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Getsuya posted:The OP warns that Horus Heresy might be hard for a 40k newb to follow but the bundle seemed like a good price so I picked it up. I've only ever read a single other 40k book (it was the first one about that one dude. The one who always lucks into winning battles and he hates how famous he is for it. Don't remember his name) so is there some kind of crash course of 'this is what you need to know to make heads or tails of the Horus Heresy' or is it more a 'you'll miss the references but dudes shooting each other is dudes shooting each other whether you care who they are or not' situation? Reading order. I believe that bundle is in order, so you shouldn't have any problem. They do jump around a bit in terms of timeline (though the reading order is helpful in correcting that) and there are a lot of characters who I found to be prevalent, but they don't make much of an impression, so I was constantly thinking "Wait - who's this guy again?" So, yeah, you might get a little confused. Worst case, just find one of the many wikis out there and you should be able to catch up.
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Uncle w Benefits posted:I, too, remember when words were hard. and then what happened, delusional gamer dude? if you read something with substance every once in awhile you wouldn't have to google define everything
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Apr 5, 2017 19:25
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Imagine being the kind of dude who works himself in a frenzy over pulp space man adventure books.
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SteelMentor posted:Imagine being the kind of dude who works himself in a frenzy over pulp space man adventure books. imagine being the kind of genderless pronoun that reads this tripe
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hog fat posted:and then what happened, delusional gamer dude? if you read something with substance every once in awhile you wouldn't have to google define everything It's ok that you don't like these books but why feel a need to trash on people that do? Just because we enjoy this stuff doesn't mean none of us read anything else.
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Apr 5, 2017 19:37
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Just ignore him, his shitposts aren't worth your time.
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SteelMentor posted:Imagine being the kind of dude who works himself in a frenzy over pulp space man adventure books. A 40K fan?
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Please don't engage posters that work themselves into a frothing rage in D&D or smugpost in a 40k fiction thread that 40k fiction is beneath them. I mean, I would read books with bigger words, or repeatedly point out how I'm too smart to post on these forums after paying  to post on these forums, but I'm just not that smart.
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Apr 5, 2017 19:48
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Orkz are cool and good. Thanks for reading my opinion about 40k.
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Getsuya posted:The OP warns that Horus Heresy might be hard for a 40k newb to follow but the bundle seemed like a good price so I picked it up. I've only ever read a single other 40k book (it was the first one about that one dude. The one who always lucks into winning battles and he hates how famous he is for it. Don't remember his name) so is there some kind of crash course of 'this is what you need to know to make heads or tails of the Horus Heresy' or is it more a 'you'll miss the references but dudes shooting each other is dudes shooting each other whether you care who they are or not' situation? Read Eisenhorn and than come back E: lol that one guy is so butt hurt Waroduce fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Apr 5, 2017 |
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I'm learning tons of big words in just the first few pages of this first Horus Heresy book so I don't know what that guy is on about. I mean yeah okay most of them are made up big words but that's neither here nor there.
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hog fat posted:and then what happened, delusional gamer dude? if you read something with substance every once in awhile you wouldn't have to google define everything Tsch, have you even read Atlas Shrugged? Besides, Graham McNeil is teaching me Latin in these books.
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Spoiler alert, it's possible to enjoy trashy genre fiction as well as mainstream literature. I assume, I only read trash.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Spoiler alert, it's possible to enjoy trashy genre fiction as well as mainstream literature.
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Uncle w Benefits posted:Besides, Graham McNeil is teaching me Latin in these books. 
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Spoiler alert, it's possible to enjoy trashy genre fiction as well as mainstream literature. Hell, same.
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hog fat posted:imagine being the kind of genderless pronoun that reads this tripe
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Who let captain buzzkill in here? He's probably bent he has to wait until the heat death of the universe for more Gaunt's Ghosts books.
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So thread I'm looking for a little help. I never dabbled much in the hobby but the Dawn of War games got me into 40k BL stuff (Eisehorn & Ravenor Trilogies, Ciphas Cain, and a smattering of other stuff). I jumped head first into Total War: Warhammer (though I had never played a Total War game) and now with Total Warhammer 2 on the way, I've decided I want to go back and read some of the better Fantasy BL stuff. I'm mostly looking for Gotrek & Felix, Thanoquol stuff and Malus Darkblade (mostly since we're getting DE in Warhammer2). So my big question is: Can you get paperbacks or omnibuses of those series anywhere for reasonable price? I checked Amazon and new versions of Trollslayer ALONE are $80+ for a paper back which is nuts. I assume this stems from GW blowing up WHFB and as such they care little about the background books for it now.
