Battleforce Pre-Order Day | How Was It? | Which Boxes Were Popular/Unpopular? | Surprises?

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  • Опубліковано 25 гру 2024

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  • @EmpireofWargames
    @EmpireofWargames  Місяць тому +12

    Note: Just ignore the thumbnail.
    The last 2024 battleforce video! I made this one so I could look back at it a year from now to remember how the 2024 pre-orders went.
    If you have any thoughts on the battleforces, or member exclusive content on the channel, let me know!
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  • @KhorgosKhul
    @KhorgosKhul Місяць тому +2

    In the US,
    The Nurgle box sold out the fastest and Cities of Sigmar is still available.

    • @telboysrantsandbants4077
      @telboysrantsandbants4077 Місяць тому +1

      Opposite in the UK, cities sold out and nurgle was still available.
      The different metas across the world always fascinating to see

    • @GenericUsername-qp1ww
      @GenericUsername-qp1ww Місяць тому

      @@telboysrantsandbants4077 still plenty of sites out there here in the UK who sell the Cities of Sigmar box

  • @scpenny1
    @scpenny1 Місяць тому +23

    GW is kinda hurting itself with releasing army boxes every time a new codex is released, so people are monetarily exhausted by the holidays at least here in the States. Only Nurgle,Ironjawz, and Dark Angels have sold out.

    • @jamborabbit
      @jamborabbit Місяць тому +4

      I agree but I do prefer every faction getting their own battleforce rather than some factions getting nothing for years

    • @NewChimera
      @NewChimera Місяць тому

      ​@@jamborabbit Exactly with the release of a battle force with the release of the codex. It's really helping out factions that would have had to wait several Christmases to get one, plus they very rarely put the best stuff in them so it's all right

    • @PeteOfDarkness
      @PeteOfDarkness Місяць тому

      What was released recently for 40k or Sigmar? (other than big KT box that have similar price range and also did not sold out)

    • @NewChimera
      @NewChimera Місяць тому

      @PeteOfDarkness Christmas battleforce

    • @scpenny1
      @scpenny1 Місяць тому

      @@PeteOfDarkness every faction that’s received an updated Codex this year has received an Army Box(Battleforce box), so now DA, Tau, SoB have all received both an Army box and a Battleforce box.

  • @wholesomecomment45
    @wholesomecomment45 Місяць тому +10

    US fan here, and as of November 18th at 7:20pm EST, the only Battleforces that are sold out are the Ironjawz, Nurgle and Dark Angels. I can still preorder any of the other Battleforces with no problem. Hell, at my FLGS, my girlfriend and I were able to easily preorder the Knights and (my 2nd choice) Necrons without any issues. I even called again half hour before writing this comment if it's still possible to preorder the Knights boxset and it's still possible. Really surprised that more than 48 hours since the preorder started ,that majority of the Battleforces are still available to preorder for US fans.
    To give an idea how crazy that is, (if I remember correctly) last year's 40k Battleforces all sold out within 10 hours or so with maybe the exception being the Space Marines Outrider Battleforce but I think that eventually sold out.
    The 2022 Battleforces sold out even quicker.
    Edit: Just checked on November 21st, at 4:54pm EST and the Knights Battleforce is NOW out of stock. So it was available for about 5 days, that's insane.

    • @LifeStrike2030
      @LifeStrike2030 Місяць тому

      I’m brand new to the hobby. The hype and nerves around this weekend drove me crazy. I was so worried I wouldn’t get my cities of Sigmar box if I wasn’t there at opening. I was so relieved when I got there at 430 and there were still units available.

    • @adoolf-su2qf
      @adoolf-su2qf Місяць тому

      How badly did they touch you that youre now being a free advert for Games Workshops product
      HOW CAN YOU BE SO DUMB YOU PRETEND YOURE CRITISIZING THEM WHILE YOU ACT LIKE THEIR PRODUCT IS A HUMAN RIGHT

  • @channelname349
    @channelname349 Місяць тому +5

    I bought the Tau box.
    I got the Combat Patrols (new and old) and the Kroot box while army building.
    All of these have a HUGE focus on infantry.
    I have 20 fire warriors, 10 pathfinders, 20 kroot carnivores (and 10 vespid)
    There is an almost annoyingly high amount of "little guys" on my army shelf now and I wanted to "balance it out" with a few big mechs.
    The ghostkeel is in no current value box and neither are the riptide and broadside. This is the most handy way to shift points focus from infantry to mechs.

