With the end of the year in sight, there’s only one thing for it: it’s time to reveal the annual Warhammer Age of Sigmar Battleforce boxes. These hefty bundles are perfect for starting a new army or expanding an existing one, so if you’ve got a Spearhead that you want to tip over into the core of an army for Warhammer Age of Sigmar, these are a great next step.
Skryre Warpswarm
In the wake of the Vermindoom, the Skaven clans attack the Mortal Realms with renewed vigour, each attempting to court favour with the recently ascended Great Horned Rat. The leaders of Clans Skryre bring to bear madcap weaponry with a total disregard for safety, and the Skryre Warpswarm contains an Arch-Warlock with a complement of 20 vicious Stormvermin who protect him as he oversees a range of teams carting warp-powered weapons into battle.
A Ratling Warpblaster spits glowing death at foes, while three Warplock Jezzails target enemy heroes with pinpoint accuracy, five Acolyte Globadiers hurl glass spheres filled with toxic gas, and a Warpspark Weapon Battery unleashes the power of either Warpvolt Scourgers, Ratling Guns, or Warpfire Throwers.
Lances of the Crimson Keep
Prince Vhordrai once had the temerity to try to overthrow the tyrant Nagash, and his failure cost him his freedom. Now he lives shackled to the supernatural Crimson Keep, a phantasmal citadel that appears in ruins of strongholds around the Mortal Realms. When its gates open, he rides forth on the Revenant Draconith Shordemaire, leading his Blood Knights into battle, cursed to fade to nothing if he doesn’t ride back to the Crimson Keep before it disappears again.
The Lances of the Crimson Keep contains Prince Vhordrai on his monstrous steed, who commands 10 Blood Knights, savage crimson-armoured vampire cavaliers who ride down their foes with brutal efficiency. There are no vampires without bats, and three Fell Bats follow these imperious bloodsuckers around, feasting on foes shattered by the Blood Knights’ charges.
Dankhold Rampage
Troggoths are notoriously dangerous and hard to kill creatures, whose glacial lifestyles often see them snooze away in dank caverns or putrid swamps for centuries, slowly growing bigger and stronger as they absorb nutrients from their environment. When riled to anger they become a force of nature, the Bad Moon stoking their tempers to fever pitch.
Trugg, the Troggoth King, rumbles into battle carrying a shattered leystone on his back that – through percussive instruction – can empower him and his allies. The Dankhold Rampage lives up to its name by including a Dankhold Troggboss, bigger and stronger than the six Rockgut Troggoths who lumber alongside him hurling rocks with their long, muscled arms. Three Fellwater Troggoths complete the pack, vomiting vile streams of filth over their enemies, softening them up for their cave-dwelling buddies. The Dankhold Troggboss can also be built as Dankhold Troggoth, if you don’t want anyone contesting Trugg’s rule.
Outcast Spitegrove
The Sylvaneth are warriors bound to protect the Realm of Life and nature in all its forms across the Mortal Realms. They go about their duty with a grim dignity, but those who are too cruel or full of malice are exiled from the noble houses and fight under the banner of Drycha Hamadreth.
The Outcast Spitegrove is a war party hailing from the deepest and darkest woods, led by the Queen of the Outcasts herself. She is joined by a Spirit of Durthu who has pledged its colossal sword to her cause, 15 Spite-Revenants screaming a maddening dirge as they hurl themselves at their foes, and 20 Dryads who howl as they rake their enemies with claws. The Spirit of Durthu can alternatively be built as a Treelord or Treelord Ancient, while the Spite-Revenants can also be constructed as noble Tree-Revenants.
Each Battleforce box gets you the miniatures within at a lower price than buying them separately, and they will be available to pre-order later in the year.
