Man something needs to be said for media access in Warhammer. I’m making a medic themed loyalist Death Guard chapter, so my thoughts was ‘oh, I should probably read Flight of the Einstein, cause that’s basically my chapter’s founding myth’. Except it’s not for sale. Anywhere. You can buy a paper back on Amazon for 200 bucks or get an ebook or get fucked. Those are your options
So often in 40K you’ll read some cool bit of lore in a wiki article and you go ‘that sounds fucking awesome where can I read that?’ And then you look it up and it’s from an anthology book made available only in a limited run at the 2018 Horus Heresy Weekener convention and now its only available from GW as an mp3 file for $26.99 (yeah, I’m that pissed off that I can’t read The Ancient Awakens by Graham McNeil that I googled what fucking convention the paperback was exclusive to, it’s a good fucking story. Or it would be if I could FUCKING READ IT)
So yeah, it blows that I can’t get these books without a time machine. I want to have a library of books not some tablet that has books. I want to be able to loan them to my friends, I want to build a timeline on a shelf so I can judge when something happens in relation to the rest of the setting, I want to have annotated copies and be able to reference a piece of lore I half remembered cause I thought of a new idea for an army based on it. But no, for the vast majority of Warhammer fiction, unless it’s new or really popular it’s audio book, 200 buck scalper copy, or a pirated pdf. I want paper in my hands I want to look at my shelf and see all the good times I had reading I want to get contact memories touching old paper and remembering where I was in my life when I first read it I want physical paperback books. James Workshop please I’m willing to pay like an extra twenty bucks to get it made to order please. Please don’t let all this good writing languish in inaccessibility I want to give you money in exchange for goods James please
