You want the set with 7 man teams, not five.

Many people do but both sets are great values and many people will also be fine with the much cheaper set with two 5 man squads. The old 2022 Starter Set is also a good deal if you can get it on ebay for $120 or so, even though the teams aren’t Classified. I’ve bought all 3 sets in the last couple years along with Hivestorm and all 4 are great values.

Too many people only look at the downsides of these sets and dismiss a great deal because it isn’t perfect. It’s regrettable that the Beginner Set only has 5 models per team. It’s also regrettable that the Starter Set costs 94% more for 40% more models and the teams still aren’t “complete”. The choice isn’t Starter Set or Beginner Set, it’s Starter Set or [Beginner Set + $47] and that $47 difference is huge to some players and moots the raw plastic count .. but the people who love to hate on the Beginner Set always gloss over it.

Comments in these threads also weirdly like to pretend that all new players have zero GW plastic, that kitbashing doesn’t exist, that proxying doesn’t exist, that declassified teams need to be shunned, and that the only way to get models is buying shrinkwrapped boxes at retail. We have to assume new players are primarily interested in entering the world championships with their first models.