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We are happy to announce Battle in a Box!
We have been keeping this under our hats for some time but we are getting close to the release now. As you can see this is a full box! It's a big box too! Everything in the box is plastic, figures and terrain (from Renedra Ltd).
Included in the box there is a new ACW multi-part General sprue (x2) made by Michael.
There's also a revised set of 'Firepower' rules by our good mate Alessio Cavatore included along with flags, bases, painting guide, 4 ft of fencing and the American farmhouse.
That talented artist Peter Dennis painted the box cover.
The whole box works out at about a third off our normal prices.
We'll keep you updated!

pretty good deal really eh ?

Man, if GW ever actually leveraged their position of power in the industry, producing box sets of this value and content at sensible prices, there would be no room for the little guys.

Lucky for us they seem hellbent on selfdestruction through ever increasing prices, opening the field for so much diversity and options to come to market.

Its fun watching the ex GW crowd utilise their knowledge and contacts to create this stuff.

I'm not a historical guy, so this is of limited appeal, but as an example of making use of the strengths of plastic mass produced miniatures at a solid price, its pretty impressive.

This is pretty cool, Ill have to keep my eye on this.

Awesome. Just when I was thinking about getting the Confederate side of my Battlecry set done!

I wonder what the Firepower rules will be like - something like FoW? And I wonder if it'll have points or scenarios.

Is this going to be direct only or will be general release like their smaller sets?

Awesome!

I guess that Firepower is a "historical Kings of War"
(the KoW-RC member mentioned something about Cavatore working on historical rules based on KoW)

Sounds interesting!

 kodos wrote:
I guess that Firepower is a "historical Kings of War"
(the KoW-RC member mentioned something about Cavatore working on historical rules based on KoW)

I wonder if FIrepower had to add unit heights like KoW did.

really interested in how modular (or not) these are going to be,

price seems pretty good for the contents

very cool look forward to this

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
price seems pretty good for the contents

Stateside, that's about a dollar a miniatures, not including the cavalry, artillery/gunners, and the worth of the terrain, bases, flags, painting guide, and rules. Not to mention that these are Perry plastics, which are incredible. At that price, it's a steal for anyone who might have an interest in ACW.

I wonder if they'll do the same for their other plastic lines - Napoleonics, AWI, WotR and other contemporary wars, and some other rules by Alessio for WWII for their Africa stuff.

If they do another box set like this, they should do a British 8th army set with Rubicon's new Crusader for the tanks.

This is great, a buddy and I were just talking a few months back about starting ACW and this looks like a great deal to get into it.

I wonder if they'll do this for their other ranges. I guess I could only hope for a War of the Roses/Hundred year war deal...

From comments made on their FB page, seems other box sets may well follow, kinda dependent upon how this one does.

I would love to see something like this for The War of the Roses.

The Auld Grump - for folks playing Kingdoms of Men in Kings of War... it would be like getting two games.

This is the kind of set I could finally talk my dad in to scaling down to 28mm.

Guy has collected 1/32 soldiers since he was a little kid himself. Will keep an eye out for this.

JonWebb wrote:
Man, if GW ever actually leveraged their position of power in the industry, producing box sets of this value

But I wouldn't buy a 40k box like this because I don't have an interest in 40k anymore... versus this box set I am going to buy because I love historicals, Perry sculpts, and Alessio Cavatore rulesets.

I'm buying one. If that goes well, I will buy a second and just have bigger armies!

Gettysburg, Ho!

 reds8n wrote:
From comments made on their FB page, seems other box sets may well follow, kinda dependent upon how this one does.

Looking forward to one using their Afrika Korps and Desert Rat minis.

This one is unpassupable.

My wife's a history teacher, so we need this for edumacational porpoises, right?

 reds8n wrote:
From comments made on their FB page, seems other box sets may well follow, kinda dependent upon how this one does.

Meaning that we should all go out and buy this then !

This looks fangbloodytastic. I think a pretty big barrier to historical gaming is the sometimes overwhelming number of choices of minis, rulesets, scales to use. It can appear a big mountain to climb and I think a lot of people don't bother because of it.

