Points Release Before Codex Release

[jaxom]

How awesome would it be if they did this for 40k? Or am I missing something?

[Emperor Ming]

Interestingly the new aos edition 'codex's' have no printed points in the dex. 

 

Hopefully same for 11th

[ZeroWolf]

 

Interestingly the new aos edition 'codex's' have no printed points in the dex. 

 

Hopefully same for 11th

They probably will as sometimes it seems they use one game to test a feature of the other one. I'm hoping Combat Patrol gets the love Spearhead did.

[jaxom]

 

I'm hoping Combat Patrol gets the love Spearhead did.

That would make me very happy.

[Dark Shepherd]

 

They probably will as sometimes it seems they use one game to test a feature of the other one. I'm hoping Combat Patrol gets the love Spearhead did.

I hope so too but we said the same for endless spells

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

I;m not a fan of this. I like points in books. I like warhammer being a physical hobby using print books for rules. I don't want more digital bs in my life. 

[ThePenitentOne]

 

I;m not a fan of this. I like points in books. I like warhammer being a physical hobby using print books for rules. I don't want more digital bs in my life. 

 

Me too. The price we pay for being able to access anything on our phone is that nobody owns anything anymore, and all of it is subject to change or removal without any of us being able to do a damn thing about it.

 

The only reason I know Han shot first is that I bought the damn VHS tape in the 80's. Every other version has been digitally altered without our consent. GW does this by ripping rules out of White Dwarf in the vault; they did it with digital downloads too- gathering storm documents without a single rule in them. The lack of a persistent artifact has profound implications on 21st century society. It's okay when there's an original that you can own, so that it CAN'T be modified without your consent... But there are people who are actively cheering for the day when that will no longer be the case. They know not what they do.

 

I understand people's love of up to date digital content; I understand it's advantages. There are many. That's how corporations managed to sell it to us, unintended consequences and all.

 

You know, in the 90's if you liked a band, you probably understood more about that song's context than even some of the artists producing music these days can conceive. It's fun for Taylor Swift to remind people that Eras of music exist, because to a large segment of the human population, they don't. Music is consumed via a subscription service where all of an artists work comes from a single source. Terms like "Album" , "Single" or "B-Side" will die with my generation as every song becomes listed by alphabetical order under an artist look-up on i-tunes.

 

Recording a concept album in 2024 is an act of defiance- it's a lost medium that Gen Alpha is losing the ability to comprehend- like striking up live conversations with strangers face to face. I tried to watch Blue Rodeo's song Piranha Pool on youtube the other day, and could get nothing older than the 2011 remaster, which gutted Wiseman's crazy jazz piano intro. I've never hated the internet more than I did in that moment; I've never been so grateful that I bought the damn CD.... And I've never felt so old and lonely in my life. Everyone born after 2011 will believe that the remaster, and it's lousy knock-off piano is the only version that every existed.

 

As a now-resident grumpy old man, I hope young people learn to think about unintended consequences before no one can write more than a paragraph without the support of AI. The people who sell it to us get richer as we get stupider and less capable of resisting the next "innovation."

 

I saw a kid on a real, honest to God longboard last week. I stopped him, hi-fived him, and told him he'd outlive all of his friends on powered boards and scooters. It was a good conversation with a stranger, and I felt happy for a moment. But as he skated away, I felt like I had spoken to the last young dinosaur right before the meteor hit and the ice took him away forever.

 

  

Edited September 22 by ThePenitentOne

[jaxom]

^S’truth. There’s a reason I almost never buy GW rule books and codexes anymore.
 

I’d just like to be able to make lists once the codex is in the wild but before it comes out.

 

I’m not a fan of the weird “all the rules are out but we refuse to acknowledge it because we haven’t done a full release” that the limited time boxes cause.

[Helias_Tancred]

GW needs to fix this gap between how they do points in 40k, printed materials you need to play, and their digital app. It is not doing anyone, including their dedicated customers any favors. It stems from either the reality of presenting a better game, or lazy inept game design?

 

An old friend of mine recently got back into 40k after many years away. He was hoping that GW, like other miniature wargames out there, would use their digital app to make the rules and your army rules more accessible, and possibly free? lol. Or at least more accessible than their current model, which is the most costly to customers. Oh, and my friend was wrong. lol. He was disappointed.

 

I think you should pay a monthly sub ($10) and you get it all when they release. Or if GW still wants to nickel and dime you, say you get the rules, basic stats of all units in the game, and 3 choices for full open codex?

 

I'm a book guy. I'd still like my army's codex to be relevant.