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Duzzy Funlop posted:Just finished Penitent, and I think I a) cheated myself out of some of the impact of the big reveal by looking forward to it too much and scrutinizing/theorycrafting a whole lot in my head, and b) the writing kinda set it up a bit. The Imperium wasn't split the whole time and there seemed to be a whole lot of bad juju as all four chaos gods went whole hog at the eternity gate. Can easily see eldar farseers NOPEing at what's happening there. Master of Mankind had some good bits where a rogue mechanicus skitarri unit sees gates being sealed up and hitting booby traps.
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Arbite posted:Finally starting Mortis and about Katsuhiro: wasn't he dying with no hope of help while watching two Alpha Legion spies infiltrate the deeper palace a few books ago? at the end of Tje Lost and the Damned he barely makes it inside the helios gate, just in time to see the one alpha legion operative (who we never see again) impersonate an imperial officer and disappear. next book he's guarding plague town or whatever the gently caress they called it, the sector infected by the death guard, and getting to see Keeler perform some emperor magic. and in Mortis he's back on the walls again. god drat games workshop for making me care about him
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Duzzy Funlop posted:The SINGLE thing that threw me off that assumption was that I couldn't see any sense in the eldar sending five loving craftworlds to stop Valdor loving around in the warp NOW when an Imperium split by civil war was loving around with the warp AND the webway in M3x and they didn't do squat. The argument being that they're incredibly self-centred, and always have been. They didn't care then because they knew (literally knew, through the power of foresight) that they'd survive the Heresy. The very fact they've got involved and sent five Craftworlds means yes, they've checked, and if they don't, they know it ends Extremely Badly For Them.
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Shockeh posted:The argument being that they're incredibly self-centred, and always have been. They didn't care then because they knew (literally knew, through the power of foresight) that they'd survive the Heresy. The very fact they've got involved and sent five Craftworlds means yes, they've checked, and if they don't, they know it ends Extremely Badly For Them. Or they don't know because it's a city in a blank generated bubble. Either way is an equal cause for concern for the faction whose whole civilization is built upon magic prediction.
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Shockeh posted:The argument being that they're incredibly self-centred, and always have been. They didn't care then because they knew (literally knew, through the power of foresight) that they'd survive the Heresy. The very fact they've got involved and sent five Craftworlds means yes, they've checked, and if they don't, they know it ends Extremely Badly For Them. The imperium was doing a extermination program of the eldar during the crusade, every craft world most expedition fleets came across was exterminated. Why would they do anything but let the heresy play out and save their strength to fight/influence the winner. The imperium is extremely xenocidal / genocidal and I doubt anyone who isn’t a human actually wants the emperors purge of all non human life in the galaxy to get back on track….. except eldrad for some reason because he is a weirdo but this might fit his infatuation with the eldar death cult in modern 40K.
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Zasze posted:The imperium was doing a extermination program of the eldar during the crusade, every craft world most expedition fleets came across was exterminated. Why would they do anything but let the heresy play out and save their strength to fight/influence the winner. He probably made a reasonable assumption that getting burnt by genocidal monkeys and going to Space Elf afterlife was better than getting your body and soul eaten by daemons.
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Zasze posted:The imperium was doing a extermination program of the eldar during the crusade, every craft world most expedition fleets came across was exterminated. Why would they do anything but let the heresy play out and save their strength to fight/influence the winner. I'm going with 'Xenocidal humans are easily fooled / manipulated / don't actually devour your soul when they kill you'. The Imperium is the lesser of two Evils.
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Zasze posted:The imperium was doing a extermination program of the eldar during the crusade, every craft world most expedition fleets came across was exterminated. Why would they do anything but let the heresy play out and save their strength to fight/influence the winner. I am aware of only two craftworlds that got exploded during the great crusade, one of which (supposedly) instigated aggression first. The imperium probably didn't care too much about craftworlds because what the Imperium actually wants/wanted was lebensraum, and craftworlds could just gently caress out of contested territory. Telsa Cola fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Jun 7, 2021 |
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Yeah I'm thinking "Massive Crusade fleet led by Primarch coming this way" is the sort of thing every Farseer on a craftworld ought to be able to see coming in plenty of time to GTFO.
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Deptfordx posted:Yeah I'm thinking "Massive Crusade fleet led by Primarch coming this way" is the sort of thing every Farseer on a craftworld ought to be able to see coming in plenty of time to GTFO. Eldar are extremely arrogant and until the heresy they didn't really understand the power of the imperial war machine.
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At the time of the Crusade the birth of Slaanesh was still relatively recent, since that was the event that blew out the warp storms and enabled the Emperor’s plans to move forward. They were probably still reeling from the annihilation of their culture and not really paying as close attention to mon-keigh as they should have.
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I thought the birth of Slaanesh is what caused the Age of Darkness in the first place
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Improbable Lobster posted:I thought the birth of Slaanesh is what caused the Age of Darkness in the first place No- while the Age of Strife/Long Night is deliberately vague with multiple possible sources (some of which are compatible with each other) it is still canon that Slaanesh’s birth was a massive shockwave that blew out the warp storms that had engulfed much of the galaxy. Those storms, gathering in advance of Slaanesh’s birth as it stirred in its nascency, might have been a partial cause of the Age of Strife, but when Slaanesh appeared the storms all blew themselves out and the remaining ones coalesced into the Eye of Terror, around the heart of the old elder empire
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Eldar murder-hosed old night into existence, like a stank haze engulfing the galaxy.
