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Hustlin Floh posted:It was quite the stinker. I liked the one inscrutible ninja raven guard guy killing Lucias in a duel but making sure to turn towards the proverbial camera and say "I TAKE NO PRIDE IN THIS". Also, I don't think Lucius is meant to be in full on Eternal mode yet, just like Kharn isn't yet the chosen of Khorne and Ahriman isn't the chosen of Tzeentch. All three are clearly on the way to becoming what they are in 40k, but aren't there yet.
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I'm reading Cadian Blood and super loved the naval engagement parts. Any good space boat books worth reading?
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Cythereal posted:Also, I don't think Lucius is meant to be in full on Eternal mode yet, just like Kharn isn't yet the chosen of Khorne and Ahriman isn't the chosen of Tzeentch. All three are clearly on the way to becoming what they are in 40k, but aren't there yet. Yeah, didn't he get resurrected by Fabius that time?
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May 1, 2017 14:22
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Hustlin Floh posted:Yeah, didn't he get resurrected by Fabius that time? IIRC, yeah but Fabius went "Uh... I'm pretty sure that shouldn't have worked. Even by MY standards this is hosed up. WTF?"
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May 1, 2017 15:15
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Moose-Alini posted:I'm reading Cadian Blood and super loved the naval engagement parts. Any good space boat books worth reading? There's a decent fleet battle scene in Sabbat Martyr, but like everything else in that book, it is over far too quickly and is truncated all to hell.
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May 1, 2017 15:37
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PantsOptional posted:Yeah, it was in Angel Exterminatus. As a sidebar, when I finished reading that one, I set it down on a table and when I came back to it the cat had puked on it, so I guess his opinion of it was about the same as mine. I liked the characterization of Perturabo and the Iron warriors, but everything Fulgrim related is just painfully bad.
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Hustlin Floh posted:It was quite the stinker. I liked the one inscrutible ninja raven guard guy killing Lucias in a duel but making sure to turn towards the proverbial camera and say "I TAKE NO PRIDE IN THIS". Ugggh that was so very bad. The very opening line of the book is a heavy-handed and lame metaphor for its plot. It reads like someone going 'Wow, this Storm of Iron book is rad. But my prequel fanfic will make it even better. It'll have a wacky mad scientist! And a badass ninja marine who never misses and is the best starship fighter and swordsman! And a guy outright screaming 'I CARE NOT FROM WHENCE THE BLOOD FLOWS' to give people a subtle hint that maaaaybe things are heading in a new direction!"
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Moose-Alini posted:I'm reading Cadian Blood and super loved the naval engagement parts. Any good space boat books worth reading? The Night Lords books by ADB have some great naval engagements in them, especially Blood Reaver. They're not the focus of the books, but The Exalted, one of the major characters of the series, is this great naval commander. They're also loving dope books by ADB and required reading.
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Moose-Alini posted:I'm reading Cadian Blood and super loved the naval engagement parts. Any good space boat books worth reading? Get the two Battlefleet Gothic novels, Execution Hour and Shadow Point by Gordon Rennie. Or The Gothic War omnibus which has both books and a graphic novel in the back. It's all Imperial Navy, all the time and quite good.
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SRM posted:The Night Lords books by ADB have some great naval engagements in them, especially Blood Reaver. They're not the focus of the books, but The Exalted, one of the major characters of the series, is this great naval commander. They're also loving dope books by ADB and required reading. Vandred is the great naval commander, The Exalted is just the dick puppeteering him.  On a related note, the way that arc concludes was badass.
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Betrayer has a couple of void engagements as well, one of them truly momentous. Lotara Sarrin is the best captain, period. Three mega-ships defending a planet-bound legion from a vengeance-hungry armada of 40+ smaller capital vessels is just boss. It makes me sad that Lotara probably ended chainsawed in half after a discussion with some World Eater sergeant, though.
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Betrayer also has some good naval combat, courtesy of the woman badass enough to be the captain of Angron's flagship and shoot a World Eater captain in the face and live.quote:It makes me sad that Lotara probably ended chainsawed in half after a discussion with some World Eater sergeant, though. I never got that impression. Angron respected her and she got away with shooting one of the World Eaters' greatest champions in the face. I'd imagine she's a daemon princess of Khorne in 40k, hunting the stars from her demonic flagship Conqueror. I'd also accept "Went out like an absolute badass at the Siege of Terra." Cythereal fucked around with this message at 18:24 on May 1, 2017 |
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Thanks, I'm now $70 poorer. I blame that infernal Badcast!
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They only did three, and they're okay. The first one is good, the second is the same but different so kind of lame and the third just goes off the rails and is kind of bad.
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Sephyr posted:Ugggh that was so very bad. The best part is the author writing bad Storm of Iron prequel fanfiction is also the author who wrote Storm of Iron.
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Moose-Alini posted:Thanks, I'm now $70 poorer. I blame that infernal Badcast! Happy to help separate our listeners from their juice money!
