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AustonT wrote:$75 fething dollars for the BRB...really?

Really it's the only reasonably priced thing GW sells. It's a high quality, large, hard cover volume. Books for college often cost more.

Standard Codex's are far too much though, but I suspect GW may remedy that by going the Fantasy route and making them hard cover/colorized. The current ones for 40K though really shouldn't surpass the $18 mark.

Cuz we all know dark angels is the worst out there if psykers get buffed. DE are already updated meaning no psyker upgrades unless a white dwarf section comes out. Tau might since they haven't been updated yet. Necrons have no psykers. Besides, defense against a psyker, Eldar and GK are the only real anti psykers. A tanks the only defense I need. Psyker is not gonna survive much from a s 9 ap 2 weapon. Or even meltas and missles.
Psyker powers may get a buff, but I really dobt psykers are gonna be that amazong. Also, how are psyker powers gonna be random when many armies have loked powers on special characters and powers are bought as well?

Compel wrote:Something just came to me...

Because in a universe where the basic weapon is a rocket propelled grenade machine gun, with gigantic battletanks, 5 kilometer long spaceships, huge robots and power armoured supersoldiers, the most powerful guy you want to field on a battlefield is a bloke in a pointy hat carrying a stick.

This is just to funny not to quote!

"It doesn't take much to get rabid hobbyists like us excited, but this latest video really got the rumour mill turning in the office. We're not sure, but we think the character is some kind of psyker. Is this a sign of things to come? I guess we'll just have to wait until the 23rd..."

A psyker? No gak! What morons.

Is this a teaser for Privateer Press, Warmachine/Hordes?

I mean these teasers are so insulting and STUPID, it is making me feel like I should be going to PP full time. Talk about being so excited for 6th edition, but now, I am getting turned off on it from these stupid "teaser trailers".

I don't chime in on the rumor discussion much because I feel like it's usually an exercise in futility, but after I watched that I couldn't help myself.

That was the dumbest teaser I have ever seen. I mean seriously, what the hell was that? They showed a picture that might as well have been a turd for ten seconds with a not-so-ominous Latin chant. I'm not even sure what I was looking at. I think it was a statue of a space marine. I'm embarrassed that I wasted 27 seconds to watch that. I'm glad I did it alone because if someone had been with me and I showed any sort of interest or excitement about viewing the video then I would be back peddling right now. I would be like "Oh that? That's uh... some video for... Warmachine or something. I don't know - it's some kind of nerd thing. Can you believe mouthbreathers actually get excited about these things. Jeez."

I want my 27 seconds back.

I thought the odd scream followed by children laughing was possibly some of the stranges sound-mixing I've ever heard.

Mike Leon wrote:That was the dumbest teaser I have ever seen.

...

I want my 27 seconds back.

I’m beginning to think that I should give GW a break on the advertising/promotion front. Perhaps the reason they don’t go out there and promote their own products is due to the fact that they’re fething terrible at it.

Noisy_Marine wrote:"... but this latest video really got the rumour mill turning in the office..."

Wait... which office? The GW offices? Do even the people working at GW not know what's coming?

Davor wrote:Is this a teaser for Privateer Press, Warmachine/Hordes?

I mean these teasers are so insulting and STUPID, it is making me feel like I should be going to PP full time. Talk about being so excited for 6th edition, but now, I am getting turned off on it from these stupid "teaser trailers".

"Yes, this 27 second video means I should quit playing 40k."

Yep, that makes sense.

I want to say that this is a move in the right direction for GW, with these little teasers and what not, but it's hard to say that when they're so god damn terrible at it.

What about Space Marine chapters that don’t care for psyker’s? Are they going to end up using them as well?
If I remember correctly (sorry it’s Monday and I’m running on fumes) My Templar despise psyker’s

Honestly I bash GW at every turn but didn't have much of a problem with the "teaser". It was grimdark enough and it's not like they have a video/animation department to add better effects with.

Brother SRM wrote:"Yes, this 27 second video means I should quit playing 40k."

Yep, that makes sense.

Don't discourage him, ebay has to feed, you know.
I also hope you're right about the BRB, I'd love to see another good book on my shelf, but for now ,as a pessimist, I'm going to settle with the starter set book.

Rhich wrote:What about Space Marine chapters that don’t care for psyker’s? Are they going to end up using them as well?
If I remember correctly (sorry it’s Monday and I’m running on fumes) My Templar despise psyker’s.

Let no good fluff go unretconned.
Let no pushing new toys go unrewarded.

Harriticus wrote:Honestly I bash GW at every turn but didn't have much of a problem with the "teaser". It was grimdark enough and it's not like they have a video/animation department to add better effects with.

