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Just noticed my digi nid book has move through cover listed on my zones and venoms, but the hardback doesnt, which do i use the rules for?

Check the faq's is the best I can give you. I think they update the digi codexs.

Odd. My digital nid book does not have that listed as one of their rules. What version of the digital book do you have? Black Library or iBook (or w/e the heck it's called)

They also just took down the Tyranid FAQ, without updating the BRB FAQ.

So if a new player picked up the game they would see.

Reference Section
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Profiles,
Codex: Tyranids
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Add the following profiles to the Tyranids section:

Bla bla, changes Trygon Primes to character!

i have the ibook version

 Formosa wrote:
i have the ibook version

What page? I don't see it. I have the iPad enhanced version. Where is it listed as well.

i have it under pyrovores and venomthropes in the army list section

Codex all the way!

The idea that you will soon have to buy a tablet to play a board game is ludicrous and whoever came up with it should be neatly folded up and put back in their box.

darkcloak wrote:
Codex all the way!

The idea that you will soon have to buy a tablet to play a board game is ludicrous and whoever came up with it should be neatly folded up and put back in their box.

You don't necessarily need a tablet, GW has an ebook version for just about all their digital downloads which can be opened (and printed) from any computer.

Technically speaking, you use the rules that you have present for the game. In other words, if you have the iBook then you use those rules. If you have the physical, then you use those.

That said, the digital versions of the books are made FROM the physical ones. In other words, they make the physical books then hand those off to an entirely different company to create the digital books. Therefore any differences between the two are a direct result of a failure on the part of the third party company to accurately copy the rules from what they were given. Please report to GW any differences you see. When I've done this in the past I've actually received responses back and seen the problems resolved.

That said, this is one of the two reasons why I no longer buy the digital ones. The second reason being that I've now had my iPad run out of battery twice during a game and I'm really not going to depend on that anymore.

It's interesting to hear they make the Digi's from the physicals, you'd have though the physicals were just printed off versions of .pdf s (or whatever) and you'd just directly 'port those files to a digital version.

They are taken straight from the masters, and put through a publishing suite. Dig editions then change a few bits around

still all the more reason to force GW to publish nicely detailed and proofread hard copy books.

I have the iPad book, it's not listed on mine.

Not listed in mine either.
edit: non-iPad version, both .mobi and .epub.

darkcloak wrote:
Codex all the way!

The idea that you will soon have to buy a tablet to play a board game is ludicrous and whoever came up with it should be neatly folded up and put back in their box.

Not sure if you have any digital codices but the digital interactive ones are great. The physical ones are good but require you to thumb back and forth a lot for special rules and what not. In the interactive version you just click the bold words and viola special rules in detail!

On top of that my Space Marine book has seen updates to certain rules changes which is impossible thru a physical copy unless a reprint is made. But then you'd have to purchase that

My Ibook version doesn't have that rule listed for Zoans and Venoms. OP, can you please post up a screen shot?

Maybe you are using some kind of cracked version?
I guess its easy to change some stats and rules then.

darkcloak wrote:
Codex all the way!

The idea that you will soon have to buy a tablet to play a board game is ludicrous and whoever came up with it should be neatly folded up and put back in their box.

I used to think that way.

But about 4-5 years ago, I started getting very intense neck pain and come to find out it's a mix of spondylosis, arthritis, and bone spurs in a very small segment of my neck, due to an injury back in the late 80's. As a result I can no longer hold and read a classic 'book' for more than 15 min or so without pain so intense that it triggers a migraine.

With a digital device, I can either hold it near eye level or plug it in to a larger monitor, and read digital books while my neck is supported by a recliner or back rest.

Now, about 80-90% of all books I buy, are digital books, just so I can read for longer than 15-20 minutes without pain. The added bonus is that I can carry hundreds of books with me, where ever I go, and can read any of them when ever I have a spare moment, be it waiting in line at the DMV or at the doctors office. The fact that in hard copy form, the 40K rule books would weigh in at 6 pounds, just for the BRB and a couple of Codex ( much of which is unneeded fluff ), but together in digital form, and add them to all the digital fiction, academic, biography's, and non-fiction ebooks, and the combined total takes up less than a 1 pound, is not a bad side effect either.

Personally, I would like the school district my kids attend, to go to digital, as there is absolutely no need for students to be lugging around 15-20 lbs ( or more ) of books.