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SardonicTyrant posted:Just finished Spear of the Emperor. It's a Space Marine novel, but it's told from the perspective of one of a Space Marine's serfs, an augmented helot that sort of forms a mission control for their master. That book was wildly different from what I was expecting in pretty much every way and I loved it.
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Been traveling for a couple of days now and I read Spears of the Emperor in almost one sitting. It’s my second time reading it but it’s super good! Even though it’s bleak as hell, the little reveal at the end of who Vadhan really is just exudes feel good Started on Indomitus and Gav Thorpe can’t really compare to ADB, at all. I get that indomitus is supposed to explain all the new models etc but it’s very cookie cutter.
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What's the toy ad to book ratio? Similar to Dark Imperium?
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I think Black Legion has turned me pro-chaos e: The series I mean. Wasn't there supposed to be a third book? sharknado slashfic fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Jul 26, 2020 |
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sharknado slashfic posted:I think Black Legion has turned me pro-chaos ADB is working on it I believe. I think current speculation is this tweet relates to it: https://twitter.com/adembskibowden/status/1284053177617330176
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Pyrolocutus posted:ADB is working on it I believe. I think current speculation is this tweet relates to it: https://twitter.com/adembskibowden/status/1284053177617330176 He has confirmed he is working on the next one somewhere besides that tweet although I don't remember where. Also, he said a while back that he wouldn't be starting the 3rd black legion until he had finished the Spears sequel so we should see that relatively soon. Next week we get pre-orders for Wraight's first Warhammer Crime novel which I am very much looking forward to. Also a really sweet Night Lords trilogy collector's set, only a thousand copies so I am going to be furiously refreshing for that one. And an art of black library book that looks like it will be art from all the covers over the years. Improbable Lobster posted:What's the toy ad to book ratio? Similar to Dark Imperium? Yeah about the same. I wish he would show already what the Judiciar's hourglass thing would do already. Over halfway in and I haven't seen it used yet.
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When is he getting to the 
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Jul 26, 2020 20:11
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I'm close to halfway through the Wordbearers omnibus. Decent read, not a lot of pure strain bolter porn, bit ridiculous in dialogue at times, but grandstanding is to be expected from that legion, and I'd appreciate some deeper character development of non-protagonists, but overall very entertaining. I think what I like the most is the completely unapologetically-over-the-top cultism and zealotry, as well as a huge helping of warp fuckery and and excessive ritualism. In most other later-Horus Heresy books, the Word Bearers are usually the ones coming off as the condescending assholes that make you roll your eyes, like every time Erebus opens his mouth, babbles about how some Primarch "isn't hearing the song of the warp correctly". But reading a book written entirely from the perspective of the 40k-era completely-off-the-deep-end Word Bearers is actually pretty captivating.
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Pyrolocutus posted:ADB is working on it I believe. I think current speculation is this tweet relates to it: https://twitter.com/adembskibowden/status/1284053177617330176 D-Pad posted:He has confirmed he is working on the next one somewhere besides that tweet although I don't remember where. Also, he said a while back that he wouldn't be starting the 3rd black legion until he had finished the Spears sequel so we should see that relatively soon. TY all, I'll start preparing to draw non-geometric shapes on my wall and sprout extra limbs
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This is kind of dumb but at the same time I really like the idea that the Imperium "winning" just means they got their poo poo together enough to now go on a crusade to conquer the universe. The ending is great. https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/hyftf2/the_year_is_the_51st_millennium_f/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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I'm going to buy and display that night lords set that's super cool
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Sorry for the double but how do those limited edition things work? do they post a link somewhere and I just start hammering it at midnight UK time late friday PM?
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Waroduce posted:Sorry for the double but how do those limited edition things work? do they post a link somewhere and I just start hammering it at midnight UK time late friday PM? The link goes live at around 2pm EST and you gotta mash that buy button
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Immanentized posted:The link goes live at around 2pm EST and you gotta mash that buy button Is it still that late for the limited edition books? Indomitus and Lumineth were around noon cst but I checked for Daemonifuge a few weeks ago out of curiosity and it was listed and out of stock at 9am cst on that Saturday.
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bagrada posted:Is it still that late for the limited edition books? Indomitus and Lumineth were around noon cst but I checked for Daemonifuge a few weeks ago out of curiosity and it was listed and out of stock at 9am cst on that Saturday. I think it depends on the product? The Siege of Terra and Valdor were at 1pm from my recollection. I found that just paying a 30% premium for an eBay scalper is easier for me to avoid the headache.
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Finished Saturnine and Kharn wrecking sister spooky on accident was hilarious. Abnett did Zephon dirty though. I just read Bringer of Sorrow too.
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Are the exclusives/limited editions sold on the Black Library section of the GW online shop now instead of the BL site?
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BL Limited Editions: They go on sale at 1pm EST. Typically they will get listed as much as five minutes early so I start refreshing at 12:50. They used to all be on the BL site but they have started listing them on the GW site now after the BL site crashed hard with the Solar War release.
