40k starter box miniature leaks.

The contents were leaked ages ago, but I think this is the first time there's pictures of the minis. Nice find.
The chosen of chaos are pretty boss. Same with the dreadnaught wannabe. Not a fan of the cultists at all.
The Dark Angel choice is an obvious attempt to make people buy a ravenwing expansion. One of the main complaints about the Dark Angel codex is that they get screwed unless they're fielding a deathwing army (tons of expensive termies) or a ravenwing army (attack bikes and skimmers). I guess a ravenwing pack + the starter kit sans chaos would actually give you a pretty respectable army that could hit like a sack of bricks. Oh well.

That said, I like how the starter set actually allows you to field legal armies nowadays. Battle for macragge was rather dissapointing in that regard 2 editions ago. Once a new starter set is out, people usually sell the contents piecemeal on ebay. If anyone's dabbling with the idea of starting a dark angel armt for whatever reason, hunting for a half-set auction on ebay resellers is usually a good way to get the minis far cheaper than in normal boxed sets. I'm actually kind of tempted myself. Me and a few mates are still debating whether or not to all start up a small 1k point army tourney.

Destroid -- So what your'e saying is: Don't give in to nostalgia and spend some money on a game to play with friends. Spend a lot of money on a game noone around here plays instead! I've suggested warmachine a few times as an alternative if people wanted to pick up minis again, but reception has been lukewarm. I like the new termies, but the ones in this set are a bit over the top. The termies in the 5th ed starter set were better. The ones in the space hulk reprint weren't half bad either, although a clever modder would probably cut them up and adjust their poses to be slightly less over the top for tabletop play.

Norfleet -- For me, 40K is 3 parts fluff, 1 part game and 5 parts painting minis. I'm not too big a fan of cleaning/modifying them (just painting) so the starter set minis are superior to the normal ones for me in that regard. They're typically non-posable and cast in 2 parts - torso + snap-on weapon. That means fewer mold lines to clean and less messing about with glue.

Looking at the army compositions in the box, the chaos side is going to have a lot of trouble dealing with the deathwing terminators. Only 2 weapons with enough AP to ignore their armor save. Massed cultist fire might work, but I'm going to guess they're all gonna get tied up in CC since the bikers charge distance is about the same as the cultists autogun firing range.

You gotta give GW credit where it's due. Their last 2 starter sets have been a marked incline in terms of the amount of plastic you got. Compare the new set with battle for macragge:

Company master, Librarian, 10 tactical marines, 5 terminators, 3 attack bikes
vs
10 tactical marines, 1 IG pilot

And
Chaos lord, 6 chosen, 1 new shit dreadnaught, 20 cultists
vs
8 genestealers, 8 termagaunts, 8 spore mines

For spehss mehreenz, I still liked the assault on black reach contents better though. The terminators weren't ridiculously over-posed, the marines were generic enough you weren't forced into painting them to match one specific chapter and the army was altogether more all-purpose.

The codex: Dark Angels basically screws over your army unless you're playing it as deathwing (nearly all-terminator) or ravenwing (bikes and land speeders). In this regard the dark angel hybrid force is a little gimped unless people splurge on more sets of termies or a ravenwing battle force. Standard tactical marines are horribly overpriced for dark angels.

An eldar army and a tyranid army that I gave away ages ago. Me and some friends have been tossing the idea of starting smallish armies again back and forth for a while.

Ulminati: Me and a few friends have been talking about playing 40k
Someone else: OMG 40K IS SHIT! YOU NEED TO PLAY XYZ INSTEAD
Ulminati: Yeah... See, the thing is, I would actually get to PLAY 40k. Noone I know is interested in XYZ
Someone else: 40k MINIS ARE WAY MORE EXPENSIVE AND SHITTIER THAN OBSCURE GAME OMEGA
Ulminati: You're not even reading what I'm typing, are you? Do I even need to be here for this?
Someone else: GAMES WORKSHOP IS THE DEVIL!

I also love how vaarna completely missed the fact that I've already dismissed warmachine as something my friends aren't interested in playing and I'm not interested in painting several times. Trekkies gonna trek.