides the

discount the other main criticism I have

of this one is that the grey knight

range is probably due an update at some

stage. Games workshop have been going

around all the other space ring chapters

and updating them to primar scaling. It

does seem that will happen to the grey

knights as well given that they had

castell and crow remade at that scaling.

It seems that there's good odds that

grey knights could get maybe a black

templar style refresh next edition. It

could still be many years away at this

point, which is kind of frustrating and

people just don't know. I feel like it

does put people off getting into Grey

Knights, though, if it's commonly

expected that they're going to get a big

update. You probably don't want to just

get an army finish before some much

cooler kits come along, provided they

make the update look nice. Overall

though, it is a pretty great combat

patrol box. I think the only major

criticism being the discount lower than

most things, but that still doesn't stop

it from being directly better to buy

compared with individual Grey Knights

units normally. Overall, we've given

this one a 3.6 out of five. Again, this

one sold a little bit less than some,

only 10% having bought one. Grey Knights

are a slightly more niche collective

faction compared with some. As

mentioned, I'm sure some people are

apprehensive about starting them right

now with what feels like at least some

fairly strong odds for an update in the

not crazy distant future. Placing third

in the combat patrol rankings from you

guys, though. Next up, we have the new

combat patrol for death guard. This one

has the lord of vivalolence, gunnery

commander and terminator armor, the

talman counting your plagues, seven

plague marines as the core troops

choice, three elite death shroud

terminators with their great big

scythes, and the generic chaos space

marine rhino kit. Useful enough for

getting play marines into battle, a

slightly older kit compared with the

rest and maybe needing a bit more

conversion if you're going to make it

quite as diseased or mutated looking

like the rest of the death guard. For a

discount in the box set though, it seems

to be on the upper end of 10th edition

combat patrol offerings. 35% off and

that is pretty strong compared with the

vast majority that have come out

recently and the points in the box set

also seem to be very good indeed. Death

guard units got more powerful and went

up in points with their codeex. So

they're around about 500 points here.

Again, that's easily on the upper end

compared with the average combat patrols

for the choice of units. It feels like

it's quite a well set up box set. The

core troops with a leader option for

them and then a rhino to transport them

to deal their damage and then a unit of

dangerous elites with a leader that you

could put in them. Even if I feel like

you might be a bit more tempted to put a

Lord of Contagasion in there, I guess

otherwise for small criticisms, the

Plague Marine box set, only having seven

models is all very god specific, but it

does mean that you get three less than

their other deity competitors. The death

card have just had their codeex launch

recently, so everything is a tiny bit up

in the air in terms of rules. At first

impressions though, plague marines are

still looking like a very strong unit

with some good leader choices, plenty of

synergies with the detachments and death

look incredibly scary with their

potential to six-in deep strike and then

charge. They've got pretty massive stats

and to be able to get them exactly where

they need to be quite so reliable is

big. Lord of Vivivalence seems really

nice commanding certain guns. He's nice

with Black Lord Terminators or things

like bloat drones with guns. And

Talimman's a pretty good leader as well

at the cheap 40 points that he seems to

be. I feel like that could just be

enough to allow him to just sit at the

back, screen out part of your back field

and spend the game counting some

diseases to generate you some command

points. That doesn't seem like an

unreasonable use of 40 points. Overall,

feels like there's quite a lot to be

positive about here. units that make

sense together and some pretty cool core

miniatures for the army that will work

well in game. I guess you could

criticize the amount of models in the

box set as there are only 13 of them,

but three of them are incredibly a

dangerous elite terminators and the

rhino's a big chunky transport at least.

And it seems that people are willing to

overlook the miniature count. Overall,

that's led to you guys giving it a 3.9

out of five, third highest on the

rankings and certainly quite a lot

better than the majority of combat

patrols that have come out in 10th

edition. I don't know if there might be

just a little bit of new release

enthusiasm for this one, but it does

feel like quite a well balanced box set

and feels like one that you could get

two of as well if you'd like to maybe

convert the second lord of vivivalence

into a lord of contagas by finding a

messiah. I'm sure you could convert the

taliman into a different support

character. In second place and we've got

the dark elder combat patrol drewi has

an archon in its two commander fleets,

10 cabalite warriors as their core

troops choice, five incubi and then two

big chunky skimmers in a razor under

ravager. This one just feels pretty good

by all metrics. A good amount of points

in the box at 460. A good amount of

discount as well at 38% so above the

vast majority of 10th edition things.

But on top of that, the actual kits that

you are getting discounted, at least for

the most part, are a bit cheaper than

what Games Workshop would charge for

them if they released now. A lot of

their price points are quite good for

the amount of models that you get in

them just due to them having released a

while back. It does mean that a fair

bunch of the models in this are at least

somewhat old. I feel like they're just

at the turning point when Games Workshop

plastics got significantly better. I

feel like their on the board appearance

holds up really, really well. My biggest

criticism might be the archon, which

doesn't have the best posing in the

world. For the unit choice, I feel like

they're all really sensible picks. It's

the core faction commander and the most

notable troops choice. A set of exciting

and dangerous elites with some of the

more recent sculpts of the faction. And

then having two big skimmers in the box,

I think is a really big win and just

feels like there's a lot more weight in

this one compared with loads of the

other combat patrols. The raider is

pretty much one of the most iconic

Dukari units and the ravager a nice

exciting gumbboat and all of them are

really quite usable in game at the

moment. Incubi nice enough in sky

splinter. Maybe the cabalite warriors

preferring venoms a little bit. They

could certainly make good use for

raiders as well. Maybe getting some

witches with leth to jump out of them.

