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ElPedro posted:Is it correct that Guilliman kills an Alpha Legion primarch at some point later? *as I recall, Guilliman kills an unidentified Alpha Legion leader guy, and then the Alpha Legion themselves confirm that it actually was Alpharius. Guilliman isn't quite convinced, so who knows. I guess we'll have to wait and see till the inevitable Scouring series.
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ElPedro posted:Just finished Praetorian of Dorn and I kind of agree with the earlier posts about it. It also felt like there was a bunch of convenient weaknesses for the Alpha Legion to exploit. Though I still felt it had good moments with Archamus and Dorn. lol with the alpha legion who even knows, theres 3+ "confirmed" killings of Alpharius and maybe 1 died 1 survived maybe both died maybe there was a third twin because the hydra has three heads. There whole deal is theres no way to know and theres alot of doubt put on each instance.
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Feb 10, 2018 23:37
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ElPedro posted:Just finished Praetorian of Dorn and I kind of agree with the earlier posts about it. It also felt like there was a bunch of convenient weaknesses for the Alpha Legion to exploit. Though I still felt it had good moments with Archamus and Dorn. The Alpha Legion are the opposite of the Salamanders. Their battlecry is "Alpharius died!" at all times.
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Feb 11, 2018 00:14
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:The Alpha Legion are the opposite of the Salamanders. Their battlecry is "Alpharius died!" at all times.
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Feb 11, 2018 00:22
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:The Alpha Legion are the opposite of the Salamanders. Their battlecry is "Alpharius died!" at all times. Followed by your lifelong best friend turning out to be an Alpha legion agent all along and stabbing you in the back.
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Feb 11, 2018 00:28
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Zil posted:Followed by your lifelong best friend turning out to be an Alpha legion agent all along and stabbing you in the back. And you never even realize that you were also an Alpha Legion agent psycho-conditioned to think you weren't
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Feb 11, 2018 00:30
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ElPedro posted:Just finished Praetorian of Dorn and I kind of agree with the earlier posts about it. It also felt like there was a bunch of convenient weaknesses for the Alpha Legion to exploit. Though I still felt it had good moments with Archamus and Dorn. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if being considered officially dead was exactly what Alpharius wanted. If we're going by names then Alpharius is potentially chilling with Eisenhorn and Bequin hiding his face with a realistic looking mask. DancingShade fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Feb 11, 2018 |
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Feb 11, 2018 00:35
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Guy Goodbody posted:And you never even realize that you were also an Alpha Legion agent psycho-conditioned to think you weren't Ironically making your death a decisive blow against the Alpha Legion. Just as planned.
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Feb 11, 2018 03:41
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chiasaur11 posted:Ironically making your death a decisive blow against the Alpha Legion. That isn't my face in your chainsword, that's victory barbacoa.
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Feb 11, 2018 04:26
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Vadoc posted:It's gay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Johnson Also, you know how the Dark Angels are based out of a place called The Rock? The Rock was a gay bar near GW's HQ in the 80s.
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Feb 11, 2018 05:17
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Cythereal posted:Also, you know how the Dark Angels are based out of a place called The Rock? The Rock was a gay bar near GW's HQ in the 80s. Time to paint those purity seals like handkerchiefs.
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Feb 11, 2018 06:25
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Alpharius never existed in the first place. Big E hosed up on gestation pod 20 and the reason "Alpharius" isn't much bigger than a regular marine is because he's actually just a huge regular marine. The intense secretiveness and "I am Alpharius" of the Alpha Legion arises from psychoprogramming by big E to cover up his mistake.  (Yeah it's stupid but it could actually work.)
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Feb 11, 2018 06:41
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Pyrolocutus posted:Alpharius never existed in the first place. Big E hosed up on gestation pod 20 and the reason "Alpharius" isn't much bigger than a regular marine is because he's actually just a huge regular marine. The intense secretiveness and "I am Alpharius" of the Alpha Legion arises from psychoprogramming by big E to cover up his mistake. After the thing where if a regular alpha legion marine drinks the blood of Alpharius they turn into a near perfect clone, it gets a  inception.
