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 Olthannon wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:
Nothing there for me I can save money for Votann wave2.

This was my thought as well at first because I already have five Hearthguard and I figure I'll never need 15 of the little sods. But then I'm still a little tempted because I'd likely need another Saggitaur and land fortress and I don't have a Grimnyr yet..

If you get one from a FLGS that discounts even further (i think the last battlebox i bought was 15% off and worked out at about 55% full MSRP), I would be interested in 5 of those buggers...

 ZergSmasher wrote:
World Eaters- Exalted of the Red Angel: Putting a unique character into one of these boxes immediately kills any reason to buy multiples of this box, but I think most World Eaters players should want one unless they've already got Angron and/or a bunch of Eightbound.

Honestly that's probably a good thing. There's always going to be limited stock for these and I think it's best if more customers are getting one each, rather than hoarding them at the expense of others. I expect the Tyranid box is really going to suffer from some people buying multiples, and others missing out. That'll be a shame, since you know many of those folks will just end up growing the pile of shame rather than using everything.

But I agree this seems like the best thought out set of xmas boxes GW have done. They're predominately new sculpts assembled around coherent themes, rather than just a random mishmash of old models. All of them seem like solid additions to build on the regular faction starter boxes, with minimal duplication of units. Good luck to everyone getting stock if you order these after 10:01am

Given last year's prices of £130 / $210, I'm predicting this year will be £140 / $230.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Tempted by the World Eaters one, that plus a combat patrol is probably a decent start (also pretty much the entire World Eaters range but…). Guard is also tempting, been considering a Blood Pact style traitor guard force after rereading Gaunts Ghosts. Seraphon is the only real tempting one from AoS. I do like how almost everything is at least pretty recent in this years boxes, if not very recent.

Exactly my thoughts Furthermore, I think the only thing preventing me from starting a world eater army (beyond the cost, obviously) is the fact that whole codex almost fits in one end of the year box. Just three or four more unique kits and I'd bite.

As a quick reminder, these kinds of boxes were not available in US GW shops last year. They're not marked as such, but were effectively a "direct only" item on that end.

As in, they got zero stock to put out on the shelves.

 Kanluwen wrote:
As a quick reminder, these kinds of boxes were not available in US GW shops last year. They're not marked as such, but were effectively a "direct only" item on that end.

As in, they got zero stock to put out on the shelves.

I don't recall that being the case. I am pretty certain my local game store (RIP) got at least a couple of these army boxes. Now, they may have direct ordered them on pre-release Saturday instead of ordering them through a rep on the previous Tuesday, but they were able to get some.

Note that I said GW shops. Independent shops were likely allocated stock.

 Olthannon wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:
Nothing there for me I can save money for Votann wave2.

This was my thought as well at first because I already have five Hearthguard and I figure I'll never need 15 of the little sods. But then I'm still a little tempted because I'd likely need another Saggitaur and land fortress and I don't have a Grimnyr yet..

A nice Christmas box is always tempting for me too. I already got one of everything and would not mind another Sagitaur and extra 5 Hearthguard. But thats about it. The way I see it I think the next wave is going to bring potentially a healthy number of new kits that will fill my army gaps better than just multiples of what I already have. Either way its a great time to collect the little fellas.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Note that I said GW shops. Independent shops were likely allocated stock.

I typed out a refutation of your initial post, only to see this right before I hit submit. Fair enough, I know that independent stockists definitely had them (I have 10 boxes total to show for it), can't comment about GW shops at all because I avoid them like the plague.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/11/05/sunday-preview-christmas-army-boxes-are-the-best-presents-around/

Pre-order for these is on Nov 11th. Stay tuned for pricing confirmation tomorrow morning.

Sorely tempted to snag the Tyranid one. But, only if my FLGS has one on the shelf.

What I want - a total of 20 boxes.

What I can afford and will get - probably not 20 boxes. lol

I'm going to go for a Tyranid and Guard one, but we'll see how the availability is.

Bit out of touch with recent releases, will these have the 1 week or 2 week preorder window?

Assumed 2 week

We don't actually know RRP yet?

Gw puts out prices on mondav

probably will have that within next 48 hrs. Im assuming they'll all sit at the 125GBP price point.

chaos0xomega wrote:
probably will have that within next 48 hrs. Im assuming they'll all sit at the 125GBP price point.

Weren't they 130 last year? I find it unlikely they'll go down.

no clue, as you can see im an american. I only have an idea of pricing in the context of other recent things, the legiones astartes battlegroup was 125gbp so it seemed reasonable these would be too.

I'm really tempted by both the Tyranid and Vampire boxed sets but realistically I should only get one right now in the pre-christmas period.

And yes part of me knows I'd "really" like two of each

 Dawnbringer wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
probably will have that within next 48 hrs. Im assuming they'll all sit at the 125GBP price point.

Weren't they 130 last year? I find it unlikely they'll go down.

IIRC it was £130 / $210 USD, so I'm betting this year's prices are £140 / $230. We'll know in around 12 hours though.

Hopefully they don't go up too much. AUD$350 for each box is certainly enough GW.

Getting the Marine and World Eater one. Friend wants the Tyranid one as he just started 'Nids with Leviathan.

I want the Guard one, but really all I want are the Dorns, and it'd make more sense to get them separately as I do not need more Guard infantry. Same applies for the 'Nid one. I don't want more 'Stealers and H-Gaunts, so it'd make more sense to just buy another Norn than get the whole box.

We'll know in a few hours anyway but the same source who said Battleforces would be next which turned out true, said they would be 150€ which would be over 40% discount for all of them, going up to nearly 50% for some and 20€ less than last year. 

So the rumor is that the battleforces this year will cost less than last years? Thats a rumor I'd like to believe.

chaos0xomega wrote:
So the rumor is that the battleforces this year will cost less than last years? Thats a rumor I'd like to believe.

Same but I also didn't expect they would break their pattern of preorder in the last week of November/First week of December that has been going for years now.
And since it was the same person who said they would be the next preorder and that they would be 150€ its at least possible now even if I still don't believe it until I see the price sheet.

An unexpected turn of events I thought off, would be if they are GW exclusives this year so no LGS discounts. That way it would make sense if they are a bit cheaper than expected as you would also not get any discounts for them but GW would still get more money with their bigger cut and the brand new webstore would get some good visitor numbers

€150 was optimistic €175/€180 depending on set. No UK prices yet

Is that more than last year?

 DaveC wrote:
€150 was optimistic €175/€180 depending on set. No UK prices yet

Not sure on AOS, but the 40k boxes last year were €170 so no surprises here.

UK prices will be posted at 9am and should probably be £135/140

chaos0xomega wrote:
probably will have that within next 48 hrs. Im assuming they'll all sit at the 125GBP price point.

Gw is very consistent when they put out retailer price information.


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 DaveC wrote:
€150 was optimistic €175/€180 depending on set. No UK prices yet

It was above 150 euro last year. Snowball had better chance in hell than these being 150e.

Maybe 150 you saw pound price

Early today!