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As pretty as the Collector's edition is, I picked up the Collector's book for 4th edition... and that turned out to be my least favourite edition of the game so far.

So rather than tempt fate, I think I'll stick with one of the more sensible versions

I might be able to make that work

Can anyone make out from the photographed picture what's so special about the collector's edition to require a virtual doubling of the price? Is it gold-plated? Are the pages actually some kind of flexible metal*? It can't just be a fancy slip cover and a few fabric bookmarks?





*Cookie for the reference.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Can anyone make out from the photographed picture what's so special about the collector's edition to require a virtual doubling of the price? Is it gold-plated? Are the pages actually some kind of flexible metal*? It can't just be a fancy slip cover and a few fabric bookmarks?

Thats what I was just trying to figure out. After zooming into the picture I think it says that the box it comes in may be leather but the book itself just looks like a different picture. And all I can see is that the pages are made out of a high quality parchement. I am hoping there is more to it than that because of that Price tag

Excessus wrote:A shotgun has S3 and can't penetrate anyway...

I was talking about space marine shotguns, their S4

So are the AP(special) dice just D6 with different numbers on them I guess?

So AP1 maybe a "3,4,5,6,6,6" AP2 "2,3,4,5,6,6".

Or something similar like that?

Looks like the picture on the right half of the Collectors Edition internal cover is also the spinal picture on this years White Dwarf.

Am I right? I can't quite tell.

-Porkuslime

porkuslime wrote:Looks like the picture on the right half of the Collectors Edition internal cover is also the spinal picture on this years White Dwarf.

Am I right? I can't quite tell.

-Porkuslime

It is. Or at least it soooooo close that it beggars the question: why make two very similar pictures of a helmetless Dark Angel with a plasmagun?

H.B.M.C. wrote:Can anyone make out from the photographed picture what's so special about the collector's edition to require a virtual doubling of the price? Is it gold-plated? Are the pages actually some kind of flexible metal*? It can't just be a fancy slip cover and a few fabric bookmarks?

If it follows the collectors editions from previous editions, higher quality parchment paper, additional material, and gold leaf on the page outline. Collectors editions have normally been twice the standard edition price. Picked up the 6th ed collectors edition for WHFB. Liked it a lot, but could never bring it to a store for fear of damaging it. After 6th passed, sits on a shelf. High priced shiny thing. Like any other "limited edition" special trinket/car/clothes, priced to create the air of exclusivity.

I hope the vehicle pen/damage thing doesn't mean referencing too many tables. Seems like it might get overly complex. I like that at this point it's fairly easy to memorize the tables; if there is a separate one for each AP, that could be a mess.

I like that Necrons don't have psykers. I dislike that they don't have something like Pariahs anymore; psykers are their ancient enemies, they shouldn't have innate resistance to psychic powers or anything like that, but should have something specifically to hunt them down. 3" range Gloom Prisms are not the answer.

silent25 wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:Can anyone make out from the photographed picture what's so special about the collector's edition to require a virtual doubling of the price? Is it gold-plated? Are the pages actually some kind of flexible metal*? It can't just be a fancy slip cover and a few fabric bookmarks?

If it follows the collectors editions from previous editions, higher quality parchment paper, additional material, and gold leaf on the page outline. Collectors editions have normally been twice the standard edition price. Picked up the 6th ed collectors edition for WHFB. Liked it a lot, but could never bring it to a store for fear of damaging it. After 6th passed, sits on a shelf. High priced shiny thing. Like any other "limited edition" special trinket/car/clothes, priced to create the air of exclusivity.

Play the same crap game as the rest of us, but have the satisfaction of paying more to do it!

I like it.

Your not that only one who thinks that way Nightbringer's Chosen, with the Necrons at least

Nightbringer's Chosen wrote:I hope the vehicle pen/damage thing doesn't mean referencing too many tables. Seems like it might get overly complex. I like that at this point it's fairly easy to memorize the tables; if there is a separate one for each AP, that could be a mess.

If the "special" dice work the way I think they might then it may simply be one table, with a AP2 add +1 to the roll, AP1 add +2 to the roll. Or something like that.

AgeOfEgos wrote:

spaceXjam wrote:

Brother SRM wrote:

spaceXjam wrote:
some australian stores received their rulebook copy early. i guess GW thought it would take longer to send out here. i was in there the other day and all the employees were talking about it i tryed to ask if i could see it and they kept teasing me and then to shock me the guy went in this little closet thing and pulled at a big book that was obviously 6th edition to tease me for a few seconds then put it back in the room. it was not the picture that is on the cover of this book in this photo.

Care to describe what was on the cover?

i guess it was fake. see i mean above

I added the collectors edition shot as well--was it that one (see last picture above)?

yes that limited edition one was the one they had in store!

thank you for these pictures how did you get them?

