Starting 40k on a Budget: World Eaters 

The real cost is the sanity we lost along the way.

I don’t understand the issue with trim. I’ve painted only one legionary squad so maybe I don’t have proper experience but it wasn’t hard or anything to paint the gold trim I used.

@@b1on1k638 it gets very tedious when you're painting 20+ rubric marines +15 terminators +characters in a row

​​​@@b1on1k638 Because it's not hard. Or tedious. You just paint it with a metallic, wash it and optionally highlight, like any bit of metal. It's like saying painting boltguns silver is hard. Trim is just a dumb meme that people repeat like parrots. The actual hard part is making the armor plates inside the trim look nice, especially on Black Legion where highlighting flat, black plates is a tricky proposition.

I just started world eaters with the angron Christmas box and a combat patrol. After 30 berserkers, I hate trim with a passion. I wash every berserker/8 bound and terminators with earth shade to help cover the oops parts of trim

I'm glad you enjoyed it! The next one will be a bit more rambly because kit bashing is such a huge part of the savings.

An IRL World Eater player I know mentioned that to me as well! Ultimately he and I both agreed it didn't matter too much because +1 plasma pistol ultimately results in something close to 1 failed save on a Marine Equivalent body across 3 berzerker units running it.

MSRP it certainly is. The hobby has had a huge mark up in cost in the last few years. Early testing for my custodes video I got a 2,000 pt army for $380 MSRP off of Gamesworkshops price. If you buy from Amazon or a local store you can usually save 10-20% which certainly adds up a ton!

The best time to hop in (in my opinion) is honestly whenever! It's hard to say there is a "best time" because the hobby involves so much other stuff than just playing the game. If you wanted to start a new army (and knew you liked the game), or got lucky and have a battleforce box for your army come out during the holidays those are amazing purchase. Typically they are around $360-$400 of models in a box for $200-$230. But that can be a lot of money if you don't know how much you like the hobby. My best recommendation is spending $20 to buy Tabletop Simulator and then look around RU-vid for guides on how to set up Warhammer 40k inside of it. Then find yourself the Warhammer Tabletop Simulator discord and get some learning games in! I know plenty of people who collect and don't play, so if you just like painting then you can skip that step entirely! As far as starting with space marines, its never a bad choice. They are "vanilla", but there are so many flavors of that vanilla that you really do get a lot of choices and you get absolutely spoiled with options every single year as Space Marines almost always get 2-4 Christmas boxes, launch edition boxes, new models multiple times a year. If you have a friend who is interested in Tyranids, consider picking up the Leviathan box! It has two ~500 point armies in it, one being space marines and the other being tyranids, along with rules for playing the game.

Glad it's able to help you out! World Eaters are definitely up there in terms of affordability. If you CAN find a good deal on the christmas box from last year then buying that + 1 combat patrol gets you very close to 2000 points. As long as you can get some combination of Rhinos, Eightbound, and Berzerkers you're on your way!

@@Speeds_Gaming_Corner thank You!, for now I will start with the combat patrol and maybe searching later the Christmas one

Next video should be coming out either this weekend or Monday!

Not a World Eater player myself, just put in the research for them! But if you're interested in seeing more I have a Sister's video that should be out soon.

Try showing him Tabletop Simulator. For $20 and a free mod download you can play all the 40k you want with him and let him try out lots of different stuff.

@@Speeds_Gaming_Corner Thanks, ya we have the TS and will see how good his laptop could handle the mod.

Glad you enjoy it!

Glad you enjoyed it

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Hey lord of skulls is neato!

The cost for the X-mas box is about $230 USD. When I did some looking around for it on sites like Ebay I saw it priced at ~$300 because its such a high demand box. It's an amazing pick up if you can manage to snag one for its original sale price.

I have polls for new factions after every video. Custodes are in my list, but sisters won the poll for next faction. Stick sound and you'll see custodes for sure!

You should always exercise patience with anything that comes to spending money. That is why I have these broken up into multiple tiers so people can grow little by little, but also recommend Tabletop Simulator to people who want to play as its substantially more affordable.

From what I have been told, go for an airbrush or metalic primer. From there use a contrast paint over the top. It'll bring out some of the metal from underneath the contrast paint and bring out the shine from the metal.

Another way to do metal is to start with a black base coat and brush metallic paint over it (GW do some fairly decent metallic paints). For World Eaters I started with Runelord Brass, washed it with thinned black paint, and then put Skullcrusher Brass or Brass Scorpion over it with a dry brush. You can highlight with gold as a finishing touch. Make sure you mix the paints well as metallics are often prone to separation in the pot. Oh yeah and remember to breathe as doing this trim really is a fiddly job.

Not sure which one you're talking about, but depending on points it's either the glaive enhancement OR the jackals. Objective holders don't matter as much in 1000 pt games as its usually just a 2 turn game at that point value

Good old melee. Nothing beats that.

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I swear 3d printer people are like having a vegan friend....

There have been points changes since this video came out.

@@Speeds_Gaming_Corner what would you suggest change to bring it under 1500?

Immediate gut instinct would be 5 berzerks