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hello chaps (and chapesses)

received my copy of the TI today and am mightly impressed with it soo thought id share the book and my veiws with you. beware this may contain spoilers for those of you that are still wanting to read it.

anyway the book is pretty similar in design and manufature as the sabbt, armegeddon and 13th BC books, a thin paperback A4 sized book. the colour pages inside however i feel are much more graphical - maybe a little to picutre/background art heavy but nice non the less. the book also has a fair old weight to it.

inside you get a note to reader and then the book is broken down in to 4 individual crusades/campaigns:

Naxos - the reef stars

Lyubov - the sabbat worlds

Rophanon - the reef stars

the black crusade of jihar the lacerator - the gloom worlds (near cadia but on the bad side of the tracks!)

the crusades are pretty full of character, with art work specific to each, for example lots of iron snakes art for the naxos campagn (great for all you IS fans out there) however there is also a lot of "stock" art work in there too, some from the ccg and others from boxes. however all is good and all fits the theme very well.

as with all the crusade books there are portraits of some of the main characters or individuals involved along with moments of note and in some cases histories. some of the guard characters are very well drawn and are most likely kopinski pieces so therefore are pretty darn nice. other art though such as the titan seige (sorry) have to be looked at and ignored as personally they just look wrong! if you get the book you will see just what i mean

again we have many maps and star charts, some are pointless but nice, others are great for planning reenactments on your own! we have things from star charts of cadia through to small maps of tracks and ambushes! very cool.

stories and campagins again are well written and arent as bllluuuurrrgghhh as some of the stock black library "the single marine prayed then killed an entire army" stories. these have character and imagination even though there are using the same ideas and fluff as most of the 40k universe have for the past 20 years but theyve been thought out and written from an imperial (read inquisitional) point of veiw and as an overveiw to campaign work well - in fact most would be suitable for a proper black library novel!!!!!!

eeerrrmm cant think of anything else right now but if you have any questions just ask and ill be happy to reply asap

cheers

millest

nothing on Tau is there? or could you mention what the campaigns were against

Sounds promising. I bought the Sabbat Campaign book wondering if I was going to regret the $30 .... and ended up loving it. Fluff at this level (as opposed to most of Black Library's pulp sci-fi novels) hits the sweet spot for me -- draws me deeper into the whole narrative concept of 40K. I suppose because the epic, pseudo-historical, birds-eye scale makes it work.
Whereas when constructed as novels and ground-level p.o.v., it comes off as kind of silly, most of the time.

The art in the Sabbat Campaign book was mostly sub-par, though, IMO. A lot of blurry/static/grainy stuff, photo-shopped to look "real." Not especially evocative.
It sounds as though Tactcia Imp. offers more of the same.

actully tinfoil there are only 4 photoshoped pictures that i can (well some of the maps might be but not in the style you mention) yes some of the art is bad, some is old but a lot is new and very well done

the campaigns are as follows:
1 - dark eldar
2- chaos
3 - insurgents/chaos/indepents
4 - chaos

no tau unfortunalty for those tau fans out there
millest