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Feb 11, 2018 06:48
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Zasze posted:After the thing where if a regular alpha legion marine drinks the blood of Alpharius they turn into a near perfect clone, it gets a Thanks for the replies everyone. Is this from Legion? My counterpoint to it not being Alpharius would have been him being equal to Dorn in a fight, where their elite terminators were destroyed easily and Omegons sense of loss. But if the above is true, then who knows.
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Feb 11, 2018 10:33
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Alpharius has been hiding in plain sight on the High Council since the Heresy wearing an unbreakable disguise of a pair of glasses and combed hair  Every few hundred years he just changes his glasses, gets a slightly different haircut and becomes the new High Lord of whatever.
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Feb 11, 2018 12:52
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What if it is Alpharius on the Thrones and the Emperor and "dead" loyal primarchs are just chilling on the other side of the Webway watching everything, having beers and laughing their rear end off.
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Feb 11, 2018 17:31
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Xae posted:What if it is Alpharius on the Thrones and the Emperor and "dead" loyal primarchs are just chilling on the other side of the Webway watching everything, having beers and laughing their rear end off. I would be ok with this, but it turns out the Eldar are keeping them under some kind of hypnosis thinking they are celebrating a victory over Horus.
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Feb 11, 2018 17:54
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As a very long lapsed 40k reader (I think the last book I read when it was “new” was Mechanicum?), I just ordered the Night Lords omnibus and the Forges of Mars omnibus based on the recommendations in this thread. I’ve never read anything by Aaron Dembski-Bowden (I don’t think he was even in the BL stable of authors when I stopped reading?) but I keep seeing people say he’s amazing so I’m looking forward to his stuff. I also dig the Mechanicus and I thought Mechanicum was a good time, so I’m hoping to enjoy Forges of Mars, too. I don’t have any real feelings about the Night Lords other than thinking the book Lords of Night by Simon Spurrier was pretty great. I like Spurrier quite a bit as an author; Fire Warrior is one of my favorite 40k novels and is drastically better than the game it’s based on, Xenology is fantastic and I wish BL put out more books in that style, and I’ve also really liked Spurrier’s non-BL work.
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Feb 11, 2018 19:06
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I just finished Descent of Angels. I thought it was pretty good, and really liked how the spooky forest was a metaphor for the emperor's crusade. I couldn't figure out why people were so down on it. And then the book takes a loving nosedive into a Star Trek TNG fan-fiction with bolters. Like, it's seriously a planet of hats. Is the next one any better?
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Feb 11, 2018 21:59
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Zasze posted:After the thing where if a regular alpha legion marine drinks the blood of Alpharius they turn into a near perfect clone, it gets a No. Any Astartes can drink blood and get a sense of the owner of the blood. In PoD, the guy drinks Alpharius blood and gets a few fleeting impressions, but then the psykers use their powers to switch their personalities. Drinking the blood doesn't make a clone.
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Feb 11, 2018 22:17
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I'm finally digging into the Tallarn books since they collected them as a full Horus Heresy series release and man the first relief ship burning in firing at everyone taking on the whole fleet screaming TRAITOR DEATH TRAITOR DEATH TRAITOR DEATH is such a loving cool image, that's the sort of poo poo that really makes me love these stupid books and 40k in general
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While we don't normally talk about the Fantasy side of Warhammer too much here. Felt like reporting that a new Gotrek and Felix book is coming.  Should also post the source. quote:Fabled hero of the Warhammer Old World, Gotrek Gurnisson is reborn and cast into the Age of Sigmar for a brand-new, feature-length audio adventure. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1784967866/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518387524&sr=1-10 MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Feb 12, 2018 |
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Feb 12, 2018 06:41
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On one hand its weird to bring back characters like that. One the other hand the mental image of Gotrek being loving furious that the end of the loving world did not kill him is hilarious.
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If it were any other character this would feel dumb but for Gotrek it's just so funny that you really have to go along with it. The implication that Felix is a Stormcast is interesting. Maybe a decent way to get some good development for a fairly boring faction?
