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Awwwwwwwwwww yis!

Take a trip down memory lane, and get a fascinating glimpse into the rich history of the game with this faithful reprint of the original edition of Warhammer 40,000, first released in 1987.

Previously only available to purchase at Warhammer World, this 288-page Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader book will be available on a Print on Demand basis until 8am BST on Monday the 23rd of October 2023 and will ship within 180 days of the ordering window closing. Make sure to secure this must-have collectors item while you can!

Run, don’t walk. This book is completely pants on head hatstand wibble wibble crazy, and so, so worth owning. For those of us with historical copies, there’s even something to be said for a browsable copy, preserving the original.

I wonder if the sudden spike in availability will lead to people playing RT with their modern 40k minis lol

Well that saves a drive to WW at some point. You have to think they'll do the same for Slaves to Darkness too eventually.

This jumped out at me when looking at next week's preorders. I already have a pdf of this book but I'm definitely tempted to pick up a hard copy.

Nice of GW to give a wider audience the option to buy it, without having to go to Warhammer World. Hopefully the price is reasonable too.

I hope it isn't insanely priced, because I'd love to get this. Can see it being very popular. Hopefully they reprint some other classic books in the future

Perfect! I've been meaning to get this some day and I guess this is the day!

Let's hope it doesn't end with this and that other rogue trader books will follow.

Should be £41, or there about, which I believe is the going WHW price.

I wonder if this means they're going to stop doing the periodic reprints for sale a warhammer world/the citadels?

(not that having worldwide availibility isn't a better option)

I’d hope not. They’re a great thing to own, and not everyone is going to have the money to drop this time around.

Where is this order able from? Can't seem to find it on the main site.

chaos0xomega wrote:
I wonder if the sudden spike in availability will lead to people playing RT with their modern 40k minis lol

Why?

If there is a spike in people playing RT, I’ll play with my original RT minis.

Although I’d love to see people complain about people using new minis, and how the bigger guys are MFA, and they need to rebase on smaller bases to play.

OK, that’s a lie, I don’t want to actually see that, but the concept made me chuckle, so here we are...

chaos0xomega wrote:
I wonder if the sudden spike in availability will lead to people playing RT with their modern 40k minis lol

Man, I sure hope so! The modern GW miniatures range is pretty comprehensive when it comes to Rogue Trader, too. You even got most of the fabled bestiary covered as models, one of the recent Necromunda resin kits added one more IIRC (EDIT: Nope, Millisaurs are in Necromunda only, misremembered)

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Should be £41, or there about, which I believe is the going WHW price.

That is a pants-on-head crazy price.

It might’ve been £31, now I think about it?

It’s been a couple of years since I visited WHW, and longer since I did a Rogue Trader loot run.


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 Taarnak wrote:
Where is this order able from? Can't seem to find it on the main site.

Available as of Saturday coming.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 Taarnak wrote:
Where is this order able from? Can't seem to find it on the main site.

Available as of Saturday coming.

Ah. Thanks much. I don't even see the news item on the Community page. lol

This is awesome timing for me. I just started hunting on eBay recently.

Just watched a video of one purchased from WW at release and the price sticker said £35. I assume this will be a bit higher?

Do I need a third copy of RT? would be nice to have one in perfect condition I suppose (I have a 1st and 3rd printing I got from FB groups but they're looking a little worse for wear now)

Was on my first trip to Warhammer World on 18 September past, and picked up a retail copy of Rogue Trader, price was £40. Now kicking myself as I didn’t pick up both Realm of Chaos books at the same time.

Read RT on the train back to Edinburgh and spent the whole five-hour journey chuckling at the madness therein. I particularly enjoyed the chapter on how to scratch-build terrain out of every piece of otherwise disposable plastic that comes into your house - but if you’re not careful, your house will fill up with really interesting pieces of disposable plastic ;-)

I've been waiting for this for a while. I had hoped this would be on offer during the previous anniversaries but I'm glad it has happened, finally.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
It might’ve been £31, now I think about it?

