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I lurk this thread quite a bit, but I have a very long flight coming up, and I need a few recs if y’all don’t mind. I’ve read the Eisenhorn trilogy and liked it quite a bit, and I’m pretty aware of the lore in general. What are a few actually good reads that can be cracked into over the course of like 11 hours? Vaults of Terra series? Sorry, I realize this is a pretty specific request.
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NihilCredo posted:Hopefully he intends to come back at some point Ha I do. Ravenor it is, thanks folks.
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Aug 8, 2023 16:52
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Philthy posted:Hope everyone got their Vaults of Terra collection that just went up! I managed to get one. For the record, it appeared online at 12:53 EST. I’ve never seen one release that early. Maybe worth remembering in the lead up to the least siege book.
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Dec 2, 2023 20:57
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Black Griffon posted:Is it likely to hit an inverted bell curve on ebay where it's pricy now, cheaper in a bit and then appreciates in value or nah? I have a little hardcover collection, and a lot of the older books like Celestine The Living Saint can go upwards of $250. And the siege limited edition books are the most valuable Warhammer books period, from what I can tell. Vol 3 will likely be over a thousand dollars US at some point. An entire siege of Terra limited edition collection could hit five figures going off what I’ve seen specific books sell for.
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Jan 13, 2024 19:48
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D-Pad posted:Nah ebay is perfectly safe they will always side with the buyer if you have an issue. This is correct. eBay is risk free.
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Jan 13, 2024 19:59
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If it makes you feel better, the price will shoot through the roof when the secondary market thins out. So now was probably the time if you were going to get the book at all imo.
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Jan 13, 2024 22:15
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Iron Warriors are sick as hell. That’s right
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Jan 20, 2024 16:30
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Just wanna know what happens to Oll
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Jan 20, 2024 21:10
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Sharkopath posted:I think it's a bit hard to say. They've had major issues with warehouse organization and stock recently that definitely are impacting the bottom line, but GW in general is the most successful wargames miniature publisher. To be fair though thats still really just a niche in the wider world of gaming, which absolutely swallows and drowns their entire financial output. They may not be as niche for too long if everything goes to plan. Between Spacemarine 2, Cavill’s Amazon show, and the rumored call of duty crossover, that’s not niche stuff. Not AS niche anyway.
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Jan 23, 2024 23:16
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These special editions being limited to 2500 or such feels like it’s stuck in like 2013 when demand had to have been lower. I get having a limited edition for fun and those that want it, but constraining supply like that in 2023 just pisses people off. And leaves what has to be quite a bit of money on the table.
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Jan 24, 2024 18:58
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Five paragraph essay on why Logar was right
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Jan 26, 2024 15:30
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Warden posted:The man's level of productivity is frankly insane, especially considering how he lost the original manuscript of Honour Guard and had to rewrite the whole loving thing from memory. That’s insane, but I bet the text that went to print was a better version than the original, just by the nature of writing.
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Jan 29, 2024 15:53
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NihilCredo posted:Never forget Ruinstorm Lion Yee-Yee rear end'el Jonson: Hold up that’s the Lion? Lmao
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Feb 8, 2024 16:43
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euphronius posted:I had had a (wrong) idea that knight worlds were only discovered after the Hearsay They don’t come up very often so this is an understandable mistake imo
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Feb 22, 2024 17:32
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Safety Factor posted:Finally, the book features an unexpected mention of cuckoldry. This has been a punchline for at least 400 years. Shakespeare got a lot of mileage out of it, so it makes sense, to me at least, that it’d show up in a late medieval/early modern vibe setting.
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Feb 22, 2024 21:22
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OPAONI posted:I do miss that the penalty for being caught questing-while-female in Brettonia was to be sent on a quest. I always thought that was a really neat way to have a setting be thematically 'backwards' while allowing gender equality on the tabletop. There was a lot of actually funny stuff like this in Fantasy. In the Witch Hunter’s Handbook, the test of demonic possession in a noble’s child was eating three full pieces of cake. If they can manage this task, they’re clearly free from the taint of chaos.
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Feb 23, 2024 17:03
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Is there any work that goes into the nature of the Eldar gods? Like, is there any lore about their fundamental nature or origin? Most of them are dead and Slannesh busted Khaine into pieces like a c’tan, but they don’t seem to be cosmic leeches corralled into unnatural bodies like the c’tan (obviously). From the outside they seem to be real deal, traditional pantheon-style gods rather than beings so powerful they may as well be considered divine.
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Feb 27, 2024 19:24
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Sharkopath posted:I think factions like the eldar could use a bit more fleshing out. They have a sort of vicious cycle where they don't really have many fun stories with cool characters to drive demand for more stories with cool characters so they don't end up super popular as a faction. I agree. I probably know less about the Eldar than any race except for Voltann, and they seem like they have a lot of things that could lead to good hooks if GW would just commit. Isha isn’t a bad idea, especially since she functionally isn’t doing anything from a story perspective to my knowledge.
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Mar 4, 2024 20:41
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Dapper_Swindler posted:probably because people love the lion. Also the book’s effect on the setting. I’ve never seen a non-limited edition hardcover get so expensive immediately. Most hardcovers get expensive on eBay eventually, but Lion book was expensive off the jump.
