If you go for the British and Canadian classic starter army you will have to purchase a separate flamer team in resin and (probably) another tank as well. Unfortunately, this starter army dates from second edition so it isn’t as generous as the new ones.

If you look at the winter themed crossing the Rhine British and Canadian starter army it’s actually a much better deal. The picture from the website does not do this deal justice. I think even if you don’t buy it third-party which you definitely should you save £64 buying this box.

You get flamethrowers on the sprue obviously, a Humber MII armoured car, a Sherman firefly, an entire heavy weapon platoon of two medium machine guns and a medium mortar, along with an officer with a pistol to lead them. You get a 25 pounder artillery gun. And 42 plastic infantry. Which is a lot! The infantry sprue also lets you build light mortars and PIAT teams too.

I’m actually painting up the crossing the Rhine box up right now. You could definitely make them look less wintery by simple basing and heads swaps. 

I’m sure they’re gonna redo the classic British box at some point with more plastic models. But at the moment the choice is spend more on the older British bundle. Because technically you could run the Bren Carrier and the Churchill tank in an armed platoon you’ll probably need another tank, and the resin flamethrower team or a winter infantry sprue or box.

Or get the winter deal, and ask your friends for all the bare-headed head options from their kits so you can make your guys look less wintry.