Totally Missing the LVO Battle Box

 I'm not sure anybody saw it coming. ANOTHER battle box for Age of Sigmar. Announced 1 month and 3 days after the last battle box was announced. I had seen the teaser video of the new Nighthaunt model and for sure though it would have been a model + a new battletome like the Nurgle release.

In fact, I thought we might get 3 battletomes announced at LVO. BOY, was I wrong. 

Instead, we got a battle box. 

Turns out, there were two rumor engine pictures related to this. Warboss Kurgan has the goods here.

With this new announcement and the Fury of the Deep battle box, we can add some data to our spreadsheet.

The yellow books are estimates due to lacking some details. For example, Fury of the Deep, we do not know the retail price of the heroes so the army price out of box and savings numbers are still estimates. 

A couple of interesting notes about the new announcement. 

1. It is really fast after the last one.  The last time we had battle boxes this close together was Feast of Bones (11/19) and then Aether War (1/20). Almost two years ago. 

2. This is the first time in two years we have gotten a new unit in a battle box. Wrath and Rapture had new chaos demon models while Feast of Bones was the first chance to get your hands on OBR.

3. Model count is going up and price is staying flat or going down. There is also a trend to more infantry and fewer big models. 

Lastly, I think we can put some guidelines out for predicting new un-expected battle boxes. 

1. Are shipping issues still a thing? If yes, they will probably continue to put out battle boxes to try and give us some sort of AOS release. There are lots of rumors of paper related issues as a reason why we aren't getting battle tomes, so instead they fill the gap with battle boxes.

2. Are there rumor engine pictures of factions that have an underworlds warband and aren't a chaos faction? If they have a underworlds warband, the rumor engine probably isn't for that game. If it isn't chaos, it probably isn't a Warcry warband at this point.

3.Has there been a single hero model previewed or teased? It is probably coming in a battle box and not with a battle tome at this point. Nurgle would be the counter argument but Nighthaunt, Fyreslayers, and IDK support this. 

Finally, I'd expect this battle box to go up for preorder within 3 weeks, maybe as early as this Sunday.