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So if I like airplanes and dogfights and I just blind-bought ‘Outgunned’, did I gently caress up?
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Xenomrph posted:So if I like airplanes and dogfights and I just blind-bought ‘Outgunned’, did I gently caress up? I liked it, wasn't great but a decent read. Not as much dogfighting as you'd expect though.
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EmbryoSteve posted:I'm about halfway through vaults of Terra carrion throne audio book. And I recently looked at some reviews for it and lmao some reviews hate what I enjoy the most about it namely the vast time spent describing the setting of Terra. Love all of the description of the incomprehensible toil and rot of a world with 10k years of grim dark built ontop of itself. I assume 12 year Olds wrote those reviews. Just finished Carrion Throne and those parts were pretty much my favorite aspect of the book as well. I inadvertently went from the Siege of Terra books directly into this one and it was interesting to see what the place looked like ten thousand years later.
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It's incredible how much the palace feels like Leyndell in Wraight's descriptions. I could almost hear the trumpets.
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So, I stared at my bookshelf, and into the void of things that used to be on my bookshelf, and at things that are on my phone, and I think I may legitimately be at an even 100 BL books read.  What incredible taste I must have. Black Griffon posted:It's incredible how much the palace feels like Leyndell in Wraight's descriptions. I could almost hear the trumpets. God, imagine what you could do with a loving Soulslike game set within the Imperial Palace's environs and catacombs. It's not a genre you could just throw a dev team at and expect remotely decent results, but in good hands it'd be absolutely loving bonkers.
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Solid argument that a bunch of us posting here need an intervention. (Somehow shoving my face into Warhammer books kept me semi-sane during the covid lock downs so I suppose I really can't complain)
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It's kind of comfort-food reading. Horus Heresy especially. The surprises don't shake the overall foundation and you know everything's gonna be lovely but it's in a sort of detached, mythic tragedy way, where you don't necessarily get emotionally invested, but if you do, it's because of the rare showings of legitimately good writing, to be savored for it's own sake. The chocolate chips in the big dumb gallon of grimdark ice cream.
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Jun 2, 2023 00:42
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I'd like to see a team up between Cawl, Trazyn and Ahriman to see which one of them can be the biggest kleptomaniac knowledge seeking dick.
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Jun 2, 2023 00:53
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Arc Hammer posted:I'd like to see a team up between Cawl, Trazyn and Ahriman to see which one of them can be the biggest kleptomaniac knowledge seeking dick. It’s Trazyn, he’s been at it the longest. But I’d like to see the other two try to steal from him with some elaborate scheme and Trazyn just sighs and says “amateurs.”
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Jun 2, 2023 01:47
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Can we have a few Harlequins as a treat too
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Xenomrph posted:So if I like airplanes and dogfights and I just blind-bought ‘Outgunned’, did I gently caress up? Did anyone else think it was gonna have a Nurgle-themed twist at the end? A lot of the detail made me think so. The book was fine but weird and felt like multiple drafts stuck together.
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Jun 2, 2023 01:59
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I'm definitely in the 50-70+ range of wh40k books read.
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sharknado slashfic posted:Can we have a few Harlequins as a treat too Hey, sure, I’m sure Trazyn has a troupe or two in his gallery.
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Arc Hammer posted:I'd like to see a team up between Cawl, Trazyn and Ahriman to see which one of them can be the biggest kleptomaniac knowledge seeking dick. I'd be all down for a Ocean's 11: 40k edition type of heist book.
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Just shove Veilwalker in there. She's the token harlequin that shows up whenever a harlequin needs to show up.
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Xenomrph posted:Hey, sure, I’m sure Trazyn has a troupe or two in his gallery. Bonus if a troupe he pokeballs out for an occasion is fully aware of their time in stasis and calls it an intermission and all part of the laughing gods plan.
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Mazed posted:Just shove Veilwalker in there. She's the token harlequin that shows up whenever a harlequin needs to show up. Was that the one in Azrael?
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The book starts with some Blood Ravens getting their hands on the mcguffin only for something mysterious happens to them and the real story starts
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Cooked Auto posted:In Longshot, a legendary sharpshooter must decide whether to watch her comrades fall to xenos influence or become the figurehead she never wanted to be Ooh ooh I bet I can guess which one she'll pick.
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drat, I'm pushing 200 including short story anthology novels.
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I have 129 warhammer novels/short stories on my phone, drat. And I know I have some more in boxes at my dads place.
