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D-Pad: Jun 28, 2006

Holy poo poo the new Hammer and Bolter was awesome. Best one yet.

Cooked Auto posted:

https://www.warhammer-community.com...y-sci-fi-writer

The first details of the book written by Adrian Tchaikovsky that was hinted a few months ago has finally been revealed.

This is a really big deal. He is a great author and well known. I wonder how they got him, whether he is a big 40k fan and asked to write a book for BL or if we are seeing a new movement from BL to get some big names by making big offers. It really does seem like GW is making a big lore push with WarhammerTV and now this.

D-Pad fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Oct 13, 2021

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Dog_Meat: May 19, 2013

Philthy posted:

Saturine was very good, but still a big fan of Solar War because I thought the grand strategy of taking the system with some good ship to ship warfare that beat most non-40k milsim books made it for me.

I liked the Solar War because it captured the sheer mind boggling scale of the invasion. Like, that is an obscene amount of ships, Holy poo poo!

# ? Oct 13, 2021 15:46

SkyeAuroline: Nov 12, 2020

FPyat posted:

Just wish they didn't have the guardsmen in 40k standard Cadian armor. I liked how they initially had 18th/19th century looking greatcoat uniforms, contrasted nicely with the setting's present.

That and we have the baller Solar Auxilia models to base art off of, yes please.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 16:03

OPAONI: Jul 23, 2021

Dog_Meat posted:

I liked the Solar War because it captured the sheer mind boggling scale of the invasion. Like, that is an obscene amount of ships, Holy poo poo!

Also Angron gets out on the hull and yells at dad. It rules.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 16:09

boredsatellite: Dec 7, 2013

Cooked Auto posted:

https://www.warhammer-community.com...y-sci-fi-writer

The first details of the book written by Adrian Tchaikovsky that was hinted a few months ago has finally been revealed.

Oh gently caress give me this asap

# ? Oct 13, 2021 16:13

mllaneza: Apr 28, 2007; Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952

It's really sad that you can safely skip the Titan scenes in Mortis; and you should absolutely skip the KNights bits. But when you make it through you get to Warhawk, which at the 53% is excellent. It's not Saturnine, but nothing ever will be.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 16:29

AndyElusive: Jan 7, 2007

euphronius posted:

Mortis has the best cover art they have done in a long time. Most of the SOT covers are great but that one in particular owns . It reminds me of 40k art from like 15 years ago

I need more hi res SoT book cover images, stat.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 17:06

MMAgCh: Aug 15, 2001; I am the poet,
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euphronius posted:

Mortis has the best cover art they have done in a long time. Most of the SOT covers are great but that one in particular owns . It reminds me of 40k art from like 15 years ago

I'm never sure what's more amusing about this sort of picture, that there's always a guy urgently pointing out the 30-metre-high war machine about to annihilate/stomp on everyone or that, apparently, there's other guys in need of having it pointed out to them in the first place. :allears:

# ? Oct 13, 2021 17:48

AndyElusive: Jan 7, 2007

YOUR LASGUN IS GOING TO DO THRONE ALL TO THAT THING

# ? Oct 13, 2021 17:51

Arc Hammer: Mar 4, 2013; Got any deathsticks?

But all your lasguns could do a whole lot of diddly to that thing.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 17:55

Philthy: Jan 28, 2003; Pillbug

MMAgCh posted:

I'm never sure what's more amusing about this sort of picture, that there's always a guy urgently pointing out the 800-metre-high war machine about to annihilate/stomp on everyone or that, apparently, there's other guys in need of having it pointed out to them in the first place.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 18:31

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Arc Hammer posted:

But all your lasguns could do a whole lot of diddly to that thing.

Past a certain scale I think you run out of space to put more guardsmen.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 18:58

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

�Hey there is a titan right there !!�

# ? Oct 13, 2021 19:37

Zil: Jun 4, 2011; Satanically Summoned Citrus

The problem with titans especially what I'm assuming is Dies Irae right there is that the scale just breaks my mind. I mean it is like a living mountain that just strides towards you. Also how fast is it, does it take a day to reach you once it crosses the horizon, or is it upon you in an hour or so?

