Warhammer 40,000 Books

this particular article concerns published books or supplements as they relate to the warhammer 40,000 game. one rather large selection of these books are known as codex's. a codex in warhammer 40,000 war games is a set of rules containing information which concerns a particular army, or an environment, or even a worldwide campaign.

codex's for various armies were first introduced to apply to the 2nd edition of the warhammer game. this codex's have since become obsolete and have been replaced with newer series which includes battle zones as well as campaigns.

games workshop which created the warhammer gold series will no longer produce any campaign or battle zone codex instead they have released what is known now as expansions. the word codex is now strictly used to designate an army book.

codex usually contains an army list. this is a list of the various army units, the characters within the units and the vehicles for which a player may select for use in the battles.

the codexes will also contain background information. this information will be about the military force in question and its active place in the warhammer 40,000 framework. it will include bits of artwork, several short stories and images of fictional documents that portray the future.

from the viewpoint of our current time and the player himself the book will include a hobby section. here you can find information relating to collecting warhammer miniatures, building or painting a particular army from its available codex. of particular interest is the very detailed warhammer models with such fine workmanship that they look like they belong in a museum.

there is also a section entitled special characters. these pages contain rules and background information for many of the particular army's remarkable characters.

as of june of 2008 the list of codex's are army codex's such as black templar's, chaos daemons, blood angels, chaos space marines, eldar, dark angels, orks, tau empire, space marines and tyranids.

other types of codexes are the 3rd edition codexes, battlefield codex's, apocalypse, event codexes, armageddon and eye of terror.

as you can tell there is much to be learned and understood concerning the warhammer game and the creators of the game have provided the fans with an abundance of literature and books for which to work with.