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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:
I always thought that the Fantasy world was just on a undiscovered world in the 40k universe. And one day the black ships will appear in the sky and see all these humans chumming around with xenos and mutants and orks running around all over and just virus bomb the joint and be done with it.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 04:34 |
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Cream_Filling posted:I think it was the same Abnett book where they mention a case where two scouts found an ancient STC print-out for a better way to make a combat knife. In the end, they were rewarded with a planet each for their discovery. I remember this, it was some 'mono-filament' knife that became standard issue to all IG. Apparently 1 planet each was considered a huge bargain for the design. Demiurge4 posted:It still gets to me that Horus didn't try to trick that one planet into giving him the only fully functional STC in the galaxy. And instead went balls out invasion and had it blown up in Angrons face. From what it says, the planet with STC tech had its front line troops in Space Marine equivalent gear. Yeah, common sense doesn't matter when it comes to technology. Specifically, the tech priests. For starters - Forge worlds don't share templates, so if the only world with a plasma pistol template gets eaten by a hive fleet, no more will ever get made - They always wake up any Necron tech they find - They plot how to sway Tau machine spirits to their side via bribing - Replace as much flesh with metal as possible - Advise wholesale destruction on any human planet with non Adeptus Mechanicus infrastructure I recall one planet during the Macharian Crusade that by itself held off the Crusade fleet for 2 years until they got fed up and directed a massive comet to hit the planet. Think of it like a monopoly. The AM don't care about advancing only improving technology, or worshiping it and keeping anyone else from cutting it.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 04:54 |
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Yeah, the height of mankind's power is roughly the year 20,000, at which point psykers appeared and everything got all hosed up. Anyway, can we please keep fluff discussion related to specific BL books? I don't think this is really the thread for people's inane theories on which Manhattan Project scientist was secretly the Emperor. I really enjoy the fluff discussions here, and because you said we should check out the TG thread I did. I waded through the first 10 pages and didn't any real discussion that didn't concern point armies and the actual table top game itself. I have never played warhammer (though I'm interested), but I'm a huge fan of the universe, books and fluff. I really hope you allow fluff discussions to blossom here since the TG thread seems lacking. (Alexander the Great was the God-Emperor)
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 05:42 |
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Has anyone given The Last Chancers by Gav Thorpe a leaf-thru? I've only just learned of their existence, and I'm wondering if they're worth tracking down.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 06:03 |
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yaboonabi posted:Has anyone given The Last Chancers by Gav Thorpe a leaf-thru? I've only just learned of their existence, and I'm wondering if they're worth tracking down. People seem to like them, but on the other hand, Gav Thorpe is a lovely writer. So uh...your mileage may vary. (I haven't read them)
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 06:18 |
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drkhrs2020 posted:I remember this, it was some 'mono-filament' knife that became standard issue to all IG. Apparently 1 planet each was considered a huge bargain for the design. The Tech Priest Necron thing I find funny. In the Cain book where he stumbles upon a Necron Hive frozen in the ice you get the impression he is face palming so hard his hand bursts out the back of his head over how horny the Tech Priests are to find it. Mean while he is just thinking of a way to piss himself in a way that would make him seem like a hero when he runs screaming from the planet with his pants on fire.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 08:11 |
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yaboonabi posted:Has anyone given The Last Chancers by Gav Thorpe a leaf-thru? I've only just learned of their existence, and I'm wondering if they're worth tracking down. If I remember correctly (and it has been a long, long time since I read them, mind you), they really pissed me off because Gav Thorpe would constantly shift from first- to third-person. I could certainly be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure this is why I couldn't even start the third book of the series. berzerkmonkey fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Jul 26, 2012 |
# ? Jul 26, 2012 13:20 |
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Most Gav Thorpe books are pretty bad except Angel of darkness that book is pretty good.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 14:28 |
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CommissarMega posted:poo poo, they even moved the Solar System to the middle of a stabilized Galactic Centre just so Earth could be the literal as well as figurative centre of the human empire. Seriously? Was this in a codex or White Dwarf or what?
