Aeldari or Asterians

With both Games workshop and mantic doing boxed army deals, gameswork shop have the start collecting (while they are still around), combat patrol for warhammer 40,000, and now vanguard for age of sigmar. Mantic has the strike force for fire fight, and mega army and army for kings of war. I though it would be cool to see which is better by comparing them, with their comparable equal of the other system. Being ranked thusly price which is obvious cheapest wins, value for money highest percentage saved not the highest amount of money saved. This is because a cheaper box my save less money, but be a better value saving. Such as twenty five saved from a hundred pounds is the same value as twenty pounds from eighty. Finally is style, now as uch as this is more subjective, style is down to how diverse and versatile a box is. Painting the same mini is twenty times is not as fun as painting two differnt squads of ten each. So that is the rules set down as objective as I can be. Let us begin with my favourite faction for both fire fight and warhammer 40000.

The asterians and the craftworld aeldari.

In the craftworld aeldari combat patrol box you get one farseer, one wraithlord, six windriders, and ten guardians with a support platform. The guardians can be either defender or storm guardians. This box is ninty pounds, for ninteen models. Now the asterian strike force you get, thirty marionettes, six support drones, four cyphers, threes cypher wardens, one chroma force platform, one overseer. This box is seventy five pounds for forty two models. So Mantic take the lead with price by being fifteen pounds cheaper. Honestly this is not unexpected as part of mantic selling point is they are cheaper than games workshop.

Next is value for money. By first glance, the higher amount of models and lower price, makes it look like mantic has it in the bag. So lets do the math.

Chroma platform, thirty five pounds

marionettes, twenty two pounds and fifty pence for ten. Times by three is sixty seven pounds and fifty pence. This also includes the support drones.

cyphers twelve pound fister

overseer ten pounds.

the total is hundred twenty five pounds, a total saving of fifty pounds, or forty percent.

for the aeldari

guardians are thirty two pounds fifty

windriders are thirty two pond fifty for three, so double that makes it sixty five pounds

wraith lord is thirty five pounds

farseer is eighteen pounds.

a total of a hundred and fifty pounds and fifty pence, a sixty pounds and fifty pence saving or a 40.1% saving. By the smallest of margins games workshop wins, this round. I could have ronded down, and I agree point one of a percent is perdantic. It is also honest.

Because style wise they are both pretty varied. With the asterians you are getting a nice vehilce with the support platform, but with it you have thirty of the same model to build and paint with marionettes. The aeldari is more varied yet has less in it. WIth six jet bikes and wraithlord. So with all due honestly the asterian wins. Painting thirty infantry is a chore don't get me wrong, but six jet bikes severly hampens the amount of the combat patrol box you can buy as you will quickly fill out that role in even the biggest army list. Secondly painting alot of vehicles even bikes straight off, can be daunting. So with the one big centre piece mode, and those who know me knows a bigger flying vehicle like that will always get my vote. it is again by the narrowest of margins we have a winner and that is asterians.

So with two against one and being very close in the value for money and style part, firefight asterian strike force just beats warhammer 40,000's aeldari combat patrol box.