Oh what a trip down memory lane! I bought the Battle For Macragge set for $50 in 2007, which was a lot for a middle schooler. I never got to play with anyone but that kickstarted me down this deep road and here I am. Notes: *I still use the little red rulers and blast markers for other tabletop games because they are so convenient to use. *One or two of the space marines had models without helmets but I didn't find out until years later because the faces weren't very detailed and I had painted everyone's heads ultramarine blue.
I bought the Dark Vengeance Limited Edition at the midnight release with my very first paycheck I ever earned. It remains the single best purchase of my entire life. I hope to continue this hobby for the rest of my life
Those Deffcoptas are available in the 'build and paint' sets, an obscure little release, that also includes the terrain from the Dark Eldar v Space Marine starter kit, and a few different space marine sculpts
Still currently available, although in a weird spot with distribution, I haven't found a way to navigate to them from the GW websites, but they're definitely available, and distributed by GW.
Where did you find them? I saw that they (and the cool warboss!) were in the set but I don't see any stocked anywhere. I've found them on the GW site here : www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/build_paint But the stockists are mainly tiny stores without web presence and those that have show out of stock since 2018
@@Frazzled02 In person I found them at my local Good Games, and I think I've seen them at a couple of other flgs', but I don't recall ever being able to order them online (either out of stock, or just a splash page without the ability to order) - it's a pity the distribution is so weird, it's got the great warboss and Deffcopta, but I was only able to pick up one copy.
Aw 2nd edition... my intro to GW back when the Meadowhall, Sheffield store opened, 10% off and some free paints if I remember rightly? £35 I think it was? Cardboard dreadnoughts ftw.
That's what got me into the hobby. I remember opening it on Christmas day 2000 and was just utterly captivated. It was truly magical. I think I still have the land speeder for that kit somewhere... Been absorbed by the hobby since.
Yes it did! I still have them, and never got around to buying other missile launcher devastators - just used them if they are included in the army list. Not a good paint job :)
2:30 - "I suspect that technically for Games Workshop tournaments, you could still play him as a death dread if you wanted to, but I think you might get some strange looks." Considering the general humor and shtick of Orcs, them marching a giant cardboard drawing across the field as if it was a unit would kind of be on brand for them, wouldn't it? Like that one unit where one is carrying a sign that says something like "No Orks Here" along with his buddies using upsidedown metal trash cans as disguises. The only weird part would be it having guns...except given the way Ork psyker powers work - basically, if enough of them, together, believe something, strongly enough; it becomes reality (if I understand their lore correctly enough) - might even make THAT work. Orks, man... Cool history lesson. : ) Just got my Rookie Starter Box and just starting in Warhammer 40k now (need to go buy some clippers - my standard wire cutters DO NOT seem to be cutting it, er, figuratively speaking, for getting the parts out of the sprues), and it's cool seeing the history that got us here.
But also look at the quality too. Like imagine if game prices went up with inflation. They've been $60 USD for a long time and still make billions. Now creep it up to over $100
I was like 10 when I got my hands on the the 4th edition starter set, was fun having a tac squad and some guys fro them to fight. In 2009 I got two of my friends in high school into the game and they just split the 5th ed starter box. I remember being jealous that their starter box came with so many models.
I remember getting the 3rd edition box and I was so excited I gave all the marines two guns, went back to the store and they said I couldn't use them as I wasn't allowed two guns. I was gutted haha
Had the third edition starter when I was a kid, called the Dark Eldar "caltrops" because I couldn't so much as move their sprues without poking myself.
I remember that 1998 box set very fondly. I still have those two reference sheets, but regrettably lost or gave away everything else that came in the box. It will always be my favourite 40k product!
I haven’t touched 40k since 5th edition but this was a nice blast to the past with that cardboard dreadnaught I grew up on. The plastic jungle terrain was a game changer for us
Assault on Black Reach sold for $60 US at the time of release and was worth ever darn penny! The mini-rulebook alone was worth $25 at the time. I bought several of these for the minis and sold off the rulebooks to make back most of my money. My current Ork and Astartes armies are LOADED with these minis!
I started in 8th back in October. I bought myself a box of Know No Fear and fell in love instantly. Then I got Dark Imperium for Christmas and I plan to pre-order Indomitus ASAP.
