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Seriously the Soul Drinker series is the worst 40k series I've managed to actually read through the omnibus of. It is loving awful.
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Evil_Urna posted:Creme_filling menonted there was an ork story where: "Also an ork going back in time and killing himself so he could have two of his favorite gun." Where is this from because this sounds awesome. It is from the Ork codex, it's not an actual short story or book. But that would basically be the most amazing BL book ever.
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Jul 8, 2012 20:02
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Is there a worse BL author than Goto? I can't think of one.
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Jul 9, 2012 00:27
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:No he doesn't. He writes about things with Multilaser names. I'm convinced that he has never encountered anything to do with Multilasers other than a Multilaser document of Eldar Multilasers & Multilaser names. This is a fair point.
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Jul 9, 2012 01:10
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Holy poo poo are they seriously doing COYA 40k books? That is awesome.
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Jul 10, 2012 05:59
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Nephilm posted:None of the major factions are good; everyone's out to look for their continued survival first and foremost. Wrong. The Orks are righteousness incarnate.
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Jul 17, 2012 17:43
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Baron Bifford posted:they must have been able to bond emotionally with each other. Let's not go too far here.
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Jul 22, 2012 21:26
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Baron Bifford posted:As in comrades-in-arms. Soldiers need to bond with each other in order to form a cooperative group that can handle the rigors of war. Yes I know. But on the other hand, Warhammer
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Jul 22, 2012 21:41
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Evil_Urna posted:That cover has always pissed me off for some reason. It makes the book look like complete garbage. Kinda like the early HH covers looked like it was rendered on the same computers as Reboot was. That book does have some awesome short stories in it though.
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Jul 29, 2012 01:28
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Trast posted:The Ork plot of Retribution is fine because in the end because one of their main motivations is to get the Inquisitor's fancy hat. Screw your gear and relics, the Captain just wants to look smashing. The Ork campaign for that game is literally the only good part of the single player though.
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Jul 30, 2012 06:29
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Hiro Protagonist posted:Which one is that? Sorry, haven't read any other WH40K books Aaron Dembeski-Bowden. He writes some pretty fantastic characters.
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Jul 31, 2012 06:15
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Ambiguatron posted:"The Last Church" is probably the best insight into the Emperor that the Horus Heresy series has revealed so far. Basically, the Emperor was really good as a Big Idea guy but was terrible in dealing with individual people or even expressing his ideas, really. I think The Last Church was just awfully loving written, to be honest. I've seen kids in middle school come up with more reasonable arguments against religion. I don't think the author was making the Emperors' arguments/interactions seem weak on purpose, I think he just didn't have any idea how to write that kind of story.
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Aug 10, 2012 07:16
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Thewittyname posted:Has there been any GW fluff that pits Gork and Mork against the Chaos gods, or anything that even hints that they inhabit the same realms? They've beaten up the chaos gods for a laugh a few times.
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Sep 4, 2012 20:46
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Who the gently caress says gar-bitch? Also Brotherhood of the Snake was pretty solid. If only more authors could give marines half as much character.
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Sep 6, 2012 17:15
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Am I the only one who doesn't give a poo poo about Gaunt's Ghosts anymore?
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Sep 13, 2012 20:17
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jadebullet posted:Please tell me that Purging of Kadilus gets better. I enjoyed the ork bit in the prolog, though the part with the sentry looking out at the dust cloud and exclaiming "Emperor's Balls." was a bit, odd. Anyway, now I am at the part where the Chaplain just finished beating up some orks, which felt kind of flat and disconjointed to me, and he just pulled a prayer scroll from the wall that had survived the Ork vandalism. He then crumples it up, and gets pissed over the fact that the Orks have done so much damage to his home. I only got about halfway through and had to quit reading it.
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Sep 21, 2012 06:46
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I couldn't stand the Ultramarines books. Ugh. They were an unfun chore and I only got through the first two.
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Nov 19, 2012 18:15
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Thewittyname posted:That's too bad, because you missed out on the only two worth reading: Dead Sky, Black Sun and The Chapter's Due. Honsu is by far the most interesting character in the series and read with Storm of Iron it makes for a compelling trilogy. The rest of the books are just standard bolter porn - the mighty Ultramarines versus $insert_xenos_here. Of these, I liked Courage and Honor the best because it has the Tau (which are pretty rare in 40K fiction). Honsou isn't from that series, doesn't count 
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Nov 22, 2012 01:50
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Samopsa posted:Not book-related, but still loving awesome: Creative Assembly is going to make WH The last warhammer: total war game was pretty bad, so
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Dec 7, 2012 19:14
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lenoon posted:I think it's in the main rulebook isn't it? "the resulting Waaagh was stopped amidst the confusion" or something like that? On the page after the awesome "this is how a waagh looks" drawing, where the fleet gets eaten by a void whale. You're thinking of the right picture, but that's in the Ork codex.