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Yeah, taking this as almost a joke is the only way this won't just be garbage milking of nostalgia. TBH I still kind of expect a new edition to be announced for early 2019 that just pretends Age of Sigmar never happened.
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Xenomrph posted:As a very long lapsed 40k reader (I think the last book I read when it was “new” was Mechanicum?), I just ordered the Night Lords omnibus and the Forges of Mars omnibus based on the recommendations in this thread. I’ve never read anything by Aaron Dembski-Bowden (I don’t think he was even in the BL stable of authors when I stopped reading?) but I keep seeing people say he’s amazing so I’m looking forward to his stuff. I also dig the Mechanicus and I thought Mechanicum was a good time, so I’m hoping to enjoy Forges of Mars, too. The Night Lords trilogy is great. And reminiscent of the Spurrier interpretation. Great choice.
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moths posted:I just finished Descent of Angels. I thought it was pretty good, and really liked how the spooky forest was a metaphor for the emperor's crusade. I couldn't figure out why people were so down on it. Next book in HH series, “Legion”? It’s great. Next book in Dark Angels HH continuity, “Fallen Angels”? It sucks.
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Xenomrph posted:Xenology is fantastic and I wish BL put out more books in that style Ain't that the loving truth. Still waiting for a sequel to The Sabbat Worlds crusades to come out because that one stopped at His Last Command and there's been two(?) more omnibuses of stuff by now to cover and whole bunch more poo poo. While the first fluffbook, Battle for Armageddon, is a bit of a hit n miss in quality they really got good around Sabbat Worlds and Xenology. Just a shame they didn't do more than five of them and I think Sabbat Worlds was one of the last ones they made unless it was Tactica Imperialis.
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Want to give a big thank you for the Forges of Mars recommendation. This is probably the most batshit insane 40k novel I've ever read and the execution is pulled off spectacularly. Just got to Exnihilio, and I can't even predict how weird things get from here.
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Immanentized posted:Want to give a big thank you for the Forges of Mars recommendation. This is probably the most batshit insane 40k novel I've ever read and the execution is pulled off spectacularly.  I'll never stop singing praise for McNiell's AdMech stuff. He's a mediocre writer otherwise, aside from Storm of Iron, and it'd be a real shame to have his good work passed over just because of the name on the cover. Also on the topic of weird, I remember Atlas Infernal being a kind of wild ride. Just the cover alone is beautifully weird and goofy.  
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Isn't that the one that had a star warped by chaos that froze everything around it instead of providing heat?
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That's certainly possible. It's been years since I read it. I do however remember exactly why I got it to begin with. I saw a picture of the cover with a confused-as-gently caress-looking dude in a stolen Harlequin coat and a Harlequin's kiss, and just had to read it.
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Groetgaffel posted:
Is McNeill not liked itt? I was a big fan of nightbringer and dead sky black sun.
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Groetgaffel posted:
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Spiteski posted:Is McNeill not liked itt? I was a big fan of nightbringer and dead sky black sun. It's not that he's actively disliked, he's just not on the "if it's by this author buy the book" -list. And hey, if you like his Ultramarine stuff, more power to you. Personally I think of them as the very definition of generic bolter porn. I read all six of them, and they're good for what they are, but most likely nothing I'll read again.
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Cooked Auto posted:Ain't that the loving truth. Still waiting for a sequel to The Sabbat Worlds crusades to come out because that one stopped at His Last Command and there's been two(?) more omnibuses of stuff by now to cover and whole bunch more poo poo.
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Spiteski posted:Is McNeill not liked itt? I was a big fan of nightbringer and dead sky black sun. He's fairly uneven IMHO, writing beyond the scope of what he's good at often, and it seems he more often writes mediocre bolter porn instead of AdMech. His entry in the opening Horus trilogy was bad.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:He's fairly uneven IMHO, writing beyond the scope of what he's good at often, and it seems he more often writes mediocre bolter porn instead of AdMech. His entry in the opening Horus trilogy was bad. It's certainly no Nemesis or Battle for the Abyss. But yes, as I've said before, his AdMech stuff really shines. That includes the HH novel Mechanicum.
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