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 14:58 |
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Thewittyname posted:Seriously? Was this in a codex or White Dwarf or what? He was kidding. Unless that one planet they came across early in the HH series that believed IT was really Earth actually was.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 15:16 |
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yaboonabi posted:Has anyone given The Last Chancers by Gav Thorpe a leaf-thru? I've only just learned of their existence, and I'm wondering if they're worth tracking down. It is actually pretty neat. I believe one of the guys in the penal (lol) legion was there for overdue library books. The third book was a bit silly even for Gav Thorpe. Turns out the main dude was possessed by a Daemon his whole life
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 15:49 |
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berzerkmonkey posted:If I remember correctly (and it has been a long, long time since I read them, mind you), they really pissed me off because Gav Thorpe would constantly shift from first- to third-person. I could certainly me misremembering, but I'm pretty sure this is why I couldn't even start the third book of the series. Whenever Gav Thorpe comes up in discussion with my friends I start switching first- to third-person, and changing tense. That first Last Chancers book was ghost-written by a child in a remedial class.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 15:54 |
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mllaneza posted:He was kidding. Unless that one planet they came across early in the HH series that believed IT was really Earth actually was. I thought so, but I never completely discount WH40K fluff on the basis of crazy, especially considering the Rogue Trader era.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 18:25 |
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I noticed the opening blurb in the 40K books states that the Emperor rules over humanity "by the will of the gods". Is this a Rogue Trader leftover? Because the Emperor is supposed to be the one and only god, who will himself onto the throne.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 20:44 |
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Baron Bifford posted:I noticed the opening blurb in the 40K books states that the Emperor rules over humanity "by the will of the gods". Is this a Rogue Trader leftover? Because the Emperor is supposed to be the one and only god, who will himself onto the throne. It's just an idiom. The opening blurb wasn't written by an Ecclesiarch or anything.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 21:00 |
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Yeah, I figured as much, but it seems strange because there really are no other benevolent gods for humanity to worship.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 21:07 |
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Baron Bifford posted:Yeah, I figured as much, but it seems strange because there really are no other benevolent gods for humanity to worship. What about the Omnissiah
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 22:10 |
I just want to tell you guys that I've been interested in getting into the BL for sometime, since the 40K mythology always sounded like such a balls-out universe that it couldn't help but have cool stories to tell. (I have zero interest in the table-top game and other non-BL applications.) So finally, on the advice of this thread, I have delved into Eisenhorn and I'm not regretting it one bit. Count me as another vote to keep the fluff discussion in here, since the tabletoppers seem a little too...motivated. I'd feel like a poser in there. Now I just have to start keeping straight all the various factions/powers.
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# ? Jul 26, 2012 23:00 |
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http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Main_Page#.UBHT9WE19Zw Is a great wiki on the 40k universe, when I first discovered it, I lost hours just reading it.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 00:35 |
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bunnyofdoom posted:What about the Omnissiah The Omnissiah is only the physical incarnation of the Machine God.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 00:37 |
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Is Omnissiah still the Void Dragon after that asinine Necron fluff redesign?
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 00:45 |
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I was wondering to what was up with the ctan, and necron fluff heard the codex changed it up a bit.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 00:55 |
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If anyone has read Wrath of Iron, there's a funny/ironic exchange between a magos and the lord general. The magos explains that the Iron Hands are afraid of their own flesh, and that they're addicted to augmentation.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 01:09 |
I love it. Like, I don't even understand 75% of what you guys are saying but I'm totally on board. So...do I just keep reading Abnett? He seems like the best prose stylist among the BL authors, from just a quick assessment. After Eisenhorn, do I go to Gaunt's Ghosts or Horus Heresy, or what?!?
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 05:37 |
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mdemone posted:I love it. Like, I don't even understand 75% of what you guys are saying but I'm totally on board. After Eisenhorn read Ravenor, and after that the list is vast, so might as well go for the books recommended in the OP based upon what picks your interest. Do note that HH is best reserved to when you have a good grasp on the WH40k universe, as most of the impact in those novels is seeing the truth and deeds of characters of myth, and the contrast of the world as it was before it all went to poo poo.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 06:52 |
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mdemone posted:I love it. Like, I don't even understand 75% of what you guys are saying but I'm totally on board. Horus Heresy should wait for a while. It helps to have a lot of knowledge of the fluff so you can understand who a lot of these people are. You can't go wrong with Ciphas Cain to be honest. If you want a really well written story go for 15 hours. It is really short but it is strikingly good for Warhammer. If you dig the whole rosette crew Ravenor is awesome. And if bolter porn is your thing I really liked the Ultramarines books, but you will see people on here disagree with me. I am reading the Shira Calpurnia books right now and I am really digging the space Judge Dredd-ish story going on it. And I think she is one of the most positive female leads in a Warhammer book that I have seen thus far.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 06:54 |
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Evil_Urna posted:I am reading the Shira Calpurnia books right now and I am really digging the space Judge Dredd-ish story going on it. And I think she is one of the most positive female leads in a Warhammer book that I have seen thus far. There's other Warhammer books with female leads?
