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Top 40k & AoS Start Collecting Box Values From The Year

By Caitlyn Cumberland | December 31st, 2018 | Categories: Age of Sigmar, Games Workshop, Warhammer 40k

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Which ones have the best value?  Check out our list for this year’s lineup of Warhammer 40k and Age of Sigmar Start Collecting boxes from 2018.

Battleforces may have been one of the more anticipated box sets of the year and as of right now, they’re out of stock.  But the start collecting box set are still hanging tough into 2019 as the Start Collecting boxes turn 3 years old.

They still have incredible value and are only $85 a pop. They may not have the same amount of models as a Battleforce but you can rest assured, you’re way better off than buying all the models separately. Keep in mind that it isn’t a bad idea doubling up on the same Start Collecting box.

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Start Collecting Drukhari $85

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  • Succubus $23
  • 10x Wytches $29
  • 3x Reavers $39.50
  • Venom $30

Total Cost: $121.50

Total Savings: $36.50

Start Collecting Chaos Space Marines $85

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  • 10x Chaos Space Marines $39
  • Chaos Terminator Lord $24.75
  • Helbrute $54

Total Cost: $117.75

Total Savings: $32.75

Start Collecting Deathwatch $85

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  • Watch Captain Artemis $25
  • 2x five-man Death Watch Marines $35 ea. 
  • Venerable Dreadnought/upgrade sprue $46.25

Total Cost: $141.25

Total Savings: $56.25

Start Collecting Miliarum Tempestus $85

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  • 1x ten-man scion squad (can be made into a command squad and a scion squad) $70
  • Officio Prefectus Commissar $21
  • Taurox Prime $48

Total Cost: $139

Total Savings: $54

Start Collecting Tau $85

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  • Ethereal on Hover Drone $16 -Normal Ethereal on-foot price
  • 3x XV8 Crisis Battlesuits $75
  • ten-man Fire Warrior squad $50

Total Cost: $141

Total Savings: $56

Start Collecting Astra Militarum $85

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  • Officio Prefectus Commissar $21
  • Leman Russ Battle Tank $49.50
  • Cadian Heavy Weapon Team $39.50
  • ten-man Cadian Shock Troops $29

Total Cost: $139

Total Savings: $54

Start Collecting Tzeentch $85

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  • Burning Chariot of Tzeentch $40
  • 3x Flamers of Tzeentch $25
  • 3x Screamers of Tzeentch $35
  • ten-man Pink Horrors $35

Total Cost: $135

Total Savings: $50

Start Collecting Skitarii $85

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  • Tech Priest Dominus $36
  • Onager Dunecrawler $66
  • 1x ten-man Skitarii Vanguard (Can be assembled into Skitarii Rangers) $39

Total Cost: $141

Total Savings: $56

Start Collecting Craftworlds $85

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  • Farseer $20
  • 5x Wraithguard (Can also be assembled into Wraithblades) $50
  • Wraithlord $46.25
  • War Walker $30

Total Cost: $146.25

Total Savings: $61.25

Start Collecting Daemons of Slaanesh $85

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  • Exalted Seeker Chariot –No longer on GW online store ($60) 
  • 5x Seekers of Slaanesh $29
  • ten-man Slaanesh Daemonette squad $29

Total Cost: $118

Total Savings: $33

Start Collecting Space Wolves $85

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  • 3x Thunderwolves $54.60
  • Wolf Lord $25-$30
  • 1x ten-man Space Wolves Pack $37

Total Cost: $116.60

Total Savings: $31.60

Start Collecting Daemons of Nurgle $85

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  • Herald of Nurgle $25
  • 3x Plague Drones $60
  • 1x three-man set of Nurglings $25
  • 10-man Plaguebearer squad $29

Total Cost: $139

Total Savings: $54

Start Collecting Tyranids $85

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  • eight-man Genestealer Squad $30
  • Trygon $57.75
  • Broodlord $40

Total Cost: $127.75

Total Savings: $42.75

Start Collecting Daemons of Khorne $85

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  • Herald on Bloodthrone Not on online GW store ($40-$50)
  • 3x Bloodcrushers $50
  • ten-man Bloodletter squad $29

Total Cost: $129

Total Savings: $44

Start Collecting Space Marines $85

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  • ten-man Tactical Marine Squad $40
  • Space Marine Dreadnought $46.25 
  • Captain in Terminator Armor $30

Total Cost: $116.25

Total Savings: $31.25

Start Collecting Blood Angels $85

 

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  • Baal Predator $57.75
  • ten-man Blood Angels Tactical Squad $43
  • Terminator Captain $33

Total Cost: $133.75

Total Savings: $48.75

Start Collecting Necrons $85

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  • Necron Overlord $28
  • Annihilation Barge with Lord on Foot (can also be Catacomb Command Barge) $37.25
  • Twelve Necron Warriors $36.25
  • Scarab Swarm (Come with Warrior Squad)
  • Immortals $33

