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Guyver posted:poo poo was getting too grim dark Impossible 
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victrix posted:Impossible When it looks like Chaos is beginning to actually finally win, well, either you let chaos win and end the setting or you bring back Robot Gillyman and upgrade some space marines and go to town.
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Sep 10, 2020 16:20
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Angry Lobster posted:Read Lords of Silence, that where the really good Nurgle stuff is. Man that book ruled. It was so great seeing how these horrible rotting monsters could actually turn out to almost be the merciful good guys in at least one case.
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Sep 10, 2020 16:48
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Angry Lobster posted:Read Lords of Silence, that where the really good Nurgle stuff is. Oh, I have as I count Chris Wraight as, if not ADB/Abnett tier, a half tier below. Just saying with respect to DI/PW specifically.
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Sep 10, 2020 17:24
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Pyrolocutus posted:Oh, I have as I count Chris Wraight as, if not ADB/Abnett tier, a half tier below. Just saying with respect to DI/PW specifically. Yeah, absolutely, I wish they got rid of the bolter porn in Dark Imperium and put more pages of Rowboat doing his thing.
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Sep 10, 2020 18:07
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Angry Lobster posted:Yeah, absolutely, I wish they got rid of the bolter porn in Dark Imperium and put more pages of Rowboat doing his thing. Is it possible to make a whole book of "WTF is this? WTF is that?"
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Sep 10, 2020 18:33
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I'll be honest, I always skip the bolter porn in every 40k book I read nowadays because I'm only interested in the speaking parts.
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Azubah posted:Is it possible to make a whole book of "WTF is this? WTF is that?" I don’t know but I would read it.
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Sep 10, 2020 19:48
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victrix posted:Thanks, this'll keep me for a busy Also heavily recommend Peter Fehrvari’s work-Fire Caste, Cult of the Spiral Dawn, and Requiem Infernal. All very spooky, deeply psychological mindfucks. I read Fire Caste, got halfway through, went HOLY poo poo and started over with a different understanding, then proceeded to track down all three of his books and a bunch of short stories. As far as I’m concerned he’s top tier.
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Sep 10, 2020 19:53
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Horus Heresy 3 by Ben Counter is kinda... bad. It's mediocre and it's frustrating. Like it gets the job done but this isn't a great way to close out the opening trilogy. sigh. Graham McNeill has his faults but he's always a fast-fast-fast read and this one just drags. I'm 40% in.
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Sep 10, 2020 20:02
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Going back to Ben Counter Soul Drinkers, can't believe I just remembered the Warp Light Sabre. Very nice.
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Sep 10, 2020 20:35
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von Metternich posted:Also heavily recommend Peter Fehrvari’s work-Fire Caste, Cult of the Spiral Dawn, and Requiem Infernal. All very spooky, deeply psychological mindfucks. I read Fire Caste, got halfway through, went HOLY poo poo and started over with a different understanding, then proceeded to track down all three of his books and a bunch of short stories. As far as I’m concerned he’s top tier. He's my new favourite. All his poo poo is linked and figuring out new links in books is a great excuse for a reread
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Sep 10, 2020 21:01
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von Metternich posted:Also heavily recommend Peter Fehrvari’s work-Fire Caste, Cult of the Spiral Dawn, and Requiem Infernal. All very spooky, deeply psychological mindfucks. I read Fire Caste, got halfway through, went HOLY poo poo and started over with a different understanding, then proceeded to track down all three of his books and a bunch of short stories. As far as I’m concerned he’s top tier. Tau?! Tau books? Good Tau books?!
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Sep 10, 2020 22:01
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Tau don't have many books but most of them are good. Fire Warrior is better than the game its based on. A low bar, sure, but its a decent read about a panicked recruit getting ptsd.
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Sep 10, 2020 22:42
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https://twitter.com/MikeBrooks668/status/1304347212550467585?s=20
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This is Deff Skwadron-erasure and that's not cool! 
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Sep 11, 2020 13:23
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Dat's a comic, lad. Dis is summink diffrint.
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Sep 11, 2020 14:17
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Dey has Komikz dat go fasta. Dis is a book for big finkin' boyz.
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Mike Brooks is great so far. His short story leading into this novel is a really great Ork story so I am optimistic this Ork novel will be good. It's the first full length Ork POV novel. I wish there was a LE edition for it.
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Sep 11, 2020 16:49
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D-Pad posted:Mike Brooks is great so far. His short story leading into this novel is a really great Ork story so I am optimistic this Ork novel will be good. It's the first full length Ork POV novel. I wish there was a LE edition for it. Is it written in Ork-ese? ("ROIGHT, LISSEN 'ERE YA GIT!" for 250 pages)
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Sep 11, 2020 18:00
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Cessna posted:Is it written in Ork-ese? I'll be honest and say that I read a short story written in Orkish in some Black Library compilation years ago (something about a Kommando or something?) and, while it was tolerable, I was p.glad that it was just a short story?