  • @kenupton4084
    @kenupton4084 Місяць тому +4

    This should be a lesson to GW:
    Cut the prices in half and youll sell all the product.

  • @ferretsmiles
    @ferretsmiles Місяць тому +5

    As someone that bougnt two of the tau box it is an amazing box. i had the old combat patrol and got the kroot army box super cheap and am planning on buying the new combat patrol. I ran the numbers and with all that i am at over 2000 pts and am only really missing 2 or 3 boxes of crisis suits. The part of tau that sucks people in is the big mecha and having a box that gives you most of the big mecha is super appealing. The onky thing better would have been replacing the broadside or commander for a stormsurge or farsight.

    • @channelname349
      @channelname349 Місяць тому

      exactly, it's a nice points-shift from infantry towards mechs

  • @alexandermichels6022
    @alexandermichels6022 Місяць тому +3

    As an Adepta Sororitas player, the only box that interested me was the Tau one. Beautiful box to jumpstart a mech heavy gun line Tau army. If I didn't have enough armies already, I would have tried to grab 2 and some Crisis Suits. Not a great discount so I didn't end up buying, but none of them were.

  • @Pestilencemage
    @Pestilencemage Місяць тому +6

    Dude... that tau box is going to be premium for NON-Tau players.
    It's shelf friendly.

  • @telboysrantsandbants4077
    @telboysrantsandbants4077 Місяць тому

    I got the nurgle box for the regiment attachment for my skaven. I'm in the UK and cities sold out early and ironjaws were still available on the Sunday when I checked, this was on Wayland games

  • @Midgar88
    @Midgar88 Місяць тому +1

    And this year they had waaaay less stock. Atleast in australia. Makes sense how nearly all the boxes last year were around for the year and some stores had to make em down to something like 30-35% off. Also the only thing sold out everywhere i found is the dark angels (makes sense). Everything else is still available at 21% off.

  • @proactive_studio
    @proactive_studio Місяць тому

    All still available near me for local collection at FLGS. I’m in the south east, UK

  • @cactussb
    @cactussb Місяць тому

    Somewhat new Tau player here - I mostly bought the Ret Cadre box because it gets me up to an initial 2000 point list (I already own both combat patrols and two units of crisis suits, and some other random stuff i picked up second hand for cheap), and I managed to get the box at a discount from a local hobby store. I don't have a riptide and it's a set I was saving to buy anyway as it looks fun to build and paint, and I was already planning to purchase a second Ghostkeel and Commander at some point in the future. The discount of the box essentially means that i'm getting the broadside for "free" if i consider the individual prices of the models. But I think the box is probably not really worth it if you aren't already looking to buy a Riptide and Ghostkeel.

  • @MarkusMakes
    @MarkusMakes Місяць тому +2

    In australia on the GW webstore only the dark angels box seems to have sold out. For the independent game stores the dark angels and knight box seems to have sold out pretty much everywhere early day one. Whereas the ironjawz is sold out in most stores but was available for a decent while. Interestingly enough the necron, knight and tau were listed at 375, 345 and 310 AUD respectively whereas the msrp for the all the other boxes across 40k and AoS where 405.

    • @Ra13zRS40M
      @Ra13zRS40M Місяць тому

      I checked war for less and theirs was up at least 30 minutes early and gone, gap games was all gone in under 5 minutes

    • @Midgar88
      @Midgar88 Місяць тому

      ​@Ra13zRS40M they all still on mpror except angels and knights. My guess also is more stock will come so worth looking if you guys missed out.

  • @JanBaucke
    @JanBaucke Місяць тому

    Today I received information from my trusted PrePreOrder dealer that I would be getting the DA & the Knights box (I asked by email and waited until the dealer knew for sure how many boxes GW was delivering).
    By getting a 2nd Knights box through Kutami, I managed to achieve my maximum goal of getting 2 Knight boxes and the DA box.

  • @matthewbull3688
    @matthewbull3688 Місяць тому +1

    As of now (Tues 14:00 East Coast Australia), GW have only sold out of the Dark Angels box on their own Aus site.

  • @BoldAndSpicy
    @BoldAndSpicy Місяць тому +1

    Shoutout to Cardhaus for either finding a way to get more copies or for removing orders due to scammers because they had all the high demand items in stock 7 hours after they went live. Managed to snag the DA box because of it.

