Cheap Raveners

[masonatronic]

Nope, not talking about the points cost - instead their extortionate price.

Coming from a guy who wishes to have 10+ in his army, why are these guys so damn expensive when the box only comes with 3 models? And does anyone know any way of obtaining that sort of number without breaking the bank?

Cheers guys

[arsonfire]

For some reason the box comes with four lower bodies, but only three upper bodies.
If you're able to convert an extra upper body out of something, then that would help.

[infornography]

ebay? Craig's list? Just general shopping around for good discounts?

That's about it.

[forteh]

I got 5 metal ones for less than 20 quid, keep an eye out on ebay and you can get some good bargains

[chuckles]

Jul 30, 2013 10:52:37 GMT arsonfire said:

For some reason the box comes with four lower bodies, but only three upper bodies.
If you're able to convert an extra upper body out of something, then that would help.

Use Warrior torsos

[masonatronic]

Searched ebay, and no good deals at the moment. Never used craigslist too I'm afraid. Ugh, very disheartening. Really felt like cracking on with the hobby today haha.

forteh: You lucky swine!

[Hive Carnithrope]

Jul 30, 2013 10:52:37 GMT arsonfire said:

For some reason the box comes with four lower bodies, but only three upper bodies.
If you're able to convert an extra upper body out of something, then that would help.

It's cause there's an optional lower body bursting out of the ground - if you don't like it, you can use the regular tail.

Ebay is definitely your friends. Great deals there.

[forteh]

Jul 30, 2013 11:52:18 GMT masonatronic said:

Searched ebay, and no good deals at the moment. Never used craigslist too I'm afraid. Ugh, very disheartening. Really felt like cracking on with the hobby today haha.

forteh: You lucky swine!

Patience and a little luck with bidding and ebay auctions are easy to win
I just trawl through a generic search (tyranids for example) and add anything that looks interesting (cheap start price/no bids/miniatures I want). Keep an eye on the bidding for them and then drop your maximum bid in with 20-30 seconds left on the auction, often it's too little time for people to put a reactive higher bid in (unless they are watching to the last seconds as well).

You may also be surprised as to what some things will go for, I was watching around 30 OOP harlequin miniatures in 7 separate auctions, won all of them with bids placed in the last few seconds for a total of £42. Yet another pair of auctions (9 troupers and 9 troupers + a death jester) went for £27 and £47 respectively - all of them were ending within hours of each other, I guess I got lucky though!

[Squire]

Yea warriors and raveners seem pretty expensive for what they are, but their money to points ratio isn't unusual when you compare with other stuff. They're pretty much the same as hive guard, zoanthropes and tyrant guard, better value than gaunts and much better than biovores. My own army stung because of the two tervigons and big horde of termagants that requires, and also the three pyrovores and spore mines to make a biovore unit. I could have done an IG army significantly cheaper, partly because their battleforce seems a lot more useful to me than ours.

[Draezymous]

Unfortunately, I too have invested a LOT of money in Raveners (I bought 5 boxes), I also used the spare tails along with 3 Warrior bodies to ultimately create 2 units of 9 Raveners. A friend of mine actually used some spare parts and some Green Stuff to make the snake tail, and all he needed were some bases to create a unit of 6, so if you really want them but can't afford them, you might want to try that out?

[ranmafan]

I got 6 raveners cheap - my shop was holding a reverse auction so I got them for like US$15-16 a box. I find 6 Raveners more than enough for my needs so it's a pretty good buy all around.

[WestRider]

I made one to fill out my brood from a Stealer body, some spare Warrior parts, and greenstuff. It looks rather better than this now I've got it painted, and if you're even halfway decent with greenstuff, you could probably do better still: