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People kept complaining about scalpers even though they took less than 10% of stock and this is what they got. GW can't tell who is and who isn't so we get solutions like this. This is going to make it harder to get releases and the secondary prices for just released LEs is going to shoot up. Here is the skinny from our UK brothers and sisters. The queue goes live at 5 minutes before the hour with the drop happening at top of hour. If you are on the site before the top of hour you will be automatically placed randomly in the queue. If you go on the site at the top of the hour or after you will be put in order behind everybody else. You need to be logged into your account and on the site 10 minutes before and it should auto add you to queue at 5 minutes before. Queue times may show up to an hour plus but it won't actually take that long. Remember this is site wide so a lot of people won't be interested in the LEs. Also a lot of people will give up when they see long times. Reports of people showing an hour wait before it suddenly dropping to less than 10 a few minutes later. No idea how GW will feel about you being logged in on multiple systems. I will be logged in on my phone through mobile and my desktop through my local internet.
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Frogcroakley posted:Alas, I have no idea on that front - bloody hope so, though. well. when it hits audible(and even if it doesn't) i'll pick it up. 40k audio books tend to genuinly be pretty good and mostly unabridged(thanks old star wars books)
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Jun 12, 2021 17:35
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Cooked Auto posted:I'll just have to throw the Ghaz book to my christmas shopping list. Alongside Gitslayer and the new Sabbat Crusade Anthology. Titanicus is one of my favourite Abnett books because of stuff like that, plus the contrast between Imperial/Mechanicus culture that runs throughout the book.
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Jun 12, 2021 21:39
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So pro-tip for future LE purchases, or actually any purchase as it looks like they will have the queue system whenever tabletop stuff drops too. The way they have it configured now the queue spot is based on user agent not IP. That means having multiple chrome profiles gets you multiple places in the queue. I had 6 windows open each on a different chrome profile but all logged into the same GW account and got 6 different places in the queue. Two of them got very low spots and the first one that got through I ordered on and closed the others. It's possible GW will change this in the future, but for now this is how to game the queue to make sure you can get LEs before out of stock. The Warhawk LE should be releasing in the next couple of weeks and it's going to be a circus trying to get a copy.
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Jun 12, 2021 23:40
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From the Titanicus descriptions I imagined a lot of variety in number of legs, arms and mechandrites(cyber dongs) but also in functional layout. Like a lot of scorpion centaurs, bird men, big cat and vulpine type dudes in design and animalistic movement with machine speed and precision. Was probably described in the text in such a way but for sure one of the scenes of skitari taking down a chaos titan had me thinking of ants swarming a much larger creature and taking it apart while it is still alive. MariusLecter fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Jun 13, 2021 |
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Jun 12, 2021 23:51
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I'd really like an audiobook version of Titanicus.
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Jun 13, 2021 00:08
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No. 1 Juicy Boi posted:Huh, a bunch of Gaunt's Ghosts stuff goes on preorder today and apparently GW implemented a queue system that puts you in a random place in line to buy stuff when it goes live? So ... Basically a sort of raffle system? That seems wack. Probably a test run for Dominion When stuff goes up for pre-order, can I call my local GW store and place an order through the store and not online
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Jun 13, 2021 00:27
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Probably a test run for Dominion You can. Some stores the guy is just going to try and order it through the site the same as you would yourself. Some stores have in store sales terminals. Those are supposedly setup to bypass the queue. So if your local store has one of those it's probably your best bet to guarantee something although if a bunch of other people are there I assume there would be a line and you just know one guy is not gonna have his payment info ready or anything else and take forever and gently caress it up for everybody behind him.
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Jun 13, 2021 00:43
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MariusLecter posted:From the Titanicus descriptions I imagined a lot of variety in number of legs, arms and mechandrites(cyber dongs) but also in functional layout. Yeah, it was written before AdMech/Skitarii had a codex so it has a lot of weird and cool descriptions. What a great book.
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Jun 13, 2021 01:29
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Improbable Lobster posted:Yeah, it was written before AdMech/Skitarii had a codex so it has a lot of weird and cool descriptions. What a great book. My headcanon still has the titanicus skitari as legit.