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Slaneesh's gestation/birth pangs caused age of strife and then the birth itself blew out the warp storms.
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https://www.warhammer-community.com...ula-insurgency/ A quick blurb about the upcoming Gaunt's Ghosts novel and some info on the next Sabbat Anthology and Matt Farrer's full length Sabbat Crusade novel about the Urdesh campaign. I'm particularly excited about the Farrer novel since I went back to reread Headstone and the Inheritor short stories and Urdesh felt quite underdeveloped for being a ten year long warzone.
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Mortis posted:He looked as dangerous as a breath of air. Now, I wonder when that line was written...
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Arbite posted:Finally starting Mortis and about Katsuhiro: wasn't he dying with no hope of help while watching two Alpha Legion spies infiltrate the deeper palace a few books ago? He was! And I’m sad that that plot has apparently been abandoned, now he’s just another generic boots on the ground guy.
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Ghazghkull LE came in. Already hooked me in the 2nd chapter when it revealed the metal plate in his head is the arse plate of a terminator Not to mention the Inquisitor interrogating Makari has a rune priest and a smart, psychic female ogryn in her retinue and is being assisted by a blood axe "intelligents officer" When things get particularly orky the book does this: 
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That's awesome but also I like your reading area.
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My eyes hurt from reading. This book is sooooooo good.
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Just finished. This is one of my favorite black library books now. This is to orks what Lords of Silence is to the Death Guard. Absolutely loved it. This is Nate Crowley's first full length BL novel and I am now extremely excited for his next one. It tells the story of Ghazghkull from crawling out of his spawning hole to what happens after Ragnar beheads him. Maybe more importantly, it tells Makari's story too. Get excited for the regular release and don't sleep on this book.
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D-Pad posted:Just finished. This is one of my favorite black library books now. This is to orks what Lords of Silence is to the Death Guard. Hey, I'm Nate - thanks a million for enjoying the book so much! Gravitas Shortfall, who is my mate, pointed out your post to me and it properly made my day. Been thinking of registering on here for a while since I used to read a lot years ago, and that tipped my decision. Not gonna lie, I've been wanting to talk about that book for ages, so I'm well excited for people to read it.
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in your next ork book make a grot character based on Lowtax
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HE’S A GOON NOW. (Seriously, the amount of goon adoption is always adorable, welcome aboard!)
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Countdown until someone weirds him out enough to leave again. 
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D-Pad posted:Just finished. This is one of my favorite black library books now. This is to orks what Lords of Silence is to the Death Guard. I've never read an ork book, but that kind of an endorsement is making me want to pick one up.
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Frogcroakley posted:Hey, I'm Nate - thanks a million for enjoying the book so much! Gravitas Shortfall, who is my mate, pointed out your post to me and it properly made my day. Ah man that's awesome! Welcome aboard. I actually already tweeted you about how much I enjoyed it and you replied but it's good to have you here. This is the thread that got me into 40k 4 years ago. Duzzy Funlop posted:I've never read an ork book, but that kind of an endorsement is making me want to pick one up. Go ahead and pick up Brutal Kunnin'. It's a really good ork book by another great new BL author, Mike Brooks. It will probably be another couple of months until the regular edition of Ghazghkull comes out so check it out first.
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Doubly endorsing Brutal Kunnin' - it's great, and so is Mike.
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I'll just have to throw the Ghaz book to my christmas shopping list. Alongside Gitslayer and the new Sabbat Crusade Anthology. Also started re-reading Titanicus on a whim. I think the best part is that because the book came out before the AdMech codexes the Skitarii are proper weird. And not just robot guys in robes with radioactive guns. Plenty of mentions of pelts and plumes and them behaving like wild beasts. It's rad.
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Frogcroakley posted:Hey, I'm Nate - thanks a million for enjoying the book so much! Gravitas Shortfall, who is my mate, pointed out your post to me and it properly made my day. congrats goon author. i have question though. is it coming to audible?
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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/06/11/get-to-know-argel-tal-the-word-bearer-who-really-changed-on-his-gap-year/ They made an Argel Tal model! I'm sorely tempted to pick him and a squad of gal vorbak up for my 40k Word Bearers.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:congrats goon author. i have question though. is it coming to audible? Alas, I have no idea on that front - bloody hope so, though. To be honest, once the final manuscripts are sent away, I don't tend to know much about formats, print runs and dates. I do know Ghaz will probably be getting a bigger print run because of how quickly the LE sold out, which is cool - I'd hope that swings things in favour of an audiobook being commissioned, too. Also, here's a picture I did of paulie walnuts from the sopranos, but as a titan. Seemed the right thing to do.
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Frogcroakley posted:Hey, I'm Nate - thanks a million for enjoying the book so much! Gravitas Shortfall, who is my mate, pointed out your post to me and it properly made my day. What purchase option puts the most money in your pocket? I'd like to pick it up myself, but I'm undecided on which format/version.
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Frogcroakley posted:Hey, I'm Nate - thanks a million for enjoying the book so much! Been reading your other books and the world and characters are really fantastic. That poor alien squid monster, abandoned and enslaved.
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I also picked up the Uncle Ghaz book. I need to finish reading something else first, but I'm very excited for Orks
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Frogcroakley posted:how quickly the LE sold out, First time actually touching my COVID bucks so meh. Edit:my keyboard hates bbcode tags. UwUnabomber fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Jun 12, 2021 |
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