I bought the new High Elves armybook yesterday (my first experience with current-gen armybooks) and after reading through it I must admit I'm disappointed with its content, purely as a book.
Ignoring all rules and army list stuff aside. If I compare it with the previous version of the book I feel like I've been almost ripped off. I love the hardback and the full cover illustrations (always annoyed me having greyscale images knowing they existed somewhere at GW HQ in full colour) but the fluff section and layout are lacking IMO.
The fluff section seems slightly condensed regarding the Phoenix Kings history and misses out on the expanded stories of Tyrion/Teclic, Alith Anar and Eltharion. Admitedly we get some new interesting bits of background and some newly mentioned battles but I would have expected these in addition to the pre-existing stories, not instead of.
Also, the way the background of the units is presented disappoints me. Units being grouped by theme or location means you get a page which covers both, for example, white lions of Chrace and the lion chariot each with a half-done paragraph of fluff. I by far prefered the old style of an entire page per unit. As a direct result this book actually has fewer drawings of the units compared to the previous, and is shorter! That is certainly something I was expecting.
Basically overall I feel a bit miffed that I payed a lot more for the book compared to the last, only to receive a condensed version of the book I already had...
Anyone else feeling similar about new-style army books?