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Bruxism posted:I really like the Mechanicus stuff Dan Abnett's Titanicus is a standalone about a Titan Legion going to war. Mike Brooks' Brutal Kunnin' is Orks versus Mechanicus. It's primarily an ork book, but it's still great. Graham McNeill's Priests of Mars series generally gets high praise in this thread, but I've never read it personally. If you want to take the whole "become one with the machine" thing to the extreme, Robert Rath's The Infinite and the Divine is about necrons and it's also really good.
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# ? Jun 29, 2022 06:22 |
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To add to that list if you're wanting more Mechanicus goodness - Ascension Day is a story about genestealers and Mechanicus and it's written by an actual mainstream author to boot. - Flesh and Steel is Warhammer Crime revolving around the Mechanicus. - The Death of Integrity is bolter porn but there's a bit at the end where the Mechanicus run into a DAOT AI (essentially a Culture Mind) with predictable results. Edit - Priests of Mars is quite good but the story does start to go off the rails in as the series progresses. Z the IVth fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Jun 29, 2022 |
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AnEdgelord posted:The orks in the book explicitly say they believe im reincarnation, theres a whole scene where the blood axe translator stumbles over the word lonelylikezoidberg posted:Yeah way back in like the 2nd or 3rd edition of the rulebook it explicitly states that Orks believe their spirits will be vomited back into another body after they die by Gork or Mork. I'll have to read it again, must have missed that! It makes sense anyway, given that the Warp isn't full of rambunctious Orc spirits or whatever
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# ? Jun 29, 2022 08:14 |
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Oh hell yes, now to wait two years for the paperback version.
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# ? Jun 29, 2022 14:35 |
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Bruxism posted:Been digging through this thread a bit and the OP seems a bit out of date, so hoping for some recommendations. I've been wanting to read another WF40K book, but haven't been so happy with the ones I've just picked up randomly. I'd really like to read more about the Horus Heresy, but was floored to learn that the series is like 54 books long. I read the opening chapters of the Horus Rising and it seems good, but the thought of embarking on a 54 book journey is daunting. How essential is it to stick to the order of books? Any must reads or must skips from the Horus Heresy series? Anything by Peter Fehervari, Aaron Dempski-Bowden, Dan Abnett, Mike Brooks or Chris Wraight is usually worth reading.
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# ? Jun 29, 2022 15:55 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:Anything by Peter Fehervari, Aaron Dempski-Bowden, Dan Abnett, Mike Brooks or Chris Wraight is usually worth reading. Robert Rath and Nate Croakley are also good. They have different takes on Necrons but both are really good in their own way.
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Cooked Auto posted:Oh hell yes, now to wait two years for the paperback version. Worth it to get hardbacks for releases like this because you can always sell them down the road for 2x-3x what you paid and you don't have to wait for a paperback.
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# ? Jun 29, 2022 16:22 |
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Z the IVth posted:To add to that list if you're wanting more Mechanicus goodness Death Of Integrity is wild, so much going on in that book even though it really is mostly bolter porn like you said. Another big caveat about Priests of Mars is that it sets up a whole plotline/cliffhanger that will almost assuredly never be picked up again. But also get the omnibus edition that includes the short story at the end because it's straight up 40k cyberpunk and I wish there was more stuff like that.
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# ? Jun 29, 2022 16:52 |
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DOI is indeed crazy and there's a billion implications it leaves hanging.
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# ? Jun 29, 2022 17:22 |
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Do we have a rough idea of when the next Siege of Terra novel will be out? Warhawk feels like it came out a lifetime ago.
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# ? Jun 29, 2022 17:26 |
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Sept 13
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# ? Jun 29, 2022 17:51 |
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Re: DOI implications, in The Great Work, Qvo mentions that Cawl pwned the Spirit of Eternity. Or maybe co-opted it, you can never be sure with him.
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# ? Jun 29, 2022 18:45 |
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Z the IVth posted:Re: DOI implications, in The Great Work, Qvo mentions that Cawl pwned the Spirit of Eternity. Or maybe co-opted it, you can never be sure with him. I read that as him straight up lying to save face about what actually went down.