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Turns out I had, ages ago, made a spreadsheet of what Warhammer books I have. And after some additions of later purchases I'm up at exactly 170 books. Which is almost more than I expected it'd be tbh. Deptfordx posted:drat, I'm pushing 200 including short story anthology novels. Kinda regretting picking up the rest as all I have is Deathwing and Crucible of War. And the latter was almost far more enjoyable overall than Let the Galaxy Burn. For once, there was no Gav Thorpe stories in it.
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align your humors....temper the choleric with the phlegmatic, and bring the sanguine to the fore.
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Pron on VHS posted:align your humors....temper the choleric with the phlegmatic, and bring the sanguine to the fore. Wet leopard growls at you
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I keep an Excel spreadsheet with a tab for the ones I've read and the ones I'd like to read, sorted into series, the best order for the HH books, etc. I've read 77 so far.
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https://twitter.com/kinofabino/status/1664676670807080971?s=46
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the four genders
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I have a week of holiday coming up fast and I have read Serious Books for too long. I just want to read good, fun books. I enjoyed Eisenhorn, Ravenor and Pariah. I have also read all the Gaunt's Ghosts books (liked them) as well as Titanicus(good) and Space Wolf (ok, not great). The last 40k book I read was the siege of Baal (ok). What should I read if I care about a good story first and lore a distant second?
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Mzuri posted:I have a week of holiday coming up fast and I have read Serious Books for too long. I just want to read good, fun books. Carrion Throne and sequels, Night Lords trilogy, Assassinorium: Kingmaker, The Infinite and the Divine, Lords of Silence (stinky boys), Rites of Passage, Vaults of Terra duology, Double Eagle, Urdesh duology (ties into Gaunt's Ghosts heavily).
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I just finished the second Ahriman book. A ripping yarn! A few questions/thoughts: 1. Are we to assume that Astrous' story is a time loop? 2. It does suffer from a bit of middle book syndrome 3. While I am always happy with Space Wolves getting hosed with they felt a bit wasted.
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a lovely king posted:Carrion Throne and sequels, Night Lords trilogy, Assassinorium: Kingmaker, The Infinite and the Divine, Lords of Silence (stinky boys), Rites of Passage, Vaults of Terra duology, Double Eagle, Urdesh duology (ties into Gaunt's Ghosts heavily). Cheers 
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a lovely king posted:Carrion Throne and sequels, Night Lords trilogy, Assassinorium: Kingmaker, The Infinite and the Divine, Lords of Silence (stinky boys), Rites of Passage, Vaults of Terra duology, Double Eagle, Urdesh duology (ties into Gaunt's Ghosts heavily). This is the correct answer, but one note: Carrion Throne is the Vaults of Terra series. Instead of Vaults of Terra Duology I think they meant Watcher's of the Throne Duology.
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Mzuri posted:
Night Lords, Armageddon and the short story (Grimaldus). I’m almost done with David Guymer’s pair of books on the Iron Hands - Eye of Medusa and The Voice of Mars. The writing isn’t the best but the story itself is interesting and different than a lot of the typical space marine bolted porn.
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rufius posted:Night Lords, Armageddon and the short story (Grimaldus). I really like Guymer's IH books. He isn't a Abnett/ABD/Wright level author but he's competent and does pretty interesting things with the more unique elements of the chapter. I hope the last one comes out soon, I would hate for it to be one of the aborted trilogies like BL sometimes does.
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Mzuri posted:I have a week of holiday coming up fast and I have read Serious Books for too long. I just want to read good, fun books. If you want the best space marine books outside the Horus heresy (possibly the best HH included) go for the Night Lords trilogy imho. The last one goes into the lore but by then you’ll be too invested to be bothered by it.
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Due to a move going wrong, almost all my books are going into storage for 6-9 months. So I bought an e-reader and a buncha 40k ebooks. After blitzing some Ciaphas Cain short stories I never read before(shut up its my guilty pleasure) I am starting Helreach for the first time. Goddamned ADB is an artist. Next on my docket is Infinite and Divine. Trying to think what next to go for.
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The Lords of Silence is probably the single best Chaos standalone novel they've got. Since it's about Death Guard, it's gross, but gross in a whimsical way. A fun way, even. It also makes a nice complement to the Night Lords trilogy. It's also about quirky bad guys dealing with a tyranny-of-choice philosophical question, but it goes in a very different direction. A good one, at that.
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Refresh my memory, how do Tyranids achieve FTL travel?
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Xenomrph posted:Refresh my memory, how do Tyranids achieve FTL travel? Do they? I thought they whip around in gravity wells or something.
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Xenomrph posted:Refresh my memory, how do Tyranids achieve FTL travel? Use artificial singularities to fold space
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