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Jun 13, 2021 21:29
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ed balls balls man posted:My headcanon still has the titanicus skitari as legit. Oh they absolutely are imho, skitarii should be eveb weirder and more varied than space marines or imperial guard
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Jun 14, 2021 00:07
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The electtatoo priests from that one book which I forgot the name of are dope as gently caress as well.
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Jun 14, 2021 00:18
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Those are a nice weird thing that crops up once in a while. Mostly still flesh based AdMech adepts, with odd tattoos that suddenly go ZAP and kill everything.
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Jun 14, 2021 00:25
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I liked the AdMech in the first Night Lords book where they are basically an ocean of kamikaze robot tendrils and Titans, so the Night Lords fight for a couple hours and then say "gently caress this" and peace out.
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Jun 14, 2021 00:35
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Telsa Cola posted:The electtatoo priests from that one book which I forgot the name of are dope as gently caress as well. Soul Drinkers, I'm fairly certain.  They're fast as lightning and strike as hard.
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Jun 14, 2021 00:48
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Thanks folks! Yeah haven't read that one in awhile but stuck with me as being kicking rad.
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Jun 14, 2021 00:51
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Rites of Passage was pretty great. We need more grumpy old lady protagonists.
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Jun 14, 2021 21:25
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Grammarchist posted:Rites of Passage was pretty great. We need more grumpy old lady protagonists. I want to see a book with her vs Trazyn
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Jun 15, 2021 00:02
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D-Pad posted:I want to see a book with her vs Trazyn I wonder what happens to a Necron, Tyranid, or blank who stares into a Navigator's eye, respectively.
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Jun 15, 2021 06:05
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NihilCredo posted:I wonder what happens to a Necron, Tyranid, or blank who stares into a Navigator's eye, respectively. Oooh can't wait for that Cain book
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Jun 15, 2021 06:10
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Reading Fire Caste currently. Holy poo poo thread, do not sleep on Fire Caste.
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Jun 15, 2021 06:33
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Tallarn: Ironclad has a really good side plot about the Vanus assassin Iaeo that gave me a hankering for more Officio Assassinorum books. She shows so much resourcefulness and competence that instead of writing her off as the character who gets murdered in the third act I was really invested in her. I've been reading Nemesis and somehow the book about an entire team of assassins isn't as captivating as Iaeo's story.Fallen Hamprince posted:Reading Fire Caste currently. Holy poo poo thread, do not sleep on Fire Caste. Agreed, it's definitely a gripping story that's unlike any 40k novel I'd read before. Kevin DuBrow fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Jun 15, 2021 |
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Jun 15, 2021 06:39
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Tallarn: Ironclad has a really good side plot about the Vanus assassin Iaeo that gave me a hankering for more Officio Assassinorum books. She shows so much resourcefulness and competence that instead of writing her off as the character who gets murdered in the third act I was really invested in her. I've been reading Nemesis and somehow the book about an entire team of assassins isn't as captivating as Iaeo's story. I mean that's mostly because it's written to feel like a sitcom. At least the bits on the ship. Like...i get that you generally want character development and depth...but on a loving Eversor?
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Jun 15, 2021 07:04
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NihilCredo posted:I wonder what happens to a Necron, Tyranid, or blank who stares into a Navigator's eye, respectively. The Necron and Tyranid get blasted the blank no-sells it the same way they do all other warp nonsense.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I mean that's mostly because it's written to feel like a sitcom. At least the bits on the ship. I'm in the mood for some light reading and I don't enjoy bolter porn at all, so you just sold me on Nemesis 
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drat, I'm about halfway through Avenging Son and... I've never whiplashed so fast from "this is boring as poo poo I don't care" to "oh my god this is a page-turner". Once you get into Cawl and Guilliman's "secret project" (that's not much of a secret) it gets super interesting. Everything before that is yawnworthy.
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Started listening to Flesh and Steel and couldn't help but to chuckle at the incredibly Noir-ish way the first chapter opened.
