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Mr.48 posted:Wait a minute..... Wouldnt that mean that Warhammer Fantasy and 40k exist in the same universe? Yeah, they used to. That was a long time ago though and they've gone to an effort to make sure they don't really crossover anymore. I think the Warhammer world was just thought of some rear end-backwards planet lost somewhere in space. You used to have guys with the occasional bolt pistol or even a powerfist.
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Dec 26, 2012 02:25
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Nephilm posted:Spoilers for a terrible thing: Lucius becomes convinced that Fulgrim has been possessed by a daemon so along with Fabius and others capture him and plan to torture the daemon out of him, including using such colorful methods like pear of anguish on his anus while the presumably slaaneshi daemon is having the time of its life. Well, that's definitely a thing. Why would anyone think that's a good idea to write about? And it's even paired with a bad plot twist.
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Dec 26, 2012 19:46
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Demiurge4 posted:Roboute coming back to fight the Tyranids would be really cool. And it could kickstart the storyline of the Emperors ascent or death. Roboute coming back would just be the sign of things going for a massive change, while still keeping him out of the way story wise, busy fighting off the Tyranids. But it would probably be written horribly and everything would be good again because this one dude showed up and told everyone how to do things. Mechafunkzilla posted:Let's be real though, Abnett's secret project will be about Cypher reaching Terra and suicide bombing the Emperor.
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Dec 27, 2012 16:51
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I just started Battle for the Fang and goddamn these names are awful.
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Jan 4, 2013 07:13
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RickVoid posted:Picked up Pariah the other night. When I heard that the third trilogy was going to be Gregor VS Gideon, and would be told from the POV of Alizabeth, I was stoked. Love all of Abnett's Inquisition characters, so this book was going to be a real treat. Keep going. And in regards to your spoiler... that's not what's going on. Pariah is really good, but starts off a little slow.
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Jan 5, 2013 06:35
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It's only 3 or 4 illustrations that serve no purpose and don't really show any important scenes. I'm trying to remember what they were, but I can't. I read these books on my kindle, so illustrations aren't really a selling point. Betrayer was pretty good though.
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Jan 22, 2013 01:20
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Abnett definitely has issues with endings, but I thought Pariah's worked perfectly.
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Jan 25, 2013 06:15
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Ravenwing is actually a decent book even if some things don't really make a whole lot of sense.
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Feb 7, 2013 05:26
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Impaired Casing posted:I finished the Gaunt's Ghosts series. Well, I still have the Sabbat anthology, and the first two books, but I am caught up in regards to the story line. I loved almost everything about the series. I really liked, in an ironic way, when one of the main characters died. Yeah, it sucked if it was one of your favorites, but drat if it did not keep you on your toes while reading the series. I was always up in the air over who was my favorite author, the tie being between ADB and Abnett, but I am certainly leaning towards Abnett now. Also, I believe the next Horus Heresy book is written by him, so good news there. Don't bother with the Counter books, just read The Emperor's Gift by ADB. It's really good.
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Feb 20, 2013 04:55
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Mazed posted:Blanche's work has some nice ideas, but their extremely loose, messy style makes them feel like nothing more than that, where other artists have taken those concepts a lot further, with considerably better results. Blanche's artwork is awesome.  He's pretty much defined the look and feel of 40k for me.
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Apr 22, 2013 17:10
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Mechafunkzilla posted:
This is one of my favorite 40k images and I'd probably want to hang it up if I didn't know it would be social poison. Oh well. 
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Schneider Heim posted:Finished Path of the Incubus. Worse than its predecessor. I don't recommend the Dark Eldar series, it has some good ideas (showing how the fractured Eldar race needs each other regardless of whether they're Commorite, Craftworld, or Exodite), but the prose is mediocre. I think I have to agree with your general sentiment. I wanted to like Path of the Renegade, but could never really get into it. I was excited to read it when I saw it was written by Andy Chambers but it just wasn't that great. Dark Eldar weren't as interesting as I thought they'd be. I can kind of see what the author was trying to accomplish; it just didn't come across as well as it should have. I just finished Ahriman: Exile and it was pretty good.  I really liked it overall, but I feel the resolution was a bit too quick. Though that's a common problem in 40k books. And (dumb spoiler) The reveal at the end with Maroth and the chained demon wasn't really needed.