I began with the Second Edition one. People tend to mock it now, and the minis we got, but it was still a great box at the time. Tons of minis, terrain, lots of books, templates, etc. And lol, the card dreadnought. Though to be fair, the box was dirt cheap, and the actual Space Ork Dreadnought model at the time was not a huge improvement, over the card one! The Dreadnoughts in Rogue Trader and early Second Edition looked VASTLY different than current ones do. Most vehicles back then did not actually have models to represent them yet. Anyway, I loved that box. I don’t remember the US price and my box doesn’t have a price tag on it. But I was able to buy it, even as a kid, off of my pittance of lawn-mowing money. So my recollection is it was very inexpensive.
Bring me back my 2006 with The Battle for Macragge as a starter and Dark Crusade on PC. I remember the autumn of 2006 when I went to the local mall with my parents and saw those Black Library books in a book shop: Ultramarines omnibus, Eisenhorn and the first books of Horus Heresy. I bought Horus rising, and False gods. Read them with one breath and then bought Hereticus to dive even deeper in W40k universe. 14 years later. 2020, my girlfriend gives me Know No Fear starter set. My first army of w40k. It's been a long road.
I believe 2nd edition was £40 when it came out. As mentioned by someone else, the 2nd edition marines did include 2 x sargents with bolt pistols+chainswords, 2 x marines with flamers and 2 x marines with rocket launchers.
I also started with the 3rd Edition set. I’m not sure if it was simply from the box artwork or not but my force was a Black Templars army. That rule book had some great artwork and some great photos of miniatures in the box. I remember really liking the Valhallan Ice Warriors defending some frozen outpost against a large Tyranid horde.
@@McWerp Sadly now the only folks playing Black Templars are diehard fans as gameplay-wise I think they're the absolute worst chapter you can play currently. Really sucks since they're by far my favorite chapter with some of the coolest lore and coolest characters, yet GW gave them the shaft HARD.
Just picked up 2nd edition along with the '94 extension box set, which was just full of cardboard, from my parents loft, should certainly add to my new primaris army.
Hey, this was a really neat idea! I know it's a bit off topic certainly but a similar video for WHFB would be interesting as well; hobby retrospectives are always amusing.
I remember playing a 2 vs 2 battle during the 3rd war for Armagedon at a local game store. My Space Wolves and my teammates Blood Angels took out a force of Orks and Eldar. We both won the 3rd Edition box set with the special Power Axe Combi-melta captain. So much fun.
The old cardboard terrain is amazing, I have a set of the old necromunda and my cousin has everything card they made, they look awesome on the table and are great. I wish they still sold these sets, easy to put away and look great when made
That feel when finally painting the tactical squad from the Macragge box in 2020... (The crashed Aquila-Shuttle is still one of the best terrain pieces GW ever made XD)
My little brother and I got our start into 40k with Battle for Maccrage. Hindsight being 20/20 I cant believe that we got the paperback rulebook, a tactical squad, 8 genestealers, and 12 termagaunts olusbthe steller terrain for only $50. It certainly made us hesitant to pay the MSRP for the actual kits. Granted each if the models were push fit monopose, but the value was undeniable. We also picked up Assault on Black Reach when that came out. Getting back in with Dark Imperium I was shocked at how much the price had increased for the starter set but the value went up to match. I think each half was what, 800 points or so?
In Australia 2nd edition cost me $100 AUD. It took me 3 months of saving my pocket-money to get it. You also needed Dark Millenium an add on set to use psychic powers.
Have recently come back to 40k after 10+ year hiatus. Still have all my childhood Space Marines from my Assault on Black Reach starter set. The captain you get is still the one I use to this day. Really nice to use them again in games after all this time.
The Termagants boxed set from 3rd Edition was a mixed box of 8 Termagants and 8 Hormagaunts (and enough Rippers to make a single base), so while they might have shared some sculpts with Macragge, it was a different sprue entirely. I started with 'nids in 3rd Edition a few months before the release of their codex and my early collection was largely repackaged mono-pose Termagants & Genestealers from 2nd Edition that GW sold in boxes of 4 each for $5 (US)!
Ahh so it was the 4th Edition box that I had back in the day, wow... how time flies... Thinking about getting back into it w/ Indomitus, may still have my old models somewhere - fingers crossed...
Awesome trip down memory lane. Would be great to see a look back on how some other iconic units changed over the years. The evolution of the Tactical Squad and Dreadnought would certainly be interesting to see.
I still have a Third Edition box somewhere at my parent's place. My dad and I bought it for the rulebook, as at the time our LGS was out. He ended up going Dark Angels, we gave the Dark Eldar to my younger brother, and I went Craftworld. Fun times.
