One codex or expansion each month.

[Cheexsta]

Adam Troke wrote the 7th edition High elves army book.

As a rule it seems the best books are those that are written by more than 1 author (Ogre Kingdoms, previous Guard codex) - hopefully they will pair a newer author with a more experienced one to produce codices.

Chaos Space Marines was authored by Gav Thorpe and Alessio Cavatore...

But maybe that's an exception to the rule.

[Spiney Norman]

Phil Kelly going to work on the next Nid codex=best news ever. Although I reckon it's very much in the planning stage if he is doing anything at all with it, I remember reading on Warpshadow that he was full of ideas after the current codex was released, I really like Phil- great writing and he is passionate about Nids so whenever he does it it should be with the wait.

I'm really happy for Tyranids, I'd be expecting Phil to deliver a cracking codex as usual. It's kinda sad but "codex roulette" seems to be the order of the day at present, with Phil topping the pile, Matt delivering an overpowered mess and Cruddace's offerings not being worth the paper they're printed on.

So where do other companies without access to lotr get the money for their machines and software? And how much of that money was wasted on stores that didn't do well. It's a tired excuse for mismanagement.
On topic I believe they may be referring to what they have to produce as a studio rather than what we'll see as releases when referring to monthly codex and rule suplements.

Whichever way you slice it LotR was a great cash cow for GW during the film years, and that money allowed them to do a lot of stuff they otherwise wouldn't have been able to. Plus there are gamers out there (I am one) who like the LotR system, not to mention it has some fantastic models. System elitism doesn't really have a place on the forum.

I don't think the studio is so silly to expect it to be one CODEX per month? Surely a mix of WFB as well? A Codex-per-month (almost) is what made the 3rd Edition Codices such rushed and terrible affairs.

I really hope this isn't true, 4 codexes a year is about the most I would want them to be operating at, anything past that and the books get rushed and sloppy. Sme of the worst army books/codexes have been put out in 'rush years', the last was 2008 for fantasy which gave us both dark elves and chaos daemons which were both horrifically overpowered at the time (and to some extend still are)

[TrangleC]

Whichever way you slice it LotR was a great cash cow for GW during the film years, and that money allowed them to do a lot of stuff they otherwise wouldn't have been able to. Plus there are gamers out there (I am one) who like the LotR system, not to mention it has some fantastic models. System elitism doesn't really have a place on the forum.

Really? I've never seen anybody play the LotR game or even buy something from that system.

Well, Germany, where I live, seems to be different from other markets anyways. While GW Britain is successful, GW Germany is not. Just recently they fired the head of sales and marketing after less than a year in the job. It seems that here 40k has clearly fallen back to second position in the market after Warmachine/Hordes and a shop owner told me that since going public GW Britain is ruthlessly cannibalizing their German subsidiary by deliberately keeping retail prices higher in Germany than in Britain, to make German customers rather import their stuff from the UK than buying from German stores, in order to buff sales on their UK balance sheet, where their stock is issued.

[Dryaktylus]

It seems that here 40k has clearly fallen back to second position in the market after Warmachine/Hordes

While I could agree on LotR (though I've seen people buying it) this statement isn't true, at least not for whole Germany.

[TrangleC]

While I could agree on LotR (though I've seen people buying it) this statement isn't true, at least not for whole Germany.

I've heard that there are still a few more 40k players in the north of Germany, while the south is dominated by Warmachine/Hordes. I don't know whether that is true, but it certainly is true for the area where I live (in the south). In the store where I play there are about 3 to 4 times more Warmachine/Hordes players than there are 40k or Warhammer Fantasy players. Also that very active Warmachine/Hordes gaming group sends 2 to 3 teams to big tournaments basically every month while the 40k gaming group never once managed to do that in the 8+ years I play. All we get going are small 4 to 8 people tournaments in the store and even those often fall flat due to a lack of participants. So I'm inclined to believe it when the shop owner tells me that GW is losing the race against Privateer Press in Germany beyond our little gaming group.

[Aryllon]

I could be persuaded to give the Lotr games a try, if the models didn't look like they had been carved from soap. By a snotling.

[Dangersaurus]

I don't think there's anything else on topic to say at this point.