No_Marines_Here wrote:
Just watched a video of one purchased from WW at release and the price sticker said £35. I assume this will be a bit higher?

Baltika wrote:
Was on my first trip to Warhammer World on 18 September past, and picked up a retail copy of Rogue Trader, price was £40.

Pants-on-head, pencils up nose, and say 'wibble'.

At least two of those accounts are probably just chat GPT

 Lord Damocles wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
It might’ve been £31, now I think about it?

No_Marines_Here wrote:
Just watched a video of one purchased from WW at release and the price sticker said £35. I assume this will be a bit higher?

Baltika wrote:
Was on my first trip to Warhammer World on 18 September past, and picked up a retail copy of Rogue Trader, price was £40.

Pants-on-head, pencils up nose, and say 'wibble'.

Possibly. Depends on 2nd hand prices for originals.

Cursory eBay prices are proper crazy. Of course that doesn’t mean £41 for the Print on Demand is therefore objectively fine. But, it is something to be factored in if one is keen to own a copy.

Given my search turned up prices for the other 1st Ed books? I’m bloody glad I got my set a few years back. Because it’s all gone Roger Irrelevant in prices.

It wasn't available when I went to WW in 1997 so I'm definitely going to get one. I started playing right when then Angels of Death codex dropped so I really want to get my hands on it.

 Nevelon wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
I wonder if the sudden spike in availability will lead to people playing RT with their modern 40k minis lol

Why?

If there is a spike in people playing RT, I’ll play with my original RT minis.

Most people don't have and can't afford RT era minis

chaos0xomega wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
I wonder if the sudden spike in availability will lead to people playing RT with their modern 40k minis lol

Why?

If there is a spike in people playing RT, I’ll play with my original RT minis.

Most people don't have and can't afford RT era minis

One of the perks of being old. I’ve got a laundry list of health and other issues, but I’m a pack-rat who never cashed out of the game. So I’ve got an eclectic collection or random minis from across the eras.

Part of the fun of RT was being able to stat up whatever you had. Found object conversions, random toy vehicles off the shelf. Whatever. So while I’d personally use it as an excuse to do things like dust off some tinboys or get the RTB01s more table time, no slight against anyone else using what they have.

If the fun is there, I do not care.

Pretty cool to see it in print again, I cherish my original copy, especially as I came by it as a happenstance about ten years ago.

 Lord Damocles wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
It might’ve been £31, now I think about it?

No_Marines_Here wrote:
Just watched a video of one purchased from WW at release and the price sticker said £35. I assume this will be a bit higher?

Baltika wrote:
Was on my first trip to Warhammer World on 18 September past, and picked up a retail copy of Rogue Trader, price was £40.

Pants-on-head, pencils up nose, and say 'wibble'.

It’s all relative, when it comes to an entertainment budget.

I’m in my early 50’s, I have a good job, if I take my wife and two (teenage) kids out for dinner and a movie, there’s no change out of £100 these days. Double that if they want to go for a steak dinner. That’s for a few hours entertainment on a Saturday night. I can’t afford to do it every week, but £40 for a book that will last me years? It’s not an issue. My 14 y/o son is setting up his Orks and DA so we can play the Battle at the Farm, using the RT rules. There’s hours and hours of value there.

But hey, everyone’s situation is different. YMMV.

50€ for a good hardcover book would be a regular price, a print on demand collectors item from that company I expect more like 80-100€ so 40£/55€ would be "cheap".

it is a collectors item that you are going to keep and not replace within 3 years with the new print edition, yet paying 40£/55€ for that is considered fine but for something that is going to stay it is too high?

PS: I just bought the re-print of the Housebook of Wolfegg Castle for 100€, so a limited available collectors book is in a different price range among the collectors than the throwaway hardcover of the current edition of 40k

My old copy has definitely seen better days. Good opportunity to upgrade.

Amazing book with all the proto-mythology for 40K. If you don't have a copy, you should.

Not going to lie if they release the Compendium and the Compilation as well I don't care what price they charge.