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Arquinsiel posted:It's kind of an beauracratic trick to avoid anyone noticing that they took more than 1000 marines to make the chapter. They don't really have the same standardised organisation that other marines do. And I would like to think they quietly take out anyone who looks over their numbers and go "Hey wait a second here."
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I kinda like the first Shira Calpurnia book despite that slight issue. But then I've not totally stalled out on reading the second one because it does drag on way too much with multiple Rogue Trader characters that I have a hard time caring about when all I want is 40k cop stories.Evil_Urna posted:Correct me if I am wrong but the Black Templars are a bit of an inside joke. There are so many of them in the books and what not because they have the easiest color scheme to paint. I'd have to say that goes for Blood Angels and Ultramarines as well considering they are all pretty much two colour schemes.
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One instance I can remember of the Webway being seen or used by a human was in Daemonifuge at one point where Stern travelled through alongside some Eldar she had just met.
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A chainsword also makes an appearance as a mystic artifact in one of the Mark of Chaos lore books that were released years ago. Still wish they would actually do more of those instead of just focusing on normal fiction.  The closest you get now is Imperial Armour but they're expensive as hell though.
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Jul 23, 2012 21:46
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Kegslayer posted:I think it was an Abnett book with Gaunt finding an STC. If I remember right the book in question was First and Only but it was so corrupted it was pretty much useless to anybody.
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Jul 25, 2012 22:22
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Cream_Filling posted:There's other Warhammer books with female leads? On the Fantasy side I can the top of my head come up with the Genevieve Undead series of three books with an omnibus released as well as Ulrika the Vampire series of two books. And then looking at the BL website there is Valkia the Bloody as well. Funny how most female leads in Fantasy are all vampires as there's also Neferata coming out next year. On the 40k side the only one I can directly think of is the Sisters of Battles books by James Swallow aside from the Enforcer series. Although looking at the BL site suddenly remembered that Double Eagle features a female lead so there is that one too. Pariah is also going to have a female lead as well based on its description. Evil_Urna posted:I am reading the Shira Calpurnia books right now and I am really digging the space Judge Dredd-ish story going on it. And I think she is one of the most positive female leads in a Warhammer book that I have seen thus far. I can second this recommendation. Even if the second book spends far too much time around secondary characters to my liking but otherwise it's not bad. The second book is a great way to learn how to hate Rogue Traders though. Just saying. 
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Trast posted:Are the Sisters of Battle books any good? I like the lore I've been exposed to so far and wouldn't mind some more in-depth stuff. Been a while since I read the first one but I have a recollection of that it was okay.
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So once you get past the plodding Rogue Trader parts in the second Enforcer book and onto the main trial of the plot the book suddenly becomes amazing when all the plots really start to unravel and crashing into each other at super speed.
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CommissarMega posted:And this is why the Enforcer books are awesome; what seems slow and plodding at one moment, suddenly takes everything into hyperdrive. I think the third book is a better example though. Oh yes, the ending for Legacy totally came out of left field and surprised me quite a bit. Going into Blind is going to be interesting. I really hope he'll return for more stuff. And I need to get the DH book Farrer wrote stuff for as well at some point.
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Jul 30, 2012 15:08
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Generally speaking, yes they take their armor off pretty often for things like repair, training, meditation, general downtime, what have you. In some cases Marines become unable to remove their armor, like Iron Hands that are 80% robot or Chaos Space Marines whose flesh has become fused to a set of demonic power armor. The Blood Angles main character in the Bloodquest graphic novel goes without his armour for a considerable amount of time just as an example.
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According to ADBs twitter he's apparently going to write a Sisters of Battle story. Nothing more was about it other than that so I have no idea if it's going to be a novel or a short story. Awesome regardless.
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I bought the Kal Jerico special edition book off Black Library, primarily just to get my hands on the final graphic novel storyline that they never actually bothered reprinting in a collection or anything but then I started reading the first novel and it's not that bad actually. Surprisingly good writing and dialogue that feels very casual. The only slight annoyance is that out of seven females encountered so far, five of them have been described as either buxom, ample bosomed or voluptuous.  Speaking of which, with how much BL seems to be pushing into the ebook market I am somewhat surprised they haven't started dabbling with digital comics and just outright republish their Warhammer Monthly backlogs or something in the lines of that. Cooked Auto fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Aug 16, 2012 |
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Mowglis Haircut posted:Kim Newman, noted talking head and film critic and mate of Mark Kermode wrote a bunch of Fantasy under the name Jack Yeovil. They're pretty good gothic horror type stories! I've got the Genevieve omnibus and it's a pretty drat good read.
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Schneider Heim posted:I was planning to buy those! I'd say buy them anyway. But just expect to be hearing a lot of dice rolling in the back of your head as they read a lot like Dark Heresy adventures. They are kinda like the 40k equivalent to the first Dragonlance books. Or at least I keep thinking of them as such. Just a tad bit better.
