Okay, so apparently someone at GW decided to move the story forward.  A bit.  Kind of.  It's a bit strange, and I'll explain why I won't go into detail.  Of course, I'll hit the notes regarding the meat & potatoes of this supplement.

-Price Point:  You're buying a GW product, it's stupid expensive.  You already know this.  But right now, if you're still playing 40k- you could very well be asking if it's worth the purchase.  So I'll make it easy.  Do you play an Imperium army?  Then it might be useful.  Do you have a BUNCH of Imperium armies?  It is pretty cool with the formations you can use.  Do you want to play during a warp-storm?  It has rules for that madness, so you might want it.  However, it's pretty easy to get your hands on all these items without spending $50.00 on a book that is overwhelmingly 70% fluff.

-Fluff:  I've only read a little bit of it, but it seems like for some reason, Abaddon the Useless has decided to launch 13th Crusade 2.0.  If Chaos wasn't constantly failing to be the threat it is supposed to be, GW wouldn't have to launch these Crusades over and over again (and constantly face the reality that Chaos actually sucks, but not as bad as Tyranids).  Shitloads of Imperium armies flock to Cadia, the Adeptus Mechanicus' head honcho finds some good shit and a Harlequin Farseer tells him to go to Cadia and unfuck that shit post-haste.  I'll fill you in on the fluff once I read it, which will require me taking a signficantly large poop so I can focus on it.

-Formations:  There's two bigger ones- one is really Admech/Knights/Skitarii focused, but they can get some fuck-nasty bonuses through Canticles of the Omnissiah.  The other is this absurd mixup of a lot of Imperium shit with a bit of versatility- but it essentially allows you to put a destroyed unit into ongoing reserves on a 5+.  The other formation requires the new Characters, and they share a Warlord trait between the lot of them.  Big whoop.

-Units:  This book brings the data for the three new units, all of which can be used as HQ for ANY Imperium army.  Yes, you read that- ANY.  Here they are:  

• Belisarius Cawl- Big weird tentacle AdMech guy, who buffs the fuck out of Admech stuff and can tentacle-slap vehicles to death.  He's all right, I suppose.  If you're an Admech/Skitarii player, buy him on Ebay and get his data some other way.  He's all right for other armies, but he really shines in Admech formations.  He can take some pretty disgusting artifacts, and at close range he's disgusting and will melt anything you throw at him.
  
• Celestine- The waifu that every SoB fanboy has been tugging their dicks over.  While I'll be one of the first to say that SoB are a bit overrated, this bitch is fucking SCARY.  She has 5 wounds with a 2+ armor and 4+ Invuln save, but her 2-wound 3+ Armor Save flying nuns always tank wounds for her first- and she can bring one of them back to life every turn.  It gets worse- if she's slain, she takes a leadership test (Her leadership is 10).  If she passes, she comes back on the next turn in that same spot or as close to it as possible.  And she can bring back one of the flying nuns, too.  This is also while she's buffing the shit out of everything you have on the battlefield.  Get ready to see Imperium WAAC-boys throwing this bitch down in EVERY army- especially Iron Hands, considering she can buff them with a FNP (And effectively get Iron Hands down to FNP of 4+, if they rig it right).
  
• Inquisitor Greyfax- Inquisition bitch, ordo Hereticus, apparently appearing after a long time has passed.  With her wargear, she and her unit fires on any Psyker unit at BS10- so if this bitch is in a group of Devastators, Deathwatch Frag-Cannon lads, or even fucking Scions with Volley Guns- she's going to eradicate everything that even thinks it might be a Psyker and all of his homies.  No one can infiltrate within 24" of her.  For 1 Warp Charge, she can force any non-vehicle unit within 12" to take a pinning test.  For 3, she makes everyone within 12" take this pinning test.  She can severely lock down her location.  And worse- when rolling Deny the Witch, she ALWAYS counts as being the most powerful Psyker (yes, she can even out-Psyker Magnus the Red on a Deny the Witch roll).  She also has a one-shot crossbow that makes a Psyker suffer Perils of the Warp, Psyk-out Grenades, and a standard bolter.  That sound you hear is all those Thousand Sons players rushing to get some Khorne Berserker allies.
  

Overall, I've only played with the Inquisitor and I find the book to be a bit overpriced for what it offers.  If you like 40k fluff, then it's all here.  I wasn't a fan of the Warzone Fenris and Wrath of Magnus stuff- but Rising Storm got my eye because I have a shitload of Black Templars and Scions and some buddies are AdMech junkies.  For Imperium players, it might be awesome.  However, it's been rumored that the 'unlikely allies' referenced in the book will soon get their own box of models as well as the next book.  I won't spoil who they are, but let's just say we found out who made the Pylons and some of those xenos 'distant relatives' out there aren't as 'distant' from each other as we thought.

I used to pray to Tzeentch for something, anything to bring Blessed Change to the 40k timeline.

After the failed colostomy that is Age of Sigmar, they need to put any and all possible brakes on the ChangeTrain.

Quote from: CRKrueger;940948I used to pray to Tzeentch for something, anything to bring Blessed Change to the 40k timeline.

After the failed colostomy that is Age of Sigmar, they need to put any and all possible brakes on the ChangeTrain.

Allegedly, the company is not going to 'End Times' the game.  The story is that the creative director, or CEO, or 'boss' or something is an actual player of the game.  If anything the story is going to move forward, which might be good.  

8th Edition is supposed to borrow elements for AoS.  And don't get me wrong- AoS fluff is stupid, but the gameplay isn't too awful and it's certainly not a 'go-to' game for me, but it's an alternative to 40k and the models are actually pretty slick.  Most of the people who are howling about how bad AoS changes to 40k would be?  Tau players.  Because AoS has different rules for monstrous creatures and those rules make it so the MC starts losing effectiveness after taking damage (so of course the scrubs are crying about muh riptide).