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I will buy the little book from the box set when it comes out,

*Redacted* - thanks mod, understood.

Call me crazy (please do) but I think that 75 bucks for an unwieldy difficult to transport tome is just silly for a game that needs to be portable.

I'm doing almost the same thing. My friend preordered one of the collectors editions, and we'll just use that to play. I'll wait to get mine in the starter box(hopefully). Since current rumours are DA vs Chaos, and I play DA and my brother plays Chaos, we'll probably be buying a bunch of them as long as they are on par with AoBR.

In fact I'll probably be selling/trading extra copies of the small rulebook like I did with AoBR.

I really don't want to buy a collectors version, due to the obscene pricing, but that bag with the aquilla or chaos star is so nice looking....

I won't be buying it either. My gaming group has more or less decided to stick with 5th edition due to some of the rumours we have heard about 6th. That and it's taken us long enough to teach some of the players how to play using the current rules and cannot be bothered to start teaching them again...

When the starter box set comes out I will probably end up getting the mini book from that, although it will be mostly for the models in the box rather than the book itself

I'm also not going to be buying it. Waiting for that smaller easier to carry book.

I'll be waiting for the smaller version to come out, then buying a copy on ebay once people start splitting up the starter sets.

I might pick up a starter box once they come out. Kinda depends on the changes in the edition if I'll start back up or not.

Wait, who's going to be buying me?

Although really, I'm not bothered. Get a backpack or something.

I bought the Gamers Edition after much debate, I'm excited about this release and missed the launch of 5th due to a hiatus from the hobby. I know there's alot of fears over an edition change, and for £75 the book wasn't cheap but its something I intend to keep on using. Besides it was a nice treat for myself 6 days after my birthday. Regardless of any fear I may/may not have over 6th edition I was excited enough to be sat up at midnight on GW site just to preorder, it was like waiting for christmas.

SilverMK2 wrote:I'll be waiting for the smaller version to come out, then buying a copy on ebay once people start splitting up the starter sets.

This. Plus I'm sure I'll be able to 'borrow' a copy from my 'friend' pretty soon after the rulebook comes out.

I dunno. My buddy and i still use 4th edition to play, and the Sedition wars KS is only 25 bucks more then the 6th Ed. rulebook, and comes with 80+ models.

I'm likely getting the gamers edition for the bag which looks to be cool assuming they will sell them to flgs and not gw only.

as for waiting for the book on small version i'll just get the bgi oen now to have the new rules on a hardcopy and still likely buy starter sets if they have good models and for a smaller book

i was at warhammer world with my brother, at 10 am. it was open b4 i did not know lol. we got in to pre order the rule book. howeva from the prices we had a look round and think, buy time we go to ordering 1 book that Gamers set at £175 was cleared out (10:20) , i was like OMG!! some people must be rich!?! so i was hmmmm should i get a £80 book b4 they all go?...... after a few mins me and my brother went halfs, we will find out next week if it was worth it.

also if you guys can not Wait, we was told Warhammer world is open midnight Friday. for 1 hour. we maybe there lol. but will be packed i guess.

I'm going to buy the BRB since the IBook version won't be out for months and there's very little chance I can just not play (or just wing it by looking at others books) for three months.

Yeh I noticed that the big set with both books and all the stuff got taken off the site early this morning. I did want the rulebook with all the fluff, artwork etc. rather than the rules only version. But I wasn't too fussed about the collectors edition...until about 11am this morning when I said to hell with it preordered and decided if I change my mind within the next week I could probably put it on ebay for more than I bought it for anyway.

I kind of swore off of GW recently. I will however be purchasing the Gamer's Edition. It just looks too cool to pass up on.

After all that fuss they made about digital releases, kinda suprised they aren't releasing a digital version right off the bat. Would theoretically help cut down on piracy. Some money is better than no money from your customers.

Who has two thumbs and is going to wait for the mini rule book?

This guy.

It would be the same price as the hardcopy so it would do nothing to stop piracy. They will wait a few months then release it in a digital form.

For those of you waiting on the boxed set version, how are you going to play until then, or will you not?

