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 KingGarland wrote:
Do you think it is worth purchasing the Index cards?

On one hand I hate having to go through hundreds of pages of a PDF on my phone to find one card to get the stats of that unit every five minutes and having the 8-10 cards I need on the table would be a million times faster and better.

The big problem is that there is an insane amount of errors on the pdf versions and there is no way GW would have had enough time to fix all of them so I would be buying cards I know are full of things that will be changed soon.

fun fact or perhaps not?

theres many card printing companies where you can just upload GWs PDF to get it printed in a more manageable playing card size (or stick with a5) with a nice gloss finish delivered in a nice case, double sided etc for £10.50, this is for a one off bespoke print of one set.

if you bulk buy you can do them for as little as £8.50 yet GW charge you £15... imo a5 is the wrong size, so much wasted space, lack of points values

you can of course print them yourself for circa £2 using nice card material and ink costs.

 dreadblade wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

 dreadblade wrote:
I've played couple of games with index cards now and I really like having the unit rules right there as a quick reference. As I said before, I'll need to wait a year for my codexes. When they do come I'm sure I'll be happy to get new rules and lore, but I think I'll also miss the cards.

Why?

Based on what gw said you can buy codex, cards or both for rules.

Buy cards, you have new rules.

I must have missed that. So they said there would be new cards when the codexes come out?

Okay, so the new SM and Tyranids cards cost £20, and according to the GW website it seems you also need the codex if you want to use them because they don't now include detachment rules or stratagems.

I guess I won't be buying cards when my codexes come out...