How Much Does a Warhammer Army Cost?

Is Age of Sigmar cheaper than 40k?

Warhammer 40,000 is cheaper to start today: the median Age of Sigmar start is $127.50 (24 armies priced) against $121.55 for 40k (26 armies). The spread matters more than the medians, though — 40k starts run $58.65–$200.00 and AoS $57.87–$144.50, so the army you pick moves the answer more than the game does.

Is Horus Heresy more expensive than 40k?

Yes — today it is the median Horus Heresy start is $144.50 (3 forces priced) against $121.55 for 40k. Heresy armies are built from bigger boxes with more plastic in them, so the per-model price is usually better even when the entry price is higher.

What "the cost of an army" means here

The headline is the cost of each army's cheapest currently-priced box — the recognised starting point for its game (Combat Patrol, Spearhead, or a Horus Heresy force box) — at the lowest price we hold across the shops we compare. That is where you begin, not what the hobby costs, so the figure beneath it scales to a standard game: the size people actually build towards.

That second number is an estimate and wears a tilde, but it is not a guess. It is the median across every army we can both price and point, at the per-point rate those real boxes actually sell for today. Everyone else answering this question picked a range and published it; theirs went stale the day Games Workshop last changed the points, and ours moves when a shop changes a price. Armies do not scale perfectly evenly — characters and centrepieces cost differently per point from the rank and file — so read it as a good approximation rather than a quote.

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Every 40k army ranked by start price · every AoS army ranked · Combat Patrols by value · Spearheads by value

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