NooBs guide to bang for your buck.

[Mr Mystery]

Evening all.

Just been looking at the Space Marine Devastator Sprues on the GW website, having read the thread about Gravcannons.

Not currently being a Space Marine player, I didn't realise just how many bits and odds and sods are on those three sprues. I knew about the various big guns, but not the near ludicrous pistols and hand to hand weapons.

And it got me thinking - if someone was to start out collecting an army, which boxed sets would say are essential to get the widest variety of armaments, allowing a modeller to avoid the surprisingly/disappointingly pricey mono-pose character kits etc? Are there complimentary kits out there - perhaps the five man Tactical Squad for the Devs - maybe the 10 man offers better value?

Are there some kits you just wouldn't buy - outdated example would be the Skyray and Hammerhead of yore. Both the same price, but the Skyray kit enabled you to make turrets for both, so just seemed a no-brainer, even if one version only occasionally (or indeed, in the end, never) saw combat,

I'm not going to set an arbitrary hypothetical budget, as I think that would place an unnecessary boundary to the discussion.

Right, have at it folks!