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Nephilm posted:Yeah, the aftermath of the 2nd war for Armageddon led to a lot of changes within the Inquisition. It was that bad of a clusterfuck. Are you sure you aren't talking about the first war as the second was against the orks and I have no recollection of the Inquisition making any purges after that one. 
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Mechafunkzilla posted:THQ is a publisher, not a developer. Relic and Volition are almost assuredly going to be snatched up by one of the other big publishers. And one of them might just be Ubisoft. 
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Just started Salvation's Reach and it's like a breath of fresh air. Finished it last night, I kinda liked it but I think the series is getting too embroiled for its own good. There is just a bit too much going on at the same time and I'm sorta miffed that I have to wait for the next book to see what the real outcome actually is. It's not bad by any standards but the build-up perhaps goes on for a bit too long for a rather weak climax.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Also, weak and abrupt endings are kind of Abnett's thing. It's almost endearing at this point. Yeah pretty much. Been a while since I read anything by him so I had sorta forgotten that it's his shtick somewhat. Arquinsiel posted:As much as it does feel short, the ending of Salvation's Reach is pretty much the right place to leave it. We already know what the objective of the whole thing was, so the ramifications for that will be spelled out in Biota's intro to the next book, and other than that it's just the butcher's bill that we don't know. That is also true I have to admit but it still felt rather lacklustre from the long build-up that preceded it. But it does make sense anyway. Speaking of which I would kill for a sequel to the Sabbat Worlds crusade lore book they released a couple of years ago. Fat chance that happening though since BL has pretty much given up on those big sized books by now. I mean their latest fluff/lore book was just a reprint of the trooper primer and I have no idea if they've got anything more like that planned. Which is really disappointing.
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I'm more amazed they haven't apparently even considered just readding all of their back-archive as digital content. I mean they've published a whole bunch of stuff through the years so why not make that available digitally now?
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VanSandman posted:I'm convinced that GW is run by goats that just so happen to be very good at making little plastic figures. Literal goats. That baaa and everything. The real invaders aren't lizardmen from space. But goatmen from earth. 
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Lead Psychiatry posted:Warhammer monthly had an issue of a Terminator who went back to his home planet and discovered it was overrun by Genestealers which was Native American themed. But I don't recall the comic giving away the Chapter he was apart of. That was Deathwing I think. They even made a short comic (Back when they actually did those) based on that story and it's in the Flames of Damnation collection. And while they won't outright state what chapter the Terminator shaman guy is in the iconography on his shoulder pad has a sword flanked by a pair of wings so I think it's Dark Angels.
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Cream_Filling posted:If it's one thing the Black Library lineup is lacking in, it's definitely a Horatio Hornblower in space, 40k edition. There was the old Battlefleet Gothic books from years ago but the prospect of seeing more of that is about as dead as the game in question. Speaking of the Imperial Navy I'm still waiting for the sequel to Double Eagle. Fat chance of ever seeing that though.
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Arquinsiel posted:Interceptor City is hopefully out this year according to the man himself. September-ish was the ballpark IIRC.  Awesome.
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IratelyBlank posted:Having read the entire Horus Heresy so far, I was under the impression that by the point it was underway, most people knew that Horus was in open rebellion against the emperor. I realize that those events take place 10,000+ years before the time period of The Emperor's Gift, but it isn't as if they were living in the dark ages with no technology capable of recording what was going on. As far as I have noticed in read it really tends to vary about how much people are aware of the <REDACTED> Heresy from a non-Space marine perspective. The Dark Heresy core rulebook makes a mention of it at one point (with the included censorship of a certain Warmasters name) and I think the latest IG codex makes a slight mention of it as well at one point. But otherwise the general notion is pretty much what the quote says that the thing has moved into apocrypha and legends and only really known by the Inquisition and some Marine Chapters.
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Jerkface posted:Does anyone know why Matthew Farrer hasn't written anything more? He did the Enforcer books about Shira Calpurnia and I really like them a lot. He reminds me of a warhammer 40k george rr martin, not in creepyness but in the ability to craft an elaborate world that seems to work. I really like the setting with very real rivalries between police, church, nobles, and navy. I'm only on the second now but the whole rogue trader succession thing is great. Only other thing I know he wrote was some stuff for one of the Dark Heresy supplements. Incidentally about the Arbites. But yeah I wish he was writing something more as I really liked the Calpurnia trilogy. Even if the second book was a bit on the weaker side.
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I've got pretty much all the books including the Hero of the Imperium anthology and I wouldn't say no to a collection of all the Caiphas Cain short stories to be honest. Which of course will never happen since they'd just bake them in the next anthology meaning I'd have to rebuy all of the books pretty much. Oh and it seems like they're finally making a move to adding their stuff to Android and Kindle. http://www.blacklibrary.com/digital-editions-preview.html Cooked Auto fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Jun 5, 2013 |
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http://www.blacklibrary.com/games-workshop-digital-editions/?flushcache=1 So the new Digital Editions stuff are finally up and they look kinda  .What's on offer is Munitorium Shuriken Catapult, 13 pages. Munitorium Long Rifle, 14 Warlords of the Dark Millennium - Azrael, 44 pages. Index Astartes - Dreadnoughts, 28 pages. Index Astartes - Codex Astartes, 48 pages. Prices are between €1,49 to €4,99 so they aren't too pricey.
