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D-Pad posted:You should definitely read the Watchers of the Throne series to get a great look at where the imperium and Custodes ended up 10k years later. Same author. Read the poo poo outta those bad boys. I bloody love the boys in Gold and their warp loving besties.
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notaspy posted:Read the poo poo outta those bad boys. I bloody love the boys in Gold and their warp loving besties. Then I would suggest Vaults of Terra series and Lords of Silence for some other recent greats by Wraight.
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Thanks for the recs, scooped up Fang and World Bearers.head58 posted:Betrayer by ADB has a dread as one of the main characters. I haven’t tried any of the Heresy books yet. Can they be picked and chosen like the rest? Granted I don’t play the game I’ve just been reading the books with a loose understanding of that part of the history.
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^burtle posted:Thanks for the recs, scooped up Fang and World Bearers. I think you could read Betrayer standalone, since it's the first (I think) book about the World Eaters. Only things from the other HH books you need to know would be: Lorgar was the first one to really get into Chaos, before it was cool, and he, Erebrus (his second in command) and Kor Pharon (His religious space daddy) have been the ones slowly leading the other legions towards the Warp. Argel Tal is a Word Bearer who was possessed by a demon, and he leads a bunch of other marines in the same boat, the Gal Vorbak. He is mostly a chill bro though. Lorgar hates the Ultramarines because they were mean to him and blew up one of his planets on the Emperor's orders, so now he and Angron are loving up Ultramar. Also, Ultramar is currently cut off by warp storms and is forming a mini-empire in case everyone else dies before they can get out. Really, any backstory you missed would be in the book First Heretic, which is an A+ book anyways, but you should be fine with Betrayer on its own if that's what you want.
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von Metternich posted:I think you could read Betrayer standalone, since it's the first (I think) book about the World Eaters. You should really read Know No Fear before Betrayer, because the entire plot of Betrayer comes out of the Calth Atrocity. However, Know No Fear is awesome so that really isn't a problem, imo. Here's what you need to know beforehand: The Word Bearers are evil and they hate the Ultramarines. The Ultramarines don't know this and think that the Word Bearers are still friends who are coming to help them kill a bunch of orks to help prove their brotherhood. Murder ensues. No orks appear in this book.
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Just when I think I’m starting to coast, you guys pull me back in.
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I think First Heretic, Know No Fear, and Betrayer make an excellent trilogy.
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I'm halfway through Betrayer and didn't realize until too late that Know No Fear covered the stuff I wasn't understanding.  I'll read it next and work backwards on the details I missed.At least I read First Heretic beforehand so I know the deal behind Lorgar and Argel Tal. I read it weeks ago and I still think about the ending. Ending your oath of silence to say "I always hated you, Xaphen" is an amazing way to go out before getting ripped to shreds by possessed space marines. And "I'm your brother now" is the perfect encapsulation of the bitter regret instilled in the more coherent heretics. ADB writes chaos exactly the way I want them to be. I need to re-read Night Lords sometime. Marin Karin fucked around with this message at 09:15 on Mar 30, 2020 |
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Khizan posted:You should really read Know No Fear before Betrayer, because the entire plot of Betrayer comes out of the Calth Atrocity. It is utterly impossible for a book that has a chapter opening with the line "it was raining main battle tanks" to be bad.
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Half way though Valdor and it has me wanting Warhammer 40,000: Unity after Horus Heresy is over. Come on games workshop give me some techno barbarians. Guyver fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Mar 30, 2020 |
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Mar 30, 2020 11:42
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I love Betrayer but the title always gets this stuck in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHO_DhLeQr8
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Guyver posted:Half way though Valdor and it has me wanting Warhammer 40,000: Unity after Horus Heresy is over. If Corona gets worse, maybe we will live the techno barbarian life ourselves and toilet paper would become lost-tech for sure.
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Mar 30, 2020 13:15
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Idris Elba should play Eisenhorn.
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Mar 30, 2020 14:44
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Nah, they should get someone who can't emote to play their strengths.
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Mar 30, 2020 15:08
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Why have we never got a Inquisitor Mass effect style game.
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Mar 30, 2020 15:10
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It would be morally confusing to say the least. Does the renegade option involve not executing every second person you talk to for heresy?
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euphronius posted:Why have we never got a Inquisitor Mass effect style game. There's something in the works along that line, but it won't be AAA level, or with the depth you sound like you're looking for. Focus Interactive has 3 titles under development, 1 being a ARPG/FPS combo, another being pure FPS, and I think the 3rd was BFG 3?
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Mar 30, 2020 15:19
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The weapons, retinue, psyker abilities, chaos demons .. It would just he perfect !!
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Mar 30, 2020 15:21
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if it was a game that offered any choice every PC would fall to Chaos every time
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peanut- posted:It would be morally confusing to say the least. Does the renegade option involve not executing every second person you talk to for heresy? Puritan: BLAM! Radical: Maybe peaceful co-existence is possible.
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Azubah posted:Nah, they should get someone who can't emote to play their strengths. So Keanu Reeves for Eisenhorn then.
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Azubah posted:Nah, they should get someone who can't emote to play their strengths. Deptfordx posted:So Keanu Reeves for Eisenhorn then. Too expensive, probably. How about the lead from season one of Altered Carbon, Joel Kinnaman?
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I still say D'Onofrio for Eisenhorn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_D%27Onofrio
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MariusLecter posted:I still say D'Onofrio for Eisenhorn. D'Onofrio got L A R G E recently, Eisenhorn is grumpy and old, but every description has him at frightening physical condition in terms of relative strength and speeds even after he's crippled. This is the guy who is able to duel (with only minimal augmentation) a chaos space marine in his 200s. I'm thinking maybe more of a Statham type, even a Bruce Willis. You need a roided out grandpa.
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Mar 30, 2020 23:46
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The dude who played Tywin on GoT is how i picture eisenhorn
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Looks like I was beaten to Mark Strong in the time it took me to hit Reply. God speed, Inspector_666. May blue shells guide you to your rest.
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Mar 31, 2020 00:20
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Yes. Titus Welliver from Bosch would be good too.
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I thought Strong was already playing him in the cell phone game.
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Mar 31, 2020 00:33
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*bangs table* Jeffery. Donovan. Jeffery. Donovan.
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D-Pad posted:The dude who played Tywin on GoT is how i picture eisenhorn Charles Dance for Hereticus Eisenhorn. Mark Strong for young Eisenhorn.
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Mar 31, 2020 01:24
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In terms of goon casting , which is usually terrible and face blind , not bad
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Idris Elba as Eisenhorn.
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SardonicTyrant posted:Idris Elba as Eisenhorn. That would work very well
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Idris as Fishig
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SardonicTyrant posted:*bangs table* Only if he has his Sicario moustache. And glasses.  TIER. ONE.
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Mar 31, 2020 03:20
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It’s gotta be Karl Urban, my dudes.
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Mar 31, 2020 04:43
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Karl Urban is already typecast as an Arbites officer.
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I just finished Rites of Passage, and it was excellent just as others have said. "So here we are. The unprepared, arraying ourselves against the unfathomable, on behalf of the unaware."
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So long as we get Mark Rylance to play my boy Uber Aemos I’ll be happy.
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