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Mar 7, 2024 14:34
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Kylaer posted:Broke: Tom Clancy foreshadowed 9/11 Bespoke: Deus Ex foreshadowed 9/11
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Mar 8, 2024 20:55
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Sharkopath posted:Read in a goonhammer interview that Nate Crowley is a huge ork fan and was not much of a necron fan before writing Twice Dead. Gonna check out prophet of the waagh after Brutal Kunnin then. I’ve always thought the best genre fiction comes from authors that don’t particularly like a topic because they don’t hold certain things sacrosanct. IMO it’s how Obsidian made KOTOR 2 out of a rubbish IP.
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Mar 10, 2024 08:11
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Warden posted:A thing I feel like some people might be missing is that being able to churn out books reliably and within deadlines is an incredibly highly-valued ability and can count for a lot more than "writes good books, but slowly, and missed deadlines". Especially when you’ve made a business model that publishes and prints multiple new books a month. For every ADB, they need multiple Thorpes to keep the ball rolling. Unfortunately.
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Mar 11, 2024 21:35
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Aren’t the Golden Daemons judged backward? Like all entries are judged according to painter errors and not due to matters of taste like color choices and such. Iirc it’s why smaller sculpts tend to win. Less surface area means less opportunity for error. I wouldn’t swear to any of this, I read it somewhere ages ago.
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Mar 22, 2024 21:52
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Cooked Auto posted:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/03/27/discover-the-untold-story-of-the-siege-of-vraks-in-this-new-death-korps-of-krieg-novel/ hell yeah more Kriegers
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Mar 27, 2024 20:23
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I think the Kriegers look awesome, especially with their under jacket armor. I feel like any strange association someone may have with their aesthetic evaporates once you learn their lore as dead-man-walking penitent soldiers.
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Mar 29, 2024 23:06
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Telsa Cola posted:GWs handling of the Endtimes has traumatized me on the matter. Id like to think GW learned their lesson with that episode.
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Mar 31, 2024 22:35
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Relevant Tangent posted:Entirely fair There’s something to say about this, I think. WHFB’s plot didn’t advance very far until it did, but the setting filled in a lot over the years with more country analogues and characters and such. Even then, the WHFB world was/is very finite in a way that I don’t believe 40k is. The only thing that ever led to much of a setting advancement in WHFB was a meta concern that the line wasn’t selling well and needed a big shake up. The existence of The Old World tells me that decision was a mixed bag at best. Another vibe difference between the two settings is the strength of humanity. In WHFB, the barbarians are literally at the gates and even with a grand alliance between the existing non-chaos factions, Archaon still leads chaos to destroy the world. In 40k, the imperium is arguably the strongest faction in the setting. They’re beset on all sides and may be declining (we’ll see what happens about that with the primarchs), but they’re still mighty and only restricted by crippling bureaucracy and plot requirements. Guilliman stepped into Nurgle’s garden and burned it half down. No version of that would’ve happened in WHFB since humanity and allies are always very much on their heels in that setting. I guess the one character that could’ve done something like that is Sigmar, but he didn’t. The exception to this is the Vermintide games where a handful of random adventurers do more to fight the Skaven than entire armies. Those games are canon afaik, but they don’t square with the vibe of the setting in my view. Not that this is a bad thing, it’s a dead setting, who cares. I guess my point here is I like WHFB a lot. Chaos dwarves are cool.
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Mar 31, 2024 22:55
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OPAONI posted:He strikes me as a guy who's used to collaborative storytelling. His work in comics and other shared universes backs that up. GW lore definitely seems collaborative. It’s been said itt before, but some of the worst GW writers are the best editors, so it appears that a lot of people have their hand in planning. There’s no telling how long the Lion has been on deck.
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Apr 1, 2024 15:42
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The imperium has to substantially win sometimes. It’d be boring otherwise
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Apr 1, 2024 18:26
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The only constant is that no one faction takes a serious upper hand in the lore since they have little men to sell.
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Apr 1, 2024 20:45
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Z the IVth posted:It's nice when they flip the expectations over like that since it's normally the Necrons being portrayed as faceless, implacable horde and in this book they're just scared shitless and Battlestar Galactica-ing their way from the The funny thing about this is that one of the Necrons has done more to help the Imperium, intentionally, than just about anyone else in the setting.
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Apr 2, 2024 14:21
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It’s possible the Lion lever got pulled a little quicker than the lore people intended for whatever reason. That’d explain the lack of follow up so far.
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Apr 3, 2024 16:21
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Laughing Zealot posted:From the new Custodians codex: People are gonna be so mad lol
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Apr 13, 2024 23:22
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People are gonna call them the golden girls and I support it
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Apr 14, 2024 14:50
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You can’t really have male SoB, that would defeat the purpose of the faction. They have male models in the line anyway. Preachers and such.
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Apr 15, 2024 14:49
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I’ve read both renegade books, and it seems like it’s gonna be a cool side brand that tells isolated stories. Maybe not a brand. You know what I mean.
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Apr 16, 2024 00:20
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Has anyone read Deathworlder? I haven’t seen anything about it.
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Apr 16, 2024 00:41
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Nessus posted:Pretty much. Apparently the Custodes codex also sucks rear end, but for nerf reasons A friends that’s big into the game says it’s dreadful
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Apr 16, 2024 21:44
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Cooked Auto posted:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/04/17/court-lelith-hesperax-in-a-new-special-edition-novel-from-black-library/ Hell yea
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My read on the emperor is a lot of these concepts discussed aren’t very relevant to him. If the shaman mass-suicide origin is still canon, he’s more of a soul gestalt than anything else, so any concept of individual identity may or may not have any bearing on him. To me, it also explains how he can shuck off various personality traits. It’s the whole dropping bits of itself. No real point in this musing, I just don’t think these are questions that need explicit answers.
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