See, that's the thing. If you don't have your own marketing guys, then you hire a studio who makes a job of it. You don't throw out an unprofessional piece of trash like that.

Isn't it the BGB? Big Green Book? Also would never give up what I bought.

Just don't feel like being treated like a little stupid kid who has to be told that THEY SHOULD BE EXCITED FOR THIS.

It's still better than complete blackout they used to give and at least they didn't use any puns like:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=2500086-gws

Never got the 4th or 5th edition rules, COMPLETELY regret it now. I'm gonna snatch the 6th book up as quick as I can so I can shove rules down my opponent's throats- PDFs don't cut it.

Not enough mass in a digital format nyuk nyuk nyuk

Rhich wrote:What about Space Marine chapters that don’t care for psyker’s? Are they going to end up using them as well?
If I remember correctly (sorry it’s Monday and I’m running on fumes) My Templar despise psyker’s

Psykers! No apostrophes in plurals!

Fantasy has armies that don't have magic (Dwarves anyway) and I'm sure 40k will keep getting on with units that don't have psychic powers. I doubt I'll be taking them anyway, as I'm not big on psykers.

I love psykers, and miss the 2nd edition days of my Psyker Mini Game.

Now clearly we aren't going back to that, but anything that stays away from the boredomo f 3rd will be OK!

Brother SRM wrote:

Rhich wrote:What about Space Marine chapters that don’t care for psyker’s? Are they going to end up using them as well?
If I remember correctly (sorry it’s Monday and I’m running on fumes) My Templar despise psyker’s

Psykers! No apostrophes in plurals!

SEE !!!!!! that's how much I like em..... can't even spell it correctly.

I'm hoping the emphasis on psykers doesn't mean my Tau stay on the self for another 4 years...

You all can keep the 400 pages of poorly written story and pretty pictures, I'll buy the pamphlet book when the starter comes out and continue playing fantasy in the interim.

agnosto wrote:I'm hoping the emphasis on psykers doesn't mean my Tau stay on the self for another 4 years...

You all can keep the 400 pages of poorly written story and pretty pictures, I'll buy the pamphlet book when the starter comes out and continue playing fantasy in the interim.

Hopes that there is no emphasis on psychic/magic powers

Says he's play another game where there is a huge focus on magic powers

Vladsimpaler wrote:

Says he's play another game where there is a huge focus on magic powers

Yeah but my fantasy armies actually have magic and/or resistance to said. To my knowledge, you can't buy an obsidian shard in 40k and if there's a psychic hood in my Tau codex, I've completely missed it all this time.

Guys seriously. How in the world can 40k have random psyker powers? Special character psykers have set powers and the other's all have to buy them. Dark Eldar were the first to see the flyers so theoretically they were the first to be set up for 6th. Meaning GK's are too. And they have set powers.

SM and BA don't, you, atm choose

pretre wrote:

AustonT wrote:$75 fething dollars for the BRB...really?

You didn't see this coming? ... Really?

The Warhammer Rulebook is $74.25. What made you think the 40k one wouldn't be?

Having never purchased a WHFB book I would have no idea. I saw the sticker price on the not so new C:SM and compared it to the sticker on mine, as if the minis aren't bad enough. I'll bitch about it plenty but when the time comes I'll gladly laydown the money. It just seems like Gw is actively trying to make me join the whiny price hike quitters club, you know because I have to buy food.

Good lord people are getting upset by a video. I don't think GW think they are fooling anyone, given that they have sent out price lists and told 3rd party sellers they can start advertising pre orders. They know we know and the advert is clear what it is for. I guess store staff are just not sure how much they can say so would rather give you a polite go away than risk getting futher questions.

The price seems fine to me. Never mind college books I have cook books that cost that much. I agree about the college books though. I have $200 approx engineering textbooks which i opend 2-3 times. For what it is it seems like a fair price.

AustonT wrote: It just seems like Gw is actively trying to make me join the whiny price hike quitters club, you know because I have to buy food.

ITT, Auston becomes a "hater" and moves into the woods with the rest of the exiles and rebels.

pretre wrote:

AustonT wrote:$75 fething dollars for the BRB...really?

You didn't see this coming? ... Really?

The Warhammer Rulebook is $74.25. What made you think the 40k one wouldn't be?

I certainly saw it coming, thats why I will be buying the softback from Ebay, I can easily wait a few months.

So DE are going to have psykers too? Here goes the fluff...

"We we we so excited, we so excited.. Friday friday Fun Fun Fun Fun..."

If there is a focus on psychic powers I hope Tau don't get on the bandwagon, but instead stick to their fluff and be immune to mental attacks, and have some resistance to physical psychic attacks.

But of course, they already have written stuff in all the fluff that will give them a source of a psycher

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Nicassar