Jonathon Bentley Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 Has anyone seen any rumours of any battleboxes coming this Christmas? What do people think might bet a battlebox release? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overread Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 We likely won't see anything on this till November at best. As for predicting that's very hard to do. Sometimes armies that are new get a box; sometimes armies that are old; some armies are popular and get more boxes than others. Any army could be up, even Luminoth could be up for a Christmas box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkK Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 Ossiarchs would probably be a safe bet, Lumineth might be too recent a release for a discount box. Did Stormcast get a battlebox every year? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still-young Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 I might be tempted if there’s an Ossiarch one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkK Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 3 minutes ago, Still-young said: I might be tempted if there’s an Ossiarch one. Same as that, especially as they are one of the more reasonably priced factions released recently, and the look of the army has been growing on me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still-young Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 1 minute ago, MarkK said: Same as that, especially as they are one of the more reasonably priced factions released recently, and the look of the army has been growing on me. That’s exactly where I am with them too haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minis by Night Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 (edited) Here's the list of all the previous Battleboxes for AoS: 2019 Gloomspit Gits Stormcast Sacrosanct Nighthaunt Skaven 2018 Idoneth Deepkin Slaves to Darkness Daughters of Khaine Seraphon 2017 Stormcast Vanguards Grand Alliance Death(LoN) Tzeentch Arcanites Kharadron Overlords 2016 Stormcasts Ironjawz Sylvaneth Khorne Bloodbound You can see that it follows a few rules, although you never know with GW. 40k had 6 boxes last year! We might get only two, or none this year because of the pandemy. Be let's pretend everything is normal and we get the usual 4 boxes. It looks like they aim for a box for every faction although Death and Destruction are sometimes replace by order because it contains fewer armies. If you consider Stormcast chambers as different armies, no army has been featured more than once. And at least two of the armies have had an update about a year to a year and a half before the Battlebox. If you take all of that into consideration: Death: Ossiarch is a very safe bet Destruction: it's likely to be Ogors, maybe Beastclaw raiders because most of the models are more recent Chaos: probably Slaanesh because they got updated last year Order: Lumineth are way too recent, so Cities of Sigmar and Fyreslayers are the only one left. Fyreslayers have kind of a tiny range of models though, so I'll bet Cities, although I have no idea which city it could be. Maybe High Aelves because of Lumineth. Edited September 12, 2020 by Minis by Night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overread Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 Luminoth are recent, but don't forget if all were as it should be they'd be 8 months or so old by Christmas. So they could still be in the running. Daughters of Khaine and Slaanesh I'd say have a low chance as well due to them having a duel battle box only a month or so before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkK Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 Could be Nurgle or Beasts for Chaos this year so then? Cities sounds good to me, plenty of themes to choose from Any wishlist on box contents? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EccentricCircle Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 This year I'm going to bet: Stormcast Ossiarchs Fyreslayers and... maybe Orruk Warclans? Stormcast are usually a safe bet, although there was that one year when they didn't get a box. Ossiarchs are new enough to be exciting, but old enough to be worth giving another boost to, much as Idoneth, Gloomspite etc were when they were featured. I've been hoping for Fyreslayers for years, because I'm not keen on starting that army without a big discount box to get me the core of my collection. They've never had one, but maybe this'll be the year! Then there is likely to be either a destruction of Chaos force for the fourth, although anything is possible. I feel like a mixed Orky box could be good, although I this is the one where I'm fumbling around to think of an idea, rather than one which made me want to write a post with my theories. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neverchosen Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 I feel Nurgle and Beasts are more likely than Slaanesh as Shadow and Pain will still be relatively recent and most of the Slaanesh line is useable in 40k and it seems they attempt to make these boxes specific for their respective game systems. Maybe they will make it hellstrider heavy and include the new hero, but that would be extremely similar to Shadow and Pain. However, past years have not always given each Grand Alliance a box, so maybe the forces of Chaos will take some time off and visit family for the holidays. It is really all speculation at this point. 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
novakai Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 6 hours ago, Overread said: Luminoth are recent, but don't forget if all were as it should be they'd be 8 months or so old by Christmas. So they could still be in the running. Daughters of Khaine and Slaanesh I'd say have a low chance as well due to them having a duel battle box only a month or so before. The only reason I don’t think there will be a Lumineath battlebox is because they already got one already this year. There maybe a bit of an undercut with releasing another box. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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