son of the forest Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Hi all, can someone let me know if the new Age of Darkness book and the Loyalist/Traitor books are worth purchasing if I'm only iinterested in the lore and already own the black books? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noserenda Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Not really, they are 95% rules and reprinted stuff, i mean for completeness they are a few nuggets in there but really not much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lansalt Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 They have a few new bits, but most of it is generic stuff without really giving details. We'll see in future campaign books, but so far the Rulebook and libers seem to be way inferior in that department to any Black Book. mooftak 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
son of the forest Posted June 30, 2022 Author Share Posted June 30, 2022 Thanks for the input, saved me wasting some money on them Noserenda 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sothalor Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 The Liber Astartes/Hereticus books in particular are dedicated army lists. There're no discussions of "historical" events, no institutional organization, Legion culture, etc. Now, they do have little background blurbs for the individual units and characters, but as far as I've seen (admittedly, I haven't sat down and gone through line-by-line comparisons), they are all reprints from the previous Big Black Books from Forge World. There doesn't appear to be any totally new lore material in these books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgoff Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 Even the artworks and the fight scenes on the bottom of some pages are from older books. Pretty much copy pasta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taliesin Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 On 6/30/2022 at 7:49 PM, son of the forest said: Hi all, can someone let me know if the new Age of Darkness book and the Loyalist/Traitor books are worth purchasing if I'm only iinterested in the lore and already own the black books? I was making the same consideration as you. I did buy the Age of Darkness rulebook. I did not go for the Libers. The reason is that they contain very little lore as it is, just vehicles and units with blurbs, which are nice but are copied from the Black Books. So an unnecessary buy for us. I got the rulebook but have not read it yet so cant say how much new stuff is in there,but I did watch a youtube flipthrough and it seemed worthwhile to me, also to have all the legions in 1 book. My main interest is in upcoming campaign books though, ideally Black Book style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irate Khornate Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 3 hours ago, Taliesin said: I was making the same consideration as you. I did buy the Age of Darkness rulebook. I did not go for the Libers. The reason is that they contain very little lore as it is, just vehicles and units with blurbs, which are nice but are copied from the Black Books. So an unnecessary buy for us. I got the rulebook but have not read it yet so cant say how much new stuff is in there,but I did watch a youtube flipthrough and it seemed worthwhile to me, also to have all the legions in 1 book. My main interest is in upcoming campaign books though, ideally Black Book style. Definitely might want to pick the liber book up that corresponds to your legion. More than a few things have changed on the data sheets and rules BitsHammer 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific81 Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 (edited) He says he is only interested in the lore (not rule changes) Edited July 2, 2022 by Pacific81 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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