  • @Malisteen
    @Malisteen Місяць тому

    in the us i was able to pick up the necron box late in the afternoon on saturday. the only one sold out at the time was the dark angles.

  • @rictusnithor5602
    @rictusnithor5602 Місяць тому

    In the US, I tried to order the Dark Angel box from Wargame Portal. Was on the site & logged in when it went live at 2300 cst. Between the time I added it to my cart and hit checkout, it was sold out. The other 40k boxes apart from the Sisters box were sold out within a minute, and the Sisters within 10 minutes. I had to work the next day, but a friend who tried to order the Dark Angel box from Frontline Games said the DA was sold out immediately. I heard multiple people were able to get the DA box from GW without issue.

    • @kenupton4084
      @kenupton4084 Місяць тому

      Yeah, I had coworkers watching cause I wouldn't shut up about needing to do nothing around midnight. Clicked add to cart, scrolled down to check out... Turned to "Sold out" in front of my eyes.
      I raged.
      Went to the game store yesterday and bought all their Deathwing Knights and Inner Circle.

  • @omgponies111
    @omgponies111 Місяць тому

    Here in Sweden only the Dark Angels box was hard to get and is sold out quickly but have been available at times. Knights have been available over the weekend and is starting to sell out today. All AOS boxes are still available.

  • @mhdover2385
    @mhdover2385 Місяць тому

    Fellow German here. The store I was looking at had 10 of each.
    DA sold out within 5 minutes
    IK within the hour
    Necrons, still 8 available at the moment
    Sisters and T‘au each 9 left
    Got a DA box at 10% off, which is the standard discount for GW products on that website

  • @Drivestort
    @Drivestort Місяць тому

    I'm still building my Tau collection, started with 3 combat patrol purchases across the 2 types, and a box of crisis suits and a commander, and I bought the Tau battleforce because I don't have any of the heavier battlesuits besides the ghostkeels.

  • @Pestilencemage
    @Pestilencemage Місяць тому

    ...I don't know cuz I just started building in July, but I got my penitent crusade box online via GW a few days ago, and I guess I expect it in a week or two.

  • @andrewbratchell1715
    @andrewbratchell1715 Місяць тому +2

    All battleboxs except DA and Knights are still available at 3rd party retailers. The discount just isn't high enough to justify the price. You're basically getting a unit for free. You would really want all the units in the box to justify it. I've still got an unopened Skaventide box so couldn't justify trying to by DA box 😂

  • @marcosayase
    @marcosayase Місяць тому

    I have the combat patrol box as a starter for Tau, I already have 2 infantries, a devilish and a Tau commander, this box fitted well with what I have to get to 1k points

  • @Auri597
    @Auri597 Місяць тому +4

    USA: DA and IJ sold out very quickly. Nurgle sold out Sunday. Others are all still available. I’m seeing some FLGS stores with them 15% off but that’s about it.

    • @Auri597
      @Auri597 Місяць тому

      One week on: Knights sold out at some point last week. CoS sold out this morning. T’au, Necrons, Sororitas, and FEC all still available.

  • @yansmac4796
    @yansmac4796 Місяць тому

    I'm in the UK and still considering whether to buy an Ironjawz box or not. Still loads available at multiple stockists.

  • @istathar
    @istathar Місяць тому

    Battleforces sold out in under 45 seconds at the discount retailers in Australia (except the Sisters box).

    • @Midgar88
      @Midgar88 Місяць тому

      No they didnt.

  • @Noogi302
    @Noogi302 Місяць тому

    Regarding the tau battleforce. literally all of the units are faction staples, you could buy two combat patrols and two retcad boxes and have most of a competitive list all you'd need is a few crisis suits which people are going to be wanting anyway.

  • @ZombieMonkey7
    @ZombieMonkey7 Місяць тому +1

    As a big Battleforce stan- I wasn't tempted in the slightest by any of these. Maybe if I was interested in Dark Angels or Ironjawz, but otherwise these boxes have too much penny pinching involved and lack any boldness. With the 99.99% guarantee that prices will rise by next year... and, hell who are we even kidding- every year, I'm not confident we'll have Christmas Battleforce boxes worth getting excited about soon enough.

  • @quintu5
    @quintu5 Місяць тому

    I really wanted the Dark Angels Army Box and had no chance at all to get one here in Germany.
    Ich wusste nicht das Du Deutscher bist. Grüße gehen raus :)

  • @ThroatSore
    @ThroatSore Місяць тому +2

    Ah, scalpers day?

