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Via Grot Orderly

I've heard via the rumour mill that it runs to £220. Considering the Codices would stack up to £275 I am adding some salt.


http://grotorderly.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/white-dwarf-19-wycieki-leaks.html

that whole site is filled with rumored goodies and stats for the cannons @.@ delicious !!!

I already own five of those books why would I need to buy them again?

smh

GW...you just keep on keeping on...

When all Codex's are updated to 7th Edition I might about it.

It'll be interesting to see how this sells (if it indeed exists). There are many people who are interested in reading the background and/or rules for each faction (myself included) and if there's a reduced price, then all the more reason to buy it. However, the vast majority of people will own one, if not several, codices already, which makes it rather worse value for money...

 nettraper wrote:
that whole site is filled with rumored goodies and stats for the cannons @.@ delicious !!!

Already being discussed in depth in the Ork rumour thread here.

no Ork codex in there ...

That was my first thought too.

 The Shadow wrote:
It'll be interesting to see how this sells (if it indeed exists). There are many people who are interested in reading the background and/or rules for each faction (myself included) and if there's a reduced price, then all the more reason to buy it. However, the vast majority of people will own one, if not several, codices already, which makes it rather worse value for money...

Well GW does thrive on new blood, so it may be a reasonable sell to the parents with more money than sense brigade who buy the huge one click collections

(interesting to see the Rules in there without the background and modelling books too)

I would actually be interested in buying something like that but in mini form. I.e. A mini rulebook ala DV and a set of mini summary codecies for all armies.

It would be most useful.

Dare I say it; a TO/Tournament Players compendium!

Would have to do something about the price a bit though.

If Privateer Press can update 8 factions to a new edition in one year, GW better sure as hell be able to do the same.

But after seeing the rip off that was the 7e books, with a useless picture book and fluff that everyone already had, I doubt they'll bother to update these books.

Presumably there is no Ork codex in there because they are all the older codexes with the 7th edition errata in them?

The style of the binding sure makes them look like a new printing.

jamesk1973 wrote:
I already own five of those books why would I need to buy them again?

smh

GW...you just keep on keeping on...

Cool man. Not everyone does.

And I wouldn't put too much salt with the discount; most of their bundles for the past 4-5 months have been discounted pretty nicely off their normal MSRP.

 Squidbot wrote:
Via Grot Orderly

I've heard via the rumour mill that it runs to £220. Considering the Codices would stack up to £275 I am adding some salt.


http://grotorderly.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/white-dwarf-19-wycieki-leaks.html

It is 220 pounds

No Orks, DE, GK, BA, SW in there

Oh go to hell with that box*. That's like one of those useless boxed set that gathers together a few seasons of a television show but not all of them. And there will be a new edition before they finish off the remaining books, so what is the purpose of this?






*Not directed at the person above me, Mann.

Did people expect all of the books? It's the "primary" army books in hardcover.

Don't know why anyone would buy it, but whatever.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Oh go to hell with that box. That's like one of those useless boxed set that gathers together a few seasons of a television show but not all of them. And there will be a new edition before they finish off the remaining books, so what is the purpose of this?

To make some money quick

They look like the A5 format books.

It would have been a great idea last edition when these books were still current.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Did people expect all of the books? It's the "primary" army books in hardcover.

Don't know why anyone would buy it, but whatever.

Orks and DE arnt primary?

The Canadian price tag makes me queezy. Its like they don't want me to buy things from local Canadian retailers and get it across the border for a 15% discount plus what ever 3rd party retailer discount on top of that. I hope that free trade with the EU sees the savings on duties passed on to Canadians because this is getting out of hand.

 Billagio wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Did people expect all of the books? It's the "primary" army books in hardcover.

Don't know why anyone would buy it, but whatever.

Orks and DE arnt primary?

Did you miss the "in hardcover" bit?

Orks, Dark Eldar, Space Wolves, and Blood Angels all are softcover books.

 insaniak wrote:
They look like the A5 format books.

It would have been a great idea last edition when these books were still current.

If these have the updated errata information, then the package has some value (for those who don't like digital books and have money to spare), especially if they are also a smaller A5 size.

 yakface wrote:

 insaniak wrote:
They look like the A5 format books.

It would have been a great idea last edition when these books were still current.

If these have the updated errata information, then the package has some value (for those who don't like digital books and have money to spare), especially if they are also a smaller A5 size.

If they are A5, that price is waaaaay off.

 loki old fart wrote:
To make some money quick

Ah. Yes. The short-term buck. Almost forgot that that's what GW does.

If those are small scale books it might be worth pooling some cash and splitting with friends. If you can’t find someone locally who wants something, e-bay the spares.

Well, looks like I'll be saving money again. I never bought any of the other "special" release books and was always amazed watching people who did. Guess I'll just have to be amazed some more.

Have to say - I'm kinda confused at the point of this.

Most people don't buy every Codex. Even with a significant discount I doubt they would be tempted.

The people who do buy every Codex probably will regardless of price. So why give them a discount? (and presumably - they already own all these books).

It's nice they're giving a discount on something - I'm just not sure who they're targeting.

I thought it was obvious they were targeting newer players who didn't have all the rules yet and were trying to tempt them into buying a big box set of them (all of which are now outdated since 7th just dropped, except "The Rules" I assume).

Problem is that even with a discount the rules are too fething expensive, nearly $400 just for a few books.

Maybe they saw the big box FW put out for their Horus Heresy stuff and thought "We can do that!", of course failing to realise that the HH books are successful because they're actually, y'know, good.