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Sep 11, 2020 18:07
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Cessna posted:Is it written in Ork-ese? Yeah and Brooks goes a bit heavier on it than others too. So if that's something you think will annoy you try the short first. I liked it but it's one of the reasons I like Haley's Evil Sunz shorts more.
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Sep 11, 2020 18:09
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I often forget the sillier things about Astartes physiology, like that they have xenomorph-style acid spit that can be used from everything to digesting grass like a cow to melting a plasteel lock. The only times I've seen an author remember that other than in a codex is in some of the Night Lords books (although apparently the gland has been reduced to a vestigial organ for most marines now?) They also have a skin pigment that changes color to alert them to harmful levels of radiation. Never seen that used.
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Sep 11, 2020 19:15
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Kevin DuBrow posted:They also have a skin pigment that changes color to alert them to harmful levels of radiation. Never seen that used. I think the Raven Guard's is broken though because they're canonically pale (not albinos though because they have gothy black hair)?
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Sep 11, 2020 19:21
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Schadenboner posted:I'll be honest and say that I read a short story written in Orkish in some Black Library compilation years ago (something about a Kommando or something?) and, while it was tolerable, I was p.glad that it was just a short story? This
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Schadenboner posted:I'll be honest and say that I read a short story written in Orkish in some Black Library compilation years ago (something about a Kommando or something?) and, while it was tolerable, I was p.glad that it was just a short story? Agreed, a full book written like that would overstay its welcome pretty quickly.
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Sep 11, 2020 20:53
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I can't tell you exactly what is different about Brook's ork style writing, but I've always found it intolerable and did not in his short story. It very well may be after 30 pages, but it seemed better in the short story he wrote. I believe it is Imperial Fists and successors who have lost the use of their Betcher's Gland. I do see it occasionally mentioned. I believe it is Space Wolves who spit on the ground as a kind of gently caress you and if they make it acidic then it is an ultra gently caress you, which I thought was pretty cool. The skin pigment is a defense against radiation. A marine who is exposed has his skin go into overdrive producing melanin. I think that is mutated in both Raven Guard and Salamander's, one having none and the other having too much.
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Weird, somebody just posted an excerpt on reddit where the metachromatic organ is actually used. I think I've only seen one or two other mentions before. https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/iq7e7f/excerpt_iron_corpses_space_marines_can_change_the
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I know that people are always pointing out that Graham McNeill is a bad writer but I thought his story in No Good Men was e.deece?
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McNeil is up and down. I dont care for his marine novels but I do like his Mechanicus stuff. I also like a few of his short stories like Apostle's Creed from the first Sabbat Worlds collection.
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Schadenboner posted:I know that people are always pointing out that Graham McNeill is a bad writer but I thought his story in No Good Men was e.deece? I like reading him. He's up and down as Arcsquad12 says, but I can more broadly say that he sucks at characters but REALLY nails writing horror and body horror, he does it like no one else and therefore is best when he's writing chaos.
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Are there ever kindle deals on 40k books? I miss being young, living at home, having low customs and shipping rates and just buying a bunch of physical books. It's way more expensive now.-
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Sep 13, 2020 21:33
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There are occasionally very good bundle deals on websites like Humble Bundle or Fanatical. I wish 40k books were eligible under Kindle Unlimited but alas.
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Oooh, never thought to look there. I'll keep that in mind, and hope people shout them out itt.
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Finished The Great Work ... huh Also Cawl is very extremely very Right on the edge of being 4th wall breaking. He's so aware of what's going on in the universe it almost feels like he's winking at the reader in some places. Which I guess is in character, but doesn't do much for me. Have to read some more post-galaxy fracture books to see how the rest of the NuMarines and RETURN OF THE KING feels.
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Did they ever do a scene where chaos marines went "Oh holy gently caress they have a primarch" or did they be lame and just have them not give a poo poo.
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I was pretty surprised to hear this speech repeated almost verbatim in an Adeptus Mechanicus book, but I guess it is pretty fitting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz7KLSOJaTE
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Telsa Cola posted:Did they ever do a scene where chaos marines went "Oh holy gently caress they have a primarch" or did they be lame and just have them not give a poo poo.
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I saw on the Sunday Preview that next week the Imperial Infantryman’s Handbook will be re released. Is this the first re-release? I can only find extremely expensive versions on ebay so I wonder if it is actually good or if it's just hard to find.
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It's a new re-release of at least two books, and it looks like maybe some new material too. It's well worth getting for the one of those two books which I have read.
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