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Which Gaunt's Ghosts books spend the most time out of the warzone?
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peanut- posted:Finished reading The Great Work. I've read a few of Guy Haley's books now and I really dislike his version of the Imperium. Everything feels so sanitised and heroic and largely misses the point for me - it's like 40k via Marvel movies. Did you read Baneblade and/or Shadowsword? I think they toe the line fairly well.
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Nov 8, 2020 15:22
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Considering trying an Audible free trial and I'm wondering if any of the 40k audio dramas are particularly good?
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Nov 15, 2020 15:09
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Titan's Bane was really good while it lasted. I guess I have a thing for immersive tank crew stories.
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Jan 18, 2021 15:33
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I'd point out the Terminus Est but that one's a reference to another series.
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May 13, 2021 02:51
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How is Graham McNeill, overall? People mention him a lot less than they used to when talking about their favorite authors. I personally wasn't too taken with False Gods and Fulgrim.
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Jul 12, 2021 13:01
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Dick Trauma posted:I'm reading "Men at Arms" by Terry Pratchett and it made me wish he'd written some 40k novels. Doesn't matter what the subject matter is, his take on it would have been entertaining. I'm like that but with China Mieville.
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Jul 22, 2021 02:52
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Adrian Tchaikovsky of 'Children of Time' fame has a Warhammer novel coming out. https://twitter.com/blacklibrarium/status/1417806674740514819
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Jul 22, 2021 09:11
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Making Space Marines asexual is honestly one of the best things they've done for the lore. So many unpleasant reading moments avoided. They didn't used to be?
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Aug 7, 2021 12:50
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Anyone pick up the new Crime book, Grim Repast? I still haven't got around to finishing Bloodlines.
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Oct 6, 2021 04:33
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Just wish they didn't have the guardsmen in 40k standard Cadian armor. I liked how they initially had 18th/19th century looking greatcoat uniforms, contrasted nicely with the setting's present.
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Oct 13, 2021 14:35
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People say to skip the titan battles in Mortis, but how about Titandeath? I know Haley can write some thrilling titan battles from Shadowsword.
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Oct 18, 2021 06:36
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Perfect time to post this historian's posts on the idea of the militarily superior barbarian and its history: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-part-i-war-at-the-dawn-of-civilization/
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Oct 19, 2021 11:16
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D-Pad posted:You want the Gathering Storm books. They look like codexes but are 80% story and only 20% rules or whatever. They tell it in a narrative format too not in the way codexes typically have a bunch of small lore snippets. The first book goes into great detail about the fall of cadia and the other two tell the complete story of the quest to resurrect Guilliman and subsequent events. All together it's at least one, maybe two normal fiction books worth of story. They are expensive secondary market but are available now on Warhammer vault. BigShasta posted:Is this a situation where the gathering storm books have to be viewed through the vault itself via an app/site, or can they be downloaded? Probably a dumb question. The Wiki pages for the 13th Black Crusade and Roboute Guilliman have a ridiculous amount of text, I wouldn't be surprised if they contain large sections of the books verbatim.
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Nov 4, 2021 23:04
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orphean posted:So Steel Tread. Exactly what I hoped it would be - very much Fury in a Demolisher in tone. I felt like a plot thread or two wasn't really followed up on but very solid overall. A little tropey when it comes to characterization and plot setup e.g. new commander having to prove themselves to a ragtag group of broken misfits is pretty standard stuff. But if you like Guard, Tanks, Guard in Tanks, and Anti-Titan precision Deathstrike missiles being dropped on a single squad of chaos marines totally check it out. A fun ride. Guy Haley's superheavy tank books were what got me into reading the Black Library so I'll definitely be eager to check this one out.
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Dec 6, 2021 22:26
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jng2058 posted:Even if you're playing it like a RPG, you're going to need some enemies, or else what's the point of putting together the cool minis for all the PCs? So someone's got to buy, assemble, and paint some cultists or Orks or Daemons or whatever. What's the term for substituting household objects for models?
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Dec 12, 2021 21:43
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How long is the Siege of Terra chronologically?
