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Philthy posted:Kinda didn't want to know what happens at the end of the book. I am honestly really confused at how you've been able to be reading into stuff about the fluff for 8th edition and not have seen that particular tidbit. It's one of the foundational pieces of fluff for the new setting, explicitly referred to in the main rulebook and basically everything from GW that mentions Blood Angels for something like the last 8 months.
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Jan 9, 2018 18:56
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Arcsquad12 posted:That's Armour of Contempt. It also features just what really happens when several kilometers-long battleships enter an atmosphere. Massive wester disruption and huge lightning storms from the pressure change. Know No Fear has an entire chapter describing one kamikaze attack. poo poo blows up.
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Jan 9, 2018 18:59
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Xenomrph posted:I’ve been playing a lot of Freeblade on my iPhone lately, are there any worthwhile books about Imperial Knights? There's a Heresy era knight house in Master of Mankind.
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Jan 9, 2018 19:10
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Pendent posted:I am honestly really confused at how you've been able to be reading into stuff about the fluff for 8th edition and not have seen that particular tidbit. It's one of the foundational pieces of fluff for the new setting, explicitly referred to in the main rulebook and basically everything from GW that mentions Blood Angels for something like the last 8 months. I've been away for almost a decade, those two books I read are literally the only fluff I know since whatever has happened 10 years ago. I don't play the game at all, only collect a few minis that catch my eye to paint. If it's been told everywhere, it's on me. I picked the book up over lunch regardless.
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Jan 9, 2018 20:24
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:There's a Heresy era knight house in Master of Mankind. Vengeful Spirit. Not great, not awful. Had a knight house defending against the entire Warmaster hordes.
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Jan 10, 2018 00:28
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Kingsblade is an Imperial Knights novel.
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Philthy posted:I've been away for almost a decade, those two books I read are literally the only fluff I know since whatever has happened 10 years ago. I don't play the game at all, only collect a few minis that catch my eye to paint. You'll be good. I knew the whole story and loved that book. There's a lot of stuff in there not spoiled, that really is just the broad strokes.
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Jan 10, 2018 05:23
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quote:Black Library needs you! We’re looking for new writers for the return of Inferno, and submissions editor Charlotte has some top tips on making your work stand out.
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Got a link to that?
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Arcsquad12 posted:Got a link to that? https://www.warhammer-community.com/writeforblacklibrary/ and Thursday, Jan 11 Games Night on Warhammer Live! How to Write for Black Library Black Library needs you! We’re looking for new writers for the return of Inferno, and submissions editor Charlotte has some top tips on making your work stand out.
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Are there any books I should read before Master of Mankind? Particularly if there's some important characters whose background I should know from previous books?
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:There's a Heresy era knight house in Master of Mankind. I think Mechanicum, too?
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Senjuro posted:Are there any books I should read before Master of Mankind? Particularly if there's some important characters whose background I should know from previous books? I really can't think of any, maybe Mechanicum, possibly listen to some of the Silent War audiobooks. It's a rather self contained story for the Heresy. Focuses heavily on The Palace, and the inhabitants therein.
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berzerkmonkey posted:https://www.warhammer-community.com/writeforblacklibrary/ Perfect. I actually have a few ideas which seem to fit within their parameters.
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Immanentized posted:I really can't think of any, maybe Mechanicum, possibly listen to some of the Silent War audiobooks. It's a rather self contained story for the Heresy. Focuses heavily on The Palace, and the inhabitants therein. That's pretty convenient. Planned on reading Master of Mankind first and Mechanicum second so I'll just switch it around. Thanks.
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Which is the better series / book from a writing and story perspective Eisenhorn Xenos or Gaunt ?
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Jan 11, 2018 00:47
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Read Eisenhorn all the way through if you have not
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Ropes4u posted:Which is the better series / book from a writing and story perspective Eisenhorn Xenos or Gaunt ? Eisenhorn is tighter and shorter. Has more punch in a lower page count.
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Waroduce posted:Read Eisenhorn all the way through if you have not HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Eisenhorn is tighter and shorter. Has more punch in a lower page count. Thank you both!
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Jan 11, 2018 01:20
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Lol Games Workshop wants $50 for the kindle edition of all three Eisenhorn books together, or $12 per for each one individually. At Black Library stuff is in the Kindle store!
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Jan 11, 2018 01:37
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I will pick up the books on the bay, there are PDFs but its a pain the rear end to read a pdf..
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Hmm. On the one hand I have a couple of ideas, on the other hand I'm sure it'll end up another case of "thanks but not thanks" just like my last BL submission. 
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MMAgCh posted:Hmm. On the one hand I have a couple of ideas, on the other hand I'm sure it'll end up another case of "thanks but not thanks" just like my last BL submission. Well, you won't know until you try. New management, and all...