AOBR was my first starter box. One cool thing is that to this day, the AOBR Dread is the only way to get a multimelta on a box dread without conversions or Forge World. If this has changed, I'll take my lumps, but the last time I bought a dreadnought there was no multimelta on the sprues.
I had the 2nd edition one but life came and i couldn't get back till 2 years ago. My dad have one the space orks as a mascot on all is car dashboards. It now is velcro'd to my computer monitor 28 years later. Now i have the income but no time.
I just bought a second-hand Battle for Macraggge box, came with everything but a genestealer and that soup bowl. I am so excited to paint it, Angels of Fire vs 3rd edition Tyranids. I'm gonna make the tyranids colder-coloured and the Angels of Fire are deep red and yellow. It's gonna contrast brilliantly and I am excited for the terrain (It'll be muted greys) too!
My intro to WarHammer proper was playing a small game of battle for Mcragg at a games workshop when I was about 8. I had no idea what I was doing but termagaunts looked cool.
I bought Assault on black reach. And i gotta say its still my favourite starter to this day. Good ork units and terminators. Sadly lost the powersword of the captain. Replaced it with a spare powerfist i had. Also missing rotors on one deff kopta. i recently found Battle of Macragge at a flea market. Had all the units and terrain still on sprue. Only things missing was the book(s) And heres the kicker, paid 25 kroner for it. Thats less than 4 american dollars. Flea markets rule. I get why they swapped out terrain for better units though. Gotta say the terrain is really the only part that isnt underwhelming. Also Im not a fan of Dark Angels. Thats why i prefer black reach over Dark Vengeance.
Got into the 40k wargame in 2017 with 8th (played the RPGs years before that) and got two DG halfs shit cheap. Still the core of my army today. was a great starter set.
I remember starting in 2012, sharing the Dark Vengeance box with a friend. He's Dark Angels beat me everytime.. But he gave me the DA later and I kitbashed them into my chaos army. Good times.
I recently bought Dark Imperium as I only started the Hobby at the beginning of quarantine as my Granda had a couple of boxes of miniatures from when someone tried to have him sell them in his shop on two occasions in 2012 and 2019 but decided against as he didn’t now how popular it would be in where we live so he gave them to me to give me something to do and I’ve loved it so far
I had the 2nd edition box set. Sooooo many grots! Currently repainting the marines as I've dusted off the mighty blood angels for the first time in about 20 years. The tactical squads have flames and missile launchers each. Still got all the old card too
For me it all started with me discovering the beautiful game that is Dawn of War 1. I was 14 at that time and after I played it with my brother we decided to buy a few models. The current starter set was the one with the ultramarines and the tyranids and now another 14 years later we both are still huge Warhammer 40k fans.
I'm just getting started in 40k and my friend offered me a Dark Imperium box, still sealed for painting 3,000 pts of his Nids. He even tossed in a Start Collecting Space Marine box and paints to go with my Indomitus box Marines. Really like that Dark Imperium boxset.
Started with 1st Ed. remember the excitement of 2nd blown away as I have been with every starter set since. Still have a few in my collection 2nd Ed - 2 squads of Space Wolves; 4th & 5th Ed. 4 Squads of Red Scorpion Battle Company, 6th Ed. Chaos Chosen squad for Red Corsairs
my first set was black reach but was introduced when my friend back in junior school had second edition. i never ever really played but loved painting. now my son got the know no fear set a few years ago, and now wants one of the newer sets. maybe i should get in to the game for playing and KICK HIS ASSSS!!!
I got the 3rd edition starter box in 2004, probly just befor the launch of 4th, I was at a family wedding across the country and my uncle took me out for my 10th birthday. We found a comic book store and I saw the box and thought dahm that looks cool. I'm 27 now and I have played most systems of table top games. The hobby has been the only consistent thing in my chaotic life.
Actually the second Ed game Marines had two flamers, two Sargent with bolt pistols and two missile launchers among all the bolters. Additionally the pegs and sockets on the Sargent's bolt pistol arm, the missile launcher arm and the Space Ork boy bolt pistol arm allowed for a tiny bit of pose-ability. This was my way into the hobby too and I still have it with all it's wargear cards and tokens. As you say the card Ork dread is a weird addition and It hadn't occurred to me that it was still valid. Also it's probably the closest thing you'll get to Codex Squats with most of the rules and wargear they had at the time in 1 place.
Dark Vengance was the boxset that got me started. It's the boxset that had the Dark Angles space marines vs. the forces of chaos. It the introduce the new chaos cultists as well as chaos Chosen, but GW stoped producing them two years after the box was released.
