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Finished Betrayer. Holy cow is that good. Angron went from being "angry man who is son ANGRY" to a tragic and in some lights heroic figure, hated and abused by everyone.
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Fried Chicken posted:Finished Betrayer. Holy cow is that good. Angron went from being "angry man who is son ANGRY" to a tragic and in some lights heroic figure, hated and abused by everyone. A lot of the Primarchs seemed to be doomed from the start. Curze and Angron especially. I wonder if we'll ever get an apocryphal story or two about the missing two legions? I wouldn't mind seeing just what made the Emperor declare two of his own sons Primarcha non grata.
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VanSandman posted:A lot of the Primarchs seemed to be doomed from the start. Curze and Angron especially. I wonder if we'll ever get an apocryphal story or two about the missing two legions? I wouldn't mind seeing just what made the Emperor declare two of his own sons Primarcha non grata. Worst part is that 9 of them decided to up and go to war against him, but their names weren't struck from the record. So what the hell did the first two guys do?
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Dec 24, 2012 05:25
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Shroud posted:Worst part is that 9 of them decided to up and go to war against him, but their names weren't struck from the record. So what the hell did the first two guys do? They were pacifists.
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Dec 24, 2012 05:40
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They started to write fanfiction about their brothers!  Such a heresy can't go unpunished.Serious question, now: There's been only two new books for Gaunt's Ghosts ever since the Third Omnibus, right? I had heard somewhere the 4th one was going to be called "The Victory".
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Dec 24, 2012 06:16
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Shroud posted:Worst part is that 9 of them decided to up and go to war against him, but their names weren't struck from the record. So what the hell did the first two guys do?
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Dec 24, 2012 07:33
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Mechafunkzilla posted:They were pacifists. This would be cool.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:They were pacifists. 
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Dec 24, 2012 08:06
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I got lucky today. I braved a trip to the mall and the Barnes and Nobel there had 1 copy of Blood Reaver and Void Stalker. Considering that its like 25+ on amazon getting them for 8.99 is a win for me.
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Are the Salamanders books decent or just generic marine trash? the eBundle is tempting but i'm trying to avoid bolter porn.
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Dec 24, 2012 09:08
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ed balls balls man posted:Are the Salamanders books decent or just generic marine trash? the eBundle is tempting but i'm trying to avoid bolter porn. They're horrible. Not actually the worst writing in the world or particularly generic, but it has the most annoying and unlike-able characters ever.
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Dec 24, 2012 09:19
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Mechafunkzilla posted:They're horrible. Not actually the worst writing in the world or particularly generic, but it has the most annoying and unlike-able characters ever. 
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Dec 24, 2012 09:59
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The Salamanders books were my first books. There are two main characters, Dak'ir and Tsu'gan. Dak'ir is the good guy, who embodies the Salamanders' spirit of protecting the people of the Imperium. Tsu'gan, however, has a stick up his rear end, and hates Dak'ir. My problem with the series was that Tsu'gan kept getting more spotlight than Dak'ir, who became a walking MacGuffin and spent the rest of the last book confined in a prison. There's also a Chaplain whose face nobody has ever seen and is suspected to be hideously ugly, but is revealed to be the most handsome fellow in the Chapter upon taking off his helmet. Yeah. It has okay bolter porn. First book is Marines vs orcs, second book is Marines vs dark eldar, third book is about Nocturne fighting a major Chaos invasion.
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ed balls balls man posted:Are the Salamanders books decent or just generic marine trash? the eBundle is tempting but i'm trying to avoid bolter porn. Unreadably poo poo.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Unreadably poo poo. Yeah I've posted about it before but there's a linked pair of short stories, one about Salamanders Terminators on a Space Hulk, and one about ADB's Night Lords on the same Hulk, and they kind of cross over and link. Putting them next to one anther highlights how laughably poo poo Kyme is next to Bowden.