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May 10, 2013 07:45
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VanSandman posted:Nah, the coolest Dreadnaught moment was in 'Know No Fear' when that one Dread does an atmospheric re-entry and then gets up fighting. Basically pick any book where Bjorn shows up. He's basically the grumpiest dreadnought of them all. He doesn't even have to do anything but grump and it works.
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Jun 30, 2013 21:48
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mllaneza posted:Is it a safe assumption that the birth of Slaanesh caused the warp storms that wrecked the first human galactic civilization ? Nah, it created the Eye of Terror and actually blew away a lot of the warp storms that were blocking human expansion. Edit: I'm not really sure what caused those warp storms to begin with.
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Jul 3, 2013 23:52
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Schneider Heim posted:Anyway, I'm almost done with Architect of Fate and it's pretty boring mediocre. Kind of wish I bought The Death of Antagonis or Legion of the Damned instead. Don't buy Death of Antagonis. It's just so loving clumsily written and I'm not sure the author really understood what space marines are. There's some cool ideas in it, but they're rare. It's easy to see what the author was trying to do with the book, but, again, it's just so clumsy. The Black Dragons could have been interesting, but one of the main characters is like 10 feet tall with retractable arm-blades and custom armor while another is completely normal. Guess which one is actually corrupt and bad? It's all dumb. Though I'll admit the crazy planet-grinder controlled by a demonic bone organ (the instrument) was kind of cool. Legion of the Damned on the other hand loving rules. It's  as all hell. It keeps them as a mystery though and focuses on a different chapter entirely.
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Jul 22, 2013 21:59
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Fried Chicken posted:He said that his Black Legion series will be his "Gaunt's Ghosts" and his initial planning was 15 books. Obviously, sales figures, and the tendency for "the tale grew in the telling" could shift that either way. Oh hell yes. His Night Lords series is one of my favorite Black Library things. If he can pull of anything like that I'll be all over this series.
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Jul 23, 2013 20:57
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Shroud posted:According to RPS, For what it's worth, I really enjoy the game. I think it did as good a job of porting the board game as can be expected; it is almost a straight copy. The RPS review/opinion-piece/whatever is what it is and I don't entirely agree with it though it has some good points. - They fixed the bugged missions within a day or two (the article was written beforehand). I had the same problem. It shouldn't have shipped like that, but it happened. - Yeah, terminators are slow as hell when they move. That's just what they are. You can order multiple guys around at once, but you have to wait if any of their actions involve shooting. - Hotseat multiplayer shows your opponent the genestealer numbers if they're looking at the screen during your turn. I'm honestly not sure what anyone expected there. It's not without its issues, but it's worth checking out if you like the board game. If you're indecisive, just wait for a sale. v  v
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pentyne posted:My own perspective on the Old Ones is that the Eldar were set up to fail; a physically perfect race blessed with immense psyker abilities were given the keys to the webway and tier 4 level technology to fight the Necrons, then the Old Ones left and the Eldar spent the next 60 million years in a post scarcity society slowly descending into complete and utter depravity eventually creating an evil god from the sheer excess of their decadence. I don't think the Eldar can make new Webway Gates, or even fix it. Once things started to fail all they could do was cross off the gate on their maps. I know it's not quite what you're asking about, but Andy Chambers has some Dark Eldar books out. I've only read the first one so I can't really recommend the entire series. I found the first book to be oddly bland. It was clear the author was trying to show off how crazy their society is, but it never works quite right for me. Still, the book wasn't bad and may be worth checking out. It even involves a raid on a maiden world and features some Exodite stuff. Safety Factor fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Oct 6, 2013 |
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Cream_Filling posted:Andy Chambers actually wrote a whole series of Eldar books in the past year or so, including craftworld eldar, rangers, and exodites. They were all pretty bland and boring and I wouldn't recommend them. I actually liked GW's previous "no alien viewpoints" policy because the eldar in those books aren't sufficiently alien in viewpoint - they're just really whiny fantasy novel people. I was all excited when I saw Andy Chambers wrote something because holy poo poo, it's Andy Chambers. But then I read the first book and it was just so bland.  I really have to agree with the "no alien viewpoints" policy. Most of their authors wouldn't be able to pull it off well, especially with Eldar. Still, I'd be kind of interested to see what Chambers could do with a regular Imperial viewpoint.
