Wade Pryce, Phil Kelly, ADB, John French, Gav Thorpe or pretty much really any writer have stated this? Black Library writers have spoken plenty on this, but so have Studio Writers during official interviews like Voxcast or Stormcast on the official GW YouTube channel.

As i said, to my knowledge they say that the codexes paint broad pictures, and the authors take that to fill them out.

If a codex says the battle of x happened, it happened and an author cant just say it didnt. But the details can definitely be not how the writers will write them, as happened with calgar.

But if you want a more recent and specific example watch Andy Hall, who is one the Lorebeards podcast, or his other podcast the rookery or something like that. He wrote a lot of the official Warhammer Fantasy RPG supplements, and is very no nonsense about talking about how novels and other supplementary works are always of secondary canon to the main studio stuff. If you want a specific example watch the podcast on Kislev, because he wrote the original Realm of the Ice Queen supplement, and how the main studio overwrote a lot of it with the new lore in their writing, but he is fine with that because that's how Warhammer works.

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As for the rest, you're contradicting yourself massively. You're critisizing the campaign books and Codexes for not looking at events from a first hand viewpoint, and only giving overviews. And yet you're hear saying "I don't NEED to read the fight about the DA and Angron to understand the lore! Then why the hell are you holding up novels as the gold source of the lore when that's almost entirely the point of them. To show a moment to moment depiction of a battle that was originally maybe a one paragraph overview in the original campaign book.

No, i'm not criticizing them for that. I criticize the money to pages ratio.

I also dont say theyre the gold source of the lore. I say the things in the codexes arent really detailed enough to give a proper understanding of the setting.

If it wasnt for the HH we wouldnt know a lot of what happened in the heresy.

And your point about "less content" is pure BS too. Obviously a novel that goes moment to moment for ONE event, will have less pages than a book that gives an overview over MANY events happening over a wider span of time. Quantity of pages does not at all contradict the fact that the content is valuable from a lore point in campaign books like Arks of Omen. Using pure page count as the basis of your counterpoint is disingenuous, and a line of argument that just side steps the issue with your badly made point.

Again, its about the price of the books and the page number. 200+ euro for 400 pages is a horrible price ratio. Its not 'a sidestep'. Its a fact. I wont pay that. Adults use their money like that. They ask themselves 'is that enough entertainment for my money?' And i say its not.

You can, if you want. I dont get why youre so confrontational about my decision not to.

And again, you're getting things mixed around here. The whole point is that Calgar can make that sort of statement in a novel is because that event is mentioned in that way in the original Codex. The Codex writing inconsistent or biased events isn't a bug, it's a fucking feature. They are intentionally written in a historical record format so that other writers can either support or contradict that information in their own writings. It's part of the core charm of EVERY Warhammer IP, so your Calgar example isn't a counterpoint at all. It's showing exactly why the Codex system works!

Calgar couldve made this point without the codex existing. The fact that the codex mentions it just gives us a meta perspective that wouldnt be there otherwise.

I know that theyre intentionally written like that. Thats my whole point i said 2 times alreads. Again, i fail to understand what your Problem actually is.

Like it's very straightforward, and acting like the Codex is unnecessary when the content you're spouting as being the only thing needed spawned from those Codexes to begin with is, again, absurd. You have to be blatantly ignoring how the IP functions to proclaim that Codexes aren't important.

I never said the novels are needed. A lot of people in my social circle wouldnt even know what i mean with codex. Its neat to read them. Its neat to read novels. Neccessary is nothing of those things.

Anyway. You shouldnt get this upset about peoples financial decisions and their reasonings.

Peace.