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Also I meant bad place to start as in I wanted to do it chronologically, but when I searched for a list I didn't see it in the top like six or seven so I assumed it was a bad place to start. Then I got the news about 50 books and said gently caress it and finished it. It's good. As many problems as any Warhammer book has, but perfectly fine.
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Inquisition Wars is a great book but JFC gently caress the ending of that book. It pissed me off so bad. I don't see the new Horusian wars series get mentioned much here but it is really really good.
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The problem with a lot of the big moments of the Heresy is they were basically all just names that happened 10k years ago and then the novel series happened. What's now a clearly (for GW...) defined timeline was, bwck then, very much up in the air. It's just so old now that it's started to merge into the foundations of the last four editions worth of fluff.
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Aug 20, 2018 02:33
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ill trust games workshop when they publish an official style guide that tells you how to pronounce roboute
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Aug 20, 2018 04:06
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Rub'out.
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Aug 20, 2018 04:12
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PupsOfWar posted:ill trust games workshop when they publish an official style guide that tells you how to pronounce roboute Robo-oot
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Aug 20, 2018 04:15
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Its Roo-Boot Gillyman. Seriously
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Aug 20, 2018 04:45
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Finished Scars. I still don't care much about that legion, but Chris Wraight made a nice tale out of it. I'm going to re-read the first three books of the HH next, as I've forgotten most of it. Since I lost all three books, I took a look on Amazon for Horus Rising, but it looks like they don't have it because of some imminent re-release or something. I did find this, though. 
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Aug 20, 2018 04:56
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PupsOfWar posted:ill trust games workshop when they publish an official style guide that tells you how to pronounce roboute Row-boat. 
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Aug 20, 2018 14:45
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Deptfordx posted:I still can't ever see myself reading a Age of Sigmar novel. Not to cast shade on your tastes, it's just a combination of loving the Old World/total disinterest in Trademark World. Spear of Shadows is classic Warhammer. Anyone worried about trademarky bullshit at this point is simply not following AoS and clinging onto the trope garbage GW threw out in the early days of AoS.
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Adeptus Titanicus was just rereleased. What good Titan books exist? I've read Mechanicum years ago, and I think that's it.
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Aug 20, 2018 16:53
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Philthy posted:Adeptus Titanicus was just rereleased. What good Titan books exist? I've read Mechanicum years ago, and I think that's it. Titanicus by Abnett.
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Aug 20, 2018 17:08
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Philthy posted:Adeptus Titanicus was just rereleased. What good Titan books exist? I've read Mechanicum years ago, and I think that's it. The best parts of Helsreach are its Titan related stuff. Mind you I'm pretty much the only person on earth who doesn't like the book in general, so you'll probably also like the rest of it a lot too.
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Aug 20, 2018 18:43
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Arquinsiel posted:The problem with a lot of the big moments of the Heresy is they were basically all just names that happened 10k years ago and then the novel series happened. What's now a clearly (for GW...) defined timeline was, bwck then, very much up in the air. It's just so old now that it's started to merge into the foundations of the last four editions worth of fluff. Slaves to darkness really made me realize that despite 50 drat books there was actually almost gently caress all actual books about the war itself. The whole beginning section with Volk and the iron warriors fighting the resurgent ultramarines + shattered legions and being starved of ammo and just barely holding on made me really want a book about the Horus Heresy from the view of some ground troops or of a campaign itself ala the forgeworld black books. Pharos was actually really good for this reason as well and I quite liked haleys attempt at aping ADB's style for his nightlords warband. I also enjoyed perturabo's slow realization that he was basically the only one on the traitor side fighting the war as a war and the rest of them were becoming more and more subsumed by the warp and goals that ran counter to anything they were actually trying to do.
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Zasze posted:Slaves to darkness really made me realize that despite 50 drat books there was actually almost gently caress all actual books about the war itself. The whole beginning section with Volk and the iron warriors fighting the resurgent ultramarines + shattered legions and being starved of ammo and just barely holding on made me really want a book about the Horus Heresy from the view of some ground troops or of a campaign itself ala the forgeworld black books.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfGPMJ8A0QY New Astartes episode. It's good.
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Aug 21, 2018 02:44
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Opentarget posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfGPMJ8A0QY That's some proper bolter going on right there.  The gently caress were the little orb drone counter measure things though?
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Aug 21, 2018 02:49
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They go off and intercept missiles. I had to watch it twice to figure that out. Are they real in the fluff? I'd never read about them before.
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Aug 21, 2018 03:00
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Philthy posted:Adeptus Titanicus was just rereleased. What good Titan books exist? I've read Mechanicum years ago, and I think that's it. Betrayer has a couple of great Titan fights. And some fun insight into the early Dark Mechanicum.