I started with 3rd edition as a Christmas gift, then got Battle for Macragge. I still have the Macragge box somewhere, I’d quite like to find that pilot miniature to paint up 😁
I started WH in 1993, but the first actual starter box I got was Black Reach. I just painted the Orks from it last month! 12 years isn't that long, right?
So... I got the battle for maccragge... still have the minis. It did include as well a plasma nuke that the pilot could ‘carry.’ It also had a homing beacon. I was in a comic shop in ft Wayne IN, and the store owner asked if I bought 2 boxes of the starter set, he would sell them to me for a total of $45 total. Apparently he was short on the pre order for a discount. Best 40k buy I ever got.... still got my 6 deff kopters and all those models..
I first got into Warhammer 40k back in 2010 during the Assault on Black Reach era, at that time I was deploying the Vindicator all the time! Nowadays, I retired the badass tank due to it being succeeded by the Repulsor Executioner...
I cannot believe I have been playing since 5th edition, the main staple of my Army is the Dreadnought that comes in the box. I kind of want to make him a venerable dreadnought now
I always loved the 2nd Edition Tactical Squads. My mental image of Marines was much more of a faceless, uniform line of troops bearing down on the enemy rather than the individual models of today with robes and stuff- all the bling gets in the way of smiting the xenos.
The Marine half of AoBR was one of my first purchases. I still have the terminators, dreadnought and captain, but the captain had some conversions done on him and the push fit marines are long gone.
Black reach was what got me and my brother into the hobby with us both having an army from it and the space marines from the kit remain in my army in perfect shape to this day (even have two of those captains because of eBay)
if you brought the cardboard dreadnought to an event you'd have my respect for your commitment to the bit
I remember playing against that thing when I started playing. Even than it looked hilarious 😁
"I mean _technically_ it's an officially released Citadel miniature..."
"It is agreed. The cardboard dreadnought can stay."
@Kaiden Arjun are you advertising some virus on a warhammer video? Bro get that shit outta here
Oh what a trip down memory lane!
I bought the Battle For Macragge set for $50 in 2007, which was a lot for a middle schooler. I never got to play with anyone but that kickstarted me down this deep road and here I am.
Notes:
*I still use the little red rulers and blast markers for other tabletop games because they are so convenient to use.
*One or two of the space marines had models without helmets but I didn't find out until years later because the faces weren't very detailed and I had painted everyone's heads ultramarine blue.
Note: 2nd edition box came with two tac squads, including sergent, flamer and missle launcher in each squad. also it cost £40
Yeah, when the average wage was £10 a week....lol
Wasnt that some of the first plastic also?
@@about99ninjas56 Yep. There were the First Fully Plastic Marines (After Rouge Trade)
Yep flamer for the gretchen and rocket launchers where a must as orks had a dreadnought.
You could also buy the 2nd edition bidder from the UK retailer Argos but was the same price as GW.
I bought the Dark Vengeance Limited Edition at the midnight release with my very first paycheck I ever earned. It remains the single best purchase of my entire life. I hope to continue this hobby for the rest of my life
Those Deffcoptas are available in the 'build and paint' sets, an obscure little release, that also includes the terrain from the Dark Eldar v Space Marine starter kit, and a few different space marine sculpts
Still currently available, although in a weird spot with distribution, I haven't found a way to navigate to them from the GW websites, but they're definitely available, and distributed by GW.
@@RRDalton It's called 'Battle for Vedros' and it's a shame it's so hard to find despite being quite widespread :(
Where did you find them? I saw that they (and the cool warboss!) were in the set but I don't see any stocked anywhere. I've found them on the GW site here : www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/build_paint
But the stockists are mainly tiny stores without web presence and those that have show out of stock since 2018
@@KuK137 I'm pretty sure it's separate again, wasn't battle for Vedros it's own box? I'm talking about a series of 6 boxes of varying sizes
@@Frazzled02 In person I found them at my local Good Games, and I think I've seen them at a couple of other flgs', but I don't recall ever being able to order them online (either out of stock, or just a splash page without the ability to order) - it's a pity the distribution is so weird, it's got the great warboss and Deffcopta, but I was only able to pick up one copy.
I got in for 6th with Dark Vengeance, still have all of them, broke them out again with the announcement of 9th and I’m well back into the hobby again
Aw 2nd edition... my intro to GW back when the Meadowhall, Sheffield store opened, 10% off and some free paints if I remember rightly? £35 I think it was? Cardboard dreadnoughts ftw.
