40k Starter Sets + Pre-Painted Terrain Sets

[Lord Marshal]

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Warhammer 40,000 Starter Set:

 

 

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Jump right into the new edition with the new Starter Set, designed especially for newcomers to the worlds of Warhammer. This fantastic value box includes two complete Combat Patrol armies – Space Marines and Orks – along with a Core Rules book, 15 pieces of unpainted terrain, a double-sided game board, range rulers, dice, and a special Starter Guide book to ease you into the game.

 

Warhammer 40,000: Getting Started with… Space Marines / Orks

 

 

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Jump right into the new edition with the new Starter Set, designed especially for newcomers to the worlds of Warhammer. This fantastic value box includes two complete Combat Patrol armies – Space Marines and Orks – along with a Core Rules book, 15 pieces of unpainted terrain, a double-sided game board, range rulers, dice, and a special Starter Guide book to ease you into the game.

 

Warhammer 40,000: Introductory Set

 

 

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What if you’re looking for a quick taste of the 41st Millennium all wrapped up in a single box, with miniatures and paints enough for two friends just getting started with their hobby? The Introductory Set is designed for the very new and eminently curious, coming with 12 miniatures, six paints, an introductory book, a set of folding card terrain, a game mat, and all sorts of information to get started.

Since it’s not a new edition of Warhammer 40,000 without a new Space Marines Lieutenant, the Introductory Set includes one! In fact, all 12 of the miniatures – Space Marines Lieutenant, 5 Intercessors, Ork Nob, and 5 Boyz – are brand new and are available first in this Introductory Set.  Ork players take note – this is also an easy way to add a rocket launcha and a big shoota into the Boyz squad from the Armageddon launch box.

 

Paint Sets

 

 

Combat Patrol: Battlezone

 

 

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Easily create a Combat Patrol-sized battlefield with this new terrain set. It features unpainted push-fit scenery, fold-out game boards, and terrain footprints, making setup a doddle for your games of Warhammer 40,000. This terrain setup is perfect for those just getting into Warhammer, and fans of smaller, quick-fire games. Plus, you can combine it with the terrain from the Starter Set for a full Strike Force-sized battlefield.

 

Extra terrain boxes:

 

 

Warhammer 40,000 Battlefields: Armageddon

 

 

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Create a full Armageddon-themed battlefield in minutes with a ready painted terrain set. Each box contains 28 pieces of terrain split between ruins, galvanic relays, capacitors, and other thematic elements, as well as a set of terrain area footprints and folding, double-sided game boards. 

 

Battle Mat: Armageddon

 

Edited June 26 by Lord Marshal

[Jukkiz]

Knowing GW´s terrain prices, those prepainted ones are gonna be what... 15quids more atleast? 

[Blindhamster]

I actually like the introductory set, and I like that all the models are unique 

[Nephaston]

I'm gonna make a wager that these ork kits might also have interchangeability with the push-fit ones.

[Moonstalker]

4 minutes ago, Jukkiz said:

Knowing GW´s terrain prices, those prepainted ones are gonna be what... 15quids more atleast? 

 

Per the stream, the half-box of unpainted terrain (sized for a combat patrol game) will be "about the price of a combat patrol" and the full box of "ready painted" terrain will be "a little more than two combat patrols."  I think this probably puts it at like 150-175 USD for an unpainted half board or about 400 for a full box of pre-painted.  The unpainted stuff is all coming first, and then the big box of prepainted terrain is coming later this fall.

[Petitioner's City]

8 minutes ago, Jukkiz said:

Knowing GW´s terrain prices, those prepainted ones are gonna be what... 15quids more atleast? 

 

Eddie said it would be slightly more than two combat patrols.

[Robbienw]

Something odd going on with the legs of the introductory set marines.  Reloading chap is cool though.

[Crimson Longinus]

Introductory set orks are really nice. Only five though... Isn't boyz minimum squad size ten? Weird to sell just half an unit...

