Is The Old World Bretonnia Box Worth It? Full Review! 

if you flip over the movement tray there are different sized squares on the other side

Bretonnians are the best army, been collecting for around 17yrs. I can not wait to expand and double if not triple my army size

Bretonnian knights always stood out to me in white dwarf magazine in the late 90s

I look forward to the sequel. Have a great paint job. 🖌

I think the big box is good value. What scares me is all the extra characters, Grail Knights etc. When I did some quick arithmetic I was knocking on £570!!! That was based on 9 Grail Knights, New std Bearer, Hand Maiden, another unit of Pegasus Knights, all the books, cards and dice, Grail reliquary. I hadn't even taken into account the new foot Knights, new Enchantress or the trebuchet or undoubtedly need more kits of peasant cannon fodder. That killed my excitement and I'm not getting into this game which I'm very sad about. I loved the Bretonnian story and miniatures. But cannot justify this kind of money sink!!!

You could 3D print movement bases for the knights if you have a 3D printer. I'm going to look for something after this video.

They fed that Royal Pegasus equine growth hormone, for sure.

Well the kits are better than back in the day. Trying to glue lead horse heads to plastic using plastic glue was a nightmare 😂😂😂

Thise boxes are ridiculously well priced for GW standards, especially now that GW apparently overdid their second printrun. You can pick up the box new starting from 160€ ish and about 140-150€ for unbuilt ones on the secondary market. Sell the core book, the ruler, the dice and the templates for 50€ and you get half an army for 100 ish €. Do it twice and you have a playable, and even rather competetive 2000 point army with some options. Get 1-2 Maidens and a box of KOTR on foot and you can easily kitbash Questing Knights and Grail Knights and have a REALLY good army with even more options. The cherry on top might be a Trebuchet, but the one from GW is too expensive for what it is, but you get really good printed alternative models for about 20€. I bought one starter box, one Box of KOTR on horse, 2 unbuilt Pegasus knights, 4 Knights of the realm and 12 peasants for 25€, a 3D printed maiden on horse and one on foot and a printed Trebucht for 32€ and and have a rather decent army for pretty much exactly 200€. If you build unit fillers you can pump up your infantry rather easily with Bretonnians. With the Burning Braziers you can easily replace two sets of 1x4 Archers, so 8 in total and then I took two 50x75 Bases and replaced 12 Men-at-arms (one was temporary field grave for a fallen knight the other was a small supply cache (Meat, Wine, barrels, crates, weapons, ammo and a banner). So I was able to build 32 Archers and 48 men-at-arms (in two units of 24) from the core box alone. With a few bits, a little bit of green stuff and somewhat decent painting skills, you can kitbash almost every type of character on horse from the KOTR on horse kit as well. With basic crafting skills, a small bit collection and a lot of creativity, Bretonnians, in my experience, are one of the cheapest and most satisfying armies to build in TOW.

I’ve been buying minis from a company called highland miniatures for the last few years who make the absolute best warhammer fantasy proxies. They’re better than anything GW ever put out and are a fraction of the price. Their ‘bretonnian’ range also look more bretonnian than anything in this box.

Thanks for the in-depth review. Probably wont play this without any friends that play but might pick up just to paint when it comes back into stock

I started into the hobby over 30 years ago with a wood elf lord on giant eagle, so I'm pretty hyped to get painting some old school fantasy stuff again. I went for TKs, but I'm kinda wishing I got the Brettonia set as I love the new pegasi model. 😅

Happy the old minis are back, the old world is just magnificant. Sad about them using the old used up molds and not improving them, some of those mold lines look absolutly atrocious

The old characters on pegasus were always larger then Pegasus knights.

Short answer: yes. It's cheaper than 2 battalion boxes from 2004 when adjusted for inflation.

I wrote on someone else's RU-vid video that I thought this was quite expensive, but now I realize that these figures look so brutally beautiful!! I want these figures now so you can sit and build and paint! =) I will buy whole boxes for - Bretonia, High Elevs, Goblins, Dark elvs, Dwarf, Choas

The thing that killed this box for me was the old miniatures and the price. Super expensive here in Canada. Just gonna stick to 30K/40K.

I can't wait for the 20th to start my 6 month journey into pain and suffering like i did with my skavens.

