Why Booster Packs?

lineman · Post by **lineman** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 11:49 am

Why do GW create these Booster Packs for every team? They almost never include the miniatures you need.
Some examples: The Wood Elf booster pack contains a wardancer, a thrower, a catcher and a lineman. But if you have bought the boxed team, you already have two wardancers, and Wood Elf cannot hire more than two. A more logic booster pack for Wood Elf would be three linemen and a catcher, because you need ten linemen for the standard wood elf starting team, and you will probably buy a third cathcer before a second thrower.
And when you buy a Necromatic team, you get both the two whights you'll need. But they have put another whight in the booster pack, and still says it's "The perfect pack for upgrading your new Necromancer Team or to update your current team." I think it would have been perfect if they had replaced the whight with another zombie.
This is the case for almost every team. Why don't they create more useful booster packs?

Xtreme · Post by **Xtreme** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 12:07 pm

The battle wages on...
We were told once upon a time that they were going to be changing the boosters so that they were more approptiate but seems as if that has been forgotten.
The wiser of us BBers buy everything by bitz.

Underdog · Post by **Underdog** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 12:49 pm

Yep its laughable isnt it.

The number of poor kids who open booster packs form loving granparents on christmas morning only to find its full of mini's they cant use.

mtn_bike · Post by **mtn_bike** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 12:54 pm

I know what your are saying with the unneeded models, I've got my fair share. But the necro team booster has a Flesh Golum, Werewolf, weight and two zombies for about 12 dollars US cheaper then if I was to buy them seperate. So it was cheaper and I've got a weight to convert into a coach. If you need alot more linemen I've found it cheaper to just buy another box. Plus all the extras give you a chance to modify a model without the fear of it being your only one. Elf body parts on bases and in big guys hands all bloody look cool too.

Munkey · Post by **Munkey** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:34 pm

I'd just like to be able to order individual models from the GW website for a sensible price (none of this twice the price because he's a star). And see pictures of the actual figure unpainted rather than some tiny shot of two or three random figures assembled and painted.

KLK · Post by **KLK** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 5:44 pm

the booster packs...

yes, must change.

add my sign to the request, please

EmperorNorton · Post by **EmperorNorton** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 10:55 pm

I wasn't aware of this problem up to now.
I have only bought two boosters for my Lizardmen team and for the lizards it works out just fine.

EmperorNorton

Dark_Soul · Post by **Dark_Soul** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 11:19 pm

viewtopic.php?t=3764&highlight=booster

And I bet DW still hasn't sent the list in!

Xtreme · Post by **Xtreme** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 12:40 am

Well that could be whats holding things up then, I thought he had sent it in. Have you DW?