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Dec 12, 2012 08:38
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Mechafunkzilla posted:A single Death Korps guardsman calmly firing his laspistol into the ammo cache of his Baneblade. Never forget 
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Azran posted:You know, the prologue about Colchis burning made me think - pretty much all Traitors Legions (except maybe Word Bearers?) had loyalists who had to be eliminated. After the Traitors lose the Siege of Terra, the Imperium goes and destroy their homeworlds. But is it stated anywhere that the population on this worlds had been corrupted as profoundly as their respective Legions? Not that I'm aware of, no. At least not universally. But the reminder of the existence of those legions had to be erased.
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Jan 13, 2013 20:33
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Tried getting back into the HH, got to Descent of Angels (the first Dark Angels book) and that has completely stalled my interest. Holy gently caress that book was awful. Definitely skipping anything DA related from here on out. Have the Votann been in any BL books yet?
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Nov 9, 2022 07:36
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mllaneza posted:Nope they were missing presumed eaten by Tyranids since well before the HH series kicked off. I feel dumb because I was reading through them as they first released and intentionally skipped that book because of what I had heard at the time. I don't know what got me to try to read it this time. And yeah, I know about the squats, I just don't keep up on BL releases so I wasn't sure. Been in the hobby since about halfway through 3rd ed.
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Nov 9, 2022 07:59
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Xenomrph posted:Don’t the Tyranids retain the genetic material of everything they consume? If so, technically they’re in every book that features Tyranids. Ayyyyyy, I like this 
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Nov 9, 2022 22:49
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Arquinsiel posted:Them fighting Genestealers is literally why the Deathwing wear bone white armour and that story is pretty great. Why not revisit it? It's honestly the most interesting part of their fluff imo.
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Nov 10, 2022 05:28
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Arc Hammer posted:Have a drink for every time Abnett uses the word "sheer" in Necropolis and you'll die of alcohol poisoning. Guard are elite okay
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Nov 15, 2022 18:34
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Arc Hammer posted:I'm guessing so since I remember in Helsreach when Grimaldus parks a thunderhawk in front of Storm Herald and threatens to blow the Titan to bits knowing that it won't be able to raise its shields in time. Would a void shield be capable of being projected at variable distances in that case? Perhaps, but it isn't an instantaneous on/off button. Transferring power to appropriate systems takes time, and that's assuming the reactor is already up to operating capacity instead of having been brought partially down for repairs and upkeep etc
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Nov 16, 2022 03:10
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Arc Hammer posted:So Titans engaging beyond visual range would have more time to react to incoming shots and Titans getting into knife fighting range where melee comes out becomes extremely hazardous since the power drain of a shield would make it difficult to maintain for the amount of close range firepower being brought to bear on multiple sections of the machine. I believe so, yeah. I'm not super familiar with the rules for Titanicus but I believe you do have to worry about shield facing for your big boys. Plus, long range firepower is more rare at that scale so it's easier to predict rather than being in the middle of a city and having a bunch of units in hiding all alpha striking your defenses away in unison
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Nov 16, 2022 04:04
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I just wanna see Kharn and Angron high fiving in the middle of a battlefield after murdering a bunch of space marines
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Nov 17, 2022 01:31
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Yeah but I think if you consider how sick that scene would look on the cover of a power metal album you would realize your priorities are all wrong and it's truly the essence of 40k
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Nov 17, 2022 02:40
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loving hell yeah Gorefather in one hand and Kharne wielding Gorechild in the other
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Nov 17, 2022 03:09
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boredsatellite posted:so as a regretful owner of the salamander omnibus... how bad is that series It's almost wraps around from being so bad to being funny but doesn't quite get there. It's bad.
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Nov 21, 2022 01:18
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As someone still trying to catch up to the last few years of fluff changes, is the Dark Imperium series worth picking up? No idea if Guy Haley is trash or not.
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Nov 22, 2022 19:52
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FPyat posted:I hear mixed things about the Ravenor trilogy, can I get away with just reading synopses? Just read them, you might not like them as much as Eisenhorn but imo they're still very good.
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Nov 26, 2022 20:10
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I'm interested in what the twist will be, because everyone already "knows" what happened, and there is no way it plays out exactly like that. I'm hoping the entire story is written from the perspective of one of the marines who happened to be aboard but didn't see everything, so we just get glimpses of what occurs and what it was like to be around the event.
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Nov 27, 2022 21:21
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Pyrolocutus posted:Every time they get close enough to find out what's going on, they get murked and we get another viewpoint switch. That would be dope.
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Nov 27, 2022 22:48
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SardonicTyrant posted:They explained in one of the anthologies that his foreskin regrew. He now has 8 of them
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Dec 3, 2022 15:53
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Jerkface posted:Noting that the other caveats are true, I'd say its still worth 40 bucks currently especially if you want to play a very cool 40k game. Everything this poster said is true. Game's buggy as gently caress and missing way too many features but it's also so much fun and nails the aesthetic so hard that a lot of us just don't care
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Arc Hammer posted:Spess Mahren 2 looks good but it's a shame they couldn't get Mark Strong back. It's okay his voice changed when he became Primaris
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