I had the 3. Edition Starter Set with the dark Eldar. And the ruins. ist was a Lot of fun and i still Love the art and Fluff of the rulebook
I wish I still had my plastic dark eldar from that set
That's what got me into the hobby. I remember opening it on Christmas day 2000 and was just utterly captivated. It was truly magical. I think I still have the land speeder for that kit somewhere... Been absorbed by the hobby since.
The rulebook also had some great terrain making guides
The marines were so OP in that set the DE couldn’t event hurt the land speeder lol
Second edition had a flamer and missile launcher in both squads.
yes, it did.
And a Sargent with bolt pistol and chainswords.
Yes it did! I still have them, and never got around to buying other missile launcher devastators - just used them if they are included in the army list. Not a good paint job :)
13:06 "And this has been the only box set with Chaos actually featured in"
8th Edition Dark Imperium: "Am I a joke to you?"
We'll he mentioned that with 8th Edition GW made Death Guard kinda standalone faction, so officially it was the only one
8th edition Shadowspear: "am I a joke to you?"
2:30 - "I suspect that technically for Games Workshop tournaments, you could still play him as a death dread if you wanted to, but I think you might get some strange looks."
Considering the general humor and shtick of Orcs, them marching a giant cardboard drawing across the field as if it was a unit would kind of be on brand for them, wouldn't it? Like that one unit where one is carrying a sign that says something like "No Orks Here" along with his buddies using upsidedown metal trash cans as disguises. The only weird part would be it having guns...except given the way Ork psyker powers work - basically, if enough of them, together, believe something, strongly enough; it becomes reality (if I understand their lore correctly enough) - might even make THAT work.
Orks, man...
Cool history lesson. : ) Just got my Rookie Starter Box and just starting in Warhammer 40k now (need to go buy some clippers - my standard wire cutters DO NOT seem to be cutting it, er, figuratively speaking, for getting the parts out of the sprues), and it's cool seeing the history that got us here.
Its crazy to see the old prices
The new price is insane. Just 3D print.
But also look at the quality too. Like imagine if game prices went up with inflation. They've been $60 USD for a long time and still make billions. Now creep it up to over $100
I have finally got round to painting the orcs from assault on black reach this week.
I was like 10 when I got my hands on the the 4th edition starter set, was fun having a tac squad and some guys fro them to fight. In 2009 I got two of my friends in high school into the game and they just split the 5th ed starter box. I remember being jealous that their starter box came with so many models.
I remember getting the 3rd edition box and I was so excited I gave all the marines two guns, went back to the store and they said I couldn't use them as I wasn't allowed two guns. I was gutted haha
Had the third edition starter when I was a kid, called the Dark Eldar "caltrops" because I couldn't so much as move their sprues without poking myself.
Take a sip everytime you don't have Marines in starter.
Remember kids, don't drink and drive.
I remember that 1998 box set very fondly. I still have those two reference sheets, but regrettably lost or gave away everything else that came in the box. It will always be my favourite 40k product!
Dad got battle for macragge for us when I was too young to paint. Been in love with the hobby ever since.
Battle for Mac. Was my first, brilliant box it felt, I particularly liked the terrain that cave with it and we still use it today :)
I've always wondered about this, glad somw one made a video about it
I haven’t touched 40k since 5th edition but this was a nice blast to the past with that cardboard dreadnaught I grew up on. The plastic jungle terrain was a game changer for us
Assault on Black Reach sold for $60 US at the time of release and was worth ever darn penny! The mini-rulebook alone was worth $25 at the time. I bought several of these for the minis and sold off the rulebooks to make back most of my money. My current Ork and Astartes armies are LOADED with these minis!
6th addition Dark Vengence was mine! Still have all of it and still use some!
Raven Wing Biers are by far my favorite Dark Angels model
I started in 8th back in October. I bought myself a box of Know No Fear and fell in love instantly. Then I got Dark Imperium for Christmas and I plan to pre-order Indomitus ASAP.
Know no fear was my first box last year and it is fantastic
I remember my Grandma buying me the 3rd edition box set, good times 😀
I began with the Second Edition one. People tend to mock it now, and the minis we got, but it was still a great box at the time. Tons of minis, terrain, lots of books, templates, etc. And lol, the card dreadnought.
Though to be fair, the box was dirt cheap, and the actual Space Ork Dreadnought model at the time was not a huge improvement, over the card one! The Dreadnoughts in Rogue Trader and early Second Edition looked VASTLY different than current ones do.