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Orks could work pretty well. I remember when I read some Gav Thorpe Dark Angels battle book (Kallidus?) I actually thought he did a good job with the Ork prologue and epilogue. His marines are really inconsistent though and seem to die like flies. And it goes without saying that Deff Skwadron is amazing.
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ElPedro posted:This is very true. Multiplayer worked great and had a lot of viable classes/builds to chose from. Did we play the same game? I won't deny that multiplayer was a lot of fun. But that was only when the thing worked. The matchmaking and peer-to-peer set-up made most games a laggy mess. Targets frequently became invincible or teleported around. I know I was shot through plenty of walls when I played. If it had worked properly people would probably still be playing it. The survival mode managed to avoid most of the same issues, but it was limited to 4 players and not 16 like the regular multiplayer. It was less likely to get stuck playing with someone with a bad connection which would manage to slow the game down for everyone. I enjoyed Space Marine a lot. I just wish the multiplayer had been more stable. 
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Oct 18, 2013 14:20
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Does this mean Gav Thorpe runs the Dark Angel side of things? 
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Oct 19, 2013 17:16
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Colonel "Death" Strike is a perfectly fine 40k name. Especially for a Catachan.
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More about the Word Bearers: It's actually expanded upon a little more in Betrayer. Rather than doing an internal purge like the other legions did, Lorgar loaded up all of his angriest dudes and sent them off to die against the Ultramarines. Many of them never forgave the Ultramarines for destroying Monarchia.
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Nov 8, 2013 21:36
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drgnvale posted:Needing to go to my computer, buy the book, download it and then drag and drop. Yes, this is too much compared to buying a book off amazon with a kindle. I do this for all of my e-books because it's easier for me to just browse and buy on the Amazon website. I almost never connect my kindle to wifi, but maybe I'm weird.
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Dec 23, 2013 06:18
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EyeRChris posted:I'd also probably put The Black Dragons as a Tier 3. Sure they pretty much sacraficed their humanity and became monsters, but its to protect the people of the Imperium. This reminds me, no one should read Death of Antagonis. Ever.
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Pariah's pretty good. The shift in perspective didn't bother me and I liked how Abnett slowly worked in Eisenhorn and Ravenor. The introduction of Eisenhorn is as all hell in that book too. I'm looking forward to the next one even if it might be a while.
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Jan 15, 2014 02:25
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VanSandman posted:Some people have bad taste in pew-pew spacemans stories. See: People who defend Vulkan Lives! I know a guy who told me he was having trouble getting through Eisenhorn because of the first person perspective. He really liked the Outcast Dead though. 
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handbanana125 posted:So, Dan Abnett just linked to a game currently in development based on Eisenhorn- Xenos. No solid details yet, but it's going to be a mobile based 3D action game. Goddamnit. What is with GW and mobile games? I'd play the poo poo out of a competent Eisenhorn game on the PC. 
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Mar 18, 2014 17:25
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Dog_Meat posted:I completely, totally, unironically 'get' this. This is all I can think of when it comes to that song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfjj7Y9N27c
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Deff Skwadron rules and everyone should read it.UberJumper posted:Oops i thought he was referring to just the HH, however i heard the Hunt for Voldorius was battle of the abyss bad. I kinda wish someone would go a bit more in depth with the Scars. In response to your spoilers: The Dark Angels were the first legion, but you're right, they didn't find their primarch until later. They still fought for the Emperor from day one before anyone else joined up. I think that's what that quote is trying to say. They have a bunch of crazy wargear because of their status as the first legion. I'd guess they ended up with a lot of prototypes that were too complicated for mass production. I don't know why the Emperor would count their loyalty as a given since, if I remember right, Horus was the first primarch found and even he turned.
