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What are you talking about? They've released two complete armies (Nighthaunt and Deepkin,) the new Stormcast (pretty much a complete army on its own), AoS 2, the new magic system and spells, Malign Portents, a handful of Battletomes, and just announced Goblins, all in 2018. Yeah, they blew the AoS launch, but they've certainly recovered and have been picking up the pace.
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bango skank posted:chuck tingle "Powerfisted in the Imperial Butt by the Talon of Horus"
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Nov 6, 2018 13:40
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Why are they springing for such talent for kids books? Audiobooks don't strike me as big for that market. Apparently, Audible would say otherwise. Audiobooks can also help kids who are currently struggling with reading and, especially with the Warhammer books, allow for a shared experience with a mom or dad who also enjoys the hobby.
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Nov 7, 2018 17:38
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Dog_Meat posted:Some parent is going to think "oh hey, my kid likes Dr Who - this must me something to do with that". I doubt that. It doesn't say "Dr. Who" all over it. That would be like "Daisy Ridley reads "Sense and Sensibility'" and thinking "Oooh - this is some good Star Wars!"
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Nov 7, 2018 19:29
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Plavski posted:The quality of the Warham audiobooks on Audible is very good and there are tonnes of them so they must be popular. More kids into the hobby can only be a good thing right? Gotta get new blood, or else it becomes hex and chit wargaming or model trains.
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Nov 7, 2018 19:33
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Dog_Meat posted:You are vastly overestimating the doddering grandma who sees "that nice girl off the telly program that my grandson puts on". It's spaceman stuff. That's where her perception ends.
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Nov 8, 2018 13:41
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Inferno-1-eng-2018 Goddammit. Now they are making e-shorts of Inferno stories? I thought the whole point of Inferno was to decrease the excessive amount of ebook shorts that were coming out.
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Nov 14, 2018 16:19
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Arquinsiel posted:I am sure I have seen it somewhere on  . It's not a great scan, but it's readable.
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Nov 14, 2018 16:28
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Xun posted:But why did it have to be space marines Because they have to appeal to 80% of their base.
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Dec 17, 2018 22:29
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Galvanik posted:I just finished Magos and enjoyed it a lot. One thing kept bothering me though. All these years I'd always thought "magos" specifically meant a high ranking ad-mech priest who'd mastered one science or another. Is it a more general term equivalent to professor? From the Lexicanum: quote:Members of the Order engage in the Quest for Knowledge as other Tech Priests, though differ in that they regard flesh not as inferior to metal, but instead as a different type of machine So it appears to be ranking of a senior member of the particular sect.
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Dec 26, 2018 20:44
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Honestly, if you have a passing knowledge of Ravenor and Eisenhorn, you'd be ok with Magos. I thought Magos was alright - I had heard and enjoyed most, if not all, of the shorts before, and the novella was serviceable, but I didn't think it was great. I liked where it started off being kind of a spooky ghost story, but I thought the second half was a bit too long and drawn out.
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Dec 28, 2018 14:10
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Dec 31, 2018 20:26
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I'm two stories away from The Magos by now I think, and now I'm intrigued as to how they're gonna tie in. Yeah, Longworth is really good for Eisenhorn. He's got that gravely gumshoe voice down pat. And I agree that Patience is terrible. I honestly don't know what he was talking with that one.
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Jan 1, 2019 18:09
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Dodoman posted:If it's not too much trouble, is it possible to get a synopsis of what has changed? What's really changed is that GW actually gives a poo poo about the setting now and is actively devoting time to fleshing it out and grounding it to a perspective that the reader can associate with. Even the Stormcast have personality and are interesting now.
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Jan 10, 2019 14:23
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susan posted:Agreed with the above thoughts on Ravenor. It also had some weird... I want to say 'anachronisms' but I'm not sure that's the right word for 40k incongruities, but I'm going with it. Like, servitors with personalities who could speak in full sentences. And starships with crews of around 50 people, not 50,000. And the three-way-door bit felt more Harry Potter than Grimdark. It was enjoyable and I'm glad I read it, but it's so weird to me that this was written *after* Eisenhorn, so many of the elements felt less fleshed out to me. The galaxy is a big place. Depending on the servitor role, it's perfectly understandable for them to be able to speak in complete sentences. They could still be mind wiped and have other cognitive skills disabled though. As for the ship crews, you can run a ship on a skeleton crew. Most of our reference is for battleships which are naturally going to have tons of people just by their nature. I don't remember the example you're referencing in Ravenor, but transport ships could easily get away with smaller crews because they don't need a lot of infrastructure support. Also, depending on the ship, more or less of the crew functions could be served by whatever stands for the ship's machine spirit. Also, unreliable narrators.
