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I'm pissed because this is exactly the type of thing I would want to buy if it actually had the rules in it. As it stands now I'm better off just cutting out the relevant pages of my rule book and getting them bound myself (for like 10 bucks) along with the FAQ docs.

Well actually...
But the book sold well so it is obviously the best book GW has ever made...
You don't know anything about the publishing business...
It works great for my basement beer and pretzels games...
Damn WaaC players ruining the game with their wanting actual rules in their rules book...
But what about all the beautiful art work and lore...
No one knows anything until it comes out and we can look at it for a few weeks...
At least it's better than first edition when I had to hand copy the rules out of rogue trader magazines I bought from traveling gypsies on the fourth full moon of the year...

Did I miss any?

 Vaktathi wrote:
Sorry, missed that it was a shorter format book, and the page count thing I can understand the irritation over. That said, still looking at other gaming companies and past 40k releases (like the 5E rulebook/mini-rulebook and at least one of my same-edition/different format Flames of War & Heavy Gear book sets as well), that's not spectacularly uncommon or unique to GW, including errata/FAQ with newer printings is pretty hit or miss as far as "standards" go in the wargaming world.

Gw hasn't released new book of rules 2 plus years after initial so no comparison. Only thing of similar from gw is the aos one released together. Which has been updated

Yup, been waiting to buy this for a long while but I won't be if the rules are not up to date. Thing is, GW did produce a smaller A5 rulebook for 8th, but it was only available in the limited collector's box that cost like £250.

I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that this is the very same book.

GW are clearly aware that there is demand for a smaller format rulebook which doesn't include all of the non-rules guff* from the large format version.

But for some reason they think that a £30 hardback with gilt* edged pages is the solution.
That's blatantly because they know think that they can get away with charging more for that over an actually practical softback.




* Ignoring all of the dead page space, obviously
** I doubt they're really gilt

I just don't understand releasing a new version of a product that is functionally useless.

This is the most living rule set edition I've played in so I don't expect paper books to be all that current for long but to release a reprint of the main rules that is literally the wrong way GW wants the rules to be is just stupid.