The recent launch of Warhammer 40,000 Leviathan has been the biggest Warhammer 40,000 launch ever.
To help build an even bigger customer base in your store, we’re producing a new range of Starter products, designed for those getting into Warhammer 40,000 for the first time.
These products consist of 3 beginner friendly starter sets – offered at a range of price points – plus 3 paint sets.
The 3 starter sets are:
Warhammer 40,000 Introductory Set (40-04)
Warhammer 40,000 Starter Set (40-03)
Warhammer 40,000 Ultimate Starter Set (40-05)
These products make Warhammer 40,000 the most accessible it has ever been with bespoke walk-through handbooks enabling even the newest of hobbyists to pick up the core principles of Warhammer 40,000 quickly and easily. Each of these Handbooks also includes background on Warhammer 40,000, the Space Marines and the Tyranids, as well as assembly guides to help your customers easily build their new push-fit miniatures.
The Introductory Set (40-04) contains:
1x 48-page Warhammer 40,000 Introductory Set Handbook, 16x Push Fit miniatures, including: 5x Space Marines Infernus Marines and 11x Tyranids miniatures, including 10x Termagants and 1x Ripper Swarm. It also includes a gaming mat, measure, dice and tokens needed to play through the Handbook. Additionally, for the first time, this Introductory Set also includes paints and tools, allowing hobbyists to get building and painting their miniatures immediately, and provides a set of clippers, a starter paint brush and 5x paints.
Combined, the Introductory Set is offered at an approximate Added Value of 72%.
The Starter Set (40-03) contains:
1x 64-page Warhammer 40,000 Starter Set Handbook, 38x Push Fit miniatures, including: 11x Space Marines miniatures, including 1x Captain in Terminator Armour, 5x Terminators and 5x Infernus Marines and 27x Tyranids miniatures, including 1x Winged Tyranid Prime, 1x Psychophage, 3x Von Ryan’s Leapers, 20x Termagants, and 2x Ripper Swarms. It also includes the gaming mat, dice and tokens needed to play through the Handbook, along with 2 reference sheets and a transfer sheet.
Combined, the Starter Set is offered at an approximate Added Value of 301%.
The Ultimate Starter Set (40-05) contains:
1x 72-page Softback Warhammer 40,000 Ultimate Starter Set Handbook along with a separate 72-page Softback Core Rules Booklet that contains the full rules for the new edition.
It also includes 44x Push Fit, Plastic, and Citadel Miniatures, including 12x Space Marines miniatures, including 1x Captain in Terminator Armour, 1x Librarian in Terminator Armour, 5x Terminators, and 5x Infernus Marines, alongside 32x Tyranids miniatures, including 1x Winged Tyranid Prime, 1x Psychophage, 3x Von Ryan’s Leapers, 5x Barbgaunts, 20x Termagants and 2x Ripper Swarms.
The Ultimate Starter Set also includes a 2 fold-out gaming mat, measure, and dice needed to play through the Handbook, 2 reference sheets and a transfer sheet. It also contains a host of existing plastic terrain to fight over, including 1x STC Hab-Bunker, and 8x Stockades.
Combined, the Ultimate Starter Set is offered at an approximate Added Value of 266%.
Uniquely amongst these Starter Sets, this Ultimate Starter Set not only includes a complete and full version of the rules for the game, but it also includes all the constituent units for both the Space Marines and Tyranids’ Combat Patrols. making it ideal for splitting amongst friends, and enabling our customers to engage in the new small-scale games format of Warhammer 40,000 right away.
Alongside these exceptional value Start Here products, we also are offering 3 paint sets; Warhammer 40,000 Paints + Tools Set (60-12)
Infernus Marines + Paints (60-11)
Termagants and Ripper Swarm + Paints (60-13).
The Paints + Tools (60-12) set contains 13 paints (including Abaddon Black, Corax White, Wraithbone, Naggaroth Night, Macragge Blue, Leadbelcher, Balthasar Gold, Bugman’s Glow, Mephiston Red, Thunderhawk Blue, Magos Purple, Agrax Earthshade and Armageddon Dust), alongside a starter brush, clippers and a mouldline scrapping tool. These colours together are ideal for painting up the miniatures in any of the starter sets, and so is the perfect additional upsell item for you to have discussions with your customers about.
This Paints + Tools set is offered at an approximate Added Value of 70%.
The Infernus Marines + Paints, and Termagants and Ripper Swarm + Paints products provide miniatures and the appropriate paints to allow first-time painters a chance to ‘have a go’ at painting miniatures.
Infernus Marines + Paints (60-11) provides 6x paints (Corax White, Macragge Blue, Balthasar Gold, Abaddon Black, Agrax Earthshade, and Armageddon Dust), a starter brush, and 3 Ultramarines Infernus Marines.
Termagants and Ripper Swarm + Paints (60-13) provides 6x Citadel Paints (Corax White, Wraithbone, Naggaroth Night, Thunderhawk Blue, Magos Purple, and Armageddon Dust), a starter brush, and 3 Tyranid Termagants and a Ripper Swarm.