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I got the Ghazghkull SE edition last night, only about three chapters in and holy loving poo poo. I've had a strong affinity for orcs my whole life and theyre the whole reason I'm into fantasy lit in general.This is everything I've ever wanted from a BL book. I love it.
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Fallen Hamprince posted:Reading Fire Caste currently. Holy poo poo thread, do not sleep on Fire Caste. The Dark Coil novels are all exceptional, Fire Caste might be one of my BL top three and Peter Fehervari is definitely up there with Dan Abnett, ADB and Chris Wraight
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No. 1 Juicy Boi posted:drat, I'm about halfway through Avenging Son and... I've never whiplashed so fast from "this is boring as poo poo I don't care" to "oh my god this is a page-turner". Once you get into Cawl and Guilliman's "secret project" (that's not much of a secret) it gets super interesting. Everything before that is yawnworthy. The administratum scribes quest through the bowels of the palace administratum area is one of the most interesting things I've read in a BL book. I want an entire novel in that setting. Improbable Lobster posted:The Dark Coil novels are all exceptional, Fire Caste might be one of my BL top three and Peter Fehervari is definitely up there with Dan Abnett, ADB and Chris Wraight The Reverie is soooo good. If you like his novels do not skip it.
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So Ive listened to Infinite and the Divine and Im currently halfway through Brutal Kunnin' (hoping for a sequel call 'Kunnin'ly Brutal'). Are there any other good books out there from a Xenos perspective? Id like more Necron stuff but I'll take pretty much anything so long as its not Imperium or Chaos. Only stipulation is that it has to be available as an audiobook.
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D-Pad posted:The administratum scribes quest through the bowels of the palace administratum area is one of the most interesting things I've read in a BL book. I want an entire novel in that setting. I enjoy the idea that, because it's entirely made up of people looking at paper records, not only can you get dire predictions out of looking at what shakes out of the administratum's structure, the literal will of the Emperor can be made evident by a bunch of scribes deciding to buck protocol all at once.
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I just finished The Infinite and the Divine. Goddamn this is the good stuff ! It's one of the most entertaining 40k books I've ever read, and I'm pretty close to caught up. I think it helped that I kept picturing Trazyn as General Grievous in a Warner Brothers cartoon.
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wiegieman posted:I enjoy the idea that, because it's entirely made up of people looking at paper records, not only can you get dire predictions out of looking at what shakes out of the administratum's structure, the literal will of the Emperor can be made evident by a bunch of scribes deciding to buck protocol all at once. I really liked how each department has it's own family/clan structure and they raid each other for paper, resources, and women. The clan that is at the bottom of the trash tube that burns paper was awesome too. I absolutely love all the terran subculture poo poo we get glimpses of in the books.
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I'm re-reading Gaunt's Ghosts after coming off of Godblight and I had a thought - anyone else ever theorycraft what the 40k universe would look like had it not been a British company and colored by their cultural experiences, feelings, and expectations? Like, the Abnett stuff (which is most of my reading) is so incredible based in England's martial conflicts, what if that all, with the same story beats, been written by American or Japanese or whichever authors?
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Jun 16, 2021 06:46
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I think you are over-simplifying the range of WWII movies he has drawn from when writing the books.
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Yeah he even does Stalingrad in one of the Gaunt books.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Yeah he even does Stalingrad in one of the Gaunt books. Necropolis, and it's the best one
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No. 1 Juicy Boi posted:drat, I'm about halfway through Avenging Son and... I've never whiplashed so fast from "this is boring as poo poo I don't care" to "oh my god this is a page-turner". Once you get into Cawl and Guilliman's "secret project" (that's not much of a secret) it gets super interesting. Everything before that is yawnworthy. I liked how the book opens with maybe a few dozen pages of absolutely basic bolter porn, in line with the dime-a-dozen cover art, and then proceeded to have virtually zero SM fighting until the finale (which was another snoozefest). The Administratum sections were definitely the highlight of the book, although I thought they veered well into grimderp several times. But my favourite was the brief scene with the inquisitor and the commissar.
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Well the Sabbat Crusade is in space France with the Imperial Guard standing in for the BEF except they also have the reincarnation of Joan of Arc on their side.
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