I must say I don't care much for the new knickknacks nor for any of the big books. I'll rely on scans until the starter comes out.

I do kind of want to go back through the thread and name and shame all the know-it-alls who said GW wouldn't possibly put a Space Marine on the cover...

I normally don't put much stock in special editions, but I like the man purse that comes with the Gamers Edition.

Text from the add for the Collector's Edition:
When the officers of the Imperial Guard pray to the Emperor for salvation, it is for the intervention of his Angels of Death that they beseech him. The Warhammer 40,000 Collector's Edition represents a sacred artifact, a reliquary of the Space Marines over which they invoke the Emperor's divine blessing. Its leatherette exterior features a debossed design of an iron halo and Imperial aquila. Two panels open either side to reveal four gold gilt embossed arched faces, within which are depicted four great heroes of the Space Marines. A secret panel pops open at the top of the reliquary, revealing access to a premium edition of the Warhammer 40,000 rulebook. The pages of this hardback rulebook are made from the very highest quality parchment paper, making it an even greater tome to possess. The Warhammer 40,000 Collector's Edition is strictly limited to 4000 individually numbered copies worldwide, so don't miss out on this great opportunity to own a genuine artefact from the 41'st Millenium.

Text from the Gamer's Edition:
The Warhammer 40,000 gamer's Edition represents a Munitorium Officer's kit as if it came straight out of the 41'st Millenium . The Gamer's Edition bundle consists of a versitile brown leatherette singal satchel, a Warhammer 40,000 rulebook, and a limited edition set of 12 red Munitorium Dice that are only available in this set and come with a power pack tin. The satchel is large enough to carry the rulebook along with any accompanying Codexes and Munitorium Templates, but also features three internal pouches. each designed to fit a Lasgun power pack tin. Two 4mm thick metal pin badges are also included (one representing the Imperial Aquila and the other the eight-pointed Chaos star), one of which can be fitted above the satchel's wooden toggle so that you may proudly declare your allegiance for or against the Emperor. The Warhammer 40,000 Gamer's Edition is only available to order from the website and is strictly limited in numbers, so don't miss out.

Red Corsair wrote:If AP 4+ can't hurt armor then GK just got laughably crappy.

Oh, how I would laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, were that to be the case. I doubt it, but it would be one hell of a metagame shift.

Agamemnon2 wrote:

Red Corsair wrote:If AP 4+ can't hurt armor then GK just got laughably crappy.

Oh, how I would laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, were that to be the case. I doubt it, but it would be one hell of a metagame shift.

No so much, when you consider the ally thing... That would make inquisitorial henchmans/allied veterans with melta-guns and dreadnoughts with multi-melta a must for the army...

Gamer's Edition for me then, looks like a nice bag

The Dwarf Wolf wrote:

Agamemnon2 wrote:

Red Corsair wrote:If AP 4+ can't hurt armor then GK just got laughably crappy.

Oh, how I would laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh, were that to be the case. I doubt it, but it would be one hell of a metagame shift.

No so much, when you consider the ally thing... That would make inquisitorial henchmans/allied veterans with melta-guns and dreadnoughts with multi-melta a must for the army...

Yeah just add some vendetta's or something, soon solve that

Well it can be some what believable since most of the 40k universe is told from the eyes of the Imperium.

I'll be after a Gamers edition.. do they normally put pre-orders after the turn of midnight, or 9am UK time?

H.B.M.C. wrote:Can anyone make out from the photographed picture what's so special about the collector's edition to require a virtual doubling of the price? Is it gold-plated? Are the pages actually some kind of flexible metal*? It can't just be a fancy slip cover and a few fabric bookmarks?





*Cookie for the reference.

Meh, how often do you see a "Collector's Edition" of ANYTHING that offers substantial value.

Their chief appeal is usually scarcity, and they're generally aimed at people who like to manifest their media allegiances via physical expression.

Wait. There are SEVEN armies who can't use the cards? That is hilarious. Or terrible, I can't decide.

Aye Anung, so my guess is looking at the psyker rule we'll have a 40K Storm of Chaos book next year, that will give us Chaos powers, update Ork, Tyranid and Eldar powers, and perhaps add something to Necrons, Dark Eldar?

Seems odd to only grant a new powerful option to around half the armies otherwise.

AgeOfEgos wrote:

Could somebody copy these pics to the Dakka gallery? Photobucket and imageshack are both filtered at work so I can't see them!

Quick repost on imgur which normally works for work blocks.. will host in Dakka Gallery if doesn't.

No luck with that one either MDS
Would be really greatful if you could dakka them!

Aye, doing so now.