 

The terrain is nice, I guess. I don't like the small roboarms on the walls. They look flat and unnatural. Also disappointed that there was no 3d version of the terrain area footprints. 

[Nephaston]

55 minutes ago, Crimson Longinus said:

Introductory set orks are really nice. Only five though... Isn't boyz minimum squad size ten? Weird to sell just half an unit...

Nine orks plus a nob, so one introductory set and two sets of the one with paint will be a full unit (plus two grots to pose on the trukk or the base of the new bikers in front of the wheels :)

[Jukkiz]

i see they´re finally upping the paintscheme looks atleast little bit. Also the lower part of marine greaves seems to have segments like old marks

[Brainmisfire]

Did anyone else kinda feel there were too many different starter sets? The reveals just kept going. Not a big deal, just seems kinda weird to me that they would have so many different ones.

 

Also, I'm a bit disappointed that there are 11 paints in the getting started with space marines box, because I've been leaning toward getting that since it was teased, but only because I assumed it would be priced cheaper than a combat patrol. With that many paints in it, I'm worried how they're going to price it.

 

Now I'm back to wondering if I should get the Armageddon box and sell the Ork half lol.

 

I do think there are a lot of great options here for new players though.

[Nephaston]

1 hour ago, Brainmisfire said:

Did anyone else kinda feel there were too many different starter sets? The reveals just kept going. Not a big deal, just seems kinda weird to me that they would have so many different ones.

 

Well the starter set is meant to get two people that definitely want to play the game started, the introductory set is for two people with tentative interest, introducing the kids, or those that need a real slow burn to learn the rules. and the paint set are for people that want to try out painting.

 

And obviously, all are intended for filthy consoomers like me to get maximum miniature variety.

[Moonstalker]

2 hours ago, Brainmisfire said:

Did anyone else kinda feel there were too many different starter sets? The reveals just kept going. Not a big deal, just seems kinda weird to me that they would have so many different ones.

 

Also, I'm a bit disappointed that there are 11 paints in the getting started with space marines box, because I've been leaning toward getting that since it was teased, but only because I assumed it would be priced cheaper than a combat patrol. With that many paints in it, I'm worried how they're going to price it.

 

Now I'm back to wondering if I should get the Armageddon box and sell the Ork half lol.

 

I do think there are a lot of great options here for new players though.

 

A lot of these are updates and analogues to sets that already exist.  The tools + clippers, 2 marines + paints, and 2 boyz + grot + paints especially have directly comparable boxes, just with Infernus marines or Termigants.  The box with tools and paints is a big upsell for people just getting into Warhammer.  Someone buying their first box, and the GW employee says, "Do you have glue/clippers/etc?  No?  Well, we sell them, you can buy them individually for $X or you can get this box that has everything, and it's a much better deal."  Bam, upsold, the tools and paints box goes on the counter.

 

From there, you're looking at GW aiming at 3 separate buyers.  One is the toe-in first timer with the basic starter box.  A few minis, some terrain, just enough to get a taste of warhammer.  Then there's the big starter, everything to get directly in to full combat patrols.  And the third is the combat patrols buyer.  GW kinda-sorta shot themselves in the foot with the mid-tier starter in 10th ed, it's $114 retail and a combat patrol is $170.  For the space marine one, at least, all you need to do is buy the Terminator Librarian separate for $40 and you have the Space Marine combat patrol for $154, $16 cheaper than you could buy it as its own box, plus all the 'nids which is nearly the entire nid's combat patrol (lacking only the Barbgaunts).

 

This means the mid-tier starter was positioned in a way that cannibalized their own combat patrol sales.  Now, there's no mid-tier starter: there's just the combat patrols, but with some paints bundled in so they're "starters."  How much those paints will cost us, I dunno.

[Antarius]

9 hours ago, Crimson Longinus said:

Introductory set orks are really nice. Only five though... Isn't boyz minimum squad size ten? Weird to sell just half an unit...

