I stopped buying books. It’s just a lot of copy paste now which is sad. I wish the army books were just massive lore dumps with tons of new art and painting guides. Keep the rules separate.
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Mmmmm. The codexes/army books are just not worth it anymore especially when they are out of date the moment they are printed now.
Thing that gets me the specialist games have digital books they could just update but not 40k/AoS which are still physical only. Thankful for stuff like Wahapedia.
Yeah same. I came into AOS early 2E and was utterly smitten. Two editions later and I'm 100% committed to just printing everything I need for my army myself on paper. I buy some GW plastic and print some stuff for myself. I love AOS, but am continually baffled by their choices.
It feels like a classic "Old people sitting on a pile of money who see no reason to radically change what they are doing" kind of playbook, which absolutely will work until the exact moment it doesn't, and there's a large percentage of us kinda waiting for that moment.
with the exception of 40K, I will play whatever people in my area play because I like to play games + hobby. If people migrate en masse at some point I will follow happily. It's not the IP, the lore, or even the (fantastic sculpts). For me at least, it's the people. Beer, buds and dice.
I really enjoyed the faction specific painting guides; it helped inspire me with paint schemes. I also would love more lore and stories about all the faction characters they don't have books for, but hey what does that matter I guess! 🤪
Honestly that’s the best stuff about these books. Now when you buy a new time, it has like 2 pages of new lore and if you’re lucky some sort of painting guide. I really feel like they lost their way.
I noticed that with the new Orruk Warclans book. Lots of mini photos, not a lot of art.
Which, I mean, that would be fine, except it’s the same handful of minis over and over again?
If you’re going to focus on the minis, there should actually be some stuff there for them!
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Thing that gets me the specialist games have digital books they could just update but not 40k/AoS which are still physical only. Thankful for stuff like Wahapedia.
Which, I mean, that would be fine, except it’s the same handful of minis over and over again?
If you’re going to focus on the minis, there should actually be some stuff there for them!