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vigorous sodomy posted:Why would a regular guy get personalized golden armor like that? Because he's Space Alexander the Great. That's why.
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In one of the recent WDs, Bill King said he went to BL with the intention of writing a story centering around an IG commander. Apparently Macharius was brought up, and so it kind of became a series about him.
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Jun 27, 2014 19:43
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berzerkmonkey posted:In one of the recent WDs, Bill King said he went to BL with the intention of writing a story centering around an IG commander. Apparently Macharius was brought up, and so it kind of became a series about him. Which seems kinda lame on their behalf. "Eh, just make something up about that Macharius guy.  "Pretty sure you could do something decent about some other IG commander if you so wanted without having to really resort to using named characters for recognitions sake.
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Jun 27, 2014 23:22
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I could have sworn there was a novel about Macharius or his crusafe by King from like 99 or the early 2000s. I never read it though
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Jun 28, 2014 01:25
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Doesn't seem like it as a cursory google search doesn't really give me any other mention of books aside from the trilogy by King that's currently being published.
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Big Willy Style posted:I could have sworn there was a novel about Macharius or his crusafe by King from like 99 or the early 2000s. I never read it though The closest thing to another book about Macharius is Graham McNeil's terrible Ultramarine books where he apparently makes an appearance. King did write a two short stories about an IG regement in.. 1990. 
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So Kill Team is on sale right now for $7 I grabbed it, I'd say its worth it. It is a decent little game - click to kill things. The art assets and voices are all a reuse of Dawn of War 2 with a dash of Space Marine for the Ork ships, but it still looks good. Definitely a fun way to kill some hours. And since people always bring it up, I think they finally got the bolters right in this one. The shooting animations show flames streaking from behind the shots and they leave little exhaust trails, they explode when they hit something, and the sound is less machine gun, it is something lower and more drawn out. Anyways, totes worth $7
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Jun 29, 2014 00:43
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UberJumper posted:The closest thing to another book about Macharius is Graham McNeil's terrible Ultramarine books where he apparently makes an appearance. King did write a two short stories about an IG regement in.. 1990. Who was the lord commander in the gaunt ghost books again? he reminded me of Mecharius. Some of those books had some interactions with him.
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Jun 29, 2014 06:35
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UberJumper posted:I guess not. Honestly i would love a book that views a crusade from a high level, maybe gives a few pov's of the battles. But mostly focuses on the grand strategy of the crusade and the intrigue that i would expect to occur at that type of high level. Like the warmaster has to juggle: The imperial Army, the navy, the Inquisition (who knows what they are doing), the Mechanicum, and the Astartes. They all have their own agendas, and i would love to see a face off between the inquisition and the adapteus mechanicum over a world. That would be a political thriller. Which would be awesome, but BL isn't going to do that with its license
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Jun 29, 2014 06:41
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Fried Chicken posted:So Kill Team is on sale right now for $7 Cool. Thanks for the heads up on this. Does it control well with a mouse and keyboard or is this something I want to use a gamepad with?
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Jun 29, 2014 07:06
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AndyElusive posted:Cool. Thanks for the heads up on this. Does it control well with a mouse and keyboard or is this something I want to use a gamepad with? Just a heads up, it's really lovely PC port.
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Jun 29, 2014 07:13
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pentyne posted:Just a heads up, it's really lovely PC port. gently caress. 
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Jun 29, 2014 08:00
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AndyElusive posted:Cool. Thanks for the heads up on this. Does it control well with a mouse and keyboard or is this something I want to use a gamepad with? You will want a gamepad. I regret spending $7 on this; you can't go higher than 1080p resolution, and if you play windowed it's quite easy to click outside of the window since there's apparently no in-game mouse cursor. The lack of an in-game mouse cursor means you're guessing where you're aiming, which has been pretty annoying. This seems like it'd be a fun co-op game, but I don't own enough controllers to make that viable (if co-op even works on the PC version).
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UberJumper posted:The closest thing to another book about Macharius is Graham McNeil's terrible Ultramarine books where he apparently makes an appearance. King did write a two short stories about an IG regement in.. 1990. In this case, I would rather take the two Battlefleet Gothic novels, which feature a ship named after Macharius prominently. (The Lord Solar Macharius)
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I just finished reading Lords of Mars today, and while Graham McNeil's previous work has seemed to be pretty average to mediocre as far as BL novels go, I have to say I've really enjoyed Priests of Mars/Lords of Mars for some reason. It gives a good look at some faucets of the Imperium that aren't normally touched on. Definitely looking forward to Gods of Mars.
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Jun 29, 2014 21:27
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Libluini posted:In this case, I would rather take the two Battlefleet Gothic novels, which feature a ship named after Macharius prominently. (The Lord Solar Macharius) Has black library ever offered those books as ebooks? I can't even find them on their site.
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Fried Chicken posted:That would be a political thriller. Which would be awesome, but BL isn't going to do that with its license
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Arquinsiel posted:One of the Shiria Calpurnia novels is exactly that. Whichever one revolves around the Rogue Trader contract signed by the Emperor himself. Basically everyone wants it for various reasons. gently caress me, even as a collectable it would be great. Hell, with the power of words, and possibly true names, being able to read Big E's signature would have interesting implications if it was written by Abnett or ADB
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Jun 30, 2014 01:59
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Arquinsiel posted:One of the Shiria Calpurnia novels is exactly that. Whichever one revolves around the Rogue Trader contract signed by the Emperor himself. Basically everyone wants it for various reasons. That's a part of Nemesis, isn't it? That daemon-assassin thing wants the contract so it can consume E's blood and assassinate him or some poo poo as I recall.
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bunnyofdoom posted:gently caress me, even as a collectable it would be great. Hell, with the power of words, and possibly true names, being able to read Big E's signature would have interesting implications if it was written by Abnett or ADB Or if he'd, y'know, signed it in blood or anything like that.
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Fearless posted:That's a part of Nemesis, isn't it? That daemon-assassin thing wants the contract so it can consume E's blood and assassinate him or some poo poo as I recall. No, Nemesis isn't that. Nemesis is they found a mirror-psyker to bounce the Emperor's own OP powers back against him. Then a group of assassins kill it and it's dumb.
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VanSandman posted:No, Nemesis isn't that. Nemesis is they found a mirror-psyker to bounce the Emperor's own OP powers back against him. I've never read a Shiria Calpurnia novel and it's been a while since I've read Nemesis but why do I remember there being some kind of plot to get the Emperors blood from a Rogue Trader permission slip by some kind of demon assassin as well? Was that its back up plan or something?
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AndyElusive posted:I've never read a Shiria Calpurnia novel and it's been a while since I've read Nemesis but why do I remember there being some kind of plot to get the Emperors blood from a Rogue Trader permission slip by some kind of demon assassin as well? Was that its back up plan or something? I'm sure there was, because I have never read a Shira Calpurnia novel either and yet I distinctly remember that godawful plot point. I concur, however, that Nemesis is inexcusably dumb.
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Didn't the mirror psyker need some sort of a focus for his power? I'm pretty sure he was after the Emperor's blood in order to be able to properly reflect his psychic juju back at him. Also goddamn that book was wank.
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bunnyofdoom posted:gently caress me, even as a collectable it would be great. Hell, with the power of words, and possibly true names, being able to read Big E's signature would have interesting implications if it was written by Abnett or ADB Isn't some book coming out by one of the better authors revolving around hunting down the true name of the Emperor and some power that comes from it?
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AndyElusive posted:I've never read a Shiria Calpurnia novel and it's been a while since I've read Nemesis but why do I remember there being some kind of plot to get the Emperors blood from a Rogue Trader permission slip by some kind of demon assassin as well? Was that its back up plan or something? I'm pretty sure it was Nemesis too
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Fried Chicken posted:Isn't some book coming out by one of the better authors revolving around hunting down the true name of the Emperor and some power that comes from it? Ahriman (John French) is trying to get access to the Black Library, which apparently houses the true name of the Emperor. I don't think he is specifically looking for that though according to the most recent fluff, and instead trying to find someway to unfuck the thousand sons.
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UberJumper posted:Ahriman (John French) is trying to get access to the Black Library, which apparently houses the true name of the Emperor. I don't think he is specifically looking for that though according to the most recent fluff, and instead trying to find someway to unfuck the thousand sons. I thought it was some plot in either the Bequin series that they were looking for the true name of the Emperor. I could have sworn some future book was going to be about finding it, and it was going to be by one of the good authors, but I'm drawing a total blank now
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Fried Chicken posted:I thought it was some plot in either the Bequin series that they were looking for the true name of the Emperor. I could have sworn some future book was going to be about finding it, and it was going to be by one of the good authors, but I'm drawing a total blank now Nope, thats Beaquin. Part of it, at least. The plot is complicated.
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Fried Chicken posted:I thought it was some plot in either the Bequin series that they were looking for the true name of the Emperor. I could have sworn some future book was going to be about finding it, and it was going to be by one of the good authors, but I'm drawing a total blank now I really should re-read pariah again, since i honestly can apparently remember absolutely nothing about that book. Has there been any word about the next Gaunts Ghosts book? According to indigo the release date for the hard cover is now July, 2015. Which can't be right.
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UberJumper posted:Has black library ever offered those books as ebooks? I can't even find them on their site. No - they're pretty old. Ebook technology only existed in Star Trek at that time (2001). Shoot me an email at portablezombie(at)gmail and I might be able to locate my old paperbacks if you want them. VV $30?! What the hell... VV berzerkmonkey fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Jul 1, 2014 |
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UberJumper posted:Has black library ever offered those books as ebooks? I can't even find them on their site. Not in Epub, only in paperback, and expensive too (omnibus both books) http://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-40000/Gothic-War-The.html
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For those interested, Black Library has also sorted all of the Horus Heresy releases into a suggested reading order to reflect the timeline on their webstore. There's a lot of audio drama and ebook only content squeezed in between the novels that I'm afraid I'll never get around to ever reading or hearing.  http://www.blacklibrary.com/our-ranges-horus-heresy.html
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UberJumper posted:I really should re-read pariah again, since i honestly can apparently remember absolutely nothing about that book. Yeah Abnetts poo poo is the only poo poo I care about and it keeps being pushed back, I realize the guy has a condition and all but come on! I want my bolter porn 
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I just want more Gaunt stuff and see what horrible mess they get into this time. And who dies too.
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Just finished Night Lords. One question The new prophet. Decimus, is clearly the child of Octavia and Septimus, right?
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pentyne posted:Just finished Night Lords. One question It's certainly implied. We're never going to have it answered outright though.
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Demiurge4 posted:Yeah Abnetts poo poo is the only poo poo I care about and it keeps being pushed back, I realize the guy has a condition and all but come on! I want my bolter porn Abnett isn't well?
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iminay posted:Not in Epub, only in paperback, and expensive too (omnibus both books) http://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-40000/Gothic-War-The.html Cheaper option: Execution Hour can still be found on Ebay, but searching for Shadowpoint gives me cutlery, knifes or unrelated comics, so no dice.
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Trast posted:Abnett isn't well?
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