 

The terrain is nice, I guess. I don't like the small roboarms on the walls. They look flat and unnatural. Also disappointed that there was no 3d version of the terrain area footprints. 

They're also going to have a rouch time going up against six marines, I'd say.

But yeah, everything looks quite nice. If I was sure I cold unload the characters, I might be tempted by the big starter set.

[jaxom]

13 hours ago, Moonstalker said:

GW kinda-sorta shot themselves in the foot with the mid-tier starter in 10th ed

9th was great for this. A lot of FLGS with online presence would do sales of the midtier (already a good bargain price). It was a great way to get Assault Intercessors, Outriders, Warriors, and Skorpekh Destroyers.

[lhg033]

I picked up my copy of Armageddon on Wednesday - depending on price I am seriously considering the starter set with terrain - I would use everything, even the duplicate characters (some for DA and I plan on a small BA force with some of Armageddon and some of my pile of shame). The intro set is faily nice too.

 

Edit - the main factor will be cost!

Edited June 27 by lhg033

[Tastyfish]

On 6/26/2026 at 10:28 PM, Nephaston said:

I'm gonna make a wager that these ork kits might also have interchangeability with the push-fit ones.

 

Apparently the ork boyz all have a universal front and back torso connection/cross section - so that whilst some models might not make sense due to the arm positioning, any front and any back should work with each other - once you trim the push fit peg and holes away. If these boyz are the same, and this also holds true for the separate boyz release - that's an exceptional level of variation from a 'monopose' kit. Even just eight orks who are entirely interchangeable out of the starter sets gives you a green tide of 64 unique orks and if the stand alone box is the same but different sculpts there's enough for two orks armies to both take maximum boyz with no duplicates.

 

That said, I'm also intrigued to see how the galvanic network and capacitor cluster fit with the sector mechanicus gantries. They look like they would make some nice obscuring terrain to fit underneath.

[sitnam]

11 hours ago, jaxom said:

9th was great for this. A lot of FLGS with online presence would do sales of the midtier (already a good bargain price). It was a great way to get Assault Intercessors, Outriders, Warriors, and Skorpekh Destroyers.

 

I bought 40 necron warriors around that period, it's by far my most cost efficient 40k collection. Since the Recruit starter was $50-ish, you could get Necron warriors on eBay for $30.

 

I'm kicking myself now by not getting more Skorpekhs. I thought three were enough at the time,

 

I really wanna see what these faction starters with paints have paint and price wise. I think they could be slam dunks at the right price point and silly at the wrong price. If it's a combat patrol + the cost of 11 paints, why bother? But if it's just the price of a combat patrol...that's really not a bad deal.

Edited June 28 by sitnam

[Lord Marshal]

Starter sets for pre-order next week. While longer for the terrain, apparently. 

[Nephaston]

Next week for the Starter Sets, Terrain still a ways away.

[Jukkiz]

Still weird that paint sets lost one marine. Another cost cutting measure there? 
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They replace old sets of: 
3 infernus marines WITH 2 Intercessors

3 Termagants+ripper swarm WITH two ork boyz+one gretchin 

So in total, both paint sets lost models but again, prices stay same or rise? 

Edited July 5 by Jukkiz

[Uprising]

I really like the Warhammer 40,000: Introductory Set.  What idea yet about the price?  

[Tastyfish]

1 hour ago, Uprising said:

I really like the Warhammer 40,000: Introductory Set.  What idea yet about the price?  

Stolen from Dave C on Dakka but:

 

£47 for the intro set
£155 for the starter set
£22 paints
£105 Getting started sets

 

Which is seems a pretty decent price for the two starter sets.

[Xirix]

I think it's been like this for a while, but why did GW remove the handle from the seam scraper?

[Frogian]

Tempted to pick up a starter set for the terrain, and to get a 2nd landspeered and wartrakk - will have to work out what selling the rest will get me.