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CommissarMega posted:poo poo, they even moved the Solar System to the middle of a stabilized Galactic Centre just so Earth could be the literal as well as figurative centre of the human empire. Seriously? Was this in a codex or White Dwarf or what?
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mllaneza posted:He was kidding. Unless that one planet they came across early in the HH series that believed IT was really Earth actually was. I thought so, but I never completely discount WH40K fluff on the basis of crazy, especially considering the Rogue Trader era.
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Baron Bifford posted:In the Fire Warrior FPS game, it's stated that the weak souls of the Tau give them a certain resistance to Chaos mutation. Is this canon? In general the Tau have a weak presence in the warp. It's the same reason their empire expands so slowly - they have no equivalent of Navigators and can only take short hops through the warp. However, wasn't there some speculation that Commander Farsight was corrupted by Chaos, and that's why he turned against the Ethereal cast? 
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Big Willy Style posted:Orks have their own, superior gods. 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?
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Just finished Legion of the Damned, and wow - it was great and so very  . Between it and the other two Space Marines Battles books I've read, Brotherhood of the Snake and Helsreach, I'd rank it first, then BotS and then Helsreach. I've just started Sander's Atlas Infernal and I'm hoping it holds up as well. I'd also like to recommend that the two Battlefleet Gothic books be added to the Good list in the OP. I thought they were well written and gave a good look into the relatively unexplored Imperial Navy.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Wait - you ranked Helsreach third? Maybe it is because you're new and didn't realize how awesome that book really was... Not just third, but third by a pretty good distance (and actually I've read at least two dozen 40k books - this is not bragging). I like ADB, the Night Lord trilogy was amazing, but for me Helsreach was really, really flat. I blame it mostly on the choice of Black Templars as the protagonists, they were so monotonous. The best part of that book was when the Salamanders showed up. Mechafunkzilla was right about LotD, it oozes atmosphere and Sanders knows how to make bolter porn exciting again. I really appreciated how he took the whole thing to an 11 at the end by making the Legion a literal ghost army one-shotting demons and chaos comets instead of the canonical "rag-tag, slowly dying group of cast-off Space Marines." I do admit this makes me hypocritical because I got so tired of the deus ex machina endings in most of the Gaunt series.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Guys, please tell me that Legion of the Damned gets better... I'm two chapters in and it is soooo boring and the Excoriators (and their serfs) read like annoying, angsty teens. It takes a while to get going (like 4 or 5 chapters in), but then the going gets good.
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Lead Psychiatry posted:I remember my brother telling me a while back when he first sold me on the WH40K universe that Imperial Navy ships are so large that there can be wars between levels and whole generations of crew will live their whole lives on ship with no chance of shore leave. Are there any books or short stories that deal with this? Or is this fluff straight from a table top game? There are two pretty good novels that deal mainly with the Imperial Navy: Battlefleet Gothic - Execution Hour and Battlefleet Gothic - Shadow Point (both by Gordon Rennie). I remember Shadow Point focusing a good amount on the societal structure that develops on a Navy ship.
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S.J. posted:I couldn't stand the Ultramarines books. Ugh. They were an unfun chore and I only got through the first two. 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).
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