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Arcsquad12 posted:Sabbat Crusade, the anthology collection published last year. Not to be confused with the Sabbat Worlds anthology or the Sabbat Worlds Crusade guidebook which Black Library should have republished instead of simply including it in a special edition version of Sabbat Crusade that they only made 500 copies of.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Sabbat Crusade, the anthology collection published last year. Not to be confused with the Sabbat Worlds anthology or the Sabbat Worlds Crusade guidebook which Black Library should have republished instead of simply including it in a special edition version of Sabbat Crusade that they only made 500 copies of. Thankyou!
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Nov 30, 2017 02:33
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Arcsquad12 posted:Sabbat Crusade, the anthology collection published last year. Not to be confused with the Sabbat Worlds anthology or the Sabbat Worlds Crusade guidebook which Black Library should have republished instead of simply including it in a special edition version of Sabbat Crusade that they only made 500 copies of. I own one of those 500 
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Nov 30, 2017 07:41
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Devastation of Baal and The Emperor's Legion were both... good? What is going on here? Are there more than 2 competent writers taking BL money?
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Nov 30, 2017 08:27
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Demiurge4 posted:I own one of those 500  Me too and it's superb. Really want to get the presumably stupidly expensive set for the Warmaster they're releasing in the next day or two.
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Nov 30, 2017 08:30
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wiegieman posted:Devastation of Baal and The Emperor's Legion were both... good? What is going on here? Are there more than 2 competent writers taking BL money? Chris Wraight and John French have always been in the B tier of authors after Abnett and ADB. They mostly dabble in bolter-porn but make it slightly more compelling than most. Though Carrion Throne was really great and I'd put it up there with some of the top BL novels I've read. Battle of The Fang and Wrath of Iron are a lot of fun and their HH novels tend to be the better ones.
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Nov 30, 2017 11:27
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Arcsquad12 posted:Sabbat Crusade, the anthology collection published last year. Not to be confused with the Sabbat Worlds anthology or the Sabbat Worlds Crusade guidebook which Black Library should have republished instead of simply including it in a special edition version of Sabbat Crusade that they only made 500 copies of. I just bought it when it was reprinted as a standard novel. Was really surprised to see a guardswoman on the cover too. Which was nice.
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I'd put both Chris Wright and Guy Haley solidly into the "A" tier for Black Library authors after their past few books. The key with any author for 40k fiction seems to be finding the right topic for them to write about- Guy Haley had better be the new Blood Angels guy because he writes them better than anyone ever has. Chris Wright seems to do really well with stuff that has a more political bent- didn't he do both Watchers of the Throne and The Carrion Throne?
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Nov 30, 2017 16:29
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Wright also did both the White Scars books for Horus Heresy, both of which I liked a lot.
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Nov 30, 2017 17:02
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Quality also suffers if they're being tasked to do quantity.
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Nov 30, 2017 17:25
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I just wish Sandy Mitchell came back
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Chris Wraight also wrote: Sword of justice Sword of Vengeance Luthor Huss The fall of altdorf Which are all for sure above average. So if you like Warhammer Fantasy I recommend picking them up. My warhams MO is basically to blindly buy anything by ADB, Abnett and Wraight
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With all this talk about the few good BL authors, is there a best of the worst? Like did CS Goto write a story/novel that is so batshit insane it's just a comedy of errors or were they all just aggressively mediocre and wholly fixated on one particular part of the canon?
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Ben Counter is generally pretty terrible but he wrote a book called Daemon World that's a lot of fun and pretty imaginative. Just a book about conflict on a planet in the Eye. Not really something explored much.
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There was always the ancient one called Eye of Terror, which featured a Mos Eisley style cantina inside the Eye of Terror with a Wraithguard  hanging out in it who had a Melt-, I mean Pla-, I mean Meltagun. (It changes which it is repeatedly because the author didn't know they were different, presumably.)
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Shockeh posted:There was always the ancient one called Eye of Terror, which featured a Mos Eisley style cantina inside the Eye of Terror with a Wraithguard This is an older novel and if you haven't read it, you should. It's loving awesome to see how the author depicts stuff we are familiar with and is grimdark as gently caress. One of the scenes ends with a marine floating outside of a space station cause he got lost in the assault and everyone else died. Also another marine crashes on a daemon world, runs into a chaos marine and the chaos marine totally corrupts him
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Waroduce posted:This is an older novel and if you haven't read it, you should. It's loving awesome to see how the author depicts stuff we are familiar with and is grimdark as gently caress. One of the scenes ends with a marine floating outside of a space station cause he got lost in the assault and everyone else died. It's been 14 years, but wasn't it the same Dark Angel? Also said chaos marine lives in a tree doesn't he? Also- rogue trader and his pals taking shots of pure warp-juice at said cantina. Book was loving weird yet amazing for someone who was just getting into the hobby. Immanentized fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Dec 1, 2017 |
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I think it was your right. It's been a long time but I love that book. It's still on my shelf
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Dec 1, 2017 15:08
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I currently have The Warmaster in my hands and I am torn between reading it or finishing my assignments.