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# ? Jun 29, 2022 20:11 |
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Read Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh! on the recommendation of this thread - quite liked it! Nice to have a new reliable name to pull on for authors, I'd been sticking mainly to Dan Abnett, ADB and Chris Wraight. I particularly liked how the ork characters got to have a little more nuance than the standard football hooligan stereotype, while still maintaining that classic warhammer orky-ness we've all come to love and expect. One thing I wanted to ask about though, are Blood Axes and their unorky sneaky ways really still canon? I know it was a thing back in Rogue Trader days and it's mentioned consistently in the book, but I'd always had the impression that style of thing has been squatted along with Khornite uniform-wearing Stormboyz. edit: shoutout also to that dirty sneaky bastard Biter!
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# ? Jun 30, 2022 11:59 |
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Emzedoh posted:
Well squats are back so…?
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# ? Jun 30, 2022 13:07 |
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Emzedoh posted:Read Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh! on the recommendation of this thread - quite liked it! Nice to have a new reliable name to pull on for authors, I'd been sticking mainly to Dan Abnett, ADB and Chris Wraight. I particularly liked how the ork characters got to have a little more nuance than the standard football hooligan stereotype, while still maintaining that classic warhammer orky-ness we've all come to love and expect. yeah dogg it wouldn't have been consistently mentioned in the book if it wasn't
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# ? Jun 30, 2022 14:00 |
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Blood Axes have always been canon? They don't have to ride into the Imperial Palace and unplug the golden throne to be canon. Orks having internal factions who are able to negotiate with non Orks, and are considered un-Orky, is one of those obvious things where if you need a constant set of Codex entries confirming they are possible, it kinda makes the whole galaxy smaller.
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# ? Jun 30, 2022 14:13 |
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D-Pad posted:Worth it to get hardbacks for releases like this because you can always sell them down the road for 2x-3x what you paid and you don't have to wait for a paperback. I'm really bad at re-selling stuff down the line. I just like having stuff on my shelves.
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# ? Jun 30, 2022 14:43 |
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Cooked Auto posted:I'm really bad at re-selling stuff down the line. I just like having stuff on my shelves. Hardbacks will last more years before falling apart, ensuring they remain on your shelf even longer!
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# ? Jun 30, 2022 14:52 |
Emzedoh posted:Read Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh! on the recommendation of this thread - quite liked it! Nice to have a new reliable name to pull on for authors, I'd been sticking mainly to Dan Abnett, ADB and Chris Wraight. I particularly liked how the ork characters got to have a little more nuance than the standard football hooligan stereotype, while still maintaining that classic warhammer orky-ness we've all come to love and expect. Yes, Catachan Devil that just came out recently was all about a group of sneaky commando orks on one side (with POV) and the catachans up against them on the other.
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# ? Jun 30, 2022 15:52 |
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the squats themselves are in the process of being unsquatted
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# ? Jun 30, 2022 18:13 |
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bob dobbs is dead posted:the squats themselves are in the process of being unsquatted I can not wait to sink my teeth into some fuckin 2022 squat lore. What a time to be alive
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# ? Jun 30, 2022 18:41 |
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Telsa Cola posted:I read that as him straight up lying to save face about what actually went down. He wasn't there though. Unless that expedition was his idea and he put his handpicked clown squad in charge.
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Biplane posted:I can not wait to sink my teeth into some fuckin 2022 squat lore. What a time to be alive Theres a bunch of lore dumps recently, they basically have 30k imperial levels of tech.
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# ? Jun 30, 2022 20:20 |
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Almost finished the first Malus Omnibus, despite my initial expectations I kinda enjoyed them, not my usual cup of tea to read about a (villainous) protagonist who keeps sabotaging themselves through their impetus, but it's got its charm. Also, lot of Dark Elves dying is always good. Also found the Warhammer Ambassador Omnibus for 10 bux, it's got Graham McNeill writing it, so it should be good. Wish they reprinted the Warhammer Chronicles more often though. They just re-released the Blackhearts Omnibus, but it's the same as the original version. Want to get my hands on physical copies of The Sundering, War of Vengeance, and Vampire Wars.