Iirc the movement tray had two sides, one for 20mm and one for 25mm squares. Anyway doesn't matter too much as rhere plenty of alternative materials to make trays out of. Debating between plastic card or poster board

Can someone clarify for me. Does the rule book that comes with this set have ALL the available units in the Bretonnia roster? As well as all the other races? If not, which book do I need to buy that has all the units and points for each unit etc…

I own both TK & Bren army 20 year back, i have love with them. But im not paying this price & get a lesser model.

Could you use plasta card with the corner trays ? Might be easier then having to buy a saw and blades to cut threw those old templates!!

Of course it is, you got it for free

I'm a simple person: I like all Warhammer miniatures without exception. Another question however: aesthetically I don’t like square bases, since the angles distract too much attention from the model itself. It’s good that there is Age of Sigmar, simply because there is an alternative to which bases to use!

In lore Royal pegasus is bigger Not sure its that big but it looks great

If you get your hands on the tomb kings I’d love a video on those 🙏☺️

GW must be laughing. Old models at new prices

The Bretonnian range still holds up somewhat. Not so much some of the other ranges. The Tk and HE in particular look their age, and not in a good way

Date on the sprues '2003' ? Vintage warhammer goes for a premium. Interesting to see they included old stock.

people saying it is expensive failto realize that (least by old standards for WHFB) these boxes are literal armies in a box. but those who say these are expensive gladly pay CP or equivalent for AOS entry level, and get like 12 or so models for 1/2-2/3 the cost of these. yep. more money, for less plastic fine. more money (at first glance) up front = too expensive. in AUD (Australia) the box is broken down as around a free rulebook, a $120 character (pegasus) a large unit of knights ($35 each or $70 est for all) five units broken down into pilgrim/archers around $250. or $50 per box (around similar at time they were squatted). this leaves the rest of the templates, the mini non army book, the dice, and such to cost around the remainder, so around 30-50$. compare to AOS and 40k: prices are (akin) to older entry points to WHFB. possibly about up to 25% (to cover inflation etc) more expensive. but old sculpts a turn off for some, and such, it is actually cheaper by model per dollar, than other games GW produces. and this is to overcome the hesitation some may have moving on this game. I care not for the game though. just kitbashes. and this game offers me kits I have since run dry from my bits box.

From what I can tell this is Games Workshop’s way of getting rid of unsold model stores from 2003.

Hell. Ya it is!

Micheal Perry miniatures are the best 🙌 not computer generated.

I think im out of touch because im not to much informed about Warhammer at the moment, but Bretonnian have not be wiped out of Warhammer classic after a copyright issue ?

It's troubling that they didn't get behind revamping at least most of the core units. This tells me that GW might not be fully behind the idea of Warhammer Fantasy returning. I really wanted to get into it but having been introduced to the hobby with the new 40k sculpts I just don't feel like it...

What’s the scale of the horses vs the new AoS cavaliers?

Do You gonna make some painting tutorial for HE ? :D

I think they did the "Upgrade" to larger base size is to be able to have redone model sthat are a bit bigger down the road if Old world takes off. Also it allows you to use 25mm circle bases and place them on movement trays with a holder in it to use your converted AoS models in old world rank and file. which is kind of neat. IMO its almost not worth using the square bases for anything that converts to AoS so you can still use for either game. I'm kind of excited about this and might get back to work on my vampire counts army (yes I know they wont have official rules) that was converted from elves. as well as I will start a high elf army when they release, as well as eventually get some dark elves again, which was my first army in Fantasy battles.

You don’t need movement trays for 6 cavalry dudes. Just move the minis

So u think they are going to release more is this is it? After this box they will never talk about old world anymore

Great video. There is no way these 20yr old figures are worth modern prices

So lame the box sets don’t come with movement trays

Considering that they sold out of the online allocation of pre-orders by 1100 in the morning, I am going to say - yes.

Worth it? No. When has anything GW been "worth it"?

Where Painting tutorial?

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doesn't matter if it's worth it if you cant buy any

Can you show us your NDA?

Simple answer. Yes

So was it worth it?

Short answer.... No absolutely not

f no! None of this garbage is worth it. GW have put zero effort into revisiting this horrid game and its archaic models... the prices are absolutely insane and i hope it fails real hard.