Most vehicles back then did not actually have models to represent them yet.
Anyway, I loved that box. I don’t remember the US price and my box doesn’t have a price tag on it. But I was able to buy it, even as a kid, off of my pittance of lawn-mowing money. So my recollection is it was very inexpensive.
So you're one of the veterans? I salute you. I just bought my first miniature. :D
@@HeleentheArcane gotta start somewhere
I got 2nd Edition for xmas in 95 or 96, not sure which one.
I started at assault on black reach and got all the other boxes since then. Have all the minis as well :)
Bring me back my 2006 with The Battle for Macragge as a starter and Dark Crusade on PC. I remember the autumn of 2006 when I went to the local mall with my parents and saw those Black Library books in a book shop: Ultramarines omnibus, Eisenhorn and the first books of Horus Heresy. I bought Horus rising, and False gods. Read them with one breath and then bought Hereticus to dive even deeper in W40k universe.
14 years later. 2020, my girlfriend gives me Know No Fear starter set. My first army of w40k. It's been a long road.
Battle for macragge was my start. Great intro
I believe 2nd edition was £40 when it came out. As mentioned by someone else, the 2nd edition marines did include 2 x sargents with bolt pistols+chainswords, 2 x marines with flamers and 2 x marines with rocket launchers.
I also started with the 3rd Edition set. I’m not sure if it was simply from the box artwork or not but my force was a Black Templars army. That rule book had some great artwork and some great photos of miniatures in the box. I remember really liking the Valhallan Ice Warriors defending some frozen outpost against a large Tyranid horde.
That box artwork was sweet. BT were huge back then! Almost never see them anymore.
@@McWerp Sadly now the only folks playing Black Templars are diehard fans as gameplay-wise I think they're the absolute worst chapter you can play currently. Really sucks since they're by far my favorite chapter with some of the coolest lore and coolest characters, yet GW gave them the shaft HARD.
Now I want to find one of the second edition starter sets just to have the wonkiest deff dread known to man at every tournament.
Just picked up 2nd edition along with the '94 extension box set, which was just full of cardboard, from my parents loft, should certainly add to my new primaris army.
Hey, this was a really neat idea! I know it's a bit off topic certainly but a similar video for WHFB would be interesting as well; hobby retrospectives are always amusing.
I remember playing a 2 vs 2 battle during the 3rd war for Armagedon at a local game store. My Space Wolves and my teammates Blood Angels took out a force of Orks and Eldar. We both won the 3rd Edition box set with the special Power Axe Combi-melta captain. So much fun.
a friend recently gifted me his 2nd and 3rd edition boxes, unpainted and mostly in their matrix!
The old cardboard terrain is amazing, I have a set of the old necromunda and my cousin has everything card they made, they look awesome on the table and are great. I wish they still sold these sets, easy to put away and look great when made
That feel when finally painting the tactical squad from the Macragge box in 2020...
(The crashed Aquila-Shuttle is still one of the best terrain pieces GW ever made XD)
My little brother and I got our start into 40k with Battle for Maccrage. Hindsight being 20/20 I cant believe that we got the paperback rulebook, a tactical squad, 8 genestealers, and 12 termagaunts olusbthe steller terrain for only $50. It certainly made us hesitant to pay the MSRP for the actual kits. Granted each if the models were push fit monopose, but the value was undeniable. We also picked up Assault on Black Reach when that came out.
Getting back in with Dark Imperium I was shocked at how much the price had increased for the starter set but the value went up to match. I think each half was what, 800 points or so?
The Dark Vengeance box I got had an amazing aspiring chaos champion as a bonus in it, and that box is sooo rad
The prices for old product is all over White Dwarf, you can an track exact cost at launch and any price increases. So incredibly easy to find out...
There's a typo on every other slide, it doesn't seem like they put much effort or polish into their vids
i remember getting the 4th edition box set for my bday, it was my first introduction to warhammer 40k
I still have my Dark Vengeance learn to play book, all the miniatures fell to my little brothers wrath.
I still have Dark Eldar bits floating around my bits box from that starter kit.
I got Assault on Black Reach back in 2010, so many memories.
3rd edition starter set so cool back in the day
Loved the paper ork dread in the 2nd ed box😅The wargear book was excellent as well.
In Australia 2nd edition cost me $100 AUD. It took me 3 months of saving my pocket-money to get it. You also needed Dark Millenium an add on set to use psychic powers.
