Games Workshop confirms new holiday battleforce bundles, now come see how much you can save on either a new 40k or Age of Sigmar army!
First lets checkout the confirmations from GW about the new Battleforces:
Source GW (40k and AoS Facebook)
The cold chill of winter rolls in across the Mortal Realms (apart from the Realm of Fire – it’s still pretty hot there) and with it, 4 new Battleforce sets.
Bigger even than our Start Collecting boxes, each is an ideal way to begin a new army and all make great Christmas gifts.
They will be on sale soon.
For other gift ideas this Christmas, check out our Boxed Games, including the multiplayer cooperative Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower, and the far less cooperative but equally enjoyable Blood Bowl.
The cold chill of winter rolls in across the Mortal Realms (apart from the Realm of Fire – it’s still pretty hot there) and with it, 4 new Battleforce sets.
Bigger even than our Start Collecting boxes, each is an ideal way to begin a new army and all make great Christmas gifts.
They will be on sale soon.
For other gift ideas this Christmas, check out our Boxed Games, including the multiplayer cooperative Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower, and the far less cooperative but equally enjoyable Blood Bowl.
Tabletop Gaming Insiders have informed Spikey Bits these new sets will retail for $170, a savings of nearly $100 a box or about 30% off retial (MSRP).
If you’ve been eyeing Age of Sigmar checkout that Slyvaneth battleforce, at over 40% off!
40k Battleforces break down to:
- Space Wolves: Dreadnought, 15 Grey Hunters (updated count to 15), 5 Terminators, 5 Fenrisian Wolves, Stormwolf Flyer, Iron Priest: $289
- 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).
- 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.
- Age of Sigmar has the Stormcasts, Slyvaneth, Ironjaws, and Bloodbound.
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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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.
