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bango skank posted:I picked up Sacrosanct, the short story starter book for AoS and I can't really put my finger on it, but I feel like I'm bouncing off it pretty hard for some reason. Like I'm really into 40k, and I feel like in theory I should be down for what basically amounts to the same thing but with fantasy flavor, but I just can't bring myself to care about any of it. 40K has had about 30 years to get to the point where it's at now. AoS has only been good for like a year, and they are still really fleshing things out. To be completely honest, if you can get your hands on the Battletome army books, you're going to get much better reading out of them. The Spear of Shadows was good because it was from a human POV and had a distinctly WFB feel. Anything from a Stormcast POV is going to be pretty bland until writers really start running with the "each time I come back, part of me is lost" thing.
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Andy Clark did in Blacktalon, and it's excellent. I hear Hamilcar is good too.
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bango skank posted:I picked up Sacrosanct, the short story starter book for AoS and I can't really put my finger on it, but I feel like I'm bouncing off it pretty hard for some reason. Like I'm really into 40k, and I feel like in theory I should be down for what basically amounts to the same thing but with fantasy flavor, but I just can't bring myself to care about any of it. Plague Garden and Hamilcar Champion of the Gods are good. (Hamilcar is a loud, arrogant, braggart so he is also fairly different then the standard Stormcast.) And Plague Garden actually won over someone who thought Stormcast were lame until he read it. MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Feb 27, 2019 |
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Plague Garden is okay - some very good stuff there and a cracker of an ending - but it wasn't until I read Blacktalon did I feel that stormcast are fully created in the fiction now. (Read Blacktalon!)
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Imagine I'm running into the thread panting and sweating after just finishing Anarch, only to yell "WHERE WAS THE loving AFTERWORD?!?" I needed some goddamn soothing words by the author and all I got was a one-pager about Abnett that I already knew, and several pages of Plague War, that I skipped past. I loving need someone to talk, Dan.
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berzerkmonkey posted:40K has had about 30 years to get to the point where it's at now. AoS has only been good for like a year, and they are still really fleshing things out. To be completely honest, if you can get your hands on the Battletome army books, you're going to get much better reading out of them. The Spear of Shadows was good because it was from a human POV and had a distinctly WFB feel. Anything from a Stormcast POV is going to be pretty bland until writers really start running with the "each time I come back, part of me is lost" thing. So what's a good Age of Sigmar book? I loved the Old World, but AoS left me cold. I'm willing to give it another try if it has gotten better.
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Cessna posted:So what's a good Age of Sigmar book? A few have been brought up this page.
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I finished The Buried Dagger last night. Thought it was great. Definitely one of my favorite HH books. It was packed with lore showing the Barbarus revolution and Morty meeting Emps, the DG fall to Nurgle, and the creation of the Grey Knights.
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I finished the Kal Jerico omnibus last night and that is some seriously dumb 40k human fun. He's like a Cain that is intentionally getting into dumb poo poo but still comes out on top. It's also always nice to see how completely outclassed humans are by modern tech when they have to deal with spryer rigs.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgh43VUqrv8 Posting this because it's funny and also are there any good Vostroyan books? I like their dieselpunk cossack style.
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I've yet to read the book, but I need to know: is Ayatani Zweil's name misspelt as consistently in Anarch as it was in Warmaster?
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Black Library needs a proofreader/editor, news at 11. I saw more than a few soliders on the frontline in Anarch. Also completely unrelated, but a Bolter round is .75 cal right? That's what, a 20mm autocannon round, correct? Except it has a smaller powder charge because it uses a gyrojet to accelerate once it clears the barrel? Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Feb 28, 2019 |
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MMAgCh posted:I've yet to read the book, but I need to know: is Ayatani Zweil's name misspelt as consistently in Anarch as it was in Warmaster? I think once at the start but looks like they got their Zwiel problem handled.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Black Library needs a proofreader/editor, news at 11. I saw more than a few soliders on the frontline in Anarch. I thought they were .99
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Mathias Thuleman Witch Hunter is a fun romp if not particularly compelling story through old school WHF. Nice proto inquisition look
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IIRC, Astartes bolters are .75 cal. Human sized bolters are .50 cal. Heavy bolters might be .99 maybe. And yeah, while descriptions of bolt rounds vary greatly, the most common description is of a three-stage round. 1. The bolt is fired from a traditional shell casing 2. After a short delay, enough to clear the barrel, the solid rocket fuel in the bolt ignites. 3. An impact fuse detonates the explosive tip a split second after impact so that the bolt explodes inside the target.
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The most common description I've seen is that they're caseless, and that the ejection ports are just to let out gas and prevent it ruining the magazine feed, but the actual calibre varies wildly from source to source.
