BoLS Readers Choice Awards 2012 - Rulebook/Army Book

[Bigred]

Please list your submission for best single rulebook, or army-campaign book produced during 2012 by either GW, Privateer, Battlefront, Mantic, Wyrd, FFG, or any other Wargames Manufacturer. Please only 1 entry. If you have a link to a photo of it, feel free to throw it in.

[Robert 'Tank' Atkin]

Chaos 6th edition codex!

[glyndwr1974]

Horus Heresy the Betrayal from Forge World.

Awesome beyond compare. What the Chaos codex could have been.

G.

[MajorMcNicol]

I thought the Spartan Games Storm of Steel book was great.

[Niraco]

Horus heresy betrayal ForgeWorld
Best hobby material in many years

[dubhgilla]

Warhammer 40k 6th ed.

[SotonShades]

Imperial Armour Aeronautica

[The Madman]

Chaos Space Marines 6th edition.

[Psychosplodge]

The Horus Heresy forgeworld book, stunning execution despite needing proof reading again...

[Qwet]

Campaign Paradiso from Corvus Belli

First book that took my breath away since Rogue Trader. Amazing artwork, fluff written by and for grown-ups and a huge amount of fun and thematic missions. Every faction got cool and powerful choices. Best balance, best writing, best book.

[VoodooJanus]

Campaign Paradiso from Corvus Belli for their Infinity System.

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Beautiful artwork, fantastic fluff and the missions are pitch-perfect. Every faction got a little something to work with, and added a campaign system with a sturdy, well rounded narrative.

Ninja'd a bit...

[Todd]

Infinity-Campaign:Paradiso!!!

[Levitas]

Infinity: Campaign Paradiso from Corvus Belli

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Want to know more?

http://infinitythegame.com

[JBRocky]

I also vote for aradiso. Few of my friends saw the game at GenCon and made me take a look at it. Since the rules and stats for most stuff is on line I downloaded what I could and got hooked. It has good models and a great set of rules that was made even better with the release of Paradiso so go take a look don't think you will disapointed.

[DrLove42]

Torn between the Horus Heresy Imp Armour and the 6th ed Rule book.

Think its got to go to FW though. Stunning book

[Drunkencorgimaster]

Chaos 6th. Putting the chaos back in Chaos. A balanced and plain-old fun book to play.

[Spoonfunk]

I vote for Campaign Paradiso...

While other sourcebooks give you an update this book truly changed the dynamic of the game both in terms of rules, fluff and game play. I was truly well done

[dtjunkie19]

I also vote for Campaign: Paradiso by Corvus Belli. Amazing artwork, background writing. Complex and thought provoking missions. A very well thought out campaign system. New profiles for every faction and a new race. All very well balanced. Offers a new approach to how to play the game, without invalidating anything from previous books. Absolutely everything about it is top quality.

[Kuhlbert]

Campaign: Paradiso as well. My new favorite game system - and a great book all around for fluff, artwork, and rules.

[Brakkart]

I'll cast my vote for Horus Heresy: Betrayal by Forgeworld as it is a truly gorgeous book and I'm deeply jealous of my friend who has a copy of it!

[Kaptajn Congoboy]

Dropzone Commander by Hawk Wargames. Saga Warfare was 2011, or it might have been another contender.
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DzC might just be the game that finally topples Epic for me. Great miniatures, interesting rules and an honest attempt to create a sci-fi large scale battle game that truly feels like a science fiction game - the mobile warfare mechanics of the dropships interacting with ground combat, ground-to air AA fire, interceptors and air-to-ground strikes all while the infantry is brutally murdering one another in close quarters battle inside buildings holding objectives or intel seems really interesting.

[KennKong]

Dropzone Commander for me, as well (though if I'd gotten MERCS sooner, it might have given it a run, just haven't played enough of that yet).

[Wookiehair]

Dropzone Commander for me too. Great game, beautiful book, awesome effort for essentially one bloke.

[Dvalin]

Definitely Dropzone Commander for me, too! It just screams sci-fi, with its mix of urban destruction, fast maneuver, heavy slogging... just love it. Dangerously fun. :D

[Grimjaw82]

Dropzone commander, one really great set of rules that has massive potential going forward

[Houghten]

DZC doesn't have enough nominations yet ( ;) ) so I'm going to chip in.

Great rules, with each faction feeling distinctly unique yet without needing special rules out the wazoo to do that. All pictures are of the models, so there are no awesome scenes it turns out you can't recreate because the proportions are all wrong or the joints don't do that (I'm looking at you, Dreadknight). And all of the army lists are in the one book.

Sure, it has a few typos, but how many people are even going to notice them who aren't me?