Get it before it’s gone. That seems to be the motto of the new GW. Check out the five ways you save money buying the Warcry Starter box!
If you haven’t been following along, Warcry is an Age of Sigmar-based skirmish game similar to both Kill Team and Warhammer Underworlds in a lot of ways. Warbands have fighter cards and can move across ever-changing maps from game-to-game.
Warcry is generating considerable hype now that the prices and products have been revealed. However, if you forget how quickly the Kill Team starter set sold out (and still hasn’t come back in stock one year later), getting value from this box set may be the furthest thing from some hobbyists minds.
Warcry Box Set $170
Get Yours For Less At Miniature Market
This set itself is coming with two Warbands, terrain, dice, a core book, folding board and more. Judging by the confirmed prices that we’ve seen from multiple retailers, we can get a decent estimate of the true value inside.
- Iron Golem/Untamed Beasts Warband: $100 (Cypher Lords are $50 by themselves)
- Core Book: $40
- Battleplan Cards: $18
- Warcry Starter Scenery: $90 (Corpsewrack Mausoleum expansion is $90)
- Chaos Beasts (Furies and Raptorx models): $50 (We say $50 because roughly the same number of models come in the Cypher Lords Warbands box).
- Dice, Tokens, foldable board: $30-40 total estimate
Total Estimated Value: $328-$338
Total Savings vs MSRP: $158-$168
Remember: We say “estimated” because the Warbands, terrain, and dice are only found inside of the Warcry starter for now. However, GW has had a track record of releasing box-exclusive units later on.
Overall, the value inside definitely looks to be solid. Especially if you want to have a building block for more Warcry content. There are definitely cheaper ways to get into the game. I.e by using AoS factions and just buying the card packs.
So if you’re wanting to have one single purchase with everything you need to play including two brand new Warbands, this box set had value for sure.
What are your thoughts on the starter box? Will you be splitting it with a friend? Have you decided to play your AoS faction and just drop $50 on a core book/cards?
Let us know in the comments of our Facebook Hobby Group, and sign up to get your free hobby updates newsletter each morning as well!
About the Author: Rob Baer
Rob Baer
Job Title: Managing Editor
Founded Spikey Bits in 2009
Socials: Rob Baer on Facebook and @catdaddymbg on X
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.