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Arquinsiel posted:The most common description I've seen is that they're caseless, and that the ejection ports are just to let out gas and prevent it ruining the magazine feed, but the actual calibre varies wildly from source to source. 
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i think there was a character that carried an empty bolt casing as a lucky charm or something in one of the alpha legion HH books?
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Waroduce posted:Mathias Thuleman Witch Hunter is a fun romp if not particularly compelling story through old school WHF. Nice proto inquisition look I remember only getting half through that trilogy because CL Werner's dialogue was so stilted and pedestrian. Then I read Overlords of the Iron Dragon and found that he's still writing the same way decades later. So disappointing as both WHF Witch Hunters and the Kharadron are two of my favourite fantasy creations. What a pity they were given to him.
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Groetgaffel posted:Aside from that making no sense whatsoever, most videogame and animation depictions of bolters has them spewing spent cases, so I'm just going to ignore any mention of "caseless" 
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I finished The Armour of Contempt yesterday and I just wanted to confirm MkVenner actually survived and they were just continuing to spread the legend of his death/he didn't want to return to the Ghosts/they were suspicious as gently caress still, right? Or did I completely misunderstand the scenes with Mkoll and Ezrah?
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Pretty sure you read it right.
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Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgh43VUqrv8 The only one I can think of is Rebel Winter that's in the Imperial Guard omnibus. No idea if that's still in print or not.
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Cooked Auto posted:The only one I can think of is Rebel Winter that's in the Imperial Guard omnibus. No idea if that's still in print or not. There was also a connected short story that was a split prequel/sequel and (IIRC) wrapped things up fairly decently. E: Arquinsiel posted:It's the half-understood way recoilless rifles work. At some point the animation was handwaved as "oh it's not a case it's a backstop to give the rocket something to push against" as if the gun wasn't enough. TBH the whole "all things are true at once, on some planet" is the only way to reconcile most of the fluff. Of course they also changed what bolters look like dramatically when they started the scale creep so It looks like Bolters have had casings as least as far back as 2E though? This is from Codex Ultramarines: 
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Yeah, but in that same book they also didn't have anywhere for the casings to come out of the guns, so . GW gonna GW.
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Is there a book that talks about life on Terra at all?
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Galvanik posted:Is there a book that talks about life on Terra at all? Carrion Throne, Watchers of the Throne. Deals with Custodes, Inquisiitors and administratum people on Terra. They're real good
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Randalor posted:I finished The Armour of Contempt yesterday and I just wanted to confirm MkVenner actually survived and they were just continuing to spread the legend of his death/he didn't want to return to the Ghosts/they were suspicious as gently caress still, right? Or did I completely misunderstand the scenes with Mkoll and Ezrah? Yeah, the guy is going to continue on the Nalsheen life rather than pass on the Nalsheen to his actual people
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Didn't they say in His Last Command that he had been teaching the Nihtgane his customs?
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Biplane posted:Carrion Throne, Watchers of the Throne. Deals with Custodes, Inquisiitors and administratum people on Terra. They're real good Unpopular opinion but I wouldn't recommend Carrion Throne. It's probably my own fault I didn't like it because I already knew what the antegonist's goal was when I started and I really wanted to see some exploration of its huge ramifications and instead it was glossed over completely.
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Senjuro posted:Unpopular opinion but I wouldn't recommend Carrion Throne. does it ever get expanded on? I'm assuming you're talking about the dark eldar being hired to fix the golden throne
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Finished The Crimson King. Good book despite not being up to the giddy heights of A Thousand Sons. It did warm me slightly to the Space Wolves, but not enough... Cracking the Ahriman Omnibus now which I've been looking forward to for ages.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ZvvprhWZo The Normal who is constantly getting mindfucked by all the infodumps is becoming a favourite character of mine.
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Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ZvvprhWZo I hate this.
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You're no fun.
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Biplane posted:does it ever get expanded on? I'm assuming you're talking about the dark eldar being hired to fix the golden throne Not to my knowlage which is a drat shame. Lots of interesting directions it could have gone.
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Finished Wolf King which was excellent. I started out despising the Space Wolves when I first started reading them years ago. I found them all boring and one note, and the onerous bolter porn books like... Whichever loving book Magnus attacks the Fang in - they were bad and boring. I really like the characterization of Russ as a thinker and warrior both. Everyone felt relateable. Russ' journey through the Underworld was brilliant. Drone Pilot Belisarius Cawl was hilarious. I would love more books focused on him working his way through the Mechanicum, inventing new strange deceives and hacking everything that can be Unfortunately next on the list is born of flame and gently caress man I just finished a Nick Kyme book why do I gotta read another so soon 
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