WARHAMMER 40000: INDOMITUS, 12 years

This is the single best investment for anyone looking to get into 40k.It includes the core book, which you need if you're going to play any 40k beyond the most basic garage level, as well as some supplemental rules for all your cool new units, and a scenario book with the Indomitus background story.It includes a whole bunch of Space Marine models. These are the new, bigger, very elegant and detailed Primaris models, which are very cool and fun to paint. The theme of this squad is like...holy transhuman gothic murder-paladin melee lords. They're sick. There are some beautiful models here, including dudes on bikes and sick Baroque melee warriors with power swords.It also includes a metric crud-load of new Necron models. The theme of these guys is essentially hateful undead space terminators (the Schwarzenegger kind, not the Space Hulk kind) with face-melting future weapons. I love these because they're easy to assemble, and can be as simple and easy, or as detailed and fiddly, to paint as you would like. There's a lot of variety in these models, and like the Space Marines, they're new and really high quality.FYI this box may seem a bit expensive, but it's a great value with gobs of good stuff that would be substantially more if purchased separately. Best of all, once you open this up, skim the rules and build your models, you and a friend can play immediately, which is sweet.

This is my first big buy from any Warhammer facet. GW always gives the best deals in the largest amounts. I knew I wanted all these models eventually so I saved myself the cash and bought it now. Definitely worth every penny.I know many people hate on the Primaris Marine but I love their models. The proportions are good. I added a bit more of a waist to my guys. But that’s it. They’re sleek and perfect.Only hiccup. Unlike past sets, you really need to read the directions on this one, it really matters what pieces go in what order.Great quality pour, barely any mold lines, sadly XD because I find trimming and building them very calming. I haven’t gotten to painting them up yet I wanna warm up my art skills that I haven’t used in a while.I’m planning on painting a lot of these marines like each legion so I have one of every kind. I think that’s be a cool idea for display. As well as with the rest I’m planning on making my own Legion, and yes I mean Legion. Im gonna make a primarch too.I’m fleshing out the lore as we speak and yeah.10/10

GW really needs to sell this as default, so new players should get this as their first kit, in my opinion. I picked up the recruit set, and was starting to build off this, but the major difference between this and the $165 command set is the command set has some terrain (nice) but less units, this has more units for about half the cost of buying retail or more. You have about 1700 points of units or so for $230, where 130 points for the Skorpeth Destroyers + Plasmacyte is about $50 retail. You can buy this online for $90 separately, or find someone else selling terrain, somewhere else.I should have got this to start with and skipped the Recruit set.I did have one piece from the space marines fall off a sprue, a glove, but that's likely just due to shipping. No other damage. A bit confused there are no dice or rulers like the recruit edition has but GW says "We actually packed it so full that we couldn’t fit any dice or tape measures inside – but we know you already have some." to which I highly disagree with, there was plenty of space to fit dice or rulers. Granted, no, you don't need GW's dice or rulers, but it would have been a nice thing to have, especially for a newbie, and especially for this price.As this is my first time buying any GW items, and my first time holding a Core Rulebook, it's a nice book....but about 60% of the Core Rulebook is just lore, lore that should be free somewhere as a PDF, but, it's not. Why do I have this heavy bound book where most of it is just fluff that anyone who gives a hoot will pretty much have memorized? No one's going to say "well lets refer to the lorebook for, wait, sorry, the rule book, for what kind of armor Necrons have", they're going to want the rules. This is completely asinine to me. And, it's not just the book, "The Edge of Silence" is the same way, in fact, it seems, all the Codex books and such are the same. To this I say, just borrow your friend's book, or look up the info you need online, there are ways to view it without needing this over the top paperweight.As for the build quality of the pieces, the push fit is really great and now having experience gluing other pieces, all of these should be push fit. That being said, the Necron push fits are rather fiddly, so be careful. They can have more obvious mold lines on them than the space marines, which means more work cleaning up.