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Pre-ordered this and the £100 wall pack.......should keep me and my pals busy over xmas lol

Nobody noticed this?

I noticed it hours ago on the GW website after they posted about it on Facebook.

Mine is ordered!

Man, I wish I had the money to order one as I'd buy it in a heartbeat if I did. What's worse is that by the time I scrounge up the money it will probably be sold out. I hate how they keep committing awesome products to this ridiculous "While Stocks Last" system. It's getting really obnoxious. Oh well, I'm sure someone will post it on the internet somewhere. :\

 kronk wrote:
Mine is ordered!

Don't taunt me Kronk :(

What, is it like the Fantasy one, were the campaign. Was a bunch of note from the staff, saying this is how we played the campaign, or a real plotted out campaign.

 vitki wrote:
Wonder if this will be going to digital as well?

Well, pretty much every other rulebook GW has released has gone digital so I'm sure this one will to. As an added bonus the digital version won't be LE so you'll be able to see if it's worth your money. Might be a bit hard to find though.

 Zweischneid wrote:

 USMCdeathmachine wrote:
Not really impressed. lol "we wrote a short narrative of a couple battle reports throw us your money!"

I think you're confusing this with Black Library's Space Marines Battles Series

That's not in itself a bad thing. It's also how Dragonlance started...

 Lansirill wrote:
Well, pretty much every other rulebook GW has released has gone digital so I'm sure this one will to. As an added bonus the digital version won't be LE so you'll be able to see if it's worth your money. Might be a bit hard to find though.

I'm not sure that 3 codexes and the WD Bommer rules quite constitute 'pretty much every other rulebook GW has released'...

Besides which, keeping their digital releases to iTunes still leaves it effectively Limited Edition.

There's a pretty amazing price increase on the separate bits of the wall of martys, if you go by what's supposed to be in the Limited Edition set:
* 3 defense lines
* 2 emplacements
* 1 bunker

131 pounds vs 100 for the LE set

You can also still order the LE edition set on the UK site at least, they've moved it to:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat440147a

I was just there last night, and those weren't up. Very nice. Seems a bit pricey, though. Then again, consider the maker.

Unsurprised that, also, as suspected by many, the Wall of Cadians is there, broken down into pieces.

Eric

Really wish this book was released on iTunes at the same time. :/

Keep in mind the difference between Limited Edition and Limited Supply. The latter gives GW the option to make reruns when they feel like it. A reprint happened with the Fantasy version already. BTW I am also buying this as I am a fan of narrative gaming.

 insaniak wrote:

 Zweischneid wrote:

 USMCdeathmachine wrote:
Not really impressed. lol "we wrote a short narrative of a couple battle reports throw us your money!"

I think you're confusing this with Black Library's Space Marines Battles Series

That's not in itself a bad thing. It's also how Dragonlance started...

... or Forgotten Realms.

I saved a mighty AUD$136 by getting the two wall sets rather than buying all the components individually. And now the big set isn't available on the Aussie webstore.

Only one chapter currently crusading. Wonder if GW remembered that and included BT....or just made up dumb gak for everybody else.

Hmmmm... gonna look into it...

Looks fun, will definitely pick this up, maybe some of the trenches to

I hope this is a good campaign that could compare to FW, and at that price I might get it. I also like those sets for the wom that was with it too, I think GW made a really good move.

Well, this looks interesting. I am not sure if I will pick this up or not, but if it is anything like the imperial armor books, I might have to.

It seems to be Imperium vs. Chaos, right?

Since when did we start working out the comparative worth of books by comparing them to White Dwarf issues? When did White Dwarf become a standard unit of measurement? WD is a hollow magazine on very nice paper, filled with long-winded multi-page advertisements masquerading as articles, and tons of big glossy pictures and then text explaining what's in those pictures just in case your content-deprived mind was unable to figure it out. This is a rulebook expansion. It's not the same.

 d3m01iti0n wrote:
Only one chapter currently crusading.

Where are you getting that from?