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AndyElusive posted:Are there any Blood Bowl books from Black Library that are worth reading? Arquinsiel posted:They only did three, and they're okay. The first one is good, the second is the same but different so kind of lame and the third just goes off the rails and is kind of bad. They recently came out with eight short stories. I haven't read them yet, but none are by Matt Forbeck, who was apparently running out of puns and ideas midway into the original series.
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BL just came out with an "Authors" page, so you can find books from specific authors you enjoy, rather than having to search through all the books on the site (or just typing "Abnett" in the search box.)
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berzerkmonkey posted:BL just came out with an "Authors" page, so you can find books from specific authors you enjoy, rather than having to search through all the books on the site (or just typing "Abnett" in the search box.) The order is kinda hosed up for the books if you want to look at them in chronological order, like it has Helsreach and a Night Lords short story before Cadian Blood, which is ADB's first novel, but it's still nice.
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SRM posted:The order is kinda hosed up for the books if you want to look at them in chronological order, like it has Helsreach and a Night Lords short story before Cadian Blood, which is ADB's first novel, but it's still nice. Yeah, it's certainly not optimized at all, but at least nobody has to figure out how to spell "Aaron Dembski-Bowden."
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Has anyone played Battlefleet Gothic Armada? I just discovered that this game exists and I will be buying it when I get a new computer!
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berzerkmonkey posted:Yeah, it's certainly not optimized at all, but at least nobody has to figure out how to spell "Aaron Dembski-Bowden." I read ADB so much I know how to spell his stupid name by heart.
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The Gildar Rift is mostly space combat done by the Silver Skulls chapter, but I can't recommend that book because their chapter is so utterly hamstrung by their worship of the progenitors (librarians).
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Best Warhammer strategy game out there. It's brilliant. Your LP of it is good and cool.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Best Warhammer strategy game out there. It's brilliant. As good a representation of 40K as Dawn of War 2? (Not saying best 40K game, just best representation of the universe)
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Best Warhammer strategy game out there. It's brilliant. Only if you have an obscene lust for ramming spaceships. (Kidding Herp.)
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pubic works project posted:Has anyone played Battlefleet Gothic Armada? I just discovered that this game exists and I will be buying it when I get a new computer! Definitely get it, it's fantastic, and the soundtrack is the most 40k thing I've ever heard. Arcsquad12 posted:As good a representation of 40K as Dawn of War 2? (Not saying best 40K game, just best representation of the universe) Well, the space part, at least. Though the opening cutscenes do a great job at illustrating the themes and mood of the setting overall.
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Arcsquad12 posted:As good a representation of 40K as Dawn of War 2? (Not saying best 40K game, just best representation of the universe) Dawn of War 2 represents chaos and space marines better than any other 40k game. Space Marine oddly has the best Imperial Guards, but BFG:A hits every other base perfectly. bunnyofdoom posted:Only if you have an obscene lust for ramming spaceships. Wait, some people don't?
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My lust for starships colliding is merely insatiable, not obscene. But I'm working on it.
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So I'm taking a break from reading the HH stuff and decided to finish off the Space Wolf series. I'm about a third of the way into Wolfblade and already I can tell I'm going to like Haegr.
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Just finished Damnation of Pythos, and man. The Iron Hands are just straight up fascists. Like, more so than any other marine chapter.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Just finished Damnation of Pythos, and man. The Iron Hands are just straight up fascists. Like, more so than any other marine chapter. It's kinda hard to escape fascism when you literally are a Nietzschein Uberman.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Just finished Damnation of Pythos, and man. The Iron Hands are just straight up fascists. Like, more so than any other marine chapter. Congratulations, you've picked up on a running theme of the Imperium of Man. Part of Perturabo's bitterness is that he's a strong believer in democracy, and the Imperium in general and Emperor in particular has no time for that poo poo.
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pubic works project posted:Has anyone played Battlefleet Gothic Armada? I just discovered that this game exists and I will be buying it when I get a new computer! You're in luck because it's on sale for 60% off on Steam until May 5th. Gravitas Shortfall posted:Just finished Damnation of Pythos, and man. The Iron Hands are just straight up fascists. Like, more so than any other marine chapter.
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Greataval posted:Well to be fair democracy in 40k leads to chaos. If I were a greater demon I'd totally try to spread Democracy throughout the imperium, or at the very least be a champion of the proletariat. Mutants of the imperium unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains!
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:If I were a greater demon I'd totally try to spread Democracy throughout the imperium, or at the very least be a champion of the proletariat. Mutants of the imperium unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains! Yes, but you wouldn't be doing that for democracy, you'd be doing that to sow dissent and create chaos. Once those mutants had thrown off their oppressive overlords, it would immediately turn into an episode of the Twilight Zone, where the strongest mutants/three-armed mutants/less ugly mutants become the new rulers and oppress the other muties in a cruel parody of their previous existence. And you'll just laugh and laugh and laugh...
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