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Baron Bifford posted:There have been a bunch of comic book minis, all of them bolter porn. Even if the Kal Jericho stuff was more Gangster Lasporn. Even if there was the adventure he went out with his Inquisitor Mom and faced some Necrons. I wonder if the Titan comic would count as mega bolter porn or not? I am still really miffed that they still haven't even considered releasing all their old Warhammer monthly stuff in digital format as there are still a bunch of comics they still haven't actually collected anywhere.
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Kurzon posted:How long would it take to travel by ship from Terra to the edge of the Imperium in the east? Assume you're an Inquisitor with all the necessary resources and privileges. At least 10 to 100+ years or something long like that. I mean space is loving huge and regardless of how much the warp compresses time it's still a massive distance to cover.
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bunnyofdoom posted:And, they are like Deffskulls. No no no no, they get everything as "gifts". VanSandman posted:Dammit. I'm reading Deathwatch by Steve Parker (it's new) and dammit if he doesn't go and get all gross on me. Oh boy, listening to this when it comes out is going to be an interesting if not awkward experience then.
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The Rat posted:Are you kidding? His DH books contained stuff like a teenage death cult assassin girl going through the horrible grimdark dilemma of DOES HE LIKE MEEEE? Eh, she's a teenager she's kinda excused for acting like a teenager and not some overly grimdark pastiche. I liked them despite them being nothing more than a written down playthrough of Dark Heresy, (which it kinda is since pretty much all the characters are the example characters from the core rulebook.) The only Swallow book I've read so far was his first Sororitas book and it was decent at best. A quick read but rather forgetable in the end. Shame seeing as decent SoB fiction is really rare as BL cares about them as much as GW does.
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Kegslayer posted:I really don't see what the author could do different though given that it is Flashman/Black Adder 40k. You buy a Caiaphas Cain book because you know exactly the kind of story you're going to get, Caiaphas and his smelly aide try to run away from danger but get caught up in it anyway and, through a series of events, end up coming out on top. The books are basically 40k fan fiction written by someone living in the 40k universe. Also Amberley's amazing footnotes. Let's not forget those.
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Azran posted:Isn't there a Steel Legion/Death Korps novel where they fight Tyranids? Yeah Desert Raiders from when BL published a bunch of IG books with various famous regiments. It's not that great honestly. Same goes for the Catachan book that came out around the same time. The only good one that came out during that period was Cadian Blood pretty much.
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Arquinsiel posted:15 Hours remains the best of the "IG" series, just for sheer The ending for Desert Raiders is kinda good as it does throw you for a loop but the rest of the book doesn't make up for that sadly. Don't think I ever bothered finishing reading Gunheads and Rebel Winter from that series as well.
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VanSandman posted:Ok this answered my question. One more, though. So until Slaanesh was born the Eldar had a huge empire that conquered most of the galaxy... Yet humanity was also at its technological peak, with countless worlds colonized. Why are there no mentions of gigantic gently caress-off pre-fall Eldar/Human battles? Or ship graveyards. Or anything, really. There was a fire in the library.
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Arquinsiel posted:You need to get your hands on the Genevive series. It's really awesome pulpy 80's vampire horror. I second this, I usually have a hard time enjoy anything with vampires but these I greatly enjoyed. Although I still need to finish the omnibus. But I have enjoyed what I've read of it so far though.
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Lead Psychiatry posted:Aside from Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer, Xenology, and The 13th Black Crusade, what other graphic novelizations (Do they even count as such?) are there? Aside from what Mechafunkzilla mentioned regarding Munitorium manual there is also the Sabbat Worlds Crusade lore book that ends where His Last Command starts, it's frankly amazingly written by Dan Abnett and I wish he'd write a second one for the rest of the series. Then there is Tactica Imperialis which is just a compendium of various campaigns and wars, including one in the Sabbat system. And lastly there the Battle for Armageddon, which is about Armageddon. Even if it's not that great as it never really goes anywhere regarding the various wars but is a nice fluff book regardless.
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Lead Psychiatry posted:Thanks! Gonna try and find these all except for the Munitorum Manual. That's been merged with Uplifting Primer so already read. To be really honest, good luck with that. You might find some of them but they won't be cheap since they went out of print years ago. It should be noted these weren't normally sized books but printed in larger than usual format.  Also I got reminded of another one simply called The Inquisition which was pretty much an A to Z book about various characters and things related to the Inquisition and had stuff related to both Eisenhorn and Ravenor and such. On the fantasy side there is the Life of Sigmar book as well as the Witch Hunters handbook for those interested in that. Not to mention the WH40k Quiz book.
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And I can't say I have heard anything off ADB's twitter/Facebook regarding his position or Black Library itself. If anything they just seem very content in releasing digital short stories and digital anthologies.
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