How Important to You is Owning the Codex?

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**Lathe Biosas**

I still don't have a Codex to buy.

**Dysartes**

It is weird that - assuming my memory is correct - they previewed the Imperial Knight stuff a fortnight before the Chaos Knight stuff, yet the latter is showing up first on the release schedule.

**LunarSol**

Dysartes wrote:
It is weird that - assuming my memory is correct - they previewed the Imperial Knight stuff a fortnight before the Chaos Knight stuff, yet the latter is showing up first on the release schedule.

There's a lot of reason to assume that something happened with the Knights releases as a whole that's pushed them back significantly.

**vipoid**

NivNeos wrote:
I love looking up a tomb to seek my ruling answers.

As do I. You can't trust the living to give good answers these days.

**-Guardsman-**

I always get the codex. I hate squinting at my phone screen during a game, or handing over my phone/keeping my phone very still so my opponent can read my rules. Outside of games, it's also more pleasant to flip through a book than scroll down a tiny screen. Just wish the damn things weren't so expensive. Or already outdated on the day they come out.

Is anyone else missing soft cover codices? I'm not sure why I do... They couldn't even be set down flat on the table. Maybe it's just nostalgia.

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**ccs**

-Guardsman- wrote:
or handing over my phone/keeping my phone very still so my opponent can read my rules.

Why would you do that? Your opponent can just look up your rule themselves.

**Lathe Biosas**

ccs wrote:
-Guardsman- wrote:
or handing over my phone/keeping my phone very still so my opponent can read my rules.

Why would you do that? Your opponent can just look up your rule themselves.

I hate trying to follow the insanity that is the Tyranid codex. I just ask my opponent, what the heck does that guy do?

**Skinnereal**

Flicking through to get to s rule or whatnot is nicer with paper.
It's quicker (or, is supposed to be) with digital, and should be up-to-date. As you say, is not as satisfying though.

**Huron black heart**

I used to get them but no longer see the point. They go out of date too quick, they're too expensive, there's too much recycled fluff, too heavy and space consuming.

**Jidmah**

Wahapedia still hasn't added the new DG codex. It's surprising how often you actually flip open the book when there is no digital version available.

**Dolnikan**

I'm usually much more of a physical book person, but the prices for the current books, that don't even contain much in the way of new material compared to older ones, just are too much to me. Especially after I got the ninth edition Guard book and then, a few months later, it got scrapped. And as an adult, I don't even get that much playtime with it.

So I don't get GW rulebooks anymore because to me, they're just not worth it.

**cuda1179**

I purchased EVERY book released 3rd through 8th edition. Every codex, every campaign book, etc. But I only got about 10 games of 8th edition in, so I stopped buying. Nothing for 9th or 10th. Really like the smell of a new codex and miss it dearly.