What does BBB stand for? I thought it would be the BGB, the Big Green Book. Wonder what the middle B stands for in BBB.

I will be getting it. For me the BGB is not for transporting, but to have at home to read the extra fluff and what not in the book. Then I will be getting the boxset for the minis and SGB Small Green Book.

Then again, I find it funny anyone who complains about GW high prices. You are over paying no matter what you do. Buy it from GW you are way over paying. Buying from a discount store, you are over paying. Buying on Ebay, you are still over paying.

Funny how you can buy a Skylander mini, fully painted, no flash, all the work done for you for under $10, but have to pay for a single mini that is about 1/5th or 1/10th the size, have to cut, remove flash, and paint for over $20 or more.

Also lets say the BGB costs $100 (we pay more in Canada becasue of taxes added.) so you play 10 games. Now that means that rule book just costed $10 bucks a game. Play 20 games in a year, now it's $5 a game. Not really that expensive now is it?

SlaveToDorkness wrote:It would be the same price as the hardcopy so it would do nothing to stop piracy. They will wait a few months then release it in a digital form.

For those of you waiting on the boxed set version, how are you going to play until then, or will you not?

I won't be getting the big rule book, but one of my friends will be. I will wait for the small version before I purchase the rules.

In the meantime we will just use his book to learn the rules from.

tgf wrote:I will buy the little book from the box set when it comes out,

*Redacted* - thanks mod, understood.

Call me crazy (please do) but I think that 75 bucks for an unwieldy difficult to transport tome is just silly for a game that needs to be portable.

After I dropped $70+ on 8th Edition WHFB and was rewarded with wack rules and 50%+ of illustrations that added nothing to the utility of the book, I won't be dropping $75 on 6th Ed 40K. Based on what I've heard and seen so far, I have little to no interest in playing WH40KB, and if I want' to look at pretty glossy pictures, I'd rather pick up this month's Playboy.

A bunch of friends are getting it, I will be a mootch until the starter comes out. I want to wait, but I am already having a hard time not preordering.

Davor wrote:
Funny how you can buy a Skylander mini, fully painted, no flash, all the work done for you for under $10, but have to pay for a single mini that is about 1/5th or 1/10th the size, have to cut, remove flash, and paint for over $20 or more.

Which is completely missing the point of the modelling hobby. Gaming is only part of 40k after all.

After googleing "Skylander" I really don't see your point. Those are clearly Toys.

See, I find it extremely annoying to play against someone who doesn't have the rule book or make an effort to know the rules. Asking to look up something in mine mid-game drives me nuts.

Had a hard time choosing between the Gamers and Collectors version but I ended up picking the Collector.

Still going to get my hands on the tiny book and it will most likely be if I buy the starter box but I want to se what I get first.

I bought just the plain big book. I already have a carrying case that can carry the book all the other books, templates, and tools I need for a game. However if the starter has a force in it I want, then I will buy it and get the small book as well.

Besides I like all the pictures and fluff in the books.

I saved up vouchers from my FLGS so yeah, im gonna get it.

SlaveToDorkness wrote:After googleing "Skylander" I really don't see your point. Those are clearly Toys.

See, I find it extremely annoying to play against someone who doesn't have the rule book or make an effort to know the rules. Asking to look up something in mine mid-game drives me nuts.

Then why complain about the price? I know it's a toy, but so is GW. They are plastic TOY soldiers. Yes it's a hobby. It's an expensive hobby. I complain about the prices as well but accept it. It's either accept it or get out. I just find it funny when people keep complaining about the price but are still in the hobby.

I agree, someone who doesn't have the book and REFUSES to buy the boo and the keeps asking to "look something up in mid game" or even "out of game" really bugs me. It's one thing not having the money now but will get it later, but it's another thing to refuse to buy it and still wanting to look at it.

It's taken some time for me to decide, but forty-five quid is simply more than I can justify for a book I already know will be filled with rules changes I consider unwanted and clumsily-implemented (not that the present edition is a masterpiece, but it is at least consistently playable).

If the miniatures in the starter box are decent enough, I might pick one up, but until October I'll be playing Space Hulk and Project Pandora instead.