8th Ed. Only the 8th...

I feel your pain. The prices for that book have sky-rocketed on the secondary market.

Campaign games are not really my thing. I know others have also said good things about the book though. The only book I'd ever consider getting would be the Monstrous Arcanum, but it is extraordinarily expensive at the moment, so I can live happily without it. I'd only get it if I found a really amazing deal, but I'm not actively searching for it.

A grand tome. I hope you get your hands on one.

It's taken me a while to assemble it.

 

Awesome collection! Very much like my own collection, except I have Monstrous Arcanum and Blood In The Badlands as well. Only one I'm missing is Sigmar's Blood.

 

That's a rare and valuable gem.

I had a chance to buy it a few years back and now I regret not jumping on the opportunity.

 

Still carrying the 8th Ed. torch. Recently had 2 games against Vampire Counts. 2000 Pts. Won one and lost one. In my group we have one player with 6 different armies, and a couple of others with 2-3 armies. The player with 6 armies has recruited 4 new players who wanted to learn WHFB 8th edition, so our group is still going strong! This puts us up to 9 players. The new players are each learning to play a different army so some great fun ahead playing against different opponents.

 

That's great to hear!! Sounds like an amazing group.

 

Funny you should mention this... on holiday back in early July I visited a game store in the local area of where we were staying, and I was amused to hear that its AoS scene had pretty much died on the spot when TOW came out, as the only AoS players the store had regularly visiting and attending tournaments were ex-Fantasy players who'd only played AoS because it was supported... with TOW resurrecting Fantasy, they immediately switched over to playing that and AoS was pretty much abandoned .

Of course, the proportion of players playing each is likely to vary across countries and the world, but it's still interesting to see how TOW's return has done a lot to undermine AoS's previous dominance of the fantasy gaming sector. And it's all the more ironic hearing about how some AoS players have become salty about TOW just as Fantasy players were salty about 1st Edition AoS when it came out. What goes around comes around...

 

Yessssssss

 

Is it just the novelty of being new though?

 

Partially... but equally it is something old. TOW is a callback to Warhammer Fantasy, the fall of which is still lamented by a fair percentage of miniature wargamers.

It's a product of new hype intermingled with nostalgia.