So its finally happened. Games Workshop went and gave the Dwarf army a new book. It isn't like this was a surprise, many of us knew this was coming. The company has been releasing new models over the month of February, and while the book wasn't in the initial two weeks of releases it is out now and I have my copy. I picked the book up last night and so have literally only had it for about 8 hours and thus all of what follows are simply my initial impressions of the book and should be taken as such. Warning! I am going to complain a lot. However I'm also going to type just as much that I am really excited about. Warning out of the way let's begin!
First I'll cover the book itself. The hardcover is of course nice just as all the hardcover books have been. The full color is great and used very well in this book. I really liked the map in after the timeline section. The fluff is good although I admit to not having read all of it yet. The cover is a great piece of art and speaking of such the artwork throughout the book I really enjoyed a lot. I saw a lot of new and definitely some old, but overall I really enjoyed it. The book seems well organized and easy to follow with. A+ for the book itself.
Staring with the complaints I will go over the things that have been changed significantly (for the worse in my op) since the last book and go on. The Organ Gun retained its original points cost and was upgraded to two artillery dice and a 30" range. It did however become BS shooting which with the entire Dwarf army barring Hero's is BS 3. I don't know if you've ever tried BS 3 shooting or not but it isn't good. The Organ Gun can now also have 50 points of Runes which means you can make it better by giving it a +1 to hit rune. This will increase it to 145 points and if you also invest in an Engineer character at 70 points you will be hitting on 3's, 4's at range. So for 195 points you may get some good usefulness out of the gun but at that cost your losing quite a bit extra out of your list.
