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A common criticism of CA is that you have to pay money for point updates - at the same time many people say that there is no need to do so.

So, time for fact checking - do you own any copies of the Chapter Approved releases? It doesn't matter whether it's digital or a book, but you must have paid money for it.

I bought it as our play group is incredibly open to different missions and narrative type things, also it's nice to have a few copies to share among people on games nights.

Bought CA17 and 18 - had to get 18 as it had the Sisters Beta Dex

Physical copy only - also enjoyed the new missions in CA18

Not sure about 19.....

There are other items in each CA that I have utilized and purchased them each year upon release.

I prefer physical copies as it is easier for me to reference and use either at home or at a gaming venue.

Have bought all, will buy this one. Beats hoping opponent has one for scenarios since those invariably spreads to be the standard ones here.

Not to mention point drops for necrons/orks are handy to have.

Have bought it before, will be getting it this year, but I'm not really fussed about points updates. I'm more interested in the extra content, missions etc.

I've never bought any CA books.

Battlescribe has all of the points I need for the most part and if I need the missions, the shop I play in usually has an open copy.

Haven't bought it previously, but I did buy CA2019 for the missions; the new format was a selling point too.

I tend to buy all of the books, usually there are bits of interesting lore and stories that alone make the purchase worth it imo. plus the scenarios they come up with are usually pretty good so. It is still less than the cost of dinner and drink while providing orders of magnitude more time of entertainment playing games, reading etc.

Bought all of them so far as I enjoy the missions, and then get the updates along with it.

Friend gave me their CA 2018 when they bought the 2019 version, but I haven't bought nor would buy it on my own. When it comes to points I use Battlescribe, for anything else (alternate Land Raiders, the Eight) its not enough content worth buying.

I buy the CA's because I like to go to tournaments, and they usually require you to have the current rules.

Yes b.c i want the points for myself and don't trust places like BS (there is a mistake in almost every army i have seen). Also 2018 CA was amazing, the Custom Heroes, City of death, better terrain rules, better missions, etc...

I highly recommend that everyone get the 2018 one before its gone for those rules. To bad they are not in the core rules, GW really screws up in that way.

Well, I didn't buy any CA books.
Absolutely superfluous if you ask me.
We have one copy in your gaming club. That's enough.

 Jidmah wrote:
A common criticism of CA is that you have to pay money for point updates - at the same time many people say that there is no need to do so.

So, time for fact checking - do you own any copies of the Chapter Approved releases? It doesn't matter whether it's digital or a book, but you must have paid money for it.

I purchased the first one Jid but haven't since (nor will I).

I don't mind paying for point updates, I kind of expect it given the nature of the game, but I resent paying for point updates that are 6 months out of date on release.

I bought this one - the missions from last year were a great improvement for the game, and this year I want a hard copy to play the missions and to enable more people to play them in our club.

I really don't care at all about the points part, I don't think I have ever looked at the points section of a CA after the rumor season.

I did not buy CA'17 or '18. But with a comprehensive list of all points (not just updated points), and the overall enthusiasm for the CA'18 missions, I did buy CA'19

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The new ways to play are why I buy CAs. Matched play missions, but also the Narrative and Open bits that my LGS crew ends up arguing over, analyzing and incorporating the bits we like into our shenanigans. CA2019 wont be a change to that pattern.

I purchased all three (17, 18 & 19). It's worth it for the missions, finalized / formalized beta rules, officially printed updated points and added content.

To this day I'm still amazed at how many people get Big FAQ and beta rules wrong and confuse mission specific rules as being core game mechanics because they didn't purchased and read the current CA book. They read XYZ on the internet and assume it's correct. They would know better if they just purchased and read the current CA book. And it's a lot of people; an absolute alarmingly high number IMO.

The CA books also update [GASP!] all the terrain rules. Like holy fething gak... There are actually terrain rules! A lot of them even, AND they're intuitive. OMG! But instead "players" will whine and bitch that there aren't any terrain rules. Well... How about you buy the CA book and read it before falsely whining about not having terrain rules.

I'll also add that I am unlikely to buy CA'20 when it comes out. While I like what CA stand for (a yearly rebalance), I do not want to buy a new book every single year. CA'19 was perfect for me as it has all changes and I can update it myself with a marker if CA'20 changes anything (which it very well may not at this point)

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I bought '18, but it wasn't for the points update.

 oni wrote:
I purchased all three (17, 18 & 19). It's worth it for the missions, finalized / formalized beta rules, officially printed updated points and added content.

To this day I'm still amazed at how many people get Big FAQ and beta rules wrong and confuse mission specific rules as being core game mechanics because they didn't purchased and read the current CA book. They read XYZ on the internet and assume it's correct. They would know better if they just purchased and read the current CA book. And it's a lot of people; an absolute alarmingly high number IMO.

The CA books also update [GASP!] all the terrain rules. Like holy fething gak... There are actually terrain rules! A lot of them even, AND they're intuitive. OMG! But instead "players" will whine and bitch that there aren't any terrain rules. Well... How about you buy the CA book and read it before falsely whining about not having terrain rules.

The only change to terrain rules IIRC is to woods.

I bought 2017 & 2018 but won't be buying 2019 until they FAQ all of the dumb mistakes.

I play SW (the fast attack page is a bad copy paste)
DW (it's obvious GW doesn't have anyone on staff who plays them or gives a feth)
BA (missing wargear options)
and DA (don't know if anything needs changing but going to wait until our PA to get back into the game).

Not worth the hassle to pay full price for a product with this many obvious errors in it that I will need to supplement with a day 1 (or 14, because GW doesn't really care)...

No. I am boycotting GW books until they hire proofreaders for all of their products and start giving a damn about balance issues in 40k. The glaring issues with the recent Blood Bowl Coach's Handbook was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. My only recent GW purchase that I was completely satisfied with has been the Apocalypse box set, but even then GW still has issues with their published Apoc datasheets (which are free though, like chapter approved points updates should be . . .).

Have bought all three, as I like the non-points content for reading at home, varied missions of all types (mmm, tasty sieges...~) for playing and actual wording of improvements in general at hand being the most knowledgeable arbiter of our group. Points changes are interesting but ultimately of secondary importance, since they are all over the internet anyway.

I've bought all three (in paper), but I'm not happy about how they make us pay for corrections to their own unit-costing miscalibrations. At least I get some use out of the new missions.

With the latest Chapter Approved, at least, I've got all points costs in the same place, instead of needing two separate books to build an army list.

I just use battle-scribe for everything points related. I buy supplements for stratagems basically.

Bought '18, and regretted it.

Kind of ignoring '19, especially with talk of 9th on the horizon. Even if that is just tweaks, that may well call for another points adjustment, which may well invalidate it early

Bought '17 and '18 - no regrets. I got a lot of use out of the missions in both. I won a copy of '19, so didn't have to pay for it. I would have though. The Munitiorum Manual and revamped missions make it better than previous years.