# ? Oct 13, 2021 19:41

Azubah: Jun 5, 2007

It's as fast as the plot says it needs to be, unless you want to tell it otherwise.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 19:42

Philthy: Jan 28, 2003; Pillbug

I think it took a few days to go 150km or something. Plot speed.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 19:48

notaspy: Mar 22, 2009

Heres a slightly spoilery question.

Why doesn't Rowboat have any Emperor class Titian's tooling about with him? He has loads of warlords but it stops there. I can understand the lack of warmasters but not Emperors.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 19:50

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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MMAgCh posted:

I'm never sure what's more amusing about this sort of picture, that there's always a guy urgently pointing out the 30-metre-high war machine about to annihilate/stomp on everyone or that, apparently, there's other guys in need of having it pointed out to them in the first place.

I think at least here he's saying "shoot the little ones you fuckwits, they don't have a shield!"

ETA: although I am suddenly reminded that in Final Liberation the best way to take down a titan's shields is lasgun fire due to them counting "hits" and not anything else. Five guardsmen pew-pewing at it is far better than wasting something that might actually damage the titan.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 20:06

jng2058: Jul 17, 2010; We have the tools, we have the talent!

Arquinsiel posted:

I think at least here he's saying "shoot the little ones you fuckwits, they don't have a shield!"

ETA: although I am suddenly reminded that in Final Liberation the best way to take down a titan's shields is lasgun fire due to them counting "hits" and not anything else. Five guardsmen pew-pewing at it is far better than wasting something that might actually damage the titan.

My lesson from Final Liberation was that nothing, including Gargants, can survive if you get enough Basilisks firing together.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 20:30

Miguel Prado: Nov 5, 2008; Don't worry, like they say " It's all good! "

AndyElusive posted:

I need more hi res SoT book cover images, stat.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 20:32

Arc Hammer: Mar 4, 2013; Got any deathsticks?

Zil posted:

The problem with titans especially what I'm assuming is Dies Irae right there is that the scale just breaks my mind. I mean it is like a living mountain that just strides towards you. Also how fast is it, does it take a day to reach you once it crosses the horizon, or is it upon you in an hour or so?

I prefer "Deceptively Fast", like how and AT-AT in Star Wars can go 60km/h because of its long strides.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 20:47

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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jng2058 posted:

My lesson from Final Liberation was that nothing, including Gargants, can survive if you get enough Basilisks firing together.

The Bombards were slightly better at actually damaging stuff. Basilisks had about 5% less armour penetration for some reason which meant that once in a while something would just ignore the shell.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 21:31

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Arquinsiel posted:

I think at least here he's saying "shoot the little ones you fuckwits, they don't have a shield!"

ETA: although I am suddenly reminded that in Final Liberation the best way to take down a titan's shields is lasgun fire due to them counting "hits" and not anything else. Five guardsmen pew-pewing at it is far better than wasting something that might actually damage the titan.

It's the same in modern Titanicus. Your Void shield goes down just the same whether it was hit by a S4 Megabolter shot or a S13 Volcano Cannon. Except the Megabolter shoots 12 times.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 21:53

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

jng2058 posted:

My lesson from Final Liberation was that nothing, including Gargants, can survive if you get enough Basilisks firing together.

I totally buy this.

# ? Oct 13, 2021 23:47

Kaal: May 22, 2002; through thousands of posts in D&D over a decade, I now believe I know what I'm talking about. if I post forcefully and confidently, I can convince others that is true. no one sees through my facade.

Arc Hammer posted:

I prefer "Deceptively Fast", like how and AT-AT in Star Wars can go 60km/h because of its long strides.

There is a great Youtube that breaks down AT-AT speeds and basically determines that they were probably breaking about 6-10 kph during the Battle of Hoth, and that even hypothetically speeding them up they probably would mechanically top out at around 30 kph.

https://youtu.be/dt7gGCYdcRY

# ? Oct 14, 2021 01:10

Arc Hammer: Mar 4, 2013; Got any deathsticks?

