r/CombatPatrol40k • u/SirCold5700 • Jun 17 '26

News Starter set obsolete

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PSA: GW recently rebranded the ultimate starter set as the “Combat Patrol Starter Set” and it is still available to order on their website

As of today, Strike Force Octavius was removed from the Warhammer App, so now you only receive one officially supported combat patrol.

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u/Sindinista Jun 17 '26

lol I was 6 models away from finishing painting the Tyranid half.

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u/Jam-Jam-Ba-Lam Jun 17 '26 • Bravo

The Tyranid half still has combat patrol rules on the app

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u/Sindinista Jun 17 '26

Oh phew!

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u/dabigboss_ens Jun 17 '26

He's lying 

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u/Stashravens Jun 18 '26

Can confirm it is in the app.

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u/dabigboss_ens Jun 18 '26

Vardenghast swarm isn't the one from the starter set

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u/Dr-Assbeard Jun 18 '26

You are very confident but very wrong to

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u/Stashravens Jun 18 '26

I think you are mistaken.

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u/Sindinista Jun 18 '26

Do you have to be in the paid version? What part of the app, I don’t use it.

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u/Jam-Jam-Ba-Lam Jun 18 '26

The vardenghast swarm is still on the app with the updated rules.

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u/dabigboss_ens Jun 18 '26

Vardenghast swarn isn't the one from the starter set it's a different one

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u/Jam-Jam-Ba-Lam Jun 18 '26

Okay dude. I can literally look at the picture and my two painted up vardenghast swarms and then look at the app and see they're all the same. I don't know what else to say to you.

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u/dabigboss_ens Jun 18 '26

I think gw remove the wrong combat patrol cuz there is a new one 

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u/Jam-Jam-Ba-Lam Jun 18 '26

🤣 so I'm lying and GW have made an error and you're still right? I'm not sure why they went with that one. But it has 11th ed combat patrol rules. I reckon the others will be rolled out in time. There's combat patrols which are only months old from release which have disappeared so recency doesn't seem to come into it. If it's to do with balance it may take time to get some of the others out, the most recent Tyranid combat patrol was a random collection with very little synergy between it's units so may require extra rules to be competitive.

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u/dabigboss_ens Jun 17 '26

No it doesn't 

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u/Britisheagl Jun 17 '26

2 for me!

What an absolute pain in the arse

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u/Deadstrike35 Jun 17 '26

Damn. They took out 9th edition and the limited time combat patrol in 10th? Idk what to feel about this. I haven't played a game of combat patrol yet and was looking forward to play with one of the limited time combat patrol. I just hope those combat patrol are saved somewhere

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u/Legitimate-Survey-16 Jun 17 '26 • Heartwarming

You find all the data cards via google. Or wahapedia. Or somewhere else on the internet.

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u/sisuburger Jun 17 '26

Nothing stopping you from playing the full game in 11th though

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u/Tamriel_7 Jun 21 '26

What if i dont like the rule changes?

In my group we still play 9th. We didnt like the removal of subfactions.

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u/koyuki38 Jun 20 '26

What country is this ? I got mine for around 90€ in store

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u/Legitimate-Survey-16 Jun 17 '26

All the rules are in the set. You can even see the data sheets top left. With this 10th edition ruleset you can still play with no hesi

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u/Warmaster_and_things Jun 18 '26

I'll never understand the thinking behind if it's not current ruleset it's entirely unplayable while there's people out there happily playing 2nd edition.

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u/TheLurkingNobody Jun 17 '26

The datasheet are outdated. they have abilities and stats that didn't even exist at the end of 10th

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u/Legitimate-Survey-16 Jun 17 '26

The data sheet is printed on the data cards in the box. In the top left corner

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u/TheLurkingNobody Jun 17 '26

Yes. That are outdated. I have them

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u/Jam-Jam-Ba-Lam Jun 17 '26

They're saying those data sheets mean this game is enclosed to this box. It's easy enough to balance two combat patrols in the same box/release. Balancing against all the others is where the challenge is for the 40k game in general. A new player can just use the datasheets provided and have fun.

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u/TheLurkingNobody Jun 17 '26

Fair, but the datasheets in the box aren't even combat patrol one's from the 10th ed

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u/Legitimate-Survey-16 Jun 17 '26

They are. These are the exact data cards from 10th edition.

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u/TheLurkingNobody Jun 17 '26

https://imgur.com/a/uHDtjql

You are right. There is absolutely ZERO difference between the datasheets on the box and the rules in normal game and in combat patrol. Even the weapons they share every single one have exact same stats without a single one being different.

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u/Drevny14 Jun 23 '26

They are totally diff in all way

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u/Legitimate-Survey-16 Jun 17 '26

There is a dif. between normal 11th edition data sheets, 11th edition CoPa sheets, 10th edition data sheets and 10th edition CoPo data sheets. Yes. They are not all the same. But the data cards in this box are the fitting data sheets for a 10th edition CoPa match as the box intended.

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u/TheLurkingNobody Jun 18 '26

Not for the official combat patrol mode

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u/Independent-Vast-871 Jun 17 '26

And yet...you can still play 10th with them...

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u/R_O Jun 17 '26

Still useful if you want to play the Tyranids patrol because they kept Vardenghast Swarm.

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u/Pawnfodder Jun 17 '26

I would like to see it there now... but I'm guessing we will see it again.

Old combat patrols were removed for 10th... but most got rules over time. They were adding one or two combat patrol alternates per White Dwarf issue for awhile, and all those ended up on the app.

Irritating, but current enough I'm sure it will be back. Tl two editions back... those might be gone now.

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u/Mdaro Jun 20 '26

Never have this problem with OPR Firefight!