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One Legged Cat posted:Welllll to his credit, Guilliman didn't have sorcerous reality-bending powers afforded to him as the chosen herald of the Dark Gods like his fuckup brother did. I think one of the things that I like best about the early Heresy is the complete lack of commissars. The Grand Armies of the Imperium don't need them, they don't even exist. I know they aren't out of place in 40k, because of the grim dark, but it'd be nice if they didn't exist in at least some of the armies. It's not like Krieg needs them, not now.
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Peztopiary posted:I think one of the things that I like best about the early Heresy is the complete lack of commissars. The Grand Armies of the Imperium don't need them, they don't even exist. I know they aren't out of place in 40k, because of the grim dark, but it'd be nice if they didn't exist in at least some of the armies. It's not like Krieg needs them, not now. They've been referenced a few times, actually, as "discipline masters" with the overcoat, sash, and hat. Presumably they're not the  of the 40k setting, but an existing position and role in the Imperial Army that morphed into the 40k commissar over time, probably as a result of the Heresy.
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May 25, 2015 14:26
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Krieg Commissars exist to make sure the Krieg don't :blam: their allies for not being faithful enough.
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MrNemo posted:
Then in Unremembered Empire he makes Vulkan everyones bitch. Because of course perpetual means he comes back so it's consequence free to let multiple characters kill him to show how bad rear end they are  .
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May 25, 2015 17:49
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Since the regular warhams thread is about a bunch of NERDS painting obscenely expensive plastic (and resin) tiny army men and pushing them across a tabletop, I thought I'd just ask my question here instead. What's this fuss about the new stormtrooper codex?
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Klaus88 posted:Since the regular warhams thread is about a bunch of NERDS painting obscenely expensive plastic (and resin) tiny army men and pushing them across a tabletop, I thought I'd just ask my question here instead. What's this fuss about the new stormtrooper codex? Lol if u actually play ham But srsly idk, no idea
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May 27, 2015 03:02
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Klaus88 posted:Since the regular warhams thread is about a bunch of NERDS painting obscenely expensive plastic (and resin) tiny army men and pushing them across a tabletop, I thought I'd just ask my question here instead. What's this fuss about the new stormtrooper codex? Why would you think a game manual is on-topic for a fiction thread? Anyway, as far as I know there aren't any new storm trooper codexes. There was one last year, it was small and covered storm troopers and their transports. The full guard codex came out shortly after. Is this a joke that went over my head? Did you mean to post in the GW death thread instead (they are currently discussing x-wing and star wars in general there)?
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May 27, 2015 03:11
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Peztopiary posted:It's not like Krieg needs them, not now. In Dead Men Walking, it's shown that Krieg Commissars are actually diplomatic officers, sent to speak to people that Lord-Feldmarschall Gunther #7KD-792-2520 either doesn't have the time or is too autistic to speak to. The 'party face', so to speak.
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Klaus88 posted:Since the regular warhams thread is about a bunch of NERDS painting obscenely expensive plastic (and resin) tiny army men and pushing them across a tabletop, I thought I'd just ask my question here instead. What's this fuss about the new stormtrooper codex? It's good but not essential or anything. You can take all the same units out of the regular Guard codex (Astra Militarum. Again, ugh) but they get better orders and unique formations when taken out of the dedicated Stormtrooper dex. I run the Ground Assault Formation and support it with a regular Guard fire support section.
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SRM posted:Taurox Prime transports (ugh) CommissarMega posted:In Dead Men Walking, it's shown that Krieg Commissars are actually diplomatic officers, sent to speak to people that Lord-Feldmarschall Gunther #7KD-792-2520 either doesn't have the time or is too autistic to speak to. The 'party face', so to speak.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Best part of that book was "If you're targeted by a Necron Gauss weapon, toss your plasma gun to another trooper so it doesn't get destroyed. No sense in wasting perfectly good weaponry that we can use."
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May 27, 2015 15:17
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All the faux Latin is just so they can copyright something, you can still call them stormtroopers if you want.
