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February 16, 2019 at 2:06 pm #1349784

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Interestingly, GW do this and people really give them stick for it. You can buy a box of 10 Cadians (basic troops) for £18 but it’s £21 for a box of 5 Tempestus Scions (Elite Troops). Personally I don’t have too much of an issue with it, I would rather see a nice variety of opponents than pay the same amount of money per gram of plastic. In order to ensure all armies have a similar buy in cost, you have to charge more for “elite” troop types but in so doing it means that you remove low cost as an incentive to buy the small, elite armies.

Obviously there is still the hobby commitment required for larger armies, regardless of genre and so to some extent you will always see a leaning towards the smaller armies.

But I personally do think that it’s better to charge less for horde units to try and encourage people to collect those armies. Just my view of course and I can see why some people wouldn’t like that.