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Just curious to know what army books or campaign supplements or whatever you remember fondly.

For me it has to be 6th edition Dwarfs book by Gav Thorpe and Alessio Cavatore. The unit description section of the book had a short description of each unit followed by a short blurb of an old Longbeard drunkenly mumbling in a tavern (or telling stories to younger dwarfs, can't remember exactly) as some kind of in-universe description, it was SO full of character. I feel the book as a whole really helped you get into the mindset of a dwarf. Nowadays books feel a lot more aseptic to me.

The General's Compendium, hands down.

GW has never produced a more diverse, rich and fun supplement. Back in the day, as a young padawan, it totally blew me away. Expanding my mind on how creative and varied could this hobby be. All sorts of campaigns, boats, raids, city fights, terrain & environment options, beautiful coverted models everywhere! Essential in any Warhammer collection, imo.
The Lustria supplement gave me similar gives, albeit on a smaller scale. Still an excellent little book, the best for Warhammer jungle-related stuff! It even inspired me to build quite a bit of jungle terain even if I didn't play Lizardmen.
Sad thing is the usual 2k pitch battle that prevailed back in the day felt kind of flat afterwards. Same when you look the insipidly bland books the company puts out nowadays, they just don't trasmit anymore that imagination/creative eagerness and it's a bit of a shame.

Big fan of 5th & 6th army books in general too. Some had so much character, like the Vampire Counts one with the Necrach dissection or bloody journal letter. Small details that made all the difference.

To me, as I didn't buy all that many books I'm afraid, the campaign book for "Storm of Chaos" is the one that made the most impression on me and got a younger me really hyped to play that campaign with new lists like Cult of Pleasure, Cult of Ulric and my favorite, which I did use to play in the campaign with, Archaeon's Horde. Damn, I loved how those Flayerkins would do Killing Blows with two attacks each on the flanks of my brother's Bretonnian knights.

So many memories.

General's Compendium is probably the best thing they've released but my favourites are the 5th High Elves and Vampire Counts books. My first armies and even going back to them now the passion and effort that went into them comes shining through.

VBS wrote:
The General's Compendium, hands down.

GW has never produced a more diverse, rich and fun supplement. Back in the day, as a young padawan, it totally blew me away. Expanding my mind on how creative and varied could this hobby be. All sorts of campaigns, boats, raids, city fights, terrain & environment options, beautiful coverted models everywhere! Essential in any Warhammer collection, imo.
The Lustria supplement gave me similar gives, albeit on a smaller scale. Still an excellent little book, the best for Warhammer jungle-related stuff! It even inspired me to build quite a bit of jungle terain even if I didn't play Lizardmen.
Sad thing is the usual 2k pitch battle that prevailed back in the day felt kind of flat afterwards. Same when you look the insipidly bland books the company puts out nowadays, they just don't trasmit anymore that imagination/creative eagerness and it's a bit of a shame.

Big fan of 5th & 6th army books in general too. Some had so much character, like the Vampire Counts one with the Necrach dissection or bloody journal letter. Small details that made all the difference.

I have to second the GC on this one. I was more enamored in Campaign gaming rather than league/tournament gaming, so this really hit the spot for me.

Well my first read in the O&G Armybook of 4th/5th edition left a lasting impression.
The descriptions of the units, and the pictures displaying that big and colorful O&G army...

I remember reading the armybook front to back in one night, and how I thought "oh boy I WANT to have such a big Boar Boys unit myself" "how cool are the rules of these Squigs" "A unit of Netgit sounds like fun" and "These Stone Trolls look cool!!"

I'm pretty much stuck on 6th in the best way, and while I do have a few books that I don't think fondly of because of some balance issues, my choice for fondest is an odd one.

Warhammer Annual 2002.

So nice to not have to lug around multiple White Dwarfs AND website pdf print offs, now it's all conveniently located, AND the halfway books for the Lizardmen and Brets may very well have been better than the final product.

Dwarfs 4ed. All other army books for the race, appropriately enough, tell the same stories. But the original is where they all started.