@grantinvanman – Isn’t it funny how many so-called ‘conspiracy theories’ have turned out to be true, especially over the past 3 years….And we thought The X-Files were just a fun sci-fi show….

The first time I came across the phenomenon of a relatively recent, standard mass market paperback going for ridiculous money was in the early Noughties, namely Katherine Kurtz’s Lammas Night. I wondered back then what the big deal was, bought a few copies I found (at normal prices) in local used book stores  – when such things still existed in abundance – and sold them at a slight profit to others. No gouging here…. It’s not even a very good book.

Sure, Eisenstein is a good read, most Horus Heresy and a bunch of other Black Library books are actually much better than you might expect from novels based on games,  but Heimdall’s beard! – you don’t have to take out a third mortgage to read good science fiction.

The most I ever spent on 1 single book was US$ 180, but that was for a HUGE hardcover manual/text book I needed for work and which could not be found used, in second place is a very rare collectible from the 1930s at US$ 145. Even actual antiques (= over 100 years old) can be had for less than what these recent simple paperbacks are being sold for.

@piers – Based on the battle reports I’ve watched so far, WHtOW seems to play very similar to 5th edition Herohammer. Your regular troops (Men-at-arms, Archers) are basically speed bumps/decoration, even Knights do little to nothing, it’s all about elite units, heroes and (probably) special characters. And, of course, who rolls more 6s. Magic seems kinda Nerfed, which is odd. Well do I remember the days of a certain Wood Elf player whose Lord on Eagle and Mage on Warhawk killed entire armies from on high, while the ret of his tropps pretty much just stood around and he rolled entire batteries of 5s and 6s on his magically charmed caramel-colored dice – which did not work for anyone else, we checked them many times.