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Aug 21, 2018 03:05
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Philthy posted:Adeptus Titanicus was just rereleased. What good Titan books exist? I've read Mechanicum years ago, and I think that's it. i seem to recall that ye olde black templars novels had some good Titan porn in them while being otherwise unremarkable https://www.goodreads.com/series/192594-black-templars i read those as a small child though and thus cannot guarantee this
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Aug 21, 2018 03:26
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We got an official pronunciation for his name Row-BOOT-ay GILL-uh-man
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Shut up, Leandros.
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One of my favourite parts of the eisenhorn series is that despite us knowing that the inquisition is universally feared throughout the imperium, his doctor girlfriend just doesn’t get it. And despite his warning that a guy is a literal loving heretic, she loosens his bonds because his wrists hurt a little.
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Aug 21, 2018 07:43
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Opentarget posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfGPMJ8A0QY Like stormtrooopers boarding the ship in the opening of New Hope, cept infinitely more terrifying.
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MariusLecter posted:Like stormtrooopers boarding the ship in the opening of New Hope, cept infinitely more terrifying. I like how they just walk right up, firing, with zero tactical shits given.
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Opentarget posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfGPMJ8A0QY Yessss. This is fantastic, but man 1 minute long episodes is just ughhhhh. I know it probably took the dude(s) so much to do even that. I just want another movie of this. Good god.
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You know I've always thought of the explosive portion of a bolter round as delayed, even a little bit, but I guess if your bullet is actually a rocket then there's not a lot of time you need to delay to explode inside the average Astartes target. Learn something new about space murder every day.
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Orv posted:You know I've always thought of the explosive portion of a bolter round as delayed, even a little bit, but I guess if your bullet is actually a rocket then there's not a lot of time you need to delay to explode inside the average Astartes target. They're described as having a delayed explosive warhead in a lot of the canon.
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Philthy posted:I just want another movie of this. Good god. It's a shame Ultramarines sucked so hard, and presumably scared GW off movies for awhile. They could totally do good straight-to-DVD CGI movies, like Resident Evil, if they went with an actual experienced film studio and didn't just assume that a guy who was good at writing books would have to be good at writing screenplays too.
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Guy Goodbody posted:It's a shame Ultramarines sucked so hard, and presumably scared GW off movies for awhile. They could totally do good straight-to-DVD CGI movies, like Resident Evil, if they went with an actual experienced film studio and didn't just assume that a guy who was good at writing books would have to be good at writing screenplays too. "Annual Report 2017-2018 posted:
It might mean nothing of the sort of course, as the rest of the sentence mentions the Space Marines heroes thing and increasing GW's presence in Japan.
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Fearless posted:They're described as having a delayed explosive warhead in a lot of the canon. Ah that explains that.
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The Hellsreach series on YouTube borrows its audio from the book on tape (showing my age here), right? I’ve never listened to a black library book before, but I’m thinking about giving it a shot while I’m off on my morning constitutionals.
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:The Hellsreach series on YouTube borrows its audio from the book on tape (showing my age here), right? I’ve never listened to a black library book before, but I’m thinking about giving it a shot while I’m off on my morning constitutionals. Yep. It's a good one. The Eisenhorn series is good too. Basically, just like the print versions, anything by Abnett or ADB is going to be worth listening to. Toby Longworth is a pretty good narrator, though some of his female voices are very questionable. I really wish the Night Lords series got the audio treatment.
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Groetgaffel posted:Well there is this tiny tidbit from the latest financial report: Are you ready for Warhammer 40,000: the Anime?
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Technowolf posted:Are you ready for Warhammer 40,000: the Anime? We've had Tau since like third edition dude.
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Groetgaffel posted:We've had Tau since like third edition dude. I was going to pithily respond "My dude we've had Eldar since first" but then I just sat there thinking about which was more anime until I became disgusted with myself. The answer is they both are, send help.
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There was a manga or doujinshi about 40k, but it wasn't quite that awesome since it was about the various armored vehicles represented as girls. I think the main character was a Sisters of Battle variant Rhino transport.
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Fearless posted:They're described as having a delayed explosive warhead in a lot of the canon. I never considered that description of being a very long delay at all. Like milliseconds after impact where the "Mass Reactive" part kicks in where I read it as the round reacting to hitting something, it's either gone through or not. Either way it's gonna make a boom.
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MariusLecter posted:I never considered that description of being a very long delay at all. Like milliseconds after impact where the "Mass Reactive" part kicks in where I read it as the round reacting to hitting something, it's either gone through or not. Either way it's gonna make a boom. I figured it was basically Cool Long. Bullet enters, if it's not immediately fatal it's long enough for a fearful expression from the target, pop. You know that whole movie deal.
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I always thought the sensible thing to do would be to just ignore the timer and detonate when a sensor at the back of the round trips  The other option is to do like a mortar round and use a deceleration trigger.
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