true enough, but then again, there are those bitz websites i keep hearing whispers about, where people can buy heavy weapons individually....when they have stock...

that is why i said yes and no, as for a quick one buy, yes its cheaper then HAVING to buy both kits to get the appropriate design as one might want for just long fangs, and for veteran players this is a better choice. Of course I think the Dev / Long Fang box is stupid in the first place as neither box gives you the ability to choose ALL the weapons you would want on said squads, it just gives you one of each, forcing you to buy, say, 5 boxes, to get a squad of 5 Missile Launchers (the old Long Fang loadout, not sure how it would fare in 7th)

you are correct of course, but what i was getting at was that it was better for those on a lower budget(which seems to be anyone on a forum if the claims of poverty are anything to go by ), after all, if you can just throw money at this game its actually easy to save money(ironically) by buying the larger box sets that save you stacks of cash vs RRP of the individual boxes.

the other thing i like is that they have bothered to bundle them together at all, i know its a little like spoon feeding the customer, but considering some of the comments i see on social media from gamers i can understand why they have done it, part of games workshops continued ability to sell stuff stems from the paranoia of its customer base of not wanting to field anything that didnt come off the shelf and from the pages of the codex, thats why i think we are seeing things like allies matrix and codex supplements/dataslates, the average GW gamer lacks the initiative/confidence/ability to work this shit our for them self? or maybe they are just too lazy? back in the day of RT the game was pretty fluid and open ended, you pretty much turned up with anything and worked out the rules for it as you went along, ok maybe not ideal for the gamer of today but it meant imagination and fun were the key factors in the game.

yes and no, sure buying both just to build the Dev squad with more wolf bits might seem more expensive, but if you then take all the bits you didnt use to make the dev squad and use them to make normal marines, you still come out ontop with more by just buying the original dev box and a space wolf kit.

Looks like they have removed the standard leg sprues and replaced them with the wolf pack sprue, a good move for GW as even though they are slightly more than the vanilla marines it means a less expensive alternative than buying both a dev squad and a wolf pack set .