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Jan 10, 2019 18:17
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Z the IVth posted:Anyone have a handle on The Strange Demise of Titus Endor? I read the book and am working through the audiobook now, but I still can't figure out what happened to the dancer. Was it being implied that Endor sacrificed her in his dementia? It's been a little while, but I think she is either someone from his past, or just someone he sees and has built her into his dementia.
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Jan 25, 2019 16:05
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bango skank posted:I picked up Sacrosanct, the short story starter book for AoS and I can't really put my finger on it, but I feel like I'm bouncing off it pretty hard for some reason. Like I'm really into 40k, and I feel like in theory I should be down for what basically amounts to the same thing but with fantasy flavor, but I just can't bring myself to care about any of it. 40K has had about 30 years to get to the point where it's at now. AoS has only been good for like a year, and they are still really fleshing things out. To be completely honest, if you can get your hands on the Battletome army books, you're going to get much better reading out of them. The Spear of Shadows was good because it was from a human POV and had a distinctly WFB feel. Anything from a Stormcast POV is going to be pretty bland until writers really start running with the "each time I come back, part of me is lost" thing.
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Feb 27, 2019 16:24
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Arquinsiel posted:Seems the young adult novels have been out for a while now and I didn't notice. Has anyone read them yet? They came out and 40K and AoS (an already dead game, so it didn't really matter anyway) crashed and burned due to the influx of children and women and GW went bankrupt immediately. The chuds were right all along...
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Mar 14, 2019 16:26
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Schadenboner posted:Did the Fantasy horror book come out? Is it good? Old World or Sigmar? There are two horror books. One is strictly 40K and the other (Maledictions) is both 40K and AoS. And AoS from the ground-level view is pretty close to the old world nowadays, apart from some name swaps.
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May 20, 2019 13:03
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D-Pad posted:I enjoyed Maledictions but I thought The Wicked and the Damned had better horror stories. Oof. I thought Wicked and the Damned was serviceable, but other than ‘Woman in the Walls,' I didn't think of the stories as being what I would consider horror.
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May 24, 2019 19:50
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Pistol_Pete posted:I thought they were all pretty good. There was a much greater focus on the protagonist's internal struggles - it was very clear that these were all ordinary human beings with their limitations and weaknesses, stuck in a brutally unforgiving universe. And in each story, as well as the physical horror, there was also a psychological aspect: The commissar driven mad by isolation and endless deployment but completely unable to see it, the officer gradually mentally disintegrating as she has to deal with not just being chased by a pissed-off ghost but also with her guilt and her superior's increasingly open suspicions of her and a priest who ultimately abandons the woman he loves to a hungry chaos spawn (but feels really bad about it afterwards, ok?) I think we saw these a little differently. The commissar was already insane - he was killing animals as a kid. The officer was a ganger scumbag who wasn't feeling guilt, just fear that her actions were actually going to have actual repercussions this time. And the priest was just selfish - again, he didn't feel any guilt for his actions, and was constantly justifying them by saying "You would have done the same thing!" All in all, I thought they were mediocre, serviceable stories. I've read the first two stories in the Maledictions and feel the same way about those so far. It could be that I'm a bit jaded in the realization that the Warhammer universe as a whole is a truly awful place for everyone involved, but with the exception of the second story in Wicked and the Damned none of the stories have really evoked a sense of dread or horror in me. "The Widow Tide" in Maledictions is especially frustrating to me because it had promise but had the terrible non-horror ending of the Deepkin stealing the soul of the main character for no particular literary reason. It was just a typical Warhammer story that could have been in any collection.
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May 28, 2019 13:25
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Arquinsiel posted:That's kind of the problem with GW's general tone. How exactly do you ratchet up the horror when it's already at 11? Exactly. If you're not a Space Marine/Stormcast, every waking moment of your day is pure, unadulterated horror. It's overbearing to the point where it gets blase.
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May 28, 2019 14:45
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Taerkar posted:Celestial Lions are natural prey for
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Yeah, I started listening to the Soul Wars audiobook, and quit about 1/3 of the way through. Try Spear of Shadows. It is more of a traditional Warhammer story from the viewpoint of "normal" people. I've heard that Plague Garden is good too, but I haven't read it yet. Callis and Toll: Silver Shard was alright, but I was listening to the audiobook, and I thought it got a little annoying at times, but was probably just me having issues with a narrator. Gloomspite is on my list, because Gitz.
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Miguel Prado posted:Wrapping up Plague Garden, it’s my first ever bit of AoS and except for a bit confusion over all the different types of sigmarines, I thoroughly enjoyed it It's a surprisingly good book. The audiobook is a good listen.
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