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Throughout the point value section power sword and power weapon are used interchangably. Amusingly tech marines can only take power swords Yeah anyone who's reading this board knows they're the same thing, but it's not friendly for new players.

Digital weapons and digital lasers are also used interchangably.

Oh and they don't seem to know that 'between' and 'among' are different. It's picky but hey, I was an English teacher.

I´m sure that the spanish version of the VC codex was translated by a Korean during his lunch break using a "learn spanish in 24h" booklet.

Proof reading does not get along with GW.

M.

Miguelsan wrote:I´m sure that the spanish version of the VC codex was translated by a Korean during his lunch break using a "learn spanish in 24h" booklet.

Proof reading does not get along with GW.

M.

And the Korea version was translated by a Spaniard during his lunch break!

GW operates like me on my university papers...get it done just before the deadline, assume its all correct, and hand it in.

I wish i got paid for my mistakes though... :S

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Howard A Treesong wrote:Here's the rub, many publishers make a short cut and don't proof-read, they assume all is ok and sign off the proof copy without close examination. It's simply a time and money saving exercise and it's common from big publisher to small.

I assume that GW doesn't outsource their publishing... maybe their printing (I don't know how big Black Library is as a division), so the blame still lies with them. And from the perspective of the Imperial Armour books, I just find it difficult that they take 'short cuts'. Those books come out at a rate of 1 a year. There should be enough time to read through it and catch the mistakes. It doesn't take any of us that long to find them, even when we're not looking for them.

BYE

Yes, exactly. I'm not excusing them at all, they are the publisher and it's entirely their responsibility which was the point I was making. And they certainly do outscource their printing (probably outsie the UK where it's a lot cheaper). Combined printer-publishers are uncommon because of the massive overheads of operating printing machinery. Printers have to be running almost around the clock to make a decent profit and there's no way GW make orders that big.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:First of all, you'll need to remind me of the difference, IIRC nowadays, it's purely to with LoS While I agree, people make mistakes, it's human nature. However, do you see other books with typos and errors such as this? I don't play other minis games so I wouldn't know about other companies or games, but I do know that any company should have a level of professionalism to at least make sure that there are no inconsistencies or errors in their own products. I'm sure their books go through several iterations and at each level someone should be making sure that all the information in their books are correct. Finally, while complaining about typos doesn't fix the copies that are out already, I would hope GW has the sense to fix those errors in future copies of the book.

I agree with this. And further, any Ork Player who used this Dex (and uses Bikes) would likely spot the error after a couple of games. Playtesting, folks! Some gaming companies actually let the players test the rules before they are released. Would it be so hard to hold an event where the players themselves could come and do this, perhaps collecting the Dexes-in-Progress after the game to avoid leaks?

As for the guys in the studio, they probably don't have time to play through more than a handful of games since that's only a small part of their job. But especially with regard to the Ork Nob (on a Bike) having 1W or 2W, this should have been caught.

There are many other examples and it is just plain shameful! Mistakes do happen, but that's what proofreading and playtesting are for. Where I work, official documents are checked three times before they go out and there are never errors. For GW to publish works with errors means that they are skimping on the proofreading step, pure and simple. And it shows.