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Waroduce posted:Ian Watsons Space Marine as a comedy option
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ThePopeOfFun posted:Odd question: Try some Rob Sanders books. Atlas Infernal, Legion of the Damned, and his two Adeptus Mechanicus books are all solid. He's good at Weird 40k.
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Mar 22, 2018 05:31
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Legion of the damned is super under appreciated at least for the scene in the church where the marines murk some armed ecclesiachsty dudes and owns the priest
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Mar 22, 2018 05:53
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Wasn't Space Marine slated for a reprint soon?
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Speaking of, I wish Relic would get off their rear end and make a sequel to the Space Marine videogame now that they’ve left Dawn of War 3 twisting in the wind.
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Mar 23, 2018 01:45
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it'd be cool if that "enhanced edition" of deathwing ever came out too
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Did Quixos do anything wrong?
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Xenomrph posted:Speaking of, I wish Relic would get off their rear end and make a sequel to the Space Marine videogame now that they’ve left Dawn of War 3 twisting in the wind. Don't count on Relic being given the Warhammer IP anytime soon after that boondoggle.
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mythicknight posted:Did Quixos do anything wrong? He's a character that was literally just a conversion of the Eisenhorn figure for the Inquisitor game who was basically the same dude, except eeeeevil. You can tell by the horns.
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So I'm just finishing Cetaganda (Vorkosigan Saga book, although my personal skul-gun places it in the Dark Age of Technology, only prior to xenos contact (or in a portion of the galaxy where they haven't been encountered yet) and the AI revolts). I need a 40k recomendation, what should I read next? Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Mar 23, 2018 |
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Mar 23, 2018 15:32
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Schadenboner posted:So I'm just finishing Cetaganda (Vorkosigan Saga book, although my personal skul-gun places it in the Dark Age of Technology, only prior to xenos contact (or in a portion of the galaxy where they haven't been encountered yet) and the AI revolts). More of the Vorkosigan stuff tbh. You’ve still got another 10 books or so to go and there’s some really fun stuff in there.
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Pendent posted:More of the Vorkosigan stuff tbh. You’ve still got another 10 books or so to go and there’s some really fun stuff in there. And maybe a sideline into the Five Gods setting; Curse of Chalion and the Penric novellas. Those are all terrific. Bujold is one of, if not the finest writers in SF/Fantasy, keep going on her stuff.
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Mar 23, 2018 16:19
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Pendent posted:More of the Vorkosigan stuff tbh. You’ve still got another 10 books or so to go and there’s some really fun stuff in there. I just hope there's lots of good-old-fashioned heterosexual tail-chasing in Ethan of Athos!  E: Is Mount Athos the monastery that Michael Lewis visited for Boomerang?
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Mar 23, 2018 16:49
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ThePopeOfFun posted:Odd question: Pawns of Chaos is an old-but-good one, set on a planet where the Imperial authorities have been cut off from the rest of the galaxy so their technology (the thing giving them an edge over the indigenous population) is gradually wearing down.
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It was mentioned before but legion of the damned basically hits all three of what you are looking for. There also needs to be a book that is legion of the damned vs Alpha marines or Night lords.
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bango skank posted:it'd be cool if that "enhanced edition" of deathwing ever came out too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhD62Nzat1cwe'll see if they actually make that date, but I guess i jinxed them never putting the game out
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Thanks for all the great recommendations. Y’all rule.
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Mar 23, 2018 21:57
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I don’t know how I didn’t know this, but last night I learned that Titus in ‘Space Marine’ was voiced by Mark Strong, which is pretty awesome. I’m aware that he also voices Eisenhorn in the recent Xenos game as well. He clearly has a good time with the franchise, I wonder if BL will tap him to narrate one of the audiobooks at some point.
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That Space Hulk trailer was niiiiice. I love when actual gameplay is used in trailers, you don't see that much anymore.
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bango skank posted:
I feel like the Doom glory kill system would lend itself well to space marine melee combat. Only so many slash slash slash splat sequences I can tolerate. Ripping a demon arm off and beating in its skull with it adds a certain spice.
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DARPA posted:I feel like the Doom glory kill system would lend itself well to space marine melee combat. Only so many slash slash slash splat sequences I can tolerate. Ripping a demon arm off and beating in its skull with it adds a certain spice. Have you played Space Marine?