Have recently come back to 40k after 10+ year hiatus. Still have all my childhood Space Marines from my Assault on Black Reach starter set. The captain you get is still the one I use to this day. Really nice to use them again in games after all this time.
The Termagants boxed set from 3rd Edition was a mixed box of 8 Termagants and 8 Hormagaunts (and enough Rippers to make a single base), so while they might have shared some sculpts with Macragge, it was a different sprue entirely. I started with 'nids in 3rd Edition a few months before the release of their codex and my early collection was largely repackaged mono-pose Termagants & Genestealers from 2nd Edition that GW sold in boxes of 4 each for $5 (US)!
Ahh so it was the 4th Edition box that I had back in the day, wow... how time flies...
Thinking about getting back into it w/ Indomitus, may still have my old models somewhere - fingers crossed...
I still remember opening my 2nd edition box in the 90's
Oh wow! You're one of the veterans? I have just bought my first miniature:D
Awesome trip down memory lane.
Would be great to see a look back on how some other iconic units changed over the years. The evolution of the Tactical Squad and Dreadnought would certainly be interesting to see.
I still have a Third Edition box somewhere at my parent's place. My dad and I bought it for the rulebook, as at the time our LGS was out. He ended up going Dark Angels, we gave the Dark Eldar to my younger brother, and I went Craftworld. Fun times.
AOBR was my first starter box. One cool thing is that to this day, the AOBR Dread is the only way to get a multimelta on a box dread without conversions or Forge World. If this has changed, I'll take my lumps, but the last time I bought a dreadnought there was no multimelta on the sprues.
5th edition was my first boxset! So freaking cool!
I had the 2nd edition one but life came and i couldn't get back till 2 years ago. My dad have one the space orks as a mascot on all is car dashboards. It now is velcro'd to my computer monitor 28 years later. Now i have the income but no time.
I just bought a second-hand Battle for Macraggge box, came with everything but a genestealer and that soup bowl. I am so excited to paint it, Angels of Fire vs 3rd edition Tyranids. I'm gonna make the tyranids colder-coloured and the Angels of Fire are deep red and yellow. It's gonna contrast brilliantly and I am excited for the terrain (It'll be muted greys) too!
Assault on black reach brings me back to my old fifth edition blood angels. 😍
My intro to WarHammer proper was playing a small game of battle for Mcragg at a games workshop when I was about 8. I had no idea what I was doing but termagaunts looked cool.
I bought Assault on black reach. And i gotta say its still my favourite starter to this day. Good ork units and terminators.
Sadly lost the powersword of the captain. Replaced it with a spare powerfist i had. Also missing rotors on one deff kopta.
i recently found Battle of Macragge at a flea market. Had all the units and terrain still on sprue. Only things missing was the book(s)
And heres the kicker, paid 25 kroner for it. Thats less than 4 american dollars. Flea markets rule.
I get why they swapped out terrain for better units though. Gotta say the terrain is really the only part that isnt underwhelming.
Also Im not a fan of Dark Angels. Thats why i prefer black reach over Dark Vengeance.
2nd and 5th edition’s were my favourite boxed starters
Got into the 40k wargame in 2017 with 8th (played the RPGs years before that) and got two DG halfs shit cheap. Still the core of my army today. was a great starter set.
loved that 93 box. we played so many broken games with vortex grenades and giving all the marine terminator armor lol.
I remember starting in 2012, sharing the Dark Vengeance box with a friend. He's Dark Angels beat me everytime.. But he gave me the DA later and I kitbashed them into my chaos army. Good times.
I recently bought Dark Imperium as I only started the Hobby at the beginning of quarantine as my Granda had a couple of boxes of miniatures from when someone tried to have him sell them in his shop on two occasions in 2012 and 2019 but decided against as he didn’t now how popular it would be in where we live so he gave them to me to give me something to do and I’ve loved it so far
Oh man, flash back to when you could get a warhammer starter set through argos!
I had the 2nd edition box set. Sooooo many grots! Currently repainting the marines as I've dusted off the mighty blood angels for the first time in about 20 years. The tactical squads have flames and missile launchers each. Still got all the old card too
*siiiiiiiip* early 90s GW art is where it's at
For me it all started with me discovering the beautiful game that is Dawn of War 1. I was 14 at that time and after I played it with my brother we decided to buy a few models. The current starter set was the one with the ultramarines and the tyranids and now another 14 years later we both are still huge Warhammer 40k fans.
