AoS battleforces announced

[StepwisePilot]

www.warhammer-community.com/2021/11/18/these-warhammer-age-of-sigmar-battleforces-are-the-perfect-gift-from-the-mortal-realms/


There you go, 4 of them, as per usual. I'm assuming that would mean 40K has 6. I say assume, as they don't seem to have actually posted the article for 40K battleforces yet, so I don't know. 


For those that can't view the link, they are for these factions:


Soulblight Gravelords

Hedonites of Slaanesh

Lumineth Realm-Lords

Ossiarch Bone Reapers



EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention, but it also gives a name for the AoS  Combat Patrol that was leaker earlier. They will be called Vanguard boxes. 

[Jack Shrapnel]

I think I'm gonna need another display case....

[artonas]

These are some nice sets. Weird that there’s 2 undead boxes.

[dave]

Shit. I did not anticipate a mortal slaanesh box. Outside of the slaangors, (I'm sorry your rules are hot garbage, you sexy beasts) the rest is exactly what I had on my wish list to finish the army project that I was supposed to start after I finished my Beasts (until the newcast models stormed my heart).

I mean, I already have so many daemons, and a unit of slickblades. I pretty much have to. Right? I'm going to need someone to help convince my wife.

[redshirt2375]

If you get a good answer on how to convince a wife to make that purchase let me know; especially one that dislikes Warhammer

[Hi I'm Derek]

Guess I dodged a bullet cuz none of this interests me - odd that Destruction doesn't get one and Death gets two.

Will be sad to see start collecting boxes go but it'll probably be years before the last one gets replaced.

[StepwisePilot]

To be fair about destruction not getting one, it can somewhat make sense.

Gloomspite Gitz already had two back to back years (Last year and the year before). Ogor Mawtribes had one last year. Sons of Behemat cost so much already, that any battleforce for them would be one Mega Gargant and one regular Gargant.

That leaves Orruk Warclans, but lets be serious here, it would be Kruleboyz, as they are the new favourite when it comes to orruks for GW. And Kruleboyz are all new sculpts, and if you want to save money on them you can easily still find boxes of Dominion out there, or even the starter sets. Would I like to see Ironjawz or Bonesplitterz get a battleforce? Yes, but unless GW decides to make a BIG WAAAGH! battleforce with all 3 combined, I don't think it will happen.

Then again, Soulblight Gravelords are also really new, so I'm likely just overthinking it.

[Hi I'm Derek]

Savage Orruks have never had any kind of bundle so it might've been nice to see them finally get something.

A Gargantz box would've been great unironically. Like... two mega gargants or something. GW has done 'here's two knights for the price of one' boxes a few times for 40k and they're always a hit.

[StepwisePilot]

You know, now that you mention it, I do somewhat recall a box with two knights in for a cheap price, but that was years ago.

[dave]

I don't mind the start collectings being replaced, in theory. Bigger bundles does mean more items being discounted.

So long as the units in the box are all something desirable, I'm ok with it. Particularly as there's always that HQ you didn't really need multiples of. If it represents a small enough portion of the overall price, I'm more likely to buy it, or even more than one (3 in the case of my tau).

[Jack Shrapnel]

Nov 18, 2021 12:00:48 GMT -5 redshirt2375 said:

If you get a good answer on how to convince a wife to make that purchase let me know; especially one that dislikes Warhammer

Get a more expensive hobby than warhammer to make it look very cheap by comparison 

(sideways glance at my $2,000 guitar)

[Jack Shrapnel]

already built and sold two complete vampire counts army throughout the course of WHFB... hmmmm third time's the charm right?

And I DID own an army of tomb kings.. and those bone dudes are totally tomb kings with a different name.

And I DO have all those slaanesh daemons....

These are calling to me far more than the 40k ones for once. 

[StepwisePilot]

For the skeleton dudes that sort of look like tomb kings (but not really), I actually already asked the fine folks over at Nexus to put one aside for me, hahaha. I just love their whole aesthetic, and the idea of super soldier skeletons is cool.

[StepwisePilot]

Pre orders are live, and the price of each battleforce is $250.

[dave]

Tried to snag me a hedonites box yesterday morning. Order in, money spent. Now to see if GW's allocation policy screws me or not.