Total Cost: $134.50

Total Savings: $49.50

Start Collecting Orks $85

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  • Painboy $26
  • Nob Squad with Ammo Runt $25
  • Eleven Boyz $29
  • Deff Dread $49.50

Total Cost: $129.50

Total Savings: $44.50

Start Collecting Khorne Bloodbound Goreblade Warband $85SC khorne bloodbound

  • Lord of Khorne $20
  • Bloodsecrator $20
  • Bloodstoker Not on GW online store ($15-$20)
  • Khorgorath Not on GW online store ($30-$40)
  • ten-man squad of Bloodreavers $58

Total Cost: $148

Total Savings: $50-$60

Note this is the Chaos side of the First Age of Sigmar Starter Set from 2015

Start Collecting Thunderstrike Brotherhood $85

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  • Lord Celestant on Dracoth $32.50
  • Lord RelicatorNot on GW online store ($15-$20)
  • Retributors $35 (Box of Retributors comes with five for $58)
  • ten-man Liberator squad $62
  • Prosecutors $24 (Box of Prosecutors come with six for $74)

This box is a weird one as it only comes with half the amount of units with normal boxes…You’d really need two of these boxes to reap full value.

Total Cost: $168.5

Total Savings: $83.5

Note this is the Sigmar side of the First Age of Sigmar Starter Set from 2015

Start Collecting Stormcast Vanguard $85

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  • Lord-Aquilor $40
  • Vanguard-Hunters $30 (base box comes with ten for $60)
  • Vanguard Palladors $60
  • Gryph Hounds $12.50 (base box comes with six for $25)

This is another strange box as GW made it so you would almost need another Start Collecting to reap the full value from the box.

Total Cost: $142.50

Total Savings: $57.5

Note this was basically one half of the old Blight Wars Starter Box

Start Collecting Skeleton Horde $85

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  • Black Knights $33
  • Skeleton Warriors $25
  • Arkhan The Black $80

Total Cost: $138

Total Savings: $53

Start Collecting Sylvaneth $85

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  • Branchwych $23
  • Treelord $61
  • Sixteen Dryads $41

Total Cost: $125

Total Savings: $40

Start Collecting Ironjawz $85

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  • Orruk Warchanter $30
  • ten-man ‘Ardboyz squad $53
  • Gore-gruntas $79

Total Cost:  $162

Total Savings: $77

Start Collecting Beastclaw Raiders $85

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  • Stonehorn $58
  • Mournfang pack with Riders $65

Total Cost: $123

Total Savings: $38

Start Collecting Flesh-eater Courts $85

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  • Terrorgheist $58
  • Crypt Horrors $47
  • Ten-man squad of Crypt Ghouls $20 (base box comes with twenty for $40)

Total Cost: $125

Total Savings: $40

Start Collecting Kharadron Overlords $85

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  • Skywardens $40
  • Grundstock Thunderers $40
  • Grundstock Gunhauler $50
  • Endrinmaster $25

Total Cost: $155

Total Savings: $70

Start Collecting Beasts of Chaos $85

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  • Great Bray-Shaman $14.75
  • Cygor $53.75
  • Ten-man squad of Ungors $24.75
  • Ten-man squad of Bestigors $41.25

Total Cost: $134.50

Total Savings: $49.50

Start Collecting Skaven $85

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  • Plague Furnace $62
  • Plagueclaw $33
  • Twenty-man Plague Monks $35

Total Cost: $130

Total Savings: $50

Start Collecting Slaves to Darkness $85

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  • Chaos Sorcerer Lord $15
  • Five-man Chaos Knights $30 (Base box comes with ten Knights for $60)
  • Twelve-man Chaos Warrior squad $30 (Base box comes with sixteen Warriors for $40)
  • Chaos Chariot$40

Total Cost:  $115

Total Savings: $30

Start Collecting Fyreslayers $85

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  • Magmadroth $85
  • Berzerkers $60

Total Cost:$145

Total Savings: $60

Start Collecting Greenskinz $85

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  • Warboss on War Boar $15
  • Warboss with Great WAAAGH! banner $15
  • Boar Chariot $30
  • Five-man Boar Boy squad $29
  • Ten-man Orruk Boyz squad $29

Total Cost: $118

Total Savings: $33

Start Collecting Seraphon $85

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  • Oldblood on Carnosaur $85
  • Eight-man Saurus Knight squad $35
  • Twelve-man Saurus Warrior squad $22.80 (Base box comes with Twenty for $38)

Total Cost: $142.8

Total Savings: $57.80

Battleforces may have swept the popularity of the hobby community but these Start Collectings are cheaper and still offer different models from the bigger boxes. What are your thoughts on the value inside these Box Sets? Which one has the best units inside? Let us know in the comments of our Facebook Hobby Group. 

About the Author: Caitlyn Cumberland