$210 for a one shot board game with no future support. Dreadfleet is the same and I know what happened to that. My brother and his girlfriend bought Dreadfleet, no longer play it and still haven't finish painting all the ships.
I imagine playing a similar board game to this one would cost $70-$100 max. Apparently it costs $120 in the US and given currency exchange rate plus shipping it would probably be cheaper to buy it from the US (which is why GW tries to stop overseas consumers from re-selling products to us in Australia).
There are many things I complain about, some of which are just for the sake of it, but this seems too ridiculous, even for me. $210 for a one shot board game? Many have pointed out that the cultists, marines and lord are basic stock ones, which anyone can get cheap enough on Ebay and the Assassins don't look that much more better then the base ones. Hell, many people overseas think the Australian $210 price tag to be a bit of a joke.
I'm sorry, I just honestly don't get this.
Edit:
OK, so looking back, it seems Dreadfleet did cost around $190, but they were all new sculpts. And to those who have argued that ' Board games like this are used by GW as a gateway into the hobby', I can argue that Dark Veneance is the two player starter set into the hobby and it only costs $165, you get more models, rules to get you into the game and both armies are legal. If you want to use a board game as a gateway into it, then it should be more affordable. Board games like this are more for die-hard fans who are willing to blow a load of cash on a simple side game.
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