My HONEST Thoughts on the New Combat Patrol

I really hope Age of Sigmar gets the Combat Patrol treatment. I love the idea of "buy a box and go" vs list building for small quick games.

A video for newbies on how to get into wargaming and alternative systems to the Leviathan in the house would be much appreciated. 160 USD go a long way in certain game systems. No need to drop them on just a handful of minis.

I think this was a very good, fair take, thanks! I'm especially appreciative you pointed out the three "Lost Patrols" and I do think it would be very good of them to put out lists for them. Especially the Space Marine Phobos box would be fun, great at getting to objectives, killing things not so much.

In all seriousness, I dont know why your day was so hard, but here's an internet hug in the hopes it helps you feel better.

Bricky had a good video on this the other day, its a classic 80/20 issue - 80% of the player base this game will suit very well, and if the intent was faster, fun and more accessible. The 20% are typically competitive players, who have some legitimate concerns with the rules/lists - the issue is they are also the most vocal online, and wont speak to the experience of all the players. Hopefully GW is doing some more sampling of sentiment to get less vocal opinions. For the mission release delay, very comvinced that was the engagement strategy to keep the release 'window' open for longer by having a longer publishing cycle to keep blogs/videos/tweets talking about releases over a longer time period, as this is 'the farm' for GW for the next few years.

(Raises hand) Yes that was me, I went out and bought a Space Marines Combat Patrol box from my flgs and started to build them. And like you said to only find out shortly after building that they don't get free rules. As someone who has been looking for a way to get into 40k I was so excited about this, and now I feel burned. Would it have been that hard to announce which boxes were getting free rules???? A box here in Canada costs $190 + taxes.

You should make a video every month about getting into war gaming. There are endless 'WARHAMMER alternatives'. I built an SOB Combat Patrol, and want to build my collection and paint for this Edition. Great news about the NECRON COMBAT PATROL! I can start playing, as I have those models battle ready! I would be willing to buy a mission/more army lists Book for Combat Patrol.

Combat patrol is for people like me who have never played before and don’t need to worry about every option under the Sun. This give me the ability to focus on the rules and learn the game FIRST without having to worry about lost building or war gear options

I would like to know what you think the best way to get into war gaming is! Also, combat patrol got me interested in Warhammer 40k again. I bought a bunch of models but having to put together 2k points is intimidating. I'm not ready to play huge games so this is perfect for me!

Thank you for sharing your thoughts Uncle Atom. I hope your day/week improves. For me, I'm planning to play Necrons and CSM in combat patrol. Im not going to buy either box though since I've already got the models to make up each of them.

Sorry to hear you had a challenging day dude. I hope that got easier. A video on the best way to get into war gaming would be great. Also, it has been very interesting to see your journey over the last few years. Thanks for sharing that. Also, also, happy birthday (next week).

There is actually a big advantage to not being able to change list in Combat patrol, In Magic the Gathering preconstructed decks for beginners include some bad cards to help new players identify bad cards so they can build better decks in the future. I would think that combat patrol is designed in a similar way.

As someone who enjoys painting but hasn't actually played any wargames yet I like the precon nature of combat patrol, are there any other games with relatively balanced premade lists to start playing with? I've been printing and painting onepagerules and they've now added an option to autogenerate armies in armyforge for both their big games and skirmish games so I'm currently building up a couple of warbands for GFF, has anyone played around with these lists and could recommed whether they make for fun games?

Great points all round. I'm loving the fact that if I want to try out a 40K army for minimal cost / effort Combat Patrol has that covered. Also I only get to play week nights so the fact I can fit in a few games of this is also a bonus. All this with free rules and data sheets, whats not to like. I'll go one further and say it would be great to have them included in the box with even some options to expand the box to 1000+ points for new players. Hope the rest of your day went better ;).

500point boarding patrols are a fun follow up to combat patrol, But it has list building. And love that killteam terrain

I am teacher and professional public speaker and there are plenty of days where "things just don't go well." Thank you for pushing through, anyway. Keep in mind that your listeners/viewers like YOU because of YOU. So lighting and sound issues are very secondary. We really appreciate your videos and this one was no exception. Keep it up, Battle Brother. Yes....Blood Angels....Oh yeah.

It would be great to have Rules for the old Necron Combat Patrol, but i think the problem is just that the Flyer wouldnt really work for the combat patrol mode

Thank you for your videos, and I hope tomorrow is better. I've been a hobbyist and lore-bunny until now but the limited format finally has me interested in playing 40k.

Watching this I wondered if you had ever reviewed Midwinter Minis and his Start Building tournament. Basically he bought all the Start Building boxes and ran videos on building and painting. He then started a knock out tournament where in, each battle offset two of the box sets with the winner going onto the next round. It was interesting as it would appear that those sets were more closely matched than you might think with tactics and a bit of interference from the dice gods made more of a difference than the differences in kit. It would be interesting to see this happen with the Combat Patrol boxes, but that might be an expensive project. An interesting side note was the differing methods Guy used to paint up the sets.

Yes, would very much like a video about entering the hobby. I found the hobby again during the pandemic, and got a group through Onepagerules and social media. That was our way back in, but we already had the models