WARHAMMER FANTASY BATTLES

Alright so I found out yesterday that there was a new Warhammer Fantasy edition that came out about six months ago. I heard about some fairly massive rules changes and thought "what the hell?". So I started reading the rulebook.

(sidenote: The nerd I am I actually rather enjoy reading rulebooks.)

Reading it made me excited about the game again. A lot of new and very interesting stuff seemed to be introduced (charges and close combat overhaul) and bunch of other rules were streamlined not to include so damn many fiddly bits (while others added some fiddly bits, I guess you can't have everything).

So today I busted out some of those old paint pots, found some unpainted lead in a drawer and started working on the future of my Warhammer army. The only bad thing is that I seem to have displaced all my wood elf archers (and a treeman) as well as my wood elf army book (which still seems to be the current one).

But I hope I can make something out of this yet. How about any of you? Are you aware of the by-now-pretty-old new Warhammer edition and what are your opinions? And if anyone has the hardcover fluff-filled proper expensive rulebook... Is it worth it? It looks pretty awesome but it also costs a lot. (on the other hand it costs as much as a new console game so I guess it techincally isn't that bad)

And if any of you are regular players maybe you have some complaints and stuff after playing a couple of battles with the new rules. Are mages really as freaky as they seem? How does the new terrain rules affect gameplay? What about no more guessing!

I don't think I've been this excited about Warhammer since I was in my teens.