Games Workshop's Christmas 2026 Battleforces: Box-by-Box Guide to All 15 Sets
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Games Workshop's November 8 Sunday Preview lists 15 army boxes coming "next week": seven Warhammer 40,000 battleforces, six Warhammer Age of Sigmar battleforces and two Warhammer: The Horus Heresy Battle Groups. All are available while stocks last. GW says each saves money compared with buying the kits individually, but the preview gives no prices or dates.
The contents below are exactly as the preview lists them. One difference: the preview lists the Indomitus Task Force's five Assault Intercessors without jump packs, unlike the October reveal.
Warhammer 40,000
| Box | Contents |
|---|---|
| Space Marines: Indomitus Task Force | Captain in Terminator Armour; Chaplain; Redemptor Dreadnought; 5 Terminators; 5 Assault Intercessors; 10 Intercessors |
| Space Wolves: Champions of Fenris | Logan Grimnar; Arjac Rockfist; 15 Wolf Guard Terminators |
| Blood Angels: Angelus Assault Force | Commander Dante; Blood Angels Chaplain with Jump Pack; Death Company Brutalis Dreadnought; 3 Sanguinary Guard; 5 Death Company Marines with Jump Packs; Blood Angels Upgrade Frame |
| Chaos Knights: Helhunt Lance | Knight Ruinator (also builds as Knight Abominant, Rampager or Desecrator); 4 War Dog Stalkers (also build as War Dog Brigands or Karnivores) |
| Chaos Space Marines: Cult of Destruction | Warpsmith; Defiler; Venomcrawler; 2 Obliterators; 5 Havocs; 3 Mutilators |
| Orks: Armoured Blitzmob | Warboss in Mega Armour; Battlewagon (also builds as a Gunwagon); Deff Dread; 3 Meganobz; 10 Ork Boyz |
| Necrons: Disciples of the Nekrosor | C'tan Shard of the Nightbringer; Nekrosor Ammentar; 3 Ophydian Destroyers; Canoptek Doomstalker; 10 Necron Warriors; 3 Canoptek Scarab Swarms |
Age of Sigmar
| Box | Contents |
|---|---|
| Cities of Sigmar: Knights of Hammerhal | Tahlia Vedra, Lioness of the Parch; Freeguild Cavalier-Marshal; 10 Freeguild Cavaliers |
| Stormcast Eternals: Annihilation Host | Lord-Commander Bastian Carthalos; Lord-Relictor; Lord-Celestant; 3 Praetors; 9 Annihilators (also build with Meteoric Grandhammers) |
| Slaves to Darkness: Legion of Damnation | Chaos Lord on Daemonic Mount (also builds as Eternus, Blade of the First Prince); 5 Chaos Chosen; 3 Varanguard; 5 Chaos Knights; 10 Chaos Warriors |
| Maggotkin of Nurgle: Plaguesworn Host | Harbinger of Decay; Lord of Blights; 3 Sloven Knights; 5 Putrid Blightkings; 10 Rotswords; 14 Pox Wretches; 6 Mire Kelpies (later release in Japan) |
| Nighthaunt: Court of the Undying King | Nagash, Supreme Lord of the Undead; 2 Dreadblade Harrows; 10 Dreadscythe Harridans; 10 Bladegheist Revenants; 10 Grimghast Reapers (later release in Japan) |
| Orruk Warclans: Grunta Stampede | Tuskboss on Maw-Grunta; Maw-Grunta Gouger (each also builds as the other or as a Maw-Grunta with Hakkin' Krew); 6 Gore Gruntas |
Horus Heresy
| Box | Contents |
|---|---|
| Legiones Astartes: Vanguard Assault Battle Group | 20 Mark VI Tactical Squad Legionaries; 10 Mark VI Assault Squad Legionaries; Legion Praetor with Power Sword; Contemptor Dreadnought; Deimos Pattern Rhino; Deimos Pattern Predator Battle Tank |
| Legiones Astartes: Heavy Assault Battle Group | 20 Mark III Tactical Squad Legionaries; 10 Mark III Breacher Squad Legionaries; 5 Mark III Legion Command Squad Legionaries; 6 Cataphractii Terminators with Volkite Chargers and Power Mauls; Land Raider Explorator/Carrier |
Prices and dates: reported, not confirmed
Spikey Bits reports, citing GW's November 2 email to retailers, that the Christmas battleforces cost $255 / £160 / €206 / CA$310 / AU$435, with pre-orders on November 14 and release on November 27. Spikey applies those figures to all seven 40K boxes and all six Age of Sigmar boxes. GW has not published prices or dates, and no report we've seen gives a price for either Horus Heresy Battle Group.
Auspex Tactics separately reports an unconfirmed North American price of $210 (CA$255) for the Blood Angels box, while Spikey Bits still lists $255. We're treating that as open until pre-orders go live. More in our Angelus Assault Force analysis and our earlier retailer-pricing report.
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