The new releases are out of the bag, as the return of the Battleforces are here! Come see the new bundle line up for both Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40k!
UPDATE:
Tabletop Gaming Insiders have informed Spikey Bits these new sets will retail for $170, a savings of nearly $100 a box!
Chickout’s got the hot scoop this morning with a shot of the brand new Battleforces:
Space Wovles: Dread, 10 Grey Hunters, 5 Terminators, 5 Fenrisian Wolves, Wolf Head Flyer, Iron Priest: $276
Deathwatch: 5 Bikes, 5 Terminators, 15 Deathwatch Kill Team, Razorback, Watch Commander: $282
Tau: 3 Stealth Suits, Ghostkeel, Devilfish, Broadside, 10 Pathfinders, Commander: $275
Adeptus Mechanicus: 2 Kastelan Robots + Priest, 3 Kataphron, 5 Electro Priest, 5 Infiltrators, Ironstrider. $263
Which breaks down to:
- Space Wolves: Dread, 10 Grey Hunters, 5 Terminators, 5 Fenrisian Wolves, Wolf Head Flyer, Iron Priest: $276
- Deathwatch: 5 Bikes, 5 Terminators, 15 Deathwatch Kill Team, Razorback, Watch Commander: $282
- Tau: 3 Stealth Suits, Ghostkeel, Devilfish, Broadside, 10 Pathfinders, Commander: $275
- Adeptus Mechanicus: 2 Kastelan Robots + Priest, 3 Kataphron, 5 Electro Priest, 5 Infiltrators, Ironstrider. $263
And the AoS Versions:
- Stormcast – celestant prime, knight azyros, dracoth riders, 10 liberators. $285
- Slyvaneth – drycha, treelord 6 kurnoth hunters, 10 tree revenants. $311
- Ironjawz – megaboss, shaman, 10 brutes, 3 goregruntas, giant. $255.75
- Khorne bloodbound- skar, 3 juggers, blood warriors, bloodreavers, wrathmongers.$287
What We Know:
It looks like GW is making a return to the old Battleforce offerings of the early 2000’s which retailed for around the same price of today’s start collecting sets ($90). Currently a search for Battleforce will yield this on Games Workshop site:
Dark Angels Battleforce $100
- The New Battleforces Will Release on the 16th of December, just in time for the holidays!
- There will be 8 total, four Age of Sigmar, and four Warhammer 40k
- The 40k ones will consist of Two Astartes factions, (Space Wolves and Deathwatch), Ad Mech and Tau.
Now to be honest, just eyeballing the contents I’m their price point may very well be DOUBLE the start collecting sets, or perhaps at least $150 minimum. The $100 pricepoint of the current Dark Angels Battleforce appears to be “too low” for what you get listed above!
So looks like either way there are some deals on the way for sure! Just how much, and how many hobbyists will be able to buy is currently unclear at this time! Overall this seems like another indicator that times are a changing at Games Workshop in 2016, and I for one am ready to welcome our new Hobby Overlords in 2017!
GW’s 2016 New Release Roadmap Roundup
About the Author: Rob Baer
Rob Baer
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Founded Spikey Bits in 2009
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About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.
Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls.
Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at Las Vegas Open, which attracts over 350 players from around the world.
Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the Adepticon 40k Team Tournament.
With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.
While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.