  • @lanesteele240
    @lanesteele240 Місяць тому

    The moment they were announced i phoned my lgs and put my name at the top of the list for the dark angels. He informed me that i would be getting one even though they cut his allotment by over 1/2

  • @cristhianmlr
    @cristhianmlr Місяць тому

    International store here.
    DA sold in under 2 minutes. They say they are temporaly out of stock. I hope they're right.

  • @Steve_Keen
    @Steve_Keen Місяць тому +6

    Man, you guys get 25% discounts? And they go on sale for even more later? Man. 15% is the MAXIMUM discount GW allows in Canada :( And our dollar is much weaker than the euro.

    • @JanBaucke
      @JanBaucke Місяць тому

      The German shop I bought had the boxes for 142 Euros with the MSRP of 190 Euros (our prices include the 19% vat already).

    • @wulf2757
      @wulf2757 Місяць тому

      Yeah what is with that recently? I swear even just a year or two ago you could easily find 20% discounters in Canada, but recently seems like they're all but gone.

    • @kenupton4084
      @kenupton4084 Місяць тому

      At my local shop they never update the prices and give 20% off. I can still get things like Black Templar army release set and older Combat patrols for 20% off their original price.

  • @matthewbull3688
    @matthewbull3688 Місяць тому

    I bought Tau because I didn't have a Commander suit or Riptide and only one Broadside and one Ghostkeel... so I could justify it.
    I looked at but didn't get the Necron one because the Dragon is the only thing I didn't have. Remember, many of us were spoilt with Hachette Imperium, which gave us a glut of Necron models... plus I bought extras for some units. I need zero warriors/scarabs or Praetorians/Lychguard.

  • @What2Have4Dinner
    @What2Have4Dinner Місяць тому

    Still loads of these boxes available in ireland. Except for knights and Dark angels

  • @BMJYDK
    @BMJYDK Місяць тому

    Tons of boxes still around for AoS & 40k here in the UK, apart from the usual suspects.

  • @PeteOfDarkness
    @PeteOfDarkness Місяць тому

    Is it me or many shops either didn't apply any discount specifically on DA box or straight up charged more than GW? I write from Poland, GW price was 800 PLN and some places had it for well over 900, while other boxes went for around 600. It's sad to see actually decent shops being scammy scalpels.
    I got myself Founding Foray (Tried to grab DA one, but my shop had to cancel my order :( ), TBH if it had any overlap (other than cavalry and cannon, those things are cool) with Cities of Sigmar Spearhead I probably wouldn't get it because it had less discount than "regular" box. I may get Ork Box (if I don't get DA box then, some of shops in my area do "delayed preorders").
    One interesting fact I've noticed over the years, if your faction have Primarch/big hero guy, it is bound to end up as centerpiece of Battleforce within year or two. I got Lion when his box launched so wasn't sold on DA box completely, but otherwise I got all three Demon Primarchs and few big AoS models from big boxes. So... if they release 40k Fulgrim on EC launch, I'll be happy to skip him, should be in 2026-7 Battleforce.

  • @tonyslab4839
    @tonyslab4839 Місяць тому

    found the tau box at under $200 and couldnt help but add big mechs to my collection as display models (not committed to an army...... yet....)

  • @changrcaterham5784
    @changrcaterham5784 Місяць тому +1

    Crazy how they didn’t do a skaven one…

    • @Verity98765
      @Verity98765 Місяць тому

      Skaven are already hugely discounted in the starter sets. You can even still get the Skaventide launch box in many places. They want people to buy a discount box to start the army then most of the other stuff at full price so giving them the starter discount + battleforce discount would not be good business.

    • @Midgar88
      @Midgar88 Місяць тому

      thatll be next xmas box. Kruleboys had the same thing. GW wants stuff out usually a year before they get the bundle treatments.

  • @demoncushion9600
    @demoncushion9600 Місяць тому

    As a US player, the Dark Angel box sold out so fast i wasn't able to get one... it was the only box i was interested in. Honestly kinda sad.

  • @matthewbull3688
    @matthewbull3688 Місяць тому

    Oh also Aus Battleforce boxes aren't all priced the same. Tau is $310, the highest cost ones are $405.