Overall, this one just seems pretty

great value on most of the metrics and

just the general feel and unit choice as

well. good points, great discount, lots

of plastic and nice enough models that

seem to work very well together and

you'd want at the core of an army. I

feel like there's pretty much no chance

that when Games Workshop red does the

Drew Carrie Patrol for 10th edition,

it's going to be this good. So, I guess

the days of this one are a bit on the

numbered side right now. You guys gave

it a 3.9 out of 10. Though again, it's

slightly less bought compared with most,

only 11%. Again, I think primarily due

to Drukari being a rather niche and less

collective faction compared with the

majority out there. Games Workshop does

feel like they've been neglecting them a

bit, letting a chunk of their range go

out of print while they're waiting for

plastic

refreshes. Finally though, that only

leaves us with one. I feel like there

was only ever going to be one winner of

this contest with the adeptist

custodians one in the combat patrol for

the golden guardians of the emperor. You

get a blade champion, five custodian

guard, three Alice terminators, and five

custodian wardens. So basically entirely

focused on their gleaming golden battle

line. I feel like on foot troops with

guardian spears are what you think of

with the custodians. So pretty cool to

get a fairly good amount of really

chunky infantry here. They're mainly an

army that builds around five model kits

and these are three of them. Just adding

in some jet bikes and sisters of silence

and that's most of the plastic range.

The miniatures are pretty good quality

ones. Nice recent custodia sculpts from

the modern era 40k ones. And in game

they easily win the amount of points on

the table contest. 790 points out of the

box set at minimum. Though weirdly

enough, they're also an army that can

expand vastly on top of that. Each of

the infantry kits could build a shield

captain from it if you had a mind to or

just build the model and then choose to

build it either as a shield captain or a

regular guy in the squad. It wouldn't

feel completely unreasonable to have one

shield captain alongside the blade

champion leading a small force like

this. Maybe in particular in lines of

the emperor for in game purposes. All of

these are very competitive right now.

Wardens and blade champions are about

the strongest thing in the custodian's

army for an on foot battle line. He can

make them move fast and hit harder and

they handle the defense. Alice

custodians got way better and an

interesting unit in the lines of the

emperor potentially could split a big

unit of them and then sending them

teleporting off individually could be

fun and a custodian guard of the core

troops of the faction. Nicely cheap now

and very usable in their own right

perhaps particularly so when paired with

Inquisitor carrier Draxas currently

overall it's just pretty excellent all

around on all fronts. All the kits

generally have good points per their

money. So getting them all bundled

together for a 26% discount is pretty

nice and easily a box set that you could

get multiple of if you starting

custodies potentially having 1,600

points worth of custodians on the board

just from getting two of them. Overall

between all that you've given it a 4.1

out of five beating out the death guard

and the Dukari by a couple of pips. It

does also seem that this one's the

single most bought combat patrol set as

well at least outside of Leviathan box

set starter set things. 18% of people

having picked this up. Custodians are at

least a fairly popular and well-

collected faction and I feel like they

kind of won the combat patrol lottery of

10th edition. Really going for a box set

that was already considered pretty good

to another one that's very solid indeed.

That just about brings us to the end of

the combat patrol rankings. Here are

just a few roundups of a few of the

different metrics discussed across the

video for the points cost one to just

stand absolutely head and shoulders

clear. The adept custodians and then the

grey knights 150 points clear of the

world eaters and then the custodians

almost as much ahead. Again, looks like

the average combat patrol is more like

430 points or so. I do remember the days

when Games Workshop generally tended to

aim at 500 for them. Does seem that they

have slipped down a bit since then.

Otherwise, here's the metrics by

theoretical discount in the box when

bought separately. I feel like if you

had to pick a rough metric for judging

how much excitement there is in the box,

points might do a bit better than

discount. Here the rankings are topped

by the tyrannids and space marines where

if you can split a start collecting box

set there some of the cheapest Warhammer

miniatures available in the game.

Otherwise now a bunch of bigger discount

combat patrols have been replaced by

10th edition ones. It's the Drukari

after that and then interestingly the

agents of the imperium new death guard

and genesteeler cult after that. Quite a

big mix of ones that are considered

quite good and ones that are considered

mid to bad. I would bear in mind that

for the divergent chapter space ring

ones here they do have upgrade sprus as

well which haven't included in this

ranking. So if they were thrown in, then

the theoretical number would be a bit

more. Here's the numbers by biometrics.

As mentioned, the Tyranids and Space

Marines are the most bought here just

due to the starter sets and Leviathan.

And then after that, it's a bit of a mix

between the combat patrols that are

considered better and the factions that

are most collectors with what custodies,

chaos marines, necrons, tower, and orcs

following that up or 40k factions with

really quite big followings. Custodians

maybe winning out because the combat

patrols quite so stand out. I guess on

the other end of the spectrum we've got

the combat patrols that just aren't

really considered quite so good and make

thousand sons Astromeitarum and agents

of the Imperium are down there along

with Space Wolves. I guess just due to

the kits being a bit more on the niche

side. Even the ones that are considered

kind of bad though. It isn't like

there's no one buying them at all. Say

for example the admech one. While people

didn't like it very much and it's a box

for a slightly less collected faction,

still half as many people bought that as

the custodians. So there is a fair

amount of variety here. Finally, here's

the metrics by your rankings. Lots and

lots of boxes considered more in the

sort of mid-tier kind of fun but not

standout. Looks like it's the custodian,

Death Guard, Dukari, Grey Knights, and

Emperor's Children standing out a bit

from the crowd for you guys. And then

the Admeg, Astromeitarum, Thousand Sons,

and Agents of the Imperium, just

considered kind of bad box sets. In any

case though, I'll be interested to hear

whether or not you agree or disagree

with the general opinions here. Let me

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