I'm just getting started in 40k and my friend offered me a Dark Imperium box, still sealed for painting 3,000 pts of his Nids. He even tossed in a Start Collecting Space Marine box and paints to go with my Indomitus box Marines. Really like that Dark Imperium boxset.
The 2nd edition box definitely came with a rocket launcher and flamer in each of the tactical squads!
Started with 1st Ed. remember the excitement of 2nd blown away as I have been with every starter set since. Still have a few in my collection 2nd Ed - 2 squads of Space Wolves; 4th & 5th Ed. 4 Squads of Red Scorpion Battle Company, 6th Ed. Chaos Chosen squad for Red Corsairs
my first set was black reach but was introduced when my friend back in junior school had second edition. i never ever really played but loved painting. now my son got the know no fear set a few years ago, and now wants one of the newer sets. maybe i should get in to the game for playing and KICK HIS ASSSS!!!
Love the scenery in 4th ed
Assault on Black Reach was my entry point into the hobby. I also have the Dark Angels half of Dark Vengeance that I bought off Ebay.
I really like how the older boxers had Space marine artwork other than Ultramarines. GW needs to do that more often.
I got the 3rd edition starter box in 2004, probly just befor the launch of 4th, I was at a family wedding across the country and my uncle took me out for my 10th birthday. We found a comic book store and I saw the box and thought dahm that looks cool. I'm 27 now and I have played most systems of table top games. The hobby has been the only consistent thing in my chaotic life.
Actually the second Ed game Marines had two flamers, two Sargent with bolt pistols and two missile launchers among all the bolters. Additionally the pegs and sockets on the Sargent's bolt pistol arm, the missile launcher arm and the Space Ork boy bolt pistol arm allowed for a tiny bit of pose-ability. This was my way into the hobby too and I still have it with all it's wargear cards and tokens. As you say the card Ork dread is a weird addition and It hadn't occurred to me that it was still valid. Also it's probably the closest thing you'll get to Codex Squats with most of the rules and wargear they had at the time in 1 place.
Dark Vengance was the boxset that got me started. It's the boxset that had the Dark Angles space marines vs. the forces of chaos. It the introduce the new chaos cultists as well as chaos Chosen, but GW stoped producing them two years after the box was released.
Still have the ruins from the 3rd edition box around somewhere
I started with 3rd edition as a Christmas gift, then got Battle for Macragge. I still have the Macragge box somewhere, I’d quite like to find that pilot miniature to paint up 😁
I started WH in 1993, but the first actual starter box I got was Black Reach. I just painted the Orks from it last month! 12 years isn't that long, right?
So... I got the battle for maccragge... still have the minis. It did include as well a plasma nuke that the pilot could ‘carry.’ It also had a homing beacon.
I was in a comic shop in ft Wayne IN, and the store owner asked if I bought 2 boxes of the starter set, he would sell them to me for a total of $45 total. Apparently he was short on the pre order for a discount. Best 40k buy I ever got.... still got my 6 deff kopters and all those models..
Ravenwing Biers, is that a German beer brand? Fantastic video as always, really enjoy your work!
I first got into Warhammer 40k back in 2010 during the Assault on Black Reach era, at that time I was deploying the Vindicator all the time!
Nowadays, I retired the badass tank due to it being succeeded by the Repulsor Executioner...
the 5th edition was my start
Jesus $68 for that box set, it is a steal. that would be over $200 based on today's prices
I thought the Indomitus box came with a special edition alternative cover rule book?
I cannot believe I have been playing since 5th edition, the main staple of my Army is the Dreadnought that comes in the box. I kind of want to make him a venerable dreadnought now
Assault on BlackREach was my first Box set.
Was Marked at $35 at my local hobby shop before inflation.
I always loved the 2nd Edition Tactical Squads. My mental image of Marines was much more of a faceless, uniform line of troops bearing down on the enemy rather than the individual models of today with robes and stuff- all the bling gets in the way of smiting the xenos.
My university gaming club keeps their models in the 3rd edition box. I always wondered where it came from.
The Marine half of AoBR was one of my first purchases. I still have the terminators, dreadnought and captain, but the captain had some conversions done on him and the push fit marines are long gone.
I still regularly use the battle for macragge terrain in my games
Well DARK Angels Biers are Classic
class work! What would you like to see as a starter box set for 9th? Aside from the Launch set.
Black reach was what got me and my brother into the hobby with us both having an army from it and the space marines from the kit remain in my army in perfect shape to this day (even have two of those captains because of eBay)