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May 27, 2015 15:34
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So I saw that both First and Only and Ghostmaker have gotten reprints with new cover art. At the rate they're going, the entire Gaunt's Ghosts line will be reprinted before The Warmaster or Sabbat Crusade reach shelves. You lucky bastards who got the early premium copies of Sabbat Crusade, I am jealous. The new cover art isn't all that special though. I really miss the oldschool covers for GGs with the wonky proportions on the mysterious "doesn't look at all like Ibram Gaunt" commissar.
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I really like the original cover. It was the first 40k book i bought basically because i liked the cover art and it was imperial guard http://www.blacklibrary.com/Images/Product/DefaultBL/xlarge/First-and-Only.jpg
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May 28, 2015 08:44
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Straight Silver is my favorite cover piece.
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Over half way through Commissar and I must say that I can't wait for it to be over. I've come this far, but even bolter porn is more interesting. The first 150 pages were rough to get through, but it started to get more tolerable afterwards. It could be that I just came off of reading Dan Abnett's Brothers of the Snake, so I'm just used to better writing. I'm just trying to check this one off the list as at last count I have 81 (counting omnibuses as 3) 40k books that I've kept in the backlog.
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Abyss posted:Over half way through Commissar and I must say that I can't wait for it to be over. I've come this far, but even bolter porn is more interesting. The first 150 pages were rough to get through, but it started to get more tolerable afterwards. It could be that I just came off of reading Dan Abnett's Brothers of the Snake, so I'm just used to better writing. I'm just trying to check this one off the list as at last count I have 81 (counting omnibuses as 3) 40k books that I've kept in the backlog. Take a picture of ur 81 ham books pls
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If it's not by Dan Abnett, ADB, Rob Sanders, Chris Wraight, or John French, I pretend it doesn't exist unless reading it is essential to understanding something there's a chance I'll actually like. Although if Gordon Rennie or Simon Spurrier took up the stylus again I'd immediately buy whatever they poo poo out, no questions asked. I have read other BL authors' books in the past but it just doesn't seem like a good use of my time anymore unless I hear really positive recommendations, they relate to something important, or both (e.g. Thousand Sons). I try out other authors' short stories but I have yet to add any novels to my reading list because of it.
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Fun fact, remember how everybody was (justifiably) whining about how lovely McNeill was for naming Little Horus Aximand's dumb sword "Mourn-It-All"? That's actually from Dan Abnett in the Age of Darkness short story "Little Horus," which was okay otherwise.
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I finished the first book in the Night Lords omnibus, and I'm still dissatisfied with the way Black library absolutely fails when it comes to endings. I don't think I've read a single book that didn't feel like they cut about thirty pages from it to tie everything up. I get that this was written as a trilogy, but the story of Soul Hunter could have easily have tied up everything and been a complete story on its own without feeling like they're dragging things out for the sake of getting two more books written.
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Arcsquad12 posted:I finished the first book in the Night Lords omnibus, and I'm still dissatisfied with the way Black library absolutely fails when it comes to endings. I don't think I've read a single book that didn't feel like they cut about thirty pages from it to tie everything up. I get that this was written as a trilogy, but the story of Soul Hunter could have easily have tied up everything and been a complete story on its own without feeling like they're dragging things out for the sake of getting two more books written. Its amazing ill fite u in rl m8 Seriously though like yea its a problem, one Abnett in particular is prone to, but both his and ADBs quality is so high compared to the sea of poo poo surrounding it, ill deal with it because of the strength of their narratives
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Sulecrist posted:If it's not by Dan Abnett, ADB, Rob Sanders, Chris Wraight, or John French, I pretend it doesn't exist unless reading it is essential to understanding something there's a chance I'll actually like. Although if Gordon Rennie or Simon Spurrier took up the stylus again I'd immediately buy whatever they poo poo out, no questions asked. McNeill's Storm of Iron is actually pretty loving good.  as all hell. It's no Night Lords or Eisenhorn, but I'd easily put it up there with Wraight's books which are basically nothing but well-written bolterporn.It's easily the best thing he's ever written and the only book of his that I actually liked.
