I'd like to hear peoples opinions on the new upcoming box. I'm curious what the overall feel for it is, being that odd sort of 'in between seasons' box that they like to do from time to time.
I'm rather interested in The Red Terror, but I unfortunately cannot say the same for the rest of the box. The new team looks half interesting, but I personally do not care for their design outside of a few odd parts throughout the kit (the heavy stubber and the rocket launcher look nice). I can't really pin my personal gripes with the box other than the fact that it's got nothing special going for it. It's guard team #4 with ten people, a little pet / gimmick creature / machine, and probably some half decent rules. The team does have an excellent modeling design as always, but personally I know that they'd be something that I would never get around to painting or playing. Maybe kitbash them a couple years down the line, but I'm not too sure.
Ten termagaunts is ten termagaunts, I already have 20 from Leviathan and 30 odd ones from the old Combat patrol, with no doubt that if I wanted more of even the new ones I could get them for fairly cheap off of Marketplace or something.
Overall, and especially with the Armageddon box coming up for 40k, I'd rather not spend $200+ CAD on a box for basically just one model that I want. The Murderwing box was a bit of a suckerpunch at that price point for two teams and no terrain, and a bunch of NPO's and one team feels even more so.
Is anyone feeling the same way, or differently? Curious to hear others thoughts on the box.