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Dec 30, 2021 23:16
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Improbable Lobster posted:Apropos of nothing, I just want to say that Black Library has done a pretty good job of integrating queer characters into newer books in a way that doesn't feel forced or like a footnote. It comes up when it's would naturally come up, it's not treated differently than cishet characters/and LGBTQphobia either doesn't come up or is treated with the appropriate tact and weight What are some of the better books with queer characters?
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Jan 2, 2022 21:31
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What BL book is most blatant about being a toy commercial?
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Feb 15, 2022 21:18
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Bloodlines is a constant series of police procedural cliches so far. Which isn't a complaint, because I always enjoy each and every one of those cliches, with my very limited experience with the genre.
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Feb 17, 2022 15:19
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Finished Bloodlines. A good adventure. Cell-draining would be totally legal on a more grimdark planet.
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Feb 19, 2022 15:39
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Seeing this really highlights how loving over the top the StarCraft 2 intro was.
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Mar 10, 2022 23:48
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DaysBefore posted:Wish they had gone with a look for the Imperial Army that wasn't 'Also Cadians'. Although I guess that may be Malcador's personal goon At first, (especially on the cover of Legion) they looked like Cossacks. I guess they made them look like Cadians again to make them more marketable. In other news, I finished Honour Guard today. It was great having the Pardus fight alongside the First. I do hope there are future books that portray comradely cooperation with other regiments - the blurbs don't make me too optimistic in that regard.
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Apr 16, 2022 02:44
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I skimmed through Titandeath by Guy Haley and focused on the parts that interested me. The bulk of the book was focused on the titan fighting at the tail end of the Heresy, but I kind of wish the book had been structured more like The First Heretic and had spent a lot of time following the all-female Legio through their formation and early days. But hey, I do consistently like the way Haley writes.
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Apr 20, 2022 03:46
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bob dobbs is dead posted:well good on them uhh... not supporting despotic empires makin the despotic empire game Pretty much every Russian developer I know of moved to Western Europe at some point in the last 20 years. Edit: I had paid absolutely no attention to the primarch novel series up until just now. Which of them have the least bolter porn and the most political intrigue or deep emotional pathos? Or scenes of the primarchs' childhood or early adulthood, because many of them seem to be set after the Emperor contacted them. FPyat fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Jun 2, 2022 |
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Jun 2, 2022 03:48
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Cooked Auto posted:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/06/08/dan-abnett-interview-how-to-start-and-finish-the-most-epic-series-in-sci-fi Can't wait for the six book Scouring coda.
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Jun 8, 2022 15:28
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Haven't read any of Cornwell's books, but I suspect that might be Gaunt being true to Sharpe. Apart from the subordinates bit.
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Jun 14, 2022 17:10
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People's thoughts on Grim Repast?
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Jun 15, 2022 15:35
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I find it a little weird how they tack "A [character/faction] novel" on everything. Don't get me wrong, it's useful, just funny to use "A" when it's the only book featuring that protagonist.
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Jun 18, 2022 04:01
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Do any of the Crime stories mention the Arbites?
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Jun 20, 2022 00:39
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Gotta wonder why they chose John French to be offered two books.
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Jun 20, 2022 14:47
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 Dredge Runners: The Novel
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Jun 29, 2022 03:09
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Sept 13
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Jun 29, 2022 17:51
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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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I don't want 40k society to be just accepting of LGBTQ people, I want it have to have cultural ideas about queerness and gender that aren't oppressive, just weird and alien in a way that reflects the deranged ideological mishmash of the Imperial Cult. Like you could have excerpts from a theological tract making the wildest arguments about why homosexual relationships glorify the human essence or something.
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Jul 3, 2022 23:39
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Today I found out that before Adrian Tchaikovsky, Charles Stross wrote a 40k short called Monastery of Death back in the day
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Jul 6, 2022 02:16
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Were there any books starring non-inquisition non-SM psykers before this?
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Jul 6, 2022 20:49
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It occurs to me that with the Leagues back, you can now have a Inquisitor or Rogue Trader with a retinue modelled after the Fellowship of the Ring.
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Jul 17, 2022 01:24
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I would personally enjoy an entirely original campaign like the Sabbat Worlds Crusade where multiple xenos factions are engaged.
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Jul 19, 2022 22:13
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Seven Views of Uhlguth's Passing is quite the story. I should try one of Matthew Farrer's novels.
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Jul 21, 2022 20:57
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