GW Announces 4 New Space Marines Battleforces For Warhammer 40k

By Travis Pasch | December 28th, 2022 | Categories: Games Workshop Previews, Space Marines, Tabletop Gaming News, Warhammer 40k

In an unexpected move, GW announced four new Space Marines Battleforces for Warhammer 40k 2023- check out what you can score!

We already had more Battleforces this year than in past years, and it doesn’t look like it’s over quite yet. We hope they are cheaper than the Christmas Battleforces, as they don’t seem to have quite as much inside at first glance.

Four New Space Marines Battleforces Announced By GW!

This time, these Battleforces are all for the first founding chapters, as Warhammer Community unveiled the new box sets and what you can score in each!

A new year of Warhammer means Armies on Parade is on its way, and we’re kicking things off with New Year, New Army. And as luck would have it, many awesome battleforces have been released over the Christmas holiday – an excellent starting point on your next Warhammer project. But while the Imperial Fists and Raven Guard got their due, several other First Founding chapters were nowhere to be seen.

That changes now.

Four brand-new boxes stuffed with Space Marines are coming to a Warhammer store near you very soon, featuring the Iron Hands, Salamanders, White Scars, and Ultramarines. Let’s have a look at what’s inside.

Now, let’s check out the boxes!

Iron Hands: March of Iron Strike Force Battleforce

Dreadnoughts are some of the most powerful weapons in the Space Marines’ arsenal, and the March of Iron Strike Force is all about getting them into the thick of the fight. Two hulking Redemptor Dreadnoughts are backed up by the engineering prowess of a Primaris Techmarine and Iron Father Feirros himself, while 10 Intercessors follow in their wake to secure the ground.

Both Characters can make battlefield repairs on the Dreadnoughts, with Feirros restoring 3 wounds every turn, so it’ll take some serious firepower to bring them down. Just add a few Gladiator tanks and you’ll prove that the flesh is weak and the machine is strong.

This is an interesting box; depending on the price, it could be a decent value. As we said, though, we’ll have to wait on pricing before making the final decision!

Salamanders: Warforged Strike Force

Plunge into the fires of battle with Adrax Agatone and a solid wall of 20 resilient Intercessors. Then hammer the anvil of war with the gravis-armoured might of three Eradicators and three Aggressors. The Warforged Strike Force is as Salamanders as they come, and provides you with all the sturdy CORE Infantry you need to make good use of the chapter’s new secondary objective.

This box has a ton of infantry, so could be super useful for both veteran and new players alike. It’s nice to get a box that can just fill out your existing forces in one buy!

White Scars: Storm of Chogoris

If your ideal defence is a blisteringly fast offence, the Storm of Chogoris is the battleforce for you. Built around a dependable core of six Primaris Outriders and two Invader ATVs led by a Primaris Chaplain on Bike, this express delivery of pain discards weak and feeble legs for the mechanical purity of the wheel.

While this box doesn’t have as many minis, you can’t go wrong with more bikers and ATVs for white Scars!

Space Marines: Scions of Macragge

It wouldn’t be a Space Marine party without the Ultramarines, and the final battleforce shows them at their versatile best. You get objective control from 10 Intercessors, supreme firepower from 10 Hellblasters, melee mastery from three Bladeguard Veterans, tactical genius from Marneus Calgar, and psychic dominance from Chief Librarian Tigurius. Two members of the Victrix Guard have even joined their Chapter Master for the ride.

Obviously, if you’re going with the Ultramarines, you will need a lot of troops and some heroes. However, if you already have both Calgar and Tigurius, the value might not be as big.

Games Workshop failed to say when these would be released, but chances are we will see them hit store shelves within one to two months at the very latest. It’s also worth mentioning that these battleforces may line up with a potential Space Marines 2.0 codex book and rumors of armies of renoun datasheets to make the first founding chapters fieldable in matched play again.

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