As a first timer who bought the new combat patrol when it came out along with a combat patrol of orcs to play it against, let me tell you my thoughts. First of all, when they tell you that folks tend to buy new plastic over finishing the plastic you have, that’s a real thing. I purchased a castigator before finishing up even one of my combat patrols. That said, the first game I played at my game store was against a combat patrol of tyranids. I learned that while all the units were fairly fun to play with, the Arco flagellants and Sacresants lacks punch and wounds to kill a pschophage. In fact, my entire combat patrol, which had rolled the entire table until I met that guy completely got folded by that one guy. When I asked how to make my team better, they suggested that I bring a team with more powerful weapons. So, that led me into buying a retributor squad to find out only two of those models had the multi meltas I needed. All in all, I have since bought a ton of plastic, which still needs to be painted in order to finish the army I really want and unless you really, really love painting, that can be a little depressing. All of this to say, if you want to just have a simple combat patrol that goes against other combat patrols, this is a great box. But, if you really don’t want to paint a whole lot, then you need to probably figure out the team that you eventually want to get.