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John Grillo
, November 30, 2012
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This is the latest edition of the warhammer 40,000 tabletop miniature war game produced by Games Workshop. The book comes in at around 500 pages and many people I know refer to it as 'the brick'.
The book itself contains the rules, all of which have a simple summary and a further explanation, the setting and playable races/armies and a little background on each of them.
Finally, there are some very nice fold-out pages that are high detail followed by pictures of the models themselves as they are expertly painted and a few battle reports, one even written as a story. This last bit seems just seems superfluous in an already thick tome. I think dropping that could have made it cheaper than $75. $50 for the previous book was bad enough; I only got it when I when a gift card.
The game itself is loads of fun and makes many 'bad' army books viable again. The book in question is well done, produced well, but overpriced and just plain heavy--I've had people ask if it was the complete works of Shakespeare or a law book with a silly cover.
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