  • @ralfsstuff
    @ralfsstuff Місяць тому

    These are insane.
    Got a Necron and Tau box 30minutes after opening time at Kutami.
    Knights and Dark Angels long gone and Tau a few minutes after
    About an hour or so later it was very obvious what didn't sell in comparison.
    40 Necron Boxes left
    144 Sororitas Boxes left.
    Edit: I bought Tau despite not having played them once and just owning a Patrol and Shadowsun so far.
    Mostly because big, stompy robots are fun.

    • @JanBaucke
      @JanBaucke Місяць тому

      I was with a excellent timing on Kutami at 10:45, just a short time in the queue with 25 or so ppl. in front of me and got one of the Knight Boxes (I think the counter was at aprox. 75 boxes when I'd put it into my card and at aprox. 45 after my checkout) but the DA box was already gone when I came out of the queue.

    • @Impgent
      @Impgent Місяць тому

      Means that I was 5 min too late in the queying system for DA🥴

  • @captainnkeln9324
    @captainnkeln9324 Місяць тому

    UK market: trying to get a battleforce (necrons) online through the usual ways guaranteed I wouldn't be starting a new army as I wasn't going to get one direct due to cost and all discount retailers ran out immediately to the point where on refreshing element games had it instantly marked unavailable and wayland games crashed nonstop preventing checkout. Not too sad, but awful experience regardless.

  • @ishitrealbad3039
    @ishitrealbad3039 Місяць тому

    in NL only inner circle and knights were sold out lol. everything else is still perfectly available.

  • @marioeckert9286
    @marioeckert9286 Місяць тому

    There are still ironjaw boxes around

  • @Impgent
    @Impgent Місяць тому

    Counting on my LGS to fulfill preorders on DA and Knights ...
    Otherwise I got Tau. Perfect match for Imperium premium subscription in combination with the Kroot box and a few more crisis suits.
    Necron box was dull if one already owns the Ctan. And Sisters as you mentioned is just not exciting.

  • @Piggiesgomoomoo
    @Piggiesgomoomoo Місяць тому

    I don't have any Tau so I bought the Tau.

  • @yulusleonard985
    @yulusleonard985 Місяць тому

    Tau battleforce, useable for all detachment, including kroot.
    Necron, only for those who start Necron or dont have Void Dragon.

  • @Ilikeavocados123
    @Ilikeavocados123 Місяць тому

    Kinda glad i dont have the dark angel box as a temptation

  • @BronnBlackwater
    @BronnBlackwater Місяць тому

    FEC box shouldve had Ushoran

  • @BaeBunni
    @BaeBunni Місяць тому

    honestly wouldn't be surprised if the tau box basically rots on shelves. It's a pretty bad dollar to point ratio, even for tau you should be able to find better than this even with a 15% discount from retail. I would imagine a extra discount for it, but that is just me.

    • @channelname349
      @channelname349 Місяць тому

      i got it for 20% off. most battleforces are sold in the EU at that discount (even the Dark Angels one)

    • @BaeBunni
      @BaeBunni Місяць тому

      ​@@channelname349 yea but that is the EU, the usa 15% is the "standard" discount. Plus the EU gets a better price for games workshop stuff anyway. like Combat patrol boxes cost 130 euro over there but in the usa it would be about 160 euro. If not for the fact retailers aren't allowed to do it, it would be cheaper to buy gamesworkshop products over seas and ship it over rather than buying it locally.

  • @alwo9297
    @alwo9297 Місяць тому

    Very unhappy. One plans and studies and then my retailer only got three and only a few of those.. I did spring for a Flesh eaters. Retailer still has the sisters. I smelled scalpers when eight boxes of Orks went in one minute. Previous years I got every box I wanted. This year I got one I wasn't originally going to buy. A lump of coal for me.

  • @adoolf-su2qf
    @adoolf-su2qf Місяць тому

    DID GW NOT GIVE US ENOUGH OVERPRICED PLASTIC CRAP TO WASTE OUR MONEY ON?!

  • @Mr_Waffle.
    @Mr_Waffle. Місяць тому +2

    Spent my money on Trench Crusade kickstarter instead. GW forced fomo and price increases has killed warhammer for me

    • @What2Have4Dinner
      @What2Have4Dinner Місяць тому +1

      So excited for this game, just need to get time to play

  • @Belanner
    @Belanner Місяць тому

    The Necrons box is a shit. Sorry, but every Necron player has at least 40 Necron warriors and 2 or 3 Overlords. That’s a lot of unnecessary miniatures in the box.