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Fried Chicken posted:Finished Betrayer. Holy cow is that good. Angron went from being "angry man who is son ANGRY" to a tragic and in some lights heroic figure, hated and abused by everyone. Very much this. I particularly liked his retort to Russ after he gets the whole "You're a loose cannon and I want your badge" spiel. Not what I expected at all but makes a ton of sense. Angron's statement that he only agreed to fight for the Emperor _because_ he is a damaged butcher, and that should he not have a murder engine hooked to his grey matter the moral thing to do would be to put a blade through the Emperor's skull in their very first meeting adds a lot of depth to his character, not to mention highlighting the whole 'grimdark Spartacus' aspect of the primarch.
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Cheers for the feedback, guess I will start on my backlog of Heresy books.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:They were pacifists. Imperium arrives on a planet, discovers that its reasonably at peace. The Emperor can however feel one of his long lost sons is on the planet. He looks around and finds him He plays Major League Sports. The other was in middle management or something
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Agentdark posted:Imperium arrives on a planet, discovers that its reasonably at peace. The Emperor can however feel one of his long lost sons is on the planet. "Jenkins! I want that report by Friday or you're fired!" Jenkins pondered briefly how he could crush his boss' bald head with the tiniest squeeze from his massive palm, and then went back to filing.
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Jenkins vastly misunderstood what a corporate raider was. It took the janitorial staff 3 days to get the blood off the cubicle walls.
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Jenkins made the fatal mistake of telling the Emperor he wouldn't join the crusade until his pension was fully vested.
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Jenkins gathered together a mighty horde of project teams and focus and led them into the lair of the dreaded accounting to ask about their 401ks
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bunnyofdoom posted:Jenkins gathered together a mighty horde of project teams and focus and led them into the lair of the dreaded accounting to ask about their 401ks "Even in death, I still serve process." - Jenkin's Dreadnaught Lawyer
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Well lets look at the personality aspects of the known primarchs and pick which ones are lacking. I figure one of the lost primarchs was an inventor. The Scientist aspect of the Emperor. He created his world into a Utopia that surpasses the Imperium and had tech that made the tech of mars look like childs play. After the Emperor showed that by absorbing it he'd ruin the world the Primarch made he rebelled for the good of his people. The entire planet and all its tech was crushed under the weight of 3 legions. The other cheated Russ in cards.
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EyeRChris posted:The other cheated Russ in cards. If we're going with the primarchs each being an aspect of the Emperor then one of them is probably a really bad father and managed to take over his planet and then get everyone killed.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Jenkins vastly misunderstood what a corporate raider was. It took the janitorial staff 3 days to get the blood off the cubicle walls. I immediately thought of the Crimson Permanent Assurance. http://vimeo.com/32014997
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Fuzzy Pipe Wrench posted:If we're going with the primarchs each being an aspect of the Emperor then one of them is probably a really bad father and managed to take over his planet and then get everyone killed. And the other was the Emperor's aspect of being a huge loving idiot who does everything wrong.
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The Thunder Warriors guy was the scientist. He wasn't as directly related to the Emperor but he figured out the genetics pretty well. Guilliman already has administration and lawyering covered.
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The two lost primarchs didn't get their painting oaths done on time.
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I don't know who John French is, but considering they just put this out with zero marketing and are trying to get ebook buys this early I don't have a good feeling about this. I hope I'm wrong, Ahriman's story is one of the best of the chaos characters.
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I got halfway throught the first story in The Primarchs and it loving sucks and has sapped all of my will to read rest of the anthology. Should I continue?
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Big Willy Style posted:I got halfway throught the first story in The Primarchs and it loving sucks and has sapped all of my will to read rest of the anthology. Should I continue? Read the Alpha Legion story and forget the rest of the book. The only thing of relevance is a "reveal" in the Fulgrim story but here it is so you don't have to read through that piece of poo poo: he got out of the painting and back into his body.
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I, too, enjoy stories of men being hosed in the rear end by spiked dildoes in a charade of torture techniques that never actually existed, but never with my warhams.
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I'd really, really like to have a sit-down with Graham McNeill and find out what the hell he was thinking when he wrote that story.
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Arbite posted:I don't know who John French is, but considering they just put this out with zero marketing and are trying to get ebook buys this early I don't have a good feeling about this. He wrote some good short stories (The Last Remembrancer) and novellas (The Crimson Fist). Safety Factor posted:
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