Shadow Throne for Adeptus Custodes and Genestealer cults is here, plus the all-new AoS Maggotkin and more are on pre-order right now!
Check out the latest from Games Workshop this week, and get those hobby dollars ready if you want any of these pre-orders that are live right now for delivery starting December 18th, 2021.
There is something for both AoS and 40k lovers this weekend, so be sure to check the entire lineup this week. Just remember, the codex books for Adeptus Custodes and Genestealer Cults won’t be out until ‘Early 2022’, so just something to keep in mind.
Let’s check out the offerings!
All the New Shadow Throne & Maggotkin New Releases
Shadow Throne $170
Inside, you’ll find 25 plastic Citadel miniatures, including:
– 1x Blade Champion
– 3x Allarus Custodians, with the option to build one miniature as a Shield-Captain, and one as a Vexilus Praetor
– 5x Witchseekers, able to be built as Vigitalors or Prosecutors
– 1x Reductus Saboteur with explosive device
– 1x Genestealer Patriarch
– 1x Magus
– 1x Primus
– 2x Familiars
– 10x Neophyte Hybrids
A 32-page Shadow Throne campaign book covering the narrative of the Unthinkable War, which sees the Adeptus Custodes and Sisters of Silence in conflict with a covert uprising of Genestealer Cults beneath the Imperial Palace itself. This book contains Datasheets for everything in the box, as well as rules for the Deadly Ambush Theatre of War, a two-mission campaign, and Crusade rules giving each faction a Battle Trait table and both an Artificer and Antiquity Relic. All together, this makes Shadow Throne a brilliant choice for new and existing players alike.
The above units are supplied with 1x 50mm Citadel round base, 3x 40mm round bases, 10x 32mm round bases, and 13x 25mm round bases.
So far both the Blade Champion and Reductus Sabatour are looking like they will be pretty good additions to their factions.
Just like with most recent box pre-orders, GW is combating scalpers by enforcing a pre-order promise. This is a great step to making the hobby fairer for the average consumer, especially when you realize the huge issue of scalpers in other areas like the PS5 and XBOX Series X market.
The box contains a total of 25 minis with 2 new characters for each faction.
Let’s start with the Genestealer Cults value then go to the Adeptus Custodes.
- Broodcoven $60
- Neophyte Hybrids $44
- Reductus Saboteur $35 (Based on recent characters, might be as high as $40)
Genestealer Cults MSRP: $139-$144
- Allarus Custodians $50
- Witchseeker Squad $49
- Blade Champion $35 (Based on recent characters, might be as high as $40)
Adeptus Custodes MSRP: $134-$139
Overall MSRP: $273-283
Cost of Box: $170
Total Estimated Value: $103-113
So, if you break it down with a friend, you’ll be paying right around $85 a person and getting about $55 in value each. So, honestly, there is solid value inside (but still less than Hexfire, which got $80 in value per person) and the units included are pretty decent judging from their new rules.
Now let’s check out the AoS releases.
Battletome: Maggotkin of Nurgle $50
This 104-page hardback book contains:
– A pestilent bounty of lore and background information all focussed on Grandfather Nurgle and the daemons and mortals that live only to spread his poxes
– Stunning art that covers the repulsive Maggotkin hordes in all their bubonic beauty
– 27 warscrolls and pitched battle profiles that cover everything from the mighty Glottkin brothers to the rotting Putrid Blightkings and the lowliest Nurglings
– Allegiance abilities for your Maggotkin armies that cover how your forces infect their enemies with diseases, how to manage Cycle of Decay, as well as command traits, artifacts of power, and the 6 legions and contagiums of Nurgle
– 7 warscroll battalions for Path to Glory narrative campaigns
– Path to Glory campaign rules allowing you to undertake quests to seed the garden of Nurgle and fight across blighted battlegrounds
– Content for matched play, including 4 grand strategies, 6 battle tactics, and 2 core battalions
– A wonderful photo showcase covering the menagerie of morbid miniatures which make up Maggotkin armies, and guides for how to paint your own army
– Background information on every Maggotkin of Nurgle unit, including characters like Rotigus, and Horticulus Slimux
Rotbringer Sorcerer $30
Maggotkin armies rarely broach the battlefield without a Rotbringer Sorcerer. Acting as a locus of foul arcane magics, these sorcerers hack up phlegm-ridden incantations that pox their enemies. In the wake of the Arcane Optimar, many of these spellcasters also unleash twisted, plague-ridden endless spells that they have bent to their rotten whims.
This multi-part plastic kit makes one Rotbringer Sorcerer with a choice of heads and comes supplied with one 32mm Citadel Round base.
Vanguard: Maggotkin of Nurgle $125
This set includes the following multipart plastic kits:
– 1x Spoilpox Scrivener
– 10x Plaguebearers of Nurgle
– 5x Putrid Blightkings
– 2x Pusgoyle Blightlords (can alternatively be built as 1x Lord of Afflictions and 1x Pusgoyle Blightlord)
The above units are supplied with 1x 40mm round base, 10x 32mm round bases, 5x 40mm flying bases, and 2x 60mm round bases.
This new bundle type is similar to a combat patrol, but just a touch smaller. This one features the Patrol but adds in some Nurgle Daemons for good measure, giving you a better variety of what the faction has to offer.
So breaking down the value of the contents of the box we now have:
- Scrivener $34
- 2x Pusgoyle Blightlords $65
- Blightkings $57
- 10x Plaguebearers $36
MSRP: $192
Savings with Vanguard Box: $67
Those savings puts the new Vanguard box value in a similar range to the 40k Combat Patrol boxes (check out all their breakdowns here)
Maggotkin of Nurgle Dice $35 and Warscroll Cards $30
As per usual you’ll be able to pick up some new dice and warscroll cards to either show off devotion or help you grind out those early games more efficiently.
Thunderstrike Command: $110
Winging her way to the battlefield for the first time outside of the Dominion boxed set is Yndrasta, the Celestial Spear, Sigmar’s personal huntress with a predilection for collecting enemy heads. Three stocky Annihilators join her with hammers and shields, and a Knight-Vexillor comes sporting a glorious Banner of Apotheosis, which gives your warriors a chance to resurrect before they’re zapped back to Azyr.
Coming out of Dominion, you can now pick up the more elite half of the box for Stormcast if you wanted extras or were waiting for a separate release.
Kruleboyz Boss-Krew $110
Tired of furtive lurking in the various fens and bogs of the Mortal Realms, the Killaboss is striking out on the prowl. And thanks to his Great Gnashtoof mount, he won’t struggle to find easy prey. Alongside him stands a Murknob with Belcha-banna, a blessed totem that deflects enemy sorceries, and three Man-skewer Bolt Boyz, crude but effective orruk snipers who pincushion their enemies with envenomed bolts.
Similarly, the Kruleboyz also get their more elite options from Dominion released in a new bundle if you were waiting for it!
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