Lord Marshal Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 (edited) Looks to be a new series of articles pulling from the pages of- well, the Black Books. First up are the Night Lords. Quote This is only the first sheaf from a vast library of lore that we’ll be dropping each Thursday for the foreseeable future, so come back next week when we open the file on the notorious Thramas Crusade – the Night Lords’ three-year campaign of terror against the Emperor’s worlds. Edited January 15 by Lord Marshal Casual Heresy, Roomsky, Loquille and 3 others 1 4 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoriyaSchism Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 (edited) This resolution sucks. Looks insanely compressed when you try to zoom in. I'm surprised they released something like this even if it's free. You actually can't even get a good look at the artwork. I scan every document or book at 600 DPI with a relatively cheap commercial scanner so I'm not sure why they can't give us a better resolution when they probably have the raw print files. Even my 200 DPI scans look better than this. Genuinely terrible Edited January 15 by MoriyaSchism Bat33.1 and Felix Antipodes 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6151622 Share on other sites More sharing options...
4b4dd0n Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 They running out of ideas^^ Instead of talking about the "Black Books" they should bring them back. I think many people would love to see a Mars black book and the serie to continue, IF they can keep the level of lore frome the first "Black Books". roryokane, SvenIronhand, Dalmyth and 6 others 2 3 3 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6151624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangerOrders Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 (edited) This can only be a good thing, I have all the Black Books and they do more for alot of the Legions in terms of flavor and identity than Black Library ever did (cough*Iron Hands*cough). Giving free and easy access can only be a positive for getting people into Heresy. Edit: I hope they release the BB Knight Houses and Titan Legions down the road too. More people need to know about the Loyalist Nightmare-Mushroom-People Knights! Edited January 15 by StrangerOrders Matcap86, darkhorse0607, Fire Golem and 10 others 1 12 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6151625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LameBeard Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Fans: the Black Books were great but are out of print and were super-expensive and unwieldy GW: <makes bit of Black Books available for free> Fans: GW why you treat me so bad? BadgersinHills, Casual Heresy, SteveAntilles and 20 others 2 16 2 3 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6151626 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Marshal Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 (edited) 20 minutes ago, 4b4dd0n said: They running out of ideas^^ Instead of talking about the "Black Books" they should bring them back. I think many people would love to see a Mars black book and the serie to continue, IF they can keep the level of lore frome the first "Black Books". If they brought the Black Books back, they'd be drowned in "this is slop because Alan Bligh wasn't involved" regardless of quality, so I can understand why they'd want to move away from it. Hell, even the much cheaper 2nd edition campaign books (Book 9 was £90 by the end iirc) didn't escape that comparison despite being of similar content wise. When the alternative was probably paywalling it behind Warhammer+, I think dropping them for free - albeit being drip fed - is a cute idea. Edited January 15 by Lord Marshal LSM, LameBeard, Gamiel and 7 others 4 6 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6151631 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dicebod Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Wow, the negative reactions to this are the epitome of "my free ice cream is too cold." I have all the black books, and crack them open periodically exactly for this reason - to read the lore on each of the legions. I think it's great that everybody else will have the same opportunity. LSM, Corswain, StrangerOrders and 11 others 3 9 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6151632 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Casman Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 25 minutes ago, MoriyaSchism said: This resolution sucks. Looks insanely compressed when you try to zoom in. I'm surprised they released something like this even if it's free. You actually can't even get a good look at the artwork. I scan every document or book at 600 DPI with a relatively cheap commercial scanner so I'm not sure why they can't give us a better resolution when they probably have the raw print files. Even my 200 DPI scans look better than this. Genuinely terrible [snip] Double-check your settings? I'm looking at the pdf and it doesn't look nearly this bad on my screen, even when zoomed in. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6151633 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkhorse0607 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 This is super welcome, and I hope they do this with the other Forgeworld books (Badab, Imperial Armour campaigns, etc). I love criticizing GW but I don't see a negative here at all Dalmyth and Gamiel 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6151636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoriyaSchism Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 3 minutes ago, Brother Casman said: Double-check your settings? I'm looking at the pdf and it doesn't look nearly this bad on my screen, even when zoomed in. I checked the pdf of the scan of book two I have and it looks fine while this new file I downloaded from GW always looks terrible like this. Nothing is wrong with my settings. The text scales just fine, the images included in the GW upload are just low resolution and compressed to hell. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6151638 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylight Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 This is perfect. I own most of the Black Books, but wasn’t able to snag all of them. I loved these sections that discussed the legions prior to finding their primarchs and where on Terra they recruited from initially. Stuff like the Iron Warriors and Alpha Legion having super high rates of gene-seed acceptance was a great way to explain how a legion could take such high casualties and keep going or be everyone at once like the AL. At the time these first came out there was so little information on what the legions were initially like, so I am glad fans who couldn’t pick these up back then can now have access. Gamiel and Casual Heresy 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6151640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire Golem Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 3 minutes ago, darkhorse0607 said: This is super welcome, and I hope they do this with the other Forgeworld books (Badab, Imperial Armour campaigns, etc). I love criticizing GW but I don't see a negative here at all Probably not, because they’re on the Vault as part of Warhammer Plus already. SteveAntilles and Gamiel 1 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6151641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Foes Remain Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 This is amazing news. I hope GW release the campaign sections as well Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6151686 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Loss Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Phenomenal move from the team - gives the community (particularly newer fans) a great resource and having it be a regular thing on WarCom will get more people interested and keep heresy on people's radar. 01RTB01 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6151714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corswain Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 I missed a couple of the black books and would jump all over a reprint but this is a nice consolation prize. Really looking forward to these. 01RTB01 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6151718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vogon Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 I also applaud this move. I do have some of the black books but not all. Even the ones I do have are pretty cumbersome to read so being able to download them onto a tablet makes life so much easier. It might take a while to get through all the legions, I just hope they don't change their minds and stop part way. Cheers Vogon Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6151786 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WrathOfTheLion Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 I have all of the books, but I think it's extremely valuable for both veteran and newer players to have these available. This is a great move, and I hope they continue it. Cactus, Casual Heresy, Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf and 3 others 6 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6151803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 (edited) Not a bad idea,not bad at all. But with some Legions,specially with the Legions at Istvaan III, will need some retouching for display. Edited January 16 by Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6152035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inquisitor Verhek Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Only complaint on this is that if you print them, you have to be aware that the current layout puts the spreads on the front/back of the same page! LameBeard 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6152220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrion Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Wonder if the Thousand Sons one will still have the 20th century tourists wandering around Egypt or if they shop them out. Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6152264 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LameBeard Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 15 hours ago, Valkyrion said: Wonder if the Thousand Sons one will still have the 20th century tourists wandering around Egypt or if they shop them out. The most controversial retcon of the year! The Ordo Chronos strikes again! Astartes Consul, Dalmyth, Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf and 4 others 2 4 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6152594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roryokane Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 On 1/17/2026 at 9:25 AM, Valkyrion said: Wonder if the Thousand Sons one will still have the 20th century tourists wandering around Egypt or if they shop them out. I’m sorry, WHAT?! Gamiel 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6152795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkhorse0607 Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 40 minutes ago, roryokane said: I’m sorry, WHAT?! I forget which page it is, but you can see a tourist walking behind one of the dioramas they photographed for Inferno Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6152799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matcap86 Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 40 minutes ago, roryokane said: I’m sorry, WHAT?! pictures courtesy of https://battlebunnies.blogspot.com/ LSM, Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf, Casual Heresy and 4 others 4 3 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6152801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Techwisp Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 14 minutes ago, Matcap86 said: pictures courtesy of https://battlebunnies.blogspot.com/ Oh don't worry about them. They're Disaster Tourists from Terra who took advantage of cheap tickets to Prospero when the conflict kicked off. Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf, roryokane, Matcap86 and 5 others 8 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387430-pages-from-the-black-books/#findComment-6152810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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