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# ? Jun 30, 2022 20:30 |
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:Almost finished the first Malus Omnibus, despite my initial expectations I kinda enjoyed them, not my usual cup of tea to read about a (villainous) protagonist who keeps sabotaging themselves through their impetus, but it's got its charm. Also, lot of Dark Elves dying is always good. The ambassador ones are the ones with fantasy Sean Connery, yeah?
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# ? Jun 30, 2022 20:31 |
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Why wouldn't you want un-Orky sneaky gits? Kommandos are the best Orks this side of thr Stormboyz.
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# ? Jun 30, 2022 20:47 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:yeah dogg it wouldn't have been consistently mentioned in the book if it wasn't Well it seems obvious when you put it like that :P I guess what I was trying to say was that I didn't realise Blood Axes - who have titles like Genrul or Kolonel and dress up in long coats with scrap metal medals with peaked caps - were still a thing. I had thought they had been slid out of the setting as Warhammer got less comic over the years. I did know kommandos were a thing, I just didn't know if they had a clan identity. And yeah, I'd actually forgotten about Squats getting unsquatted. Still doesn't feel real to me, to be honest.
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# ? Jun 30, 2022 20:49 |
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Emzedoh posted:Well it seems obvious when you put it like that :P :V
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# ? Jun 30, 2022 21:59 |
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Learning that Gate of Bones has a Aeldari diplomatic delegation makes me way more interested in reading it.
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# ? Jul 1, 2022 01:42 |
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Has there been any more books/stories about Ahriman after Unchanged? Last time I read about him he had cast a new Rubric on the Planet of Sorcerers, except it reunited (most of ) Magnus into a single entity from his scattered state. One rubric-marine was restored, but it was apparently a little nudge by Tzeentch to keep him striving. Now that the game lore literally has the legion somewhat united, Sortiarius teleporting into realspace to annoy Fenris and then start harvesting psykers all over the riven galaxy like a grimdark Charles Xaviar's School for Psychically Gifted Youngsters, it seems the whole dynamic must have shifted, but I have found little material on it.
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Telsa Cola posted:Theres a bunch of lore dumps recently, they basically have 30k imperial levels of tech. Better than that, they have actual sentient AI supercomputers that run their society, lots of working STCs, and really nifty gene tech. They are almost at dark age of technology levels except for the weaponry because that would make them too OP. Sephyr posted:Has there been any more books/stories about Ahriman after Unchanged? Ahriman Eternal just came out and it was pretty good.
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# ? Jul 1, 2022 06:09 |
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They also make no distinction between their AI citizens and their biological citizens because the Squats are the protagonists now and they’re great
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# ? Jul 1, 2022 12:41 |
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lenoon posted:They also make no distinction between their AI citizens and their biological citizens because the Squats are the protagonists now and they’re great I kinda hope their grimdark leans more into a tragic, what could have been type angle instead of the usual secretly evil
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# ? Jul 1, 2022 14:30 |
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Broken Record Talk posted:Hardbacks will last more years before falling apart, ensuring they remain on your shelf even longer! I've gotten a lot better about not breaking the backs of my paperbacks these days thankyouverymuch. <>
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# ? Jul 1, 2022 14:43 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:I kinda hope their grimdark leans more into a tragic, what could have been type angle instead of the usual secretly evil Same, especially since it seems like their predilection towards the usual dwarven tropes already give them enough "downsides" that it isn't like when Tau first showed up and it was obviously the best faction to be a part of if you had to pick. From the descriptions of the state of the actual Voltanns, it sounds like they're already setting them up for that sort of thing mixed with "The shittiness of the future makes everything suck."
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# ? Jul 1, 2022 17:43 |
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where's grudges.csv, filesize 73 petabytes?
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# ? Jul 1, 2022 17:47 |
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bob dobbs is dead posted:where's grudges.csv, filesize 73 petabytes? you'll have to wait for the defrag to complete in... *squints*.... fifty thousand years
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# ? Jul 1, 2022 18:19 |
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Emzedoh posted:Well it seems obvious when you put it like that :P Blood Axes are still around but the WW2 German aesthetic has been phased out, they've been leaning a lot more into the commando/Rambo look, which I think fits Orks better anyhow.
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Mike Brooks has Plans. https://twitter.com/MikeBrooks668/status/1543336373410824194?t=IYt9LYjz5jOEJXpwrD87SA&s=19
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