But, think this should go some way to circumventing that - all the minis and terrain you need, plus a concise set of rules that aren't going to drown you.

Big thumbs-up the Perries

(Just want to know now how they had time to develop this alongside those mental WW1 and Agincourt dioramas!)

 Pacific wrote:
Big thumbs-up the Perries

(Just want to know now how they had time to develop this alongside those mental WW1 and Agincourt dioramas!)

The infantry, cavalry, and artillery have been around for a while... as well as the terrain. Looks like only the multipart plastic officer/general sprue is brand new (along with the revised ruleset)

 Pacific wrote:

 reds8n wrote:
From comments made on their FB page, seems other box sets may well follow, kinda dependent upon how this one does.

Meaning that we should all go out and buy this then !

This looks fangbloodytastic. I think a pretty big barrier to historical gaming is the sometimes overwhelming number of choices of minis, rulesets, scales to use. It can appear a big mountain to climb and I think a lot of people don't bother because of it.

But, think this should go some way to circumventing that - all the minis and terrain you need, plus a concise set of rules that aren't going to drown you.

Big thumbs-up the Perries

(Just want to know now how they had time to develop this alongside those mental WW1 and Agincourt dioramas!)

I think the only issue with it is that it's maybe too much stuff. Now, if they were to release a HYW set like this and I had a spare hundred quid, I'd probably go straight for it as there's just so much value and so much potential, anything from a historical semi-skirmish like Lion Rampant up to a massive Kingdoms of Men army for KoW, maybe even some spare conversion fodder for other projects...

But at the same time, I'd be wary of buying in the region of 150 minis at once; unless you have a whole lotta time and patience, or were splitting the box with a friend or gaming group, I can imagine a good deal of them never getting assembled let alone painted. Yes, one box and you're pretty much set for a whole year or more of hobbying, but how many gamers/modellers can keep the attention span to spend that long just doing one type of thing?

I'm not trying to talk this down, as I think it's a great deal and I'd love to see more (ACW is not something I'm hugely into as far as gaming goes), but I do think there's a danger of buying one only to be buried under piles of plastic, thinking 'what have I done' and waving goodbye to any free time for the next 18 months as you work through it!

 Paradigm wrote:
I think the only issue with it is that it's maybe too much stuff.

Noway. I love assembling/painting large armies. My record is my 200-model strong Goblin army for KoW which I painted in ten hours. And Perry historicals tend to be three parts per infantry model (body, arms&gun, head), so a couple hours tops to assemble the whole set. And ACW infantry is easy peasy to paint, mono-color spray, three colors, dip, flock, anti-shine spray. I think I could get a set done in two weeks... maybe I'll do a Dakka blog like my Perry DAK army!

 judgedoug wrote:

JonWebb wrote:
Man, if GW ever actually leveraged their position of power in the industry, producing box sets of this value

But I wouldn't buy a 40k box like this because I don't have an interest in 40k anymore... versus this box set I am going to buy because I love historicals, Perry sculpts, and Alessio Cavatore rulesets.

Which I totally understand.

It's just crazy that two ex GW sculptors (ok, they have a lot of history behind them, but still) can put something if this value/quality out vs the largest fish in our tiny pond. An international behemoth vs two guys...

Ok, GW have costs and overheads above and beyond anyone else, but by sheer market force and production ability alone, no one should be able to touch them.

Not to turn this into a pricing thread, but it just further highlights how bad GW has become. Sadly they still set the benchmark for pricing in the fantasy/sci fi world :(

I have absolutely no interest in the ACW, but for that price I'm suddenly very interested in see how an ACW game works. No doubt since it's an Alessio Cavatore ruleset it'll be easy to work out, especially if it's based on KoW.

Looks like the Perrys are on to a winner with this idea, I'll also echo the desire for a HYW/WOTR set.

That's a pretty awesome set. I have expended any/all interest in ACW stuff in my youth, but man, a set like that in nearly any other period would be too tempting to pass up!

Is that box all plastic?