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Quick question: who would be for or against GW just going full X-wing and selling unit data sheets in card form in packs they update and bring out for £10 once a year?

Eh. I print out the pages of the codex from the ebooks I use, stick them in a nice report binder, and then just pencil in the point values where needed. If they change, I have an eraser.

I’d be in for card-sized datasheets (and wouldn’t mind Upgrade cards to cover special weapons, loadouts and such). Already proved that by buying the Knight ones.

I'd be all for it.

Definitely!

I wonder how it would impact codex sales?

I know I wont buy a Guard codex for my 1.5K army of guard that joins my Marines...but I would by the datacards like I bought the Strategems/Psychics deck.

How many others would just forgoe the codex altogether ?

 lolman1c wrote:
Quick question: who would be for or against GW just going full X-wing and selling unit data sheets in card form in packs they update and bring out for £10 once a year?

if you mean like the AoS ones I'd be in for that like a shot, especially if they were reprinted each year with the errata & FAQ changes included, in a pack with any strategem cards that had changed (or all of them).

cards clearly marked with a date, coloured border etc so you know at a glance what the current ones are.

put the point values on them.

available as a stand alone product, done well I'd got for £25 an army with the cards and strategem cards, or say £15 if bought in a bundle with a codex

It's a good idea.
Sleeving unit cards lets you write on them with erasable marker, which is a good way to track wound counts during a game, along with stuff like psychic powers affecting a unit. Dice are always getting knocked over or picked up.

I actually made a bunch of data cards for my tyranids around the start of the edition. Never got around to updating them once the codex dropped though. Now that chapter approved is out, I might get back onto it.

They're seriously almost there for making dataslates a "card". I was expecting them to release with each codex in 8th:

Stratagems & objective cards
character cards
stat line cards

they're batting .333 not bad but...

it would be a really easy way to track wounds, psychic powers, etc. they should just take the rules and separate them from the fluff. You buy the now more badass codex with a ton of photos, painting stuff, army lists, historical info, etc... that they could include instead of all the dataslates.

 admironheart wrote:
Definitely!

I wonder how it would impact codex sales?

I know I wont buy a Guard codex for my 1.5K army of guard that joins my Marines...but I would by the datacards like I bought the Strategems/Psychics deck.

How many others would just forgoe the codex altogether ?

Well. You would likely still need codex for points, army rules(dakkadakkadakka for orks etc), clan traits etc. You think GW would reduce things you need to buy?-)