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Khizan posted:McNeill's Storm of Iron is actually pretty loving good. I agree completely, if you haven't already give his Mars trilogy a go(priests of Mars, lords of, gods of), as it is certainly a close second to storm of iron. It's certainly far ahead of his other multi part works (Uriel Ventris is the worst).
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Sulecrist posted:Fun fact, remember how everybody was (justifiably) whining about how lovely McNeill was for naming Little Horus Aximand's dumb sword "Mourn-It-All"? That's actually from Dan Abnett in the Age of Darkness short story "Little Horus," which was okay otherwise. Little Horus naming his sword that totally fits his character as dumb little sycophant though.
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Khizan posted:McNeill's Storm of Iron is actually pretty loving good. I re-read it a couple of years ago and did not think it aged super well. I think you're absolutely right to compare it to Wraight's Space Marine Battles books, though; that's exactly what it's like. (Although I think Wraight's prose is less tedious and overwrought than McNeill's and McNeill's characters are generally more interesting and fun than Wraight's.)
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Arcsquad12 posted:I finished the first book in the Night Lords omnibus, and I'm still dissatisfied with the way Black library absolutely fails when it comes to endings. I don't think I've read a single book that didn't feel like they cut about thirty pages from it to tie everything up. I get that this was written as a trilogy, but the story of Soul Hunter could have easily have tied up everything and been a complete story on its own without feeling like they're dragging things out for the sake of getting two more books written. Khizan posted:McNeill's Storm of Iron is actually pretty loving good.
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Apparently McNeill just got hired on as a writer for League of Legends and he's moving to LA. Supposedly he'll still be working for BL as well, but (reasonably) expects that he'll put out less for them than he has.
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Jun 3, 2015 16:42
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Wow writing schlock for LoL? Guy must be desperate or starving.
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:Wow writing schlock for LoL? Guy must be desperate or starving. They're probably going to release a bunch of lore books starring various champions. I bet Riot pays better than Games Workshop, they've been poaching people for years and most of the good EVE Online devs went to them.
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I've literally never read a thing about league of legends, is it as gay as it sounds
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Good riddance to be honest. He's been active for years and written maybe two decent books.
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Demon Of The Fall posted:I've literally never read a thing about league of legends, is it as gay as it sounds It's more bi. It will have sex with any other MOBA, regardless of gender.
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:Wow writing schlock for LoL? Guy must be desperate or starving. Yea he must be desperate to join a company that knows how to make money after spending most of his life working for 120 dollar ebook collectors edition: the company
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Riot is one of the most successful gaming companies in the world, every other publisher are trying to copy their stuff (most of them are failing). There is over 2 million people playing LoL right now.
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Sandweed posted:Riot is one of the most successful gaming companies in the world, every other publisher are trying to copy their stuff (most of them are failing). There is over 2 million people playing LoL right now. They could be riffing Dota as well just to add a bit of variety but no, the temptation of grinding fun bux is too much.
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Arcsquad12 posted:I finished the first book in the Night Lords omnibus, and I'm still dissatisfied with the way Black library absolutely fails when it comes to endings. I don't think I've read a single book that didn't feel like they cut about thirty pages from it to tie everything up. I get that this was written as a trilogy, but the story of Soul Hunter could have easily have tied up everything and been a complete story on its own without feeling like they're dragging things out for the sake of getting two more books written. I just finished the omnibus for the first time and I couldn't disagree more. The only way ADB could have tied everything up in Soul Hunter is by not writing it at all and just writing Void Stalker. If you enjoyed the first book at all, I highly recommend reading the rest because 1) it gets better and 2) the end of Void Stalker is a hugely satisfying ten chapter setpiece. I actually came into the thread to talk about how much I liked Void Stalker, specifically the ending. I've only read the Night Lords omnibus and Legion so far and, imo, ADB is much better at gracefully ending a story than Abnett. I like Night Lords more than Legion which should be impossible considering the Alpha Legion has always been my favorite army. I want to read the James Swallow Sisters of Battle books next but saw that they're not in the OP. Are they terrible? I really like the Adepta Sororitas and they have the potential for some great fluff but I'd rather not spend $24 on two terrible ebooks.
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