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mesc posted:Good timing! Paperback is released tomorrow - pre-ordering now! Just be warned this Grey Knights book is a kind of a reboot since the last Codex release, so just forget about the Ben Counter novels (fluffwise I mean, I did like the first one).
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Jul 5, 2013 06:57
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Mikojan posted:The book about inquisitor czevak is great so far. Rob sanders is a good writer. Any other recommended works out of him? Legion of the Damned is a decent SMB book, and his short story The Long Games at Carcharias is quite good.
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Jul 11, 2013 12:28
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EyeRChris posted:I can't recall the title of the book but it was one of the short story collection Horus Heresy books. I want to say The Primarchs. Yeah, it was from The Primarchs, which is an absolute garbage collection.
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Jul 13, 2013 14:20
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VanSandman posted:She's just a blank. Also, since I don't think it's ever been confirmed that the original Bequin died I bet she's gonna show back up later, but that's probably wishful thinking on my part. Yeah, she's never been officially dead, last we saw she was in stasis. I think it's a pretty reasonable assumption she will turn up, in some form or another. I haven't read the latest Eisenhorn/Ravenor short on the BL website, but were there any hints in that?
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Jul 22, 2013 17:48
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The second Shira Calpurnia book has a really cool plot involving a Rogue Trader if you nerds are interested in finding out more. Although I imagine licensing can vary between sectors and segmentums etc.
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Jul 23, 2013 20:19
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£18 for an eBook. We're reaching academia pricing.
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Aug 7, 2013 10:36
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Schneider Heim posted:That sounds like the best thing. Hope they don't screw it up and give it to a bad writer. C.S Goto's glorious return to the BL fold.
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Aug 13, 2013 18:01
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Nephilm posted:Eisenhorn does worldbuilding and includes many of the iconic elements of the setting (including viewing Astartes from the context of regular humans). Sure, it's not bolter porn, but jumping from the awful Dawn of War series to Helsreach would probably be more with how different the marines are (both for being Black Templars and written by a competent author). Have to agree, even the short scenes on the shrine world and Cadia in Malleus really helps to flesh out the 40k universe, even if they had read up on the different planet categorizations on Lexicanum or in the rulebook.
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Aug 15, 2013 11:41
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I thought it was pretty standard that all crusades approved by the High Lords of Terra had an appointed Warmaster. Although I do agree it's suprising to still use the rank. edit: Also just remembered the Squats were mentioned in the latest Cain book as one of the client races of the Tau, which makes sense as it's on the Eastern Fringe with a bunch of Nid activity.
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Sep 2, 2013 16:24
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Schneider Heim posted:There's gonna be a HH Tallarn book. yaaaaaaaaayuuuuuuuuuuuugrggggggggggggg gently caress off
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Sep 3, 2013 11:57
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Demon Of The Fall posted:Pretty sure communications were blocked by a warp storm or something similar, and the Eisenstein was one of the only (the only?) vessels to escape back to Terra to warn the Imperium. Also around the time of Fear to Tread IIRC.
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Sep 5, 2013 17:47
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Schneider Heim posted:I wasn't too enamored of the plot, but the conflict was great. Man that book could have been 350 pages of dicks and just the assault on Angron and I would have been happy. One of the greatest scenes even written by a BL author no doubt.
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Sep 9, 2013 16:39
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I've always imagined them to be like the Wolves, probably 1300/1500~.
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Sep 10, 2013 18:58
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spootime posted:I always thought of grimaldus's "crusade" being 1000 strong and there being hundreds of them flying around the galaxy. Am I wrong? It's been a while since helsreach Helsreach was roughly a company sized engagement IIRC, it's been a while for me as well! But there were other Templars in space with Helbrecht. If I remember the listing in the Armageddon Codex from years ago it was listed as three crusades, with him and two other Marshalls leading them. This is all off the top of my head so could be completely wrong.
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Sep 10, 2013 19:28
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Eh from all the SW novels that have been released there's never been anything said that they're not more than just "bigger" than a normal chapter company. Never read that old SW codex though. edit: Also are any of these SM 1k shorts from the BL website any good? The only one of these tiny shorts i've enjoyed was the Abnett Iron Snakes short where it was about Priad going ham on some orks, where he really nailed how badass marines should be. ed balls balls man fucked around with this message at 07:20 on Sep 11, 2013 |
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Sep 11, 2013 06:00
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Fried Chicken posted:So a preview for forgeworld's next heresy book went live. A mins of discussion, the legions will be iron hands, salamanders, night lords, and word bearers. Also, unveiling legio cybernetica. No word on the primarch figure yet. So expect to see all that stuff popping up in stories soon Can't wait to see what they come up with for IH Morlock terminators.
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Sep 13, 2013 15:20
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Another weakness from Fear to Tread is he feels the death of each of his legionnaires, during the big battle the demon killed 500 at once and he passed out in some weird blood coma boner.
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Sep 21, 2013 17:33
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Aries posted:Is there any book/series covering this? Sounds interesting. The Emperor's Gift by ADB. Also I've just reread Know No Fear by Abnett and for those guys asking about how other legions didn't know about Calth/warpstorms preventing communication, it's all covered there and I completely forgot about it. The giant warpstorm was called the Ruinstorm, summoned by Erebus using the power gathered from the power of betrayal or something.
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Sep 22, 2013 10:18
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Cream_Filling posted:I believe you mean "Warboss Mag Uruk Thraka". I haven't had my mind blown like this since I signed up for the forums and saw the Fedex Arrow thing.
