Imperial Agents Battleforces - Good Deal or Not? Rating the Ordo Xenos, Hereticus + Malleus Boxes

Let's talk about the new Inquisiton-themed box sets coming alongside the Imperial Agents release...

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0:00 Intro
1:53 Ordo Xenos
5:13 Ordo Hereticus
6:54 Ordo Malleus
9:37 Most Popular?
10:40 Some Pros and Cons?
13:56 Giveaway
16:08 Outro

[hailon_rias]

Can’t wait to see This on the shelves of every war gaming shop for the next 3 years

[cptkrank]

Honestly Boarding Patrol Imperial Agents was better than any of these boxes. 20 Navy Breachers, Euclidian Starstriders and a Eversor Assassin. Made narrative sense too, a Rogue Trader, their personal retinue and their ship's fighting crew, plus a sneaky assassin. Oh, and much, much cheaper at retail.

[ElGrompho]

While I kinda like the ragtag style of the army, I still feel like this is mainly a ploy by GW to make some room in their warehouses. I mean, there might be further reveals later on, but the fact that they didn't even give them some kind of unifying battleline unit to tie it all together doesn't make me all too optimistic for the future of this army beyond 10th. This will of course also depend on the rules and on how well people take to the army. But it has this "ok guys, you have 10 minutes, throw something together but make do with what you have" kinda vibe.

[Flamespotz]

Behold, what should be standard combat patrols priced and advertised as battleforce boxes.

I guess some of them would be a little too much of a discount at combat patrol but then that overstates the expensive prices of the original kits

[SnowFoxWithAGasMask]

I hope they do similarly with the combat patrols for the demon codex, making one for each chaos god. I cannot imagine how frustrating it would be to play a specific type of daemon only to realize that there is no combat patrol you can use as a jumping off point or cheaper way to grow your forces.

[dominikvonlavante]

These boxes are the equivalent of old combat patrols, with the only difference that they now cost twice as much 😮

[Ceiling_Gato]

Basically all the stuff that doesn't sell slapped into three "discount" boxes with separate rules

[rambunctiousmedia]

I think that for the Ordo Xenos box, GW should've doubled down on Deathwatch Vets, and included Tempestus Scions as Inquisitorial Storm Troopers instead of the Rogue Trader Kill Team.

[_Morphne_]

The entire imperial agents army feels like an exec walked over the the rules section of the headquarters and told them they have 2 weeks to make something up. They need to clear the warehouses as much as possible for the next mono-load out primaris squad.

[mscomies]

"That's...just 2000 points of Kill Teams"

[erih]

To me Imperial Agents is a release for the collectors and narrative players, not competitive. I love the fact they did it as I currently play 500 points Crusade games and Boarding Actions where they fit in perfectly as a small ragged group. GW announced that even individual Inquisitors can be played in their own Crusade when joining a different faction - again something very appealing to narrative games.

[powrongster]

looks like GW had to clear inventory, at least with the Hereticus box there's multiple kill teams in it

[joeflitton]

Get a real Old School imperium vibe from this. Not waves of people in power armour or single military division. Love the variety - but will see if it gets support and lasts.

[emdeo]

those Inquisitorial Henchmen kits must not have been selling (due to being completely useless).

[thejestor]

guess I'm an odd one out and actually excited for this codex and army, as I had already been working on building one already. Now that we know we are gonna get access to more than just the killteams to support them, I am happy. For those who aren't happy about it.. well I guess this army just isn't for you cause the unique units for them are quite literally the Killteams and characters they have had for a while that us actual Imperial Agents fans have been asking for a means to actually run as a functioning army.

[nanatheneko]

Lets not forget every time the inquisiton gets a codex it rarely lasts

[MrChiefchili]

The loss of Deathwatch wouldn't have been so painful if this new imperial agents army weren't such a blatantly phoned-in cash grab. Awful henchmen kits everywhere, and not an inquisitorial stormtrooper to be seen.

[darko-man]

This wouldn’t feel like a cash-in if GW had least put the effort in to make maybe a “stormtrooper upgrade sprue” to give heads, arms etc on IG/enforcers/RT models to make Stormtroopers

[vinnythewebsurfer]

So chaos can’t be separated into their appropriate mono god corners but we have room for this kinda thing?

[docterfantazmo]

I really like the idea of Imperial Agents, let's folks use their extra non40k models too, but these prices are gonna nuke a LOT of hype.