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Arquinsiel posted:Your rap sheet is way shorted than I'd expect for such a terrible poster. He's new and I'd like to think of him as something of a protege. I'm sure I'm responsible for him shitposting in this thread since he's been following me through various threads. Give him time, he'll have a great rap sheet before long. I couldn't be more proud.
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j5mello posted:Can you get paperbacks or omnibuses of those series anywhere for reasonable price? My local library has pretty much the entire black library collection, 100% free of charge. Rule Britannia.   Also play Shogun 2, Rome and/or Medieval 2. They're all pretty solid. That and try out Battlefleet Gothic Armada or watch this very intelligent and witty man play it for you.
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frogge posted:Who let captain buzzkill in here? He's probably bent he has to wait until the heat death of the universe for more Gaunt's Ghosts books. Now Penitent on the other hand… 
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I remember when Warmaster was supposed to come out in December, two years ago.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:My local library has pretty much the entire black library collection, 100% free of charge. Rule Britannia. Wait someone else started a bfg lp? Do they have a ramming obsession too?
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I realize this isn't the minis thread, but seeing the concept of the daemon prince Magnus struck me. Re-reading A Thousand Sons and Prospero Burns had me wondering what the daemon prince magnus looks like. We know Fulgrim is a silly 4 armed snake thing, Angron is the bog standard Judeo-Christian demon looking thing, Pert's head space looks like the backside of my family's home theater circa 1994. Not too sure about Morty either. I hadn't considered what his new form might look like, and this surprised me with how mild a transformation a Tzeenchian daemon prince would take. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hzls-ZU3sc Neat video too.
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j5mello posted:So thread I'm looking for a little help. Mathias Thulman Witch Hunter is p.good for fantasy
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j5mello posted:Can you get paperbacks or omnibuses of those series anywhere for reasonable price? Short answer: no. Long answer: give up on your love of a physical book and go digital. The older books are going to be easier to source and won't be subject to the stupid OOP markup.
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The Gotrek and Felix books have omnibuses but they might be out of print now as well idk. They're also pretty sweet, although I didn't read further than Dragonslayer I think.
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Book 2, Skaven Slayer, is the best by far. Also liked the last one. Snorri 
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Uncle w Benefits posted:I realize this isn't the minis thread, but seeing the concept of the daemon prince Magnus struck me. Re-reading A Thousand Sons and Prospero Burns had me wondering what the daemon prince magnus looks like. We know Fulgrim is a silly 4 armed snake thing, Angron is the bog standard Judeo-Christian demon looking thing, Pert's head space looks like the backside of my family's home theater circa 1994. Not too sure about Morty either. I hadn't considered what his new form might look like, and this surprised me with how mild a transformation a Tzeenchian daemon prince would take.  They're all pretty 90's and 
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Waroduce posted:Mathias Thulman Witch Hunter is p.good for fantasy Its amazing that the same author wrote The Siege of Castellax
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Arquinsiel posted:
Kudos to them for getting some basics right. "Magnus has one eye" - "Uh, okay."
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Fuckin Angels of Caliban... I dunno if it's skill or bad writing to make all the primarchs involved seem like dumbasses.
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I just finished Mechanicum, and wow. Everyone talks in either clichés or exposition, Dalia reads like a Mary Sue from bad fanfic, and no-one else has much of a personality at all. The Titan and Knight stuff was okay, but Abnett writes it so much better.
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Xun posted:Is the next pariah book ever coming out I ask this same question once a year or so.
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Just after Winds of Winter I heard.
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I bought the HH humble bundle - I'm planning on at the very least skipping all the non-Abnett/ADB/Swallow/McNeill books and really want to just stick to the books that are actually decent. I've read the opening trilogy and Eisenstein, which I enjoyed more than I thought I would. Is Fulgrim worth sticking with? in my experience McNeill can be pretty hit and miss, I'm only a couple of chapters in but I'm just not feeling any "bite" so far.
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Some goons from the main 40k thread do a podcast called the 40k Badcast and on one of their episodes they do a review of Fulgrim that I highly recommend you listen to.
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Pendent posted:Some goons from the main 40k thread do a podcast called the 40k Badcast and on one of their episodes they do a review of Fulgrim that I highly recommend you listen to. Link?
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