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Topic. And the hardback rulebook not as expensive as I expected.

Here's a link:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat440004a&rootCatGameStyle=wh


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Note that the Arachnarok comes on a 100mm by 150mm base. Yikes, that's BIG.

DAT SPIDER is the most beautiful model I have ever seen. I will probably be buying it eventually just for kicks because I love spiders. Also, a full color-112 hardback book is worth 37$ I think.

Wow, i love the retro cover of that book!

*post on behalf of the work blocked*

Some pretty nice stuff there, for a 112 page full colour hardback the price of the new army book is pretty good.

The new models are great too I love the Savage Orcs and Goblin Nasty Skulkers.

After all the bashing GW has received I am utterly shocked at how well priced the army book is!!!

I hope my Tau codex gets hardback now :-D

I don't collect orcs but I must have one of those spiders as they are incredible it's stuff like this and the new DE and Skaven that have rekindled my love for GW!

Well. Cant say Im happy about the price of the hardback, I hope they make softback. This will kill my desire to purchase every armybook. However, on a positive note, that spider is freakin awesome! I can see buying that (even when I dont play orcs/goblins), yet another quality piece created. So to recap, booooo on the book, yaaayyy on the mini.


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Note: Thanks reds8n for posting for us "work" people. I can see it on work computer but it looks like someone put a veil over it.

Models look great, Hardback book price aint too bad, plus it's full colour. generally to all these releases.

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That's amusing, but just this morning, I had a package in the post, loaded with some nice "Forces of" Warmachine books. We're talking hardcover, full color, and good paper there. That's some beautiful books, even prettier than the recent FoW stuff. I put them on my shelves next to my recent 5th ed codexes, and thought the GW stuff was really looking cheap these days.
A couple of hours later, I see the next WFB army book in preview, hardcover, full color.

Looks like GW ain't as oblivious as people like to think they are...

So on the Australian site the price is blank for the new book.

Can't...start...another...army...

gr1m_dan wrote:After all the bashing GW has received I am utterly shocked at how well priced the army book is!!!

I hope my Tau codex gets hardback now :-D

It's a 33% price hike with no additional pages. Less than I thought but still rude.

Taking into account what "Dan from the Web Team" says it would appear as there could be both a hard cover and a paper back...

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

gr1m_dan wrote:After all the bashing GW has received I am utterly shocked at how well priced the army book is!!!

I hope my Tau codex gets hardback now :-D

It's a 33% price hike with no additional pages. Less than I thought but still rude.

I agree.

Spider has some really proportionally tiny legs and they look tyranid... also she has a..... nose? Well damn GW for making all spiders goofy but the rest of the model is sweet so yes a must buy... I could have got 3 of these but model not as good as I espected so only one for me.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

gr1m_dan wrote:After all the bashing GW has received I am utterly shocked at how well priced the army book is!!!

I hope my Tau codex gets hardback now :-D

It's a 33% price hike with no additional pages. Less than I thought but still rude.

But its "full-colour"... surely that counts for something.

That Spider is ace.

Depends on what you get in full color.

aka_mythos wrote:

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

gr1m_dan wrote:After all the bashing GW has received I am utterly shocked at how well priced the army book is!!!

I hope my Tau codex gets hardback now :-D

It's a 33% price hike with no additional pages. Less than I thought but still rude.

But its "full-colour"... surely that counts for something.

must make negative comments about GW. got to find the negative in this release or my mind will explode.

aka_mythos wrote:

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

gr1m_dan wrote:After all the bashing GW has received I am utterly shocked at how well priced the army book is!!!

I hope my Tau codex gets hardback now :-D

It's a 33% price hike with no additional pages. Less than I thought but still rude.

But its "full-colour"... surely that counts for something.

It means we can enjoy the art recycled from 1993 in full color?

It means the fluff page where this one time some Orcs had a waagh and it was was awesome will now have a color border around it?


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Savage orcs are also $30 for 10, while most sets are usually $25 for 10. 20% hike.

Some lovely new models and releases. That Spider is brilliant and the savage orc boar drummer is a bits purchase for me.

Book is cheaper than I expected, but not quite as big as I'd hoped. But all in all looks good from what I can see.

I swear if GW included a certificate for a 'date' with a porn star in a release there would still be complaints.

Regarless, great release. The spider is fantastic and I love how the SO boar boyz are sitting up vs hunched like the new boar boyz.

As for hardback, I'm all for it after watching my space marine codex fall apart the first week of purchase.

I am so thankful for the 18 pages of 'Eavy Metal paint jobs on the Orcs. I can then assume that there will be no overlap with the three consecutive White Dwarfs? .... yeah I'd be wrong there too.

I like the spider in an abstract way. I'd never buy it, don't play the army, but I like that it's there.

I'm pretty meh about the rest of it. And is it just me, or are the savage orc muscles unusually angular?

NAVARRO wrote:Well damn GW for making all spiders goofy but the rest of the model is sweet so yes a must buy... I could have got 3 of these but model not as good as I espected so only one for me.

I wonder if you will... when I saw it I thought you'd get two or three to convert

I like the releases, but a hardback book will be a bit complicated. Price-wise amongst other things, I'd be nice if for every hardback they also sold (or the HB came with) a smaller booklet, ala BRB/Small rule book.

JOHIRA wrote:I like the spider in an abstract way. I'd never buy it, don't play the army, but I like that it's there.

I'm pretty meh about the rest of it. And is it just me, or are the savage orc muscles unusually angular?

I think thats more the paintjob, but still maybe your right.

Damn, that Big Stabba is fun.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:It means we can enjoy the art recycled from 1993 in full color?

It means the fluff page where this one time some Orcs had a waagh and it was was awesome will now have a color border around it?

So you've seen it? They are simply adding to the material quality without adding to the content quality. Its no different than a jeweler using a nicer grade of metal rather than to make a more intricate design.

People complain when GW just raises the price and does nothing to justify it. For once they are trying to justify it here. I tend to think a hardcover and full color across 100 more pages than before is worth an extra $8. Just for fiction novels, there can be more than that price difference for a hardcover.

I hope that spider has a great ward save or else it is cannon fodder. Nice kit though.