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Oct 1, 2013 14:12
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Demiurge4 posted:How much written material is out there about the Black Library (the actual library, not the publishing branch)? The one that Ahriman has been trying to get into all this time. There's quite a bit in Atlas Infernal by Rob Sanders. He's not a terrible author either going by Legion of the Damned or AI.
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Oct 11, 2013 09:14
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Blacktoll posted:Personally I would say they are conventionally less well equipped but are seriously bolstered by the malign powers of Chaos. Yeah i'd agree with this. First thing that comes to mind is the descriptions of chaos ships, usually filled with chaos goodies and Nurgle's fart power that possibly make up for the less overall dark mechanicus adepts.
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Oct 15, 2013 16:13
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Arquinsiel posted:Wait... they changed it so that they weren't Terminators that fought Angron now? Ugh, fukkin GW. Nah, everyone wears terminator armour still, Hyperion basically says he prefers mobility, and the Captain responds with if you can survive a second more it'll be worth it. Or something.
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Oct 18, 2013 15:46
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He spent a bunch of time with the Eldar as well, and as previously discussed they are less brute force psykers, more refined.
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Oct 22, 2013 17:17
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Fried Chicken posted:"Several such" rebellions by Legions before. It mentions the Night Lords awaiting judgement for Cruze attacking Imperial forces when he got into it with Dorn, and you could maybe stretch Monarchia, or Angron putting the Nails in his legion, but yeah. Interesting I always thought this tidbit referred to the two lost legions that Russ put down.
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Oct 23, 2013 07:19
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VanSandman posted:We'll see how the ultimate duel plays out when they give the Assault on Dies Irae to Abnett to turn into a book. Isn't the Dies Irae a titan?
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Nov 2, 2013 12:46
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With regards to Know No Fear. The WB also hosed up, IIRC Lorgar and Horus (I think) later chastise Erebus and Kor Pharon for arsing it up. Especially for not killing Gulliman.
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Nov 8, 2013 21:18
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The Southern Dandy posted:Emporer arises, does Grand Crusade, is crippled due to Heresy, lies on Golden Throne, other poo poo ensues. That's a story arc. All in on killer whale.
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I wrote a giant effortpost in the last thread about why TOD was a terrible book based purely on the awful prison scene alone and now I can't find it in the archives 
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Waroduce posted:I was looking for any not poo poo WH40k book in the bookstore yesterday, just to have something to read, and I got ADB's Helsreach. I'm only a third of the way through, but its surprisingly good, and I'm eeally getting in to it. ADB really nailed the idea of a chaplain. I love his portrayal of Grimaldus. The novella that came out on the BL site is also worth getting once you finish Helsreach.
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Yeah, the 40k Ultramar is something like 10-12 worlds, not the full five hundred you see in the Heresy.
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Lord of the Night was really good for it's time where it's competition was garbage Dawn of War and Deathwatch books from C.S. Goto and the Black Templar's books by Jonathan Green. Although that year I think we got both the first Ravenor installment and a GG novel so can't complain too much.Fried Chicken posted:It's 50 in "modern" 40k Any sources for this? I can't find much more than either 11 solar systems or 11 worlds, stuff differs. I have the old Ultramarine's codex and it just lists a bunch of planets while one of the recent rulebooks lists 11 planets rather than systems. Standard 40k. ed balls balls man fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Jan 15, 2014 |
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I read the Crimson Fist the other day and the Retribution Fleet Dorn sent comprised of 30,000 IF, which was stated to be around a third of the legion. If i'm remembering The First Heretic correctly the WB are around the same size. As for the whole size of the forces invading systems etc, it's not mentioned *that* much because the HH series is basically a primarch circlejerk. However Abnett and ADB do a pretty good job of reminding people that the Legions were just the tip of the spear, they would go in, wreck the system/planet/nations ruling military assets asap then often leave the army to mop up and occupy. This of course varied by legion, some would stay till the entire planet was completely clear, others like the World Eaters would just fight the biggest and baddest battles then move on. Legion has a decent amount of focus on the Imperial Army dudes, while Betrayer talks a bunch about the Titan legions.
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Aziraphale posted:on Caliban.
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Man I skimmed my way through Vulkan Lives (garbage) and now i'm on to Unremembered Empire. Someone mentioned it earlier but Kyme really takes a poo poo all over Grammaticus and makes him an incredibly boring character. Kyme just needs to stop writing.Gnome Lover posted:Just read Abnett's latest GG, Salvation's Reach, and I can't shake the feeling the series has jumped the shark. Mmm I see where you are coming from, this book had a whole bunch of set up in the general in space and Gaunt's kid IIRC but i'm willing to keep reading just because Abnett. I think he's done better than most series of this length.
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Demiurge4 posted:I just hope Milo makes it back to stand with Gaunt. He's the true son, after all. Also Mkvenner god please.
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Angel Exterminatus was such a worthless book, the plot was dumb as poo poo.
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I imagine it's something to do with the Canis Helix, but nothing so far in the HH books has mentioned about the SW before the Emperor found Russ. No idea about the Salamanders.
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de_dust posted:After plowing through most of the horus heresy one thing stands out. No, it's not that the astartes and primarchs have the emotional range of a 12 year old boy - it's that every ship in the imperial navy seems to have a dueling pit and practice chambers. Every single one. Out of all the things i've ever read in this thread this just seems kinda bizzare to me. The astartes sole purpose is to fight things!!!
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Shut the heck up idiots. Any thoughts on David Annandale? I read somewhere he has a HH novel coming out, then checked out his work. He has a few eNovellas and a SM battles book but haven't read any of it myself.
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