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Jan 11, 2018 21:43
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I'd recommend reading the authors' comments on the submission process. Regardless of the quality of their work, they all did something to attract Black Library's attention, so listen to their suggestions.
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Jan 11, 2018 21:51
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I'm about three-quarters through Scars, and why in the gently caress did this dude choose to have the Fifth Legion talk in broken Gothic? The first time it happened I assumed it was an editing error, but no, the author just decided to jump on the offensive stereotype train I guess.
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Arcsquad12 posted:I'd recommend reading the authors' comments on the submission process. Regardless of the quality of their work, they all did something to attract Black Library's attention, so listen to their suggestions. Yes indeedy. In ABD’s latest AMA someone asked him what they should do if they wanted to write for Black Library, and basically his only concrete suggestion was to have something published first before coming to them hat-in-hand looking for a job.
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Jan 11, 2018 22:25
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In all fairness, the publishing business tends to be like that in general. Your odds of getting published go up dramatically once you've got something published, so it's more or less that one lucky break you're hoping for.
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That doesn't mean you should go after other prospects first and then approach Black library. By all means submit your work, and there's a chance your lucky break will happen.
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PantsOptional posted:I'm about three-quarters through Scars, and why in the gently caress did this dude choose to have the Fifth Legion talk in broken Gothic? The first time it happened I assumed it was an editing error, but no, the author just decided to jump on the offensive stereotype train I guess. In universe, they're not fluent gothic speakers, it's meant, in a very clumsy way to portray the insulated and isolated nature of the scars. In a setting characterized by the fracture of a galactic united culture, they're being set up as never fully having part of it in the first place.
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Immanentized posted:In universe, they're not fluent gothic speakers, it's meant, in a very clumsy way to portray the insulated and isolated nature of the scars. In a setting characterized by the fracture of a galactic united culture, they're being set up as never fully having part of it in the first place. That may be, but it would’ve been great for anyone but the Asian Space Marines to be the ones for this particular shtick.
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Just reread Salvations Reach and starting on Warmaster. Was there an intersitial short story or something? Because I'm not very far in and Gaunt mentions a recent incident when they tried to resupply at a base on the way home and had what sounds very much like a short story sidequest, but a quick google has produced no obvious return.
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Deptfordx posted:Just reread Salvations Reach and starting on Warmaster. Was there an intersitial short story or something? Because I'm not very far in and Gaunt mentions a recent incident when they tried to resupply at a base on the way home and had what sounds very much like a short story sidequest, but a quick google has produced no obvious return. Oh poo poo right I was gonna ask this too. Can't find out anything about it online either, but sure seems like we missed something big.
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What a stunningly idiotic decision, wow. That's really a shame.
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There is two short stories other than Killbox between Salvation's Reach and Warmaster in fact. Both of them with Kolea at the centre, one leading directly into the other. They're both in the Sabbat Crusade Anthology. Yes, it's dumb as hell. VVVVVV Yeah, that. Ghosts and Bad Shadows is the second of the two Kolea stories. Family is the first, and it leads directly into the second. Groetgaffel fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Jan 12, 2018 |
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bango skank posted:I think that might be the short story included with the collector's edition of Warmaster, but I could be wrong, I just got the standard ebook. Is it the one with the Eagle Stones, and Gol Kolea's adventure on the depot world? It introduces the Bonesaw Daemon, and a sinister little kid. That one is available in the Sabbat Crusade anthology that came out in 14/15. The short story was "Ghosts and Bad Shadows" https://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-40000/novels/sabbat-crusade-ebook.html
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There is also another short story called "You Never Know", which is a quick conversation between Mabbon and Varl. It's a shame that Mabbon completely vanishes halfway through The Warmaster, but then, so does Gol. My favourite short in Sabbat Crusade was the one by Abnett's wife, where Elodie tries to get to the bottom of a string of abuse against widows in the baggage train which stems from Meryn's pensioner scheme. Meryn has taken the top prize for the absolute worst bastard to ever happen to the Tanith First. Cuu was a sociopathic murderer, but he was also darkly entertaining and dynamic, and you knew he was a bad egg from the start. But Meryn is just an awful, vindictive monster.
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With rawne now as acting colonel it looks like they're going to try and do a similar dynamic with him and meryn as Gaunt had with Cuu. The need to protect one's own and show he doesn't play favorites, in gaunts case, and the refusal to admit you are at fault for the poo poo turning out like he did for Rawne. Except Rawne isn't a commissar and Meryn has a commissar in his back pocket through blackmail. Rawne better watch his back. Edited for spoilers Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Jan 12, 2018 |
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