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Space Marine's execution system is fine in theory but in practice it is too indulgent with how long the animations are. It's the sync kill problem from the dawn of war games except you're still taking damage. Execution heals should really have faster animations and just turn you into a whirlwind of death instead of lovingly head stomping each ork one at a time. Leave those for the mini boss executions.
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Mar 24, 2018 07:21
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DOOM seriously perfected the execution. It flows so nicely with the gameplay without needing any particularly noticeable or egregious rule changes that compromise the challenge. Unfortunately Deathwing has nothing of the sort and unless the Enhanced Edition is truly transformative it will remain a soulless dull husk of a game, while also really underselling the power of both the player character and the enemy. Genestealer hybrids with normal assault rifles hurting terminator armour as much as melee attacks irks me.
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I really enjoyed in Space Marine that you can just execute the guardsmen and grots without stunning them, and sometimes the animation is just a casual backhand and they die.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:DOOM seriously perfected the execution. It flows so nicely with the gameplay without needing any particularly noticeable or egregious rule changes that compromise the challenge. How can you call a game with that thunder hammer soulless? That fucker was so much fun to use Or the assault cannon for that matter. Really most of the weapons felt great to me
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All this talk of Space Marine, if any of you guys have it on the Xbox360 and want to rally up some coop horde mode madness, let’s get some games going.
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Xenomrph posted:All this talk of Space Marine, if any of you guys have it on the Xbox360 and want to rally up some coop horde mode madness, let’s get some games going. What's a console-haver doing in the forum for people able to read? 
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Schadenboner posted:What's a console-haver doing in the forum for people able to read? Me no use words good, but me like flashing lights and pew pew sounds
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Xenomrph posted:Me no use words good, but me like flashing lights and pew pew sounds Let me tell you about the ogryn corps...
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Schadenboner posted:What's a console-haver doing in the forum for people able to read? 
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Xenomrph posted:All this talk of Space Marine, if any of you guys have it on the Xbox360 and want to rally up some coop horde mode madness, let’s get some games going. Gimme a month and I'd be down
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Xenomrph posted:All this talk of Space Marine, if any of you guys have it on the Xbox360 and want to rally up some coop horde mode madness, let’s get some games going. This but for PC. Arcsquad12 posted:Space Marine's execution system is fine in theory but in practice it is too indulgent with how long the animations are. It's the sync kill problem from the dawn of war games except you're still taking damage. Execution heals should really have faster animations and just turn you into a whirlwind of death instead of lovingly head stomping each ork one at a time. Leave those for the mini boss executions. This can all be fixed by making you just as invincible during executions in Space Marine as you are when you do glory kills in DOOM.
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Mar 25, 2018 01:11
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Darn, BL didn't like my submission. Anyone else hear back yet?
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No mainly because I didn't submit yet and I've had a mountain of papers to write. Submissions are still open into April right? EDIT: Turns out April 10th is the last day to submit. Just did some finishing touches on my submission and sent it in. Since you didn't get accepted, would you mind telling us what your story pitch was? Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Mar 26, 2018 |
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Long shot, but does anyone know why "Tales of Heresy" seems to be the only HH novel missing from Audible? Black Library has it for $54 which seems pretty loving ridiculous for an audiobook, but that's the only place I can find it. Am I missing much if I skip it?
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Went to the FW booth at Adepticon and saw that they had many copies of Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness available. They said they are reprinting all of the old books (at modern prices!!)
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Mar 28, 2018 18:06
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Nice! Those books are great reading. I need to get hardcopies sometime.
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Arquinsiel posted:Nice! Those books are great reading. I need to get hardcopies sometime. I'm seriously considering selling my old copies and picking up new at some point. LatD alone is selling for up to $300 on eBay. 
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I'm almost done tinkering with my story summary for the BL submission thing. Only need to write the actual sample and that'll finally be that.Mef989 posted:Long shot, but does anyone know why "Tales of Heresy" seems to be the only HH novel missing from Audible? Black Library has it for $54 which seems pretty loving ridiculous for an audiobook, but that's the only place I can find it.
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Humble Bundle has a bunch of BL books and shorts available.
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