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D-Pad posted:BL Limited Editions: can you please link me to the area of the GW site you're talking about? or its not live yet? also open request to share the link when it goes out this is literally my only source of 40k/black library news
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Waroduce posted:can you please link me to the area of the GW site you're talking about? or its not live yet? It will be too late by then fyi. This thing will go fast between fans of the series, people who collect all the fancy editions, and the Ebay resellers. The links dont go live until the sale does. I'd prepare an order with something cheap with your info already entered, cancel at the last second, then just hit refresh at the main gw store page until it shows up. Add the book to your cart then check out fast, as it can and will sell out while you are typing your credit card info. The site may get badly laggy around when things kick off. I dont buy the limited editions, the above is just based on Indomitus 2 weeks ago and LE Dawmonifuge selling out that morning.
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Jul 27, 2020 20:27
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GET HYPE FOR CRIME
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People should have been nicer to Carl.
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gently caress I am excited about these.
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I only now learned that Varangantua is going to be a shared setting for all of the Crime books. Literally 40k Thieves' World. E: It was literally in the release notes for the loving series back in March. 
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Schadenboner posted:I only now learned that Varangantua is going to be a shared setting for all of the Crime books. Literally 40k Thieves' World. Yep, and Wraight getting first crack at it is awesome considering how well he did with the books set on Terra. Apparently, they've done a lot of background work to flesh the hive out with a ton of its own lore similar to necromunda. I think it will be better and more popular than WH Horror. I had a great idea for a crime story for open submissions last year and I really wish I had done it because I am sure it would have given it a much better chance of exceptance with crime being in the works. Basically, it was a group of criminals facing execution when a high level magos offers them clemency if they do a high risk heist for him. They only find out once they are in the target too far to back out the target is an Inquisitor. D-Pad fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Jul 29, 2020 |
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D-Pad posted:Yep, and Wraight getting first crack at it is awesome considering how well he did with the books set on Terra. Apparently, they've done a lot of background work to flesh the hive out with a ton of its own lore similar to necromunda. I'm super excite about this as well and hope they do a Background Book type thing (they won't though).
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Schadenboner posted:I'm super excite about this as well and hope they do a Background Book type thing (they won't though). If it becomes successful I bet they do in a couple of years. They've had a lot of success with these type of books and are reprinting/updating a lot of the past ones such as Sabbat Crusade. The guard primer (or maybe the munitorum manual?) is getting a reprint in September.
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D-Pad posted:If it becomes successful I bet they do in a couple of years. They've had a lot of success with these type of books and are reprinting/updating a lot of the past ones such as Sabbat Crusade. The guard primer (or maybe the munitorum manual?) is getting a reprint in September. Hope is the first step on the road to heresy. 
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The Emperor literally showed up and started performing machine miracles. The prelude in Mechanicum has him walk up to a knight that came to check up his ship landing with a chronic knee joint problem no tech priest can fix lay hands and say "Machine heal thy self" and boom walking normal. Not a god though. Wink wink. Edit: oh you mean after the heresy. No idea sorry. Guyver fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Jul 29, 2020 |
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I think he means post heresy. Pretty sure Mars was the first place retaken at the very beginning of the scouring (well maybe Luna). The loyalist Mechanicus only stayed loyal on the promise that if Terra was successfully defended the Imperium would do all it could to take back mars. I don't know of any specific lore about it though.
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Mechanicus closes with some mention of the fighting that would take place after Terra but yeah, I don't think there were a lot of details?
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The closest novels set to the Scouring are the War of the Beast books. And they're not great.
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Arkham Land has been showing up a lot in the Heresy books and the only thing he cares about is reclaiming Mars. In Bringer of Sorrow he managed to get a meeting with Sanguinius to petition for help.
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Most probably the Mechanicum faction loyal to Horus in Mars fled to the Eye of Terror as soon as Horus died and the other loyalists legions aproached.
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Just finished The Great Work. I'm genuinely surprised that I liked Cawl while reading it. I was expecting him to be portrayed as a super serious all the time, mysterious hardass. I really appreciated that the person who's capable of causing so much change in the fabric of the imperium is someone with a sense of humour and vague sense of compassion without letting either get in the way of experimentation.
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A sense of humour tends to come hand in hand with creativity, like the guy who made the limpet mine. At least, I assume so, because I don't think anyone could with a straight face suggest using condoms as part of the trigger mechanism.
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D-Pad posted:I think it will be better and more popular than WH Horror.
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D-Pad posted:I think he means post heresy. Post heresy! I started thinking about it while reading Master of Mankind. Isn’t Mars just this big minefield in “current” 40k as well? Or was it always like that? Lots of boobytrapped chambers etc. Could be the dark mechanicum rigging it before they left for the warp?
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Miguel Prado posted:Post heresy! I started thinking about it while reading Master of Mankind. Isn’t Mars just this big minefield in “current” 40k as well? Or was it always like that? Lots of boobytrapped chambers etc. Could be the dark mechanicum rigging it before they left for the warp? The deeper you go, the more scrapcode-twisted horrors you’ll find. Past a certain depth none have returned.
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