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Next Week New Christmas Battleforces Pre-Orders Revealed

The new 2021 Christmas Battleforces box sets are finally hitting pre-orders next week for both Warhammer AoS and 40k!

Games Workshop just let us in on all the new Christmas Battleforces that are finally going up for pre-orders this coming Saturday. While we dont know the pricing yet for these sets, we have all the values broken down at the bottom of this post for you as well.

Be sure to read each product teaser close, because several of the new Christmas Battleforces will be delayed in specific regions, with the Ad Mech battleforce not hitting pre-orders in North America until next year.

Now let’s look at next week’s line-up from Warhammer Community.

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Space Marines: Shieldbreaker Strike Force

Shieldbreaker Strike Force

Overwhelm your opponent with the explosive might of the Space Marines. This is a Battleforce that hits hard and fast thanks to a Storm Speeder and 29 Primaris Space Marines, including some fairly chunky Gravis-armoured battle brothers.

While a box full of simple marines might not be exciting, it’s certainly viable as you’ll need a ton of marines to fill out a full list anyways!

Death Guard: Plaguefester Warband

Plaguefester Warband

This box includes a host of Plague Marines and Deathshroud Bodyguard, accompanied by daemon-touched war machines – three Myphitic Blight-haulers and a Plagueburst Crawler – all able to withstand a huge amount of punishment before crashing into the enemy lines in an inexorable wave of stench and decay. 

For Death Guard adherents in the US, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, this Battleforce is available to pre-order on Saturday. Nurgle devotees in other regions will have a short wait before marching into battle – chalk it up to rusted joints.

With a great selection of characters, vehicles, and troops, it’s hard to go wrong with this box.

Necrons: Worldscour Legion

Worldscour Legion

There’s nothing worse than being woken up from your nap aeons earlier than planned, which is a fact of (synthetic) life for Necrons across the galaxy. This Battleforce is especially cranky about it, and wants to put its opponents to bed with esoteric guns wielded by Lokhust Heavy Destroyers and Canoptek Doomstalkers, and the razor-sharp claws of the Ophydian Destroyers and Flayed Ones.

If the skeletal-robot theme of Necrons is more our speed, then this box also comes with a great selection of different types of models to give you a sense of what a full army might be like.

Orks: Killdakka Warband

Killdakka Warband

Killdakka, what a wonderful word to say out loud… Ork speech is poetry when you think about it. This box includes 20 Boyz, plus a Deffkilla Wartrike, your choice of Orky aeroplane, and a Big Mek. That’s lots of kill, and indeed dakka.

Orks have been dominating at tournaments lately, and conveniently enough, this box seems to come with an assortment of models that slot right into those meta lists if you wanted to try them.

Adepta Sororitas: Purgatos Mission

Purgatos Mission

What’s better than a tank with a stained glass window on it? Nothing, but a tank with a rocket-launching church organ is just as cool. This Battleforce comes with both – an Immolator, an Exorcist, and 16 Adepta Sororitas on foot, ready to toast a lot of heretics and marshmallows.

Sisters are a fan favorite faction, and their newest update helped reinvigorate a lot of their model lineup. That being said this might be a decent place to start as all of the models inside are the recently updated ones!

Adeptus Mechanicus: Omnissiah’s Talon

Omnissiah’s Talon

If you like eccentric mechanical limbs, gosh does the Adeptus Mechanicus have a treat for you with not one or two, but 15 weird and wonderful modes of ambulation or flight! There’s also a unit of Skitarii and a powerful Tech-priest to lead this gaggle of whirring, clunking, zapping warriors.

For those in the United States and Canada, Forge World Memphis** has had its requisitions delayed by solar interference, so the Omnissiah’s Talon box won’t arrive until early next year. 

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Ad Mech is another great faction if you like shooty lists, but unfortunately for the US and Canada, we won’t be able to pick this one up until after the new year.

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Soulblight Gravelords: Revenant Legion

Revenant Legion

 

First up are the vampires of the Soulblight Gravelords, who lead a dolorous horde of brainless thralls in a bumper box that contains 66 miniatures. Hordes of Deadwalker Zombies are particularly useful for pinning down enemy forces while the Vengorian Lord and their Blood Knights swoop in for the jugular.

All of the models in this box were part of their recently updated line, which means even if you are a vet, most of these might be brand new painting challenges you haven’t had before.

Hedonites of Slaanesh: Sybarite Blade-Carnival

Sybarite Blade-Carnival

Add a little more finesse to your slaughter with the Sybarite Blade-Carnival, which collects a cavalcade of elite Slaanesh Mortals in one place. When these peerless warriors aren’t preening, they’re a surgical strike force comprising 30 miniatures – perfect for tearing reality in two and summoning gaggles of Daemonettes.

Nothing feels worse than getting a box with some old un-updated models in it, luckily just like a bunch of the other battleforces, this one doesn’t!

Lumineth Realm-lords: Vanari Shining Host

Vanari Shining Host

From one group of self-involved egotists to another, it’s the pointy-helmed Aelves of Hysh. This insufferably well-oiled Vanari Shining Host focuses on the Tyrionic half of the Realm-lords’ martial forces, bringing 23 models of archers, spearmen, and cavalry to bear with gleaming precision.

If you like High Elves, look no further than the Lumineth Realm-Lords, as they are essentially the spiritual evolution of what we all think of when we hear “High Elves”.