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Dec 1, 2017 20:10
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Only one day left until I can start the eternal wait for the Warmaster sequel. Get hype!
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bunnyofdoom posted:I just wish Sandy Mitchell came back This. His Dark Heresy books were really good, too. 
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A new Ciaphis Cain novel was announced at the Black Library weekend a fortnight ago. I don't believe a release date was given, but it's presumably not that far out if they're prepared to talk about it.
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Wtf. I'm in the middle of buying the Warmaster ebook on the Black Library site and I've got 50 % off randomly? What warp trickery is this.
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Syncopated posted:Wtf. I'm in the middle of buying the Warmaster ebook on the Black Library site and I've got 50 % off randomly? What warp trickery is this. Don’t question it!
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Dec 2, 2017 15:40
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Welp, bought my first ever special edition
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Dec 2, 2017 17:31
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Warmaster box thing bought!
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I am now looking at the cover of Warmaster, open on my iPad. I'm also steeling myself for what happens to poor Kolea. I'm setting my expectations at "becomes a demonhost more powerful than Cherubael and kills Ludd, Zweil, Criid, Daur and the Saint." It probably won't be much worse than that.
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mllaneza posted:I am now looking at the cover of Warmaster, open on my iPad. gently caress you, Ludd is destined to bumble along until the end times and in a charming turn of events- end up stealing Sabbat from Brin Milo, all because of Hark's effort behind the scenes. Blenner has a dalliance with a charming Cadian female Lieutenant, and sires a son. Edit: Oh gently caress this is bleak. Immanentized fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Dec 3, 2017 |
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Immanentized posted:gently caress you Exactly ! This is a worst case, so whatever happens will be a relief. It's bleak, but it's gooooooood.
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mllaneza posted:Exactly ! This is a worst case, so whatever happens will be a relief. My kindle says I'm 68% in and gattdamnnnnn
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Well... that was certainly worth the wait.
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The last few novels I read were all 40k stuff so I was going to go for some Scott Lynch or something next, but it sounds like I should maybe get to Warmaster first. 
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Flynn Meryn, you are up there with Lijah fething Cuu as far as horrible people go. Even with the typical Abnett ending, that was fantastic. It felt like a redux of Sabbat Martyr at times, except good. So, Yoncy is almost certainly a daemon that has replaced the real, male Yoncy, and she's apparently the bad shadow humanoid buzzsaw. So my theory is that she is the Voice of Sek, and she has been planted in the Ghosts as part of a long game by Annakwenar to assassinate the Crusade's High Command at some point. The offensive withdrew the moment the sons of Sek attacked her, just as the battleship drove off the void scavengers the moment they threatened the Eagle Stones. And the reveal by Mabbon that the Sanguinary Tribe's language refers to objects in feminine terms would further imply her daemon status. Also, Ezra got the Muril treatment, and Mkoll did a MkVenner And how old would Yoncy be? Dalin was 10 in Necropolis if my math is right, and he's 24 in Warmaster, considering the book mentions five years have passed since Jago, where he was 19. At bare minimum Yoncy is 14-15 by those numbers, but is mentally something like a six year old. The timeline is really screwy. Vervunhive is 769 M41, Jago is 778 M41, and Salvation's Reach is 781 M41, but Warmaster is 791 M41 due to the Warp accident's 10 year time dilation. Meaning there's two years unaccounted for in Gaunt's thoughts. Or it was a typo. Glad to see Black Library editors are as poo poo as ever at catching grammar mistakes, improper formatting and continuity gaffes. Twice I saw two separate paragraphs in different locations smashed together. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Dec 3, 2017 |
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I feel like there was a lot of red herring nesting going on. I basically have to CIA document the entire rest of the post to say anything else, but I'm willing to bet that she's not a demon, she's literally Sek's daughter hiding under an assumed identity for whatever reason. The demon ship wasn't talking about a "creation", it was saying this is what you get for trying to kill his daughter.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Or it was a typo. Glad to see Black Library editors are as poo poo as ever at catching grammar mistakes, improper formatting and continuity gaffes. Twice I saw two separate paragraphs in different locations smashed together. Nic Vincent, Dan's wife does most of his editing, I'm not sure if BL does much secondary editing beyond formatting.
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This loving book man.
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Immanentized posted:Nic Vincent, Dan's wife does most of his editing, I'm not sure if BL does much secondary editing beyond formatting. Well what I caught did bother me, regardless of BL or Nic Vincent. Didn't detract from the story but it felt sloppy, like a 1st year essay mistake.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Flynn Meryn, you are up there with Lijah fething Cuu as far as horrible people go. Blenner too. A couple of major fethwipes right there.
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