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UberJumper posted:I listened to the podcast, there is a bunch of really interesting things in there. UberJumper posted:
Speaking of Gav Thorpe, does anyone know how Master of Sanctity turned out? It's a sequel to Ravenwing which was alright. It was obvious he was asked to add all of the new units from the codex into the book; they were mentioned in the first few chapters and then promptly forgotten. He also tried way too hard to show that the Ravenwing can work in a bunch of environments. The book featured them riding around inside a space station and later climbing a mountain without their bikes. Dark Angels could result in some really good books instead of sub-par ones, but they need to be handed to someone else. I don't like Gav Thorpe being the final authority on my favorite space men. 
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I grabbed Master of Sanctity recently because I'm traveling and was bored. I got to say, I was a little surprised by it. I found Ravenwing to be pretty standard 40k garbage that didn't have much going for it beyond being about Dark Angels. The sequel was a lot better. If any of y'all are interested, you don't need to read Ravenwing to get into it. There's maybe five characters that carried over and they aren't important. The focus is put on Sapphon, the titular head chaplain of the Dark Angels, and a bunch of the other higher-ups. At times it felt like Thorpe was just kind of mashing established characters into the story, but it more-or-less works since most of them are small parts. Things like Azrael's in a couple of scenes because they're on The Rock or Ezekial's hanging out when there's interrogating to do. Asmodai's the big exception there. He's ridiculously one-note and constantly played up as Sapphon's counter-part. Beyond that, there's a pretty sweet Deathwing assault on a demon world in the middle of the book and a bunch of stuff about the Fallen. You know, the usual. The ending was pretty sudden, but that was so it could end on a  cliffhanger.
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UberJumper posted:Apparently the next Horus Heresy book after the Damnation of Pythos is going to be another short story collection Legacies of Betrayal.  UberJumper posted:*EDIT* Apparently ADB is also writing a novella about the duel between the Lion and Russ. 
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Jul 6, 2014 07:30
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UberJumper posted:He does however loving hate psykers (no reason given yet). I'm pretty sure Mortarion hates psykers due to the former overlords of his home planet. They were all psykers and aliens and did all sorts of horrible poo poo to humans. His origins are expanded on in the first Forge World Horus Heresy book, but that's not really something everyone can just go out and grab.
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Wax Dynasty posted:Yarrick book by David Annandale (which isn't quite as good as the Cain series, but it's close.) Wait, is this actually good? I've only read Death of Antagonis by him and it was hot garbage. Probably the worst 40k book I've read. I haven't bothered checking out anything else.
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Dog_Meat posted:I'm waaay behind on the modern fluff, but I seem to recall the original story had something about the video feed cutting out before the moment of the assasin striking meaning there's yet another "this happened OR DID IT?!?!" event with a primarch. It's expanded on in a few things, especially the Night Lords books by ADB. Curze is straight-up dead.
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Wax Dynasty posted:The first two Salamander books are just poorly written generic bolter porn, but the third jumps off the deep end when the main character saves the day by becoming a literal Superman, complete with the ability to fly, and then he gets murdered by a rival Salamander. The end. It makes no goddamn sense, even within the realm of 40k where most anything can be explained away. How is this explained? Does he just get psychic powers out of the blue or some bullshit? I guess this can all be explained by Nick Kyme.
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mllaneza posted:David Annendale is turning into a real bright spot in the BL. I thought Overfiend dragged through the first two parts, but it finished strong. The short stories are getting very good. I'm putting him on the "expect a good read" list. Really? I've only read Death of Antagonis by him and it was awful. Maybe it was just a bad first book. I've been hesitant to read anything else since.
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