Games Workshop, Forge World and Black Library December 2013 Book Releases

Summary of all physical print products released by Games Workshop, Forge World and Black Library in December 2013

Games Workshop

Codex: Space Marines Ultima Edition - £150
Warhammer 40,000: Stronghold Assault - £20
Warhammer 40,000: Escalation - £30

Games Workshop Limited Edition Releases December 2013 - Ultima Edition, Chaos Collection and more

Games Workshop have really outdone themselves in book releases, 4 (yes 4) limited edition books are on sale from Games Workshop for the Christmas period as well as a number of new rulebooks in standard edition.

Three of these have a lot going for them in terms of being lovely collectors items. As of 13/12/2013, none of them have sold out, but this isn't too surprising considering the number and cost (£430 all told).

Codex Space Marines Ultima Edition

Spotlight on Collecting: Inferno! Magazine

This is a quick introduction to collecting Inferno!, the short fiction magazine from Black Library publishing.

Black Library and Games Workshop have published a whole host of specialist magazines, of which the most well known is possibly Citadel Journal. All except White Dwarf have died a death, and it is unlikely that there will ever be any other physical magazine prints due to digital focus (e.g. Hammer & Bolter in 2012)

Horus Heresy Weekender - What we know so far

On Wednesday, Black Library and Forge World jointly announced the Horus Heresy Weekender, heres a sumary of all the infomation released so far (which isn't that much):

Chaos Demons/Daemons of Chaos - 40k and Warhammer Fantasy Battle Codex/Army Book Release

This Saturday has seen the announcement of and pre-orders go up for a joint release of WHFB Daemons of Chaos and 40k Chaos Daemons. There are a lot of models if you like that sort of thing but now onto the good stuff, the Codex and Army Books.

Death From The Skies - Selling Well?

Death from the Skies, the new flyer compendium from Games Workshop has apparently been selling fast. Games workshop released the following little snippet on the product page:-

A Brief Look at Warhammer 40k Role-playing Games from Fantasy Flight Games

Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) hold the licence to produce role-playing games produced in both the Warhammer Fantasy Battle (WHFB) and Warhammer 40,000 (40k) settings. They produce one WHFB game entitled “Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay” and (currently) five 40k role-playing games with a degree of interchangability between them. These are Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Deathwatch, Black Crusade and the latest addition: Only War.

Each game is based around the same system but focused on a different aspect of the Imperium:

Dark Heresy: Inquisitorial Alcolytes and conspiracies

Rogue Trader: Rogue Traders and the frontiers of space

Deathwatch: The Deathwatch and space marine combat

Black Crusade: Chaos and a view from the other side

Only War: The Imperial Guard and human combat/war

The Emperor's Might: Warriors of the Imperium, Art Book Review

The Emperor’s Might:Warriors of the Imperium is the 2^nd in John Blanche’s latest series of art books published by Black Library, following on from “The Emperor’s Will: Agents of the Imperium”. It retails at £25 from the Black Library website but as it’s not an exclusive you can pick it up on Amazon for around £16. It was released in November 2012.

"Mephiston: Lord of Death" and "Yarrick: Chains of Golgotha"

Two fancy new releases form Black library announced over the past couple of days.

Number One - Mephiston: Lord of Death

Firstly the latest in the Black Library Limited Edition/Collectors Novella category “Mephison: Lord of Death” written by David Annandale. 

Warhammer Forge Next Book: Battle of Black Fire Pass

Here it is, the cover of the next Warhammer Forge release: The battle of Black Fire Pass.

January and the future

I have just realised I missed out on getting the new Dark Angels Limited Edition Codex, at least its no longer available for order on GW's site. If these were like the Chaos Space Marine Limited Editions then there were 1000 of them. At a RRP of £55 I felt these were very highly priced considering that IA books are generally <£45, the "limited edition" tag really seems to command massive prices although it remains to be seen if these editions retain their value or if they find themselves devaluing like so many "limited eds".