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 07:16 |
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Evil_Urna posted:You can't go wrong with Ciphas Cain to be honest. If you want a really well written story go for 15 hours. It is really short but it is strikingly good for Warhammer.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 07:43 |
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Little fish, fifteen hours is awful little fish. What on earth is good about it little fish?
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 08:45 |
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Gooses and Geeses posted:Little fish, fifteen hours is awful little fish. What on earth is good about it little fish? Mitchell Scanlon is a horrible writer and repeats phrases was too much. His other book is Descent of Angels where the readers are reminded of the planet the action takes place on every other sentence. It was a beautiful sunset on Caliban...
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 09:51 |
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Baron Bifford posted:So Warhammer books generally suck? Well, yeah. The Black Library (wh40k section) is what, 300 books? And only about 20 of those are legit good, with about 50 more being decent.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 10:16 |
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Cream_Filling posted:There's other Warhammer books with female leads? On the Fantasy side I can the top of my head come up with the Genevieve Undead series of three books with an omnibus released as well as Ulrika the Vampire series of two books. And then looking at the BL website there is Valkia the Bloody as well. Funny how most female leads in Fantasy are all vampires as there's also Neferata coming out next year. On the 40k side the only one I can directly think of is the Sisters of Battles books by James Swallow aside from the Enforcer series. Although looking at the BL site suddenly remembered that Double Eagle features a female lead so there is that one too. Pariah is also going to have a female lead as well based on its description. Evil_Urna posted:I am reading the Shira Calpurnia books right now and I am really digging the space Judge Dredd-ish story going on it. And I think she is one of the most positive female leads in a Warhammer book that I have seen thus far. I can second this recommendation. Even if the second book spends far too much time around secondary characters to my liking but otherwise it's not bad. The second book is a great way to learn how to hate Rogue Traders though. Just saying. Cooked Auto fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Jul 27, 2012 |
# ? Jul 27, 2012 12:24 |
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Gooses and Geeses posted:Little fish, fifteen hours is awful little fish. What on earth is good about it little fish? Cream_Filling posted:There's other Warhammer books with female leads?
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 13:32 |
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mdemone posted:I love it. Like, I don't even understand 75% of what you guys are saying but I'm totally on board. Read the OP
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 14:01 |
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I just realized I'm between wh40k. Waiting on fear to tread, and the new eldar book which are better than what I expected considering its from a xeno point of view.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 14:01 |
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Gooses and Geeses posted:Little fish, fifteen hours is awful little fish. What on earth is good about it little fish? Fifteen Hours was awesome and you are not. It gives a really good picture to new readers of just how little life is worth in the imperium.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 16:37 |
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Does the Imperium use messenger ships to handle the bulk of its communications? From what I understand, astropaths are too few and too inefficient to handle it all. Who gets to use astropaths anyway? What priority is given?
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 18:02 |
Thanks for all the suggestions, and yes I will commit the OP to memory. That wiki is also going to suck up whole chunks of time, I'm sure. Ravenor is next and I can't wait. It's been a long time since I had a bunch of "easy" fiction on my reading pile, so it feels good to just plow through a huge omnibus and have a blast the whole time, knowing there are thousands more pages where that came from.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 18:17 |
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I read Malacath and liked it, and I don't care for fantasy warhammer at all.
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# ? Jul 27, 2012 18:40 |
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Cooked Auto posted:On the 40k side the only one I can directly think of is the Sisters of Battles books by James Swallow aside from the Enforcer series. Are the Sisters of Battle books any good? I like the lore I've been exposed to so far and wouldn't mind some more in-depth stuff. Also as far as Pariah goes is there any given reason why Ravenor and Eisenhorn would be at odds? I'd imagine it would have to do with Ravenor coming away from his trilogy still an inquisitor and Eisenhorn being radical now. But in the short story where they meet they didn't really seem to be at each other's throat. Trast fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Jul 28, 2012 |
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