How about the campaign described in the new book. Is it worth playing it? If so, could be interesting for our gaming group.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Since when did we start working out the comparative worth of books by comparing them to White Dwarf issues? When did White Dwarf become a standard unit of measurement? WD is a hollow magazine on very nice paper, filled with long-winded multi-page advertisements masquerading as articles, and tons of big glossy pictures and then text explaining what's in those pictures just in case your content-deprived mind was unable to figure it out. This is a rulebook expansion. It's not the same.

 d3m01iti0n wrote:
Only one chapter currently crusading.

Where are you getting that from?

When GW uses a book to sell rehashes of content from old White Dwarf magazines. Especially when the low low price of $41 for mostly redone content is the cost. Without looking at this book I will go on record as saying it will have 10-15 pages of pictures mostly new in the fact that they have color added to old pictures. The 5-10 pages of campaign rules from the old 3rd or 4th edition rulebooks. 5-10 pages of charts/tables. 10-15 pages for the redone Gladiator rules from an old White Dwarf for those pesky Wyches. 10-20 pages of redone fluff, mostly the same stories we already have from a different persons point of view. leaving the rest to be filled with White Dwarf style Battle Reports, and the White Dwarf style "this is how are 9 person campaign went" story.

When GW uses a book to sell rehashes of content from old White Dwarf magazines. Especially when the low low price of $41 for mostly redone content is the cost. Without looking at this book I will go on record as saying it will have 10-15 pages of pictures mostly new in the fact that they have color added to old pictures. The 5-10 pages of campaign rules from the old 3rd or 4th edition rulebooks. 5-10 pages of charts/tables. 10-15 pages for the redone Gladiator rules from an old White Dwarf for those pesky Wyches. 10-20 pages of redone fluff, mostly the same stories we already have from a different persons point of view. leaving the rest to be filled with White Dwarf style Battle Reports, and the White Dwarf style "this is how are 9 person campaign went" story.

Now we are talking. The real world can sometimes be frustrating and be far away from expectations.

I was being a bit generous on most of those. I expect this to be a hardcover White Dwarf, nothing more.

I, for one, am not going to buy this book unless I can be sure it includes interesting new army lists that I can spend hundreds of dollars on and then learn they will be rendered illegal in a couple of months!

(actually, good for them, I look forward to getting the book. Just wish they'd make a campaign that would incorporate the 3 40k systems of regular 40k, epic and BFG).

timd wrote:


So in other words, the kinds of stuff that used to be published in White Dwarf...

Although in this book's favor, its "only" the cost of 4.1 White Dwarfs (US prices) and you don't have to wade through a couple of hundred advertising pages as you would in four White Dwarfs.

This.

Some of us have been around long enough to remember when WD included things like this. Nobody plays these sorts of things in my area so I won' be buying it; the huge fantasy release (what was it? Maelstrom of Magic or something?) last year saw little use beyond a month at the FLGS I frequent.

Glad they made the wall of martyrs separate boxes now. I'll probably grab the bunker one of these days and add other bits later

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Since when did we start working out the comparative worth of books by comparing them to White Dwarf issues? When did White Dwarf become a standard unit of measurement? WD is a hollow magazine on very nice paper, filled with long-winded multi-page advertisements masquerading as articles, and tons of big glossy pictures and then text explaining what's in those pictures just in case your content-deprived mind was unable to figure it out. This is a rulebook expansion. It's not the same.

LOL, I guess you missed the tongue in cheek...

As agnosto says:

 agnosto wrote:
Some of us have been around long enough to remember when WD included things like this.

This books sounds like it is made up of a bunch of articles from the better White Dwarfs from the old days, that did indeed include articles like the ones in this book. Since a series of campaign articles would have have been spread over a few issues of White Dwarf we need to (in jest) calculate the equivalent cost in White Dwarfs. Since 96 pages of campaign material would have probably been spread out over at least 6 issues (6 x 16 pages= 96), this book is an awesome deal at $41...

This book may well be out takes from WD that would not fit in WD because of the quantity of advertising has completely taken over the magazine.

Tim

odinfellhammer wrote:
It is the 40K version of Blood on the Badlands which in my opinion was a cool product. This was also a Limited Product

Blood in the Badlands was LE? Huh, guess I can wait on this one, too, going by how many copies of BitB are laying around in stores here.

Would this campaign book be the "big surprise for Xmas" the rumour mongers were talking about?

Is that a new bloodthirster in the preview image?