Kaal posted:

There is a great Youtube that breaks down AT-AT speeds and basically determines that they were probably breaking about 6-10 kph during the Battle of Hoth, and that even hypothetically speeding them up they probably would mechanically top out at around 30 kph.

https://youtu.be/dt7gGCYdcRY

I mean they should be able to gallop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07zLbgXElsA

# ? Oct 14, 2021 01:29

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

MMAgCh posted:

I'm never sure what's more amusing about this sort of picture, that there's always a guy urgently pointing out the 30-metre-high war machine about to annihilate/stomp on everyone or that, apparently, there's other guys in need of having it pointed out to them in the first place.

At least the sergeants arm point works artistically

# ? Oct 14, 2021 01:55

Kaal: May 22, 2002; through thousands of posts in D&D over a decade, I now believe I know what I'm talking about. if I post forcefully and confidently, I can convince others that is true. no one sees through my facade.

Arc Hammer posted:

I mean they should be able to gallop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07zLbgXElsA

That's awesome, I'm convinced.

# ? Oct 14, 2021 01:59

D-Pad: Jun 28, 2006

https://www.warhammer-community.com...t-out-of-a-car/

# ? Oct 14, 2021 04:45

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Zil posted:

The problem with titans especially what I'm assuming is Dies Irae right there is that the scale just breaks my mind. I mean it is like a living mountain that just strides towards you. Also how fast is it, does it take a day to reach you once it crosses the horizon, or is it upon you in an hour or so?

Funny you mention Dies Irae b/c didn't it just like vanish from the plot after the first three HH books?

# ? Oct 14, 2021 04:56

D-Pad: Jun 28, 2006

SardonicTyrant posted:

Funny you mention Dies Irae b/c didn't it just like vanish from the plot after the first three HH books?

It features heavily in Mortis and was in Titandeath as well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/q7dcqg/penance_for_a_fart_shira_calpurnia_omnibus/

D-Pad fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Oct 14, 2021

# ? Oct 14, 2021 05:16

Philthy: Jan 28, 2003; Pillbug

D-Pad posted:

https://www.warhammer-community.com...t-out-of-a-car/

That's pretty loving amazing. I love when cosplay people go that extra mile.

# ? Oct 14, 2021 07:50

Biplane: Jul 18, 2005

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

Saturnine is truly great, in my opinion 10/10 and one of abnett’s strongest books. In the context of the SOT it feels like “and then more stuff happened” but the actual quality of the prose, the craft, is head and shoulders above most BL writers and even Abnett’s earlier work. It’s genuinely moving.

Funny, I have the exact opposite opinions re Saturnine!

# ? Oct 14, 2021 09:18

TammyHEH: Dec 11, 2013; Alfrything is only the ghost of a memory...

Biplane posted:

Funny, I have the exact opposite opinions re Saturnine!

Ya????

# ? Oct 14, 2021 09:38

Gravitas Shortfall: Jul 17, 2007; Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.

Yeah same. Saturnine is fine, but it's a middle book full of other people's characters. Abnett's best when he gets to work within his setup.

# ? Oct 14, 2021 09:43

Gravitas Shortfall: Jul 17, 2007; Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.

notaspy posted:

Heres a slightly spoilery question.

Why doesn't Rowboat have any Emperor class Titian's tooling about with him? He has loads of warlords but it stops there. I can understand the lack of warmasters but not Emperors.

Because GW doesn't make models for Emperor class Titans any more.

# ? Oct 14, 2021 09:59

Deptfordx: Dec 23, 2013

It's like how the Warmaster spontaneously flashed into existance for Mortis.

# ? Oct 14, 2021 11:26

IshmaelZarkov: Jun 20, 2013

Hey thread so I just finished Penitent and I'm pretty invested in when Pandemonium is coming out please tell me it's soon I just need a couple of chapters to keep me going

# ? Oct 14, 2021 13:34

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

Its coming out with Winds of Winter.

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# ? Jun 4, 2024 07:33

Count Thrashula: Jun 1, 2003; Death is nothing compared to vindication.; Buglord

IshmaelZarkov posted:

Hey thread so I just finished Penitent and I'm pretty invested in when Pandemonium is coming out please tell me it's soon I just need a couple of chapters to keep me going

Haha

# ? Oct 14, 2021 13:42

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