Games Workshop - Warhammer 40,000: Elite Edition Starter Set

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The second mission introduces not only that beautiful Primaris Captain model to the tabletop, but also the Fight phase – gruelling melee combat. This time, the objective is straightforward: annihilate your foe until only one of you is left standing. Necron Turn 1 As well as providing you with the all the basics, the Core Book includes more advanced rules, helping you to craft your collection into finely honed Battle-forged armies, as well as fight missions designed for open, narrative and matched play games of every size – Combat Patrol, Incursion, Strike Force and Onslaught. As if that wasn’t already enough, the Core Book plays host to the innovative new Crusade campaign system which enables your army to grow in size and evolve from rookies to hard-bitten veterans over the course of your battles.

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A heavyweight paper gaming mat , plus a gloss-finished cardboard tray that can be used to provide scenery for your first battles – transform any kitchen table into an appropriately grim, dark warscape! The gaming board also displays several lettered markers designed to work alongside the missions in the Command Manual.Their sculpts are gorgeous, their looks are spectacularly unique, and they exude some real presence. That the Command Edition comes with the Primaris Captain is a great feature – condemning those wonderfully unique models to Indomitus alone would have been a travesty.

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The first mission has the Space Marine player using 3 Intercessors and the Necron player using 5 Warriors and simply talks the players through using movement and shooting.A few factions have Combat Patrol boxes instead – these are a literal army in a box, designed to fit perfectly into Combat Patrol games of around 500 points or a power level of 25. Each includes an HQ choice, a Troops choice and some specialist units that showcase how the army fights, giving you not only the perfect way to play small games, but a great foundation on which to build your galaxy-conquering force. There is actually a pretty nefarious plan afoot, which any galactic villain would be proud of, but we don’t want to spoil it all here. So, to properly put these through their paces, and to try and convince some readers with gorgeously-painted armies that have never been used to grind a foe into dust to give playing Ninth Edition a go, what follows is a battle report for each of the missions. Functionally, these two boxes are the smallest offerings between the two editions. They both come with a handful of models for their respective factions, dice, a play mat, rules, and some terrain (which is really just the box flipped over). Between the two we have to say that the new Recruit Edition is looking much more enticing – and not just because it’s a larger picture. Model-wise, you get a more useful set of miniatures. Who needs 3 Primaris Intercessors or 3 Reivers? That’s not even 1/2 a squad… With the Recruit Edition, you get functional groupings of minis and we really like that better.

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Which also means it’s a good idea to have some basic terrain included in the set so that you have everything you need to play. This terrain piece is literally the box the game comes in turned upside down. Frozen in action and rendered in great detail, side-by-side together, they look like the universe’s most deadly boyband.

I won’t dive into each sprue the way he has since I don’t think there’s much I could add to what he’s already said, but I’ll give some of my impressions from building the models.

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If you have ever been unfortunate enough as a complete neophyte to a game like Warhammer to have been dumped right into the middle of a full-sized game with half a dozen different units a side, with another complete neophyte, you will recall what a completely overwhelming experience it can be. If any models provided any difficulty, it would be the Necrons, but that’s mostly due to the exceedingly thin pieces. Due to how brittle they are, you may need to be a bit more careful than with the Space Marines. In fact, one of the Necron’s tiny spindly arms was broken in the box when I opened it. If you need to add to the difficulty of the game, but have no desire to buy fancy terrain pieces, you can use household objects and imagination to fill the open void on your board… Key Gaming Equipment I spent roughly 3 hours assembling the entire force, but honestly 2 of those hours were spent mindlessly scraping tiny mould lines, or figuring out ways to leave the models in sub-assemblies so I can modify them later. Even though it’s designed to be a concentrated version of the Core Book, I was a little disappointed to see the size of The Rules book. As one of the things designed to set this box apart from the other editions, it really doesn’t have the gravitas I was hoping. The Games Workshop product picture, shown above, will have you believe the rulebook is as large as, if not larger than, the Command Manual. It definitely isn’t.On all three models, each one has a spine/hips component that is attached to the model via a hole that is pushed onto a peg inside the model’s torso. In the assembly guide it really is not clear which way round this needs to be attached to the miniature, and because each spine is not straight, if you manage to attach this to your model the wrong way round and then try and attach its legs, they will not line up with the holes on the base. I’ve been playing tabletop games on and off for about 8 years now. I’ve played a lot of Warhammer Fantasy Battles and Age of Sigmar. I’ve dabbled in Warcry and Kill Team but have never played Warhammer 40,000. Given some of the contents in this box, it might be more accurate to consider this a child of Indomitus. If the Recruit Edition is its toddler and the Elite Edition is its teen, then the Warhammer 40,000 Command Edition is its golden eldest child. It’s good. It’s almost there, but it’s in danger of struggling to get out of the long shadow cast by its super-successful (and, let’s be honest, probably super hot) parent.