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OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote: they will be doing the minis (well the nurgle ones anyway) as stand alones, but i feat they will be more expensive than getting the game
Yep this was certainly the case with Cursed City. If you just wanted one specific model or group it was not that bad, but if you wanted a majority it was cheaper to get the whole set.
It's like how GW broke out the Space Marine and Necron models from the Starter set into standalone boxes with jacked up prices.
The box was $200 iirc, then the "Space Marines: Honoured of the Chapter" bundle (which consists of just 9 models from that set) is currently $170. Oh, but if you find "Dawn of War: Onslaught," you get those same 9 models and a board game for $40-50.
The pricing scheme is simple - the single sets are priced similar to all the rest of the single sets GW sells. The boxed set is a discounted price.
The boxed set is also limited, if not in quantity then in time.
It's the same as how they can sell models for less as part of the Hatchett magazines.
Also don't forget that GW basically never runs sales on their rrp. So they do more discount boxed sets instead. It's honestly likely healthier for them because it means that they never got their core product trapped in a death-spiral of reducing value. One thing you can see in products that go on sale a LOT is that customers stop buying outside of sales; if those products are not regular essentials.
OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote: they will be doing the minis (well the nurgle ones anyway) as stand alones, but i feat they will be more expensive than getting the game
They will? That's news to me, are we sure about that?
To be fair they've done it that way previously with at least Blackstone Fortress and Cursed City, but I don't think they've confirmed it yet.
Just realised they haven't got a spearhead box for Nurgle yet, and wondering if that might have sprues from Dark Water and giving the game a head start before they announce it...unless they already have?
lord_blackfang wrote: If I were still building an AoS nurgle army I'd buy it for the superior sculpts. Too expensive for just a "nice to have" purchase.
Yup. Like NAVARRO says it'll sell out regardless, but the price took it from a "I'll buy it and figure out how to use the extra stuff later" to a firm nope. Hopefully I can pick up the Nurgle parts I want off ebay or bits sellers(some sellers really try their luck with deranged markups when they part out boxed stuff), but for that money you really have to want to play the game itself for it to be worth it.
SamusDrake wrote: To be fair they've done it that way previously with at least Blackstone Fortress and Cursed City, but I don't think they've confirmed it yet.
Just realised they haven't got a spearhead box for Nurgle yet, and wondering if that might have sprues from Dark Water and giving the game a head start before they announce it...unless they already have?
There was a line confirming it in one of the warcom previews, the first main one I think.
SamusDrake wrote: To be fair they've done it that way previously with at least Blackstone Fortress and Cursed City, but I don't think they've confirmed it yet.
Just realised they haven't got a spearhead box for Nurgle yet, and wondering if that might have sprues from Dark Water and giving the game a head start before they announce it...unless they already have?
There was a line confirming it in one of the warcom previews, the first main one I think.
It's in the other Maggotkin reveal article as is the new Spearhead
This book also contains rules for using Nurgle's followers from Warhammer Quest: Darkwater – a new entry in the beloved board game series that was revealed at this very Preview Show. Gelgus Pust, his court of supporting characters, the Cankerborn, and Pox-wretches all join the carnival of corruption with their own warscrolls, and standalone boxes that will be released at a later date.
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I imagine from the stuff being split from the boxes, they should be the easiest to get hold of.
I hope so and yet I also get the feeling they are going to be like the crab model from Underworlds that one year it one model of the year and the Kelpies will end up some kind of "plastic gold" level of popular!
A suitable comparison would be the glitchlings and other vermin from the Gellerpox set, I suppose. How easy were they to get hold of upon initial release?
The price in addition to the confirmation that miniatures will definitely be sold separately seems to have made this a non-insta sell out, despite how well most of the models have been received. I'll be interested to see how quickly stocks deplete over the weekend on sites that have live inventory tracking.
Keep in mind, if you want most of the models then chances are you will get them a lot cheaper in the boxed set as opposed to when they get individual release. So I still expect a big sell out
I've got my hands on a copy of Warhammer Quest: Darkwater, and here comes my in-depth review: HQ sprue images, a 4K unboxing video of the box, plus my thoughts on the new gameplay mechanics: https://taleofpainters.com/2025/11/review-warhammer-quest-darkwater/ Really worth the £160 / 206 € / $255 price tag?
Interesting that the the sprue is a mixed 4 Pestigor and 7 Pox Wretches so even as a separate box set you would have to get both. Will they sell them as 4/7 or 8/14 like DW? probably the first option. Should be lots of spare Kelpies knocking around with 3 on that sprue as well.
I went back and forth on buying this and ultimately did, not for the game but for the Maggotkin stuff which will be cheaper than separate purchases. Had a voucher so got if for €170 in the end which is closer to the €165 I originally expected. The store I got it from has sold out already.
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I will get the box if there is one available in my FLGS. Dont do preorders, but really/kind of want the game models.
That might get me to finish Cursed City
Well now I'm wavering. Unfortunately, it seems the splitters are going for the higher end of their pricing approach this time, getting the less than half the models I want would cost almost as much as buying the whole box at RRP.
lord_blackfang wrote: I just saw a bundle of all the heroes for just the price of the whole box.
Aye it seems like the people doing this have wised up and know that GW will be releasing overpriced packs of the contents later, so know they can get away with pricing at or only a little below what everyone expects GW will eventually charge. I caved and grabbed one from Element, some of the models are just too good to pass up on.
Selling out is as much a matter of production as it is demand. I've seen many people online declaring it'll "sell out!" but we have no idea how many they made, and a poor understanding of what the demand is. If they made 1,000,000 copies, then I doubt seriously it'll sell out any time soon. If they made 10,000, yeah it probably will sell out rather quickly.
DaveC wrote: Interesting that the the sprue is a mixed 4 Pestigor and 7 Pox Wretches so even as a separate box set you would have to get both.
It looks like Pestigors and Pox-wretches occupy different halves of the sprue with zero overlap and the part that connects the frames is different than usual. I am quite confident that they can just split the sprue and cast Pox-wretches on their own.
I didn't find any confirmation - are Darkwater hexes the same size as Warhammer Underworlds?
That place is the harsh dark future far left with only war left.