Ossiarch Bonereapers: Mortisan Tithe-Echelon

Mortisan Tithe-Echelon

Finally, the Ossiarch Bonereapers are back to collect the Bone Tithe on time, because they really want to make sure Nagash has a good Christmas. This immovable legion of 27 models consists of a core of Mortek Guard, backed up by a Mortek Crawler, and a range of grim bone constructs and heroes ready and willing to forcefully acquire each and every tibia and fibia on the docket.

Those dusting off their knucklebone abacuses ready for the tithe in the US, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia will be able to pre-order this Battleforce on Saturday. Everywhere else will need to wait a little longer for this set to arrive – but it’s on its way.

As the final battleforce box, the Bonereapers are a more elite variant to the standard skeletons we see inside the Soulblight Gravelords box.

AoS Christmas Battleforces: What is the Value?

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Last year we also saw four boxes for AoS, with the prices ranging from $200-210. Each box had pretty decent value even though the price tag was a little higher than in years past. So, let’s hope this year the price stays the same as they really didn’t add much more into the boxes.

Luckily GW said there will be savings in the boxes:

Not only do they save you money compared to picking up the constituent units separately, but each Battleforce will provide the perfect start – or significant reinforcements – to any collection.

Now, let’s get into the value for the new Ages of Sigmar Chrismas Battleforces!

Soulblight Gravelords

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Battleforce Value: 

  • Vengorian Lord: $60
  • 5x Blood Knights: $60
  • 20x Deathrattle Skeletons: $60
  • 40x Deadwalker Zombies: $110

Total MSRP: $290

Hedonites of Slaanesh

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Battleforce Value: 

  • Shardspeaker: $30
  • 3X Slaangor Fiendbloods: $50
  • 10x Blissbarb archers: $50
  • Slickblade Seekers: $65
  • Mymirdesh Painbringers: $60
  • Symbaresh Twinsouls: $60

Total MSRP: $305

Lumineth Realms-Lords

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Battleforce Value: 

  • Vanari Auralan Wardens: $60
  • Bladelords: $60
  • Dawnriders $60
  • Starshard Ballista $50
  • Bannerblade $35
  • Lord Regent $55

Total MSRP: $320

Ossiarch Bonereapers

Age of Sigmar Battleforces 4Battleforce Value: 

  • Boneshaper: $30 
  • Soulreaper: $30 
  • Mortek Guard: $60
  • Necropolis Stalkers: $50
  • Gothizzar Harvester: $50
  • Mortek Crawler: $80

Total MSRP: $300

Overall, these are all decent values and they did a pretty good job of keeping the total MSRP all very similar. While Lumineth has the most value in terms of dollars, it’s not by an insane amount. Whether you play the armies already or not they come with a decent chunk of units to get somebody started off on the right foot or add to your forces.

It looks like each one of these boxes allows the player to get started on a battalion. 

40k Christmas Battleforces: What’s the Value?

Chrismas Battleforces 2020 warhammer 40kLast year we also saw six boxes for 40k, with the prices ranging from $200-210. Each box had pretty decent value even though the price tag was a little higher than in years past. So, let’s hope this year the price stays the same as they really didn’t add much more into the boxes.

Luckily GW said there will be savings in the boxes:

Not only do they save you money compared to picking up the constituent units separately, but each Battleforce will provide the perfect start – or significant reinforcements – to any collection.

Now, let’s get into the value for the new Warhammer 40k Christmas Battleforce boxes!

Space Marines

Warhammer 40k Battleforces 2Battleforce Value: 

  • 10 Intercessors: $60
  • 10 Assualt Intercessors: $60
  • 5 Heavy Intercessors: $60
  • Bladeguard Veterans: $50
  • Storm Speeder: $65
  • Primaris Captain: $35

Total MSRP: $330

We’re hoping the price stays around the $200 mark for this to keep the value strong. As we do with all the boxes!

Adepta Sororitas

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Battleforce Value: 

  • Sister Dogmata: $35
  • Celestian Sacresants: $55
  • 10 Battle Sisters: $60
  • Immolator: $75
  • Exorcist: $80

Total MSRP: $305

Adeptus Mechanicus

Warhammer 40k Battleforces 4Battleforce Value: 

  • 5x Pteraxii: $60
  • Ruststalkers: $49
  • Serberys Raiders: $60
  • Ironstrider: $55
  • Skitarii Rangers: $44
  • Tech-priest Manipulus: $35

Total MSRP: $303

Death Guard

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Battleforce Value:

  • Deathshroud Terminators: $60
  • Plague Marines: $50
  • Blight-haulers: $75
  • Plagueburst Crawler: $65
  • Plague Marine Champion: $30
  • Icon Bearer: $30

Total MSRP: $310

Necrons

Warhammer 40k Battleforces 6Battleforce Value:

  • Psychomancer Cryptek: $35
  • Necron Warriors: $45
  • Lokhust Heavy Destroyer: $35
  • 3 Ophydian Destroyers: $55
  • 5 Flayed Ones: $50
  • 2 Canoptek Doomstalkers: $80

Total MSRP: $300

Orks

Warhammer 40k Battleforces 7Battleforce Value:

  • 5 Nobz: $34
  • 20 Boyz: $100 (New ETB From the Combat Patrol)
  • Gretchin: $18
  • Deffkilla Wartrike: $50
  • Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun: $37
  • Dakkajet: $75

Total MSRP: $314

Overall, these are all decent values and they did a pretty good job of keeping the total MSRP all very similar. While the Space Marines have the most value in terms of dollars, it’s not by an insane amount. Whether you play the armies already or not they come with a decent chunk of units to get somebody started off on the right foot or add to your forces.

It looks like each one of these boxes allows the player to make a Combat Patrol Detachment at the very least. 

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