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Warhammer 40,000 encyclopedia?
Skull2185
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Is there a nice big encyclopedia type book available for Warhammer 40K? Something similar to the Hyrule Historia or the Assassin's Creed encyclopedias. I've done some searching online with no success. I'm sorta guessing there's really no point to a book like that since the tabletop manuals exist, but I don't have any interest in buying those or playing the tabletop game. ...Well I do, but I don't know how nor do I have the friends to play it with.
Aaaaanyhoo, I figured I'd check here to see if someone knew something I didn't. Basically I'm looking for a nice huge book of pretty Warhammer artwork and information on the different factions/weapons/locations and whatnot.
Aaaaanyhoo, I figured I'd check here to see if someone knew something I didn't. Basically I'm looking for a nice huge book of pretty Warhammer artwork and information on the different factions/weapons/locations and whatnot.
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Forge World's Imperial Armour series might fit your bill though, and you can take a look at various factions and conflicts each book describes at http://www.forgeworld.co.uk.
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I don't know why I'm such a dumb, but i just now got the idea to check the actual Games Workshop website. These Codex books seem like they're what I'm looking for. Just split up into books for each faction.
If you're looking for just the fluff, then the codices will fill you in, but keep in mind that they're about 50 % fluff, with the rest being devoted to the rules for the faction and the statlines for the units/wargear etc...
The main rule book also has a fair amount of fluff (or it did the last time I bought it, but that's a couple of versions back) that sets up the setting and gives a general idea of what's going on.
Newest 3-book set/edition has a book entirely devoted to fluff and the others are models/spreads (each Army at minimum gets a 2-page write up and lots of pretty pictures of the models) and the rules.
It's not really an encyclopaedia so much as an enormous unedited mass of background information, most of it dating from the second edition era.
Bear in mind that it is part of the point of the 40k universe that it is sufficiently vast that an idea of "canon" is largely meaningless - the setting will support pretty much whatever kind of story someone wants as long as it's thematically consistent.
GW has since not really done anything with the story and its really stagnated.