Betrayal at Calth

Betrayal at Calth is a Horus Heresy-themed board game released by Games Workshop on November 11, 2015.

The main premise of the game is that you and another goon are playing as Word Bearers and Ultramarines fighting in come close-quarters. However, this isn't set up like a typical wargame, allaying any fears that GW is trying to horn in on the semblance of balance FW gave.

This is all well and good, but the real reason people picked it up is because of its contents: It's the first of hopefully many HH sets that can now be bought as plastic as opposed to the more delicate Forge World resin. A single box contains the following models:

• A Terminator Captain
• A Chaplain (technically a Dark Apostle)
• 30 Mark IV Marines, with a large array of guns to arm them with
• 5 Cataphractii Terminators, also armed with some guns as well as chainfists.
• A Contemptor Dreadnought, able to take either a twin-linked assault cannon or multi-melta.

Also on top of that, each of the non-character sets can be customized with the FW stuff (A notion FW itself has caught on by packaging marine conversion kits for each Legion) and become combined as a small army at a cost considerably less than buying the same contents as resin, or even the equivalent kits from the regular store for that matter. Let's run some numbers:

• 1 Terminator Captain: There isn’t one available, so let’s just go with the librarian in termie armor cost, which is $31
• 1 Chaplain: $16
• 30 Tactical Marines (3 Tactical squads): $120
• 5 Cataphractii Terminators (1 terminator squad): $50
• 1 Contemptor Dreadnought: $46.25

So, you are getting about $263.25 worth of models for “only” $150 (around the value of a single Baneblade or Knight Titan), plus the board game.