Warhammer book thread(40.000/Fantasy/Age of Sigmar)

I just blitzed my way across the latest Ao S book, Spear of Shadows. I really liked it, specially the fact that they are revisiting locations and characters all while showing not everything is sunshine and rainbows.

Well of course it isn't. There's a war going on even if things are starting to rebuild where the Stormcasts have retaken land from Chaos.

Also, been thinking about grabbing the Eisenhorn and Ravenor novels.

Try to get the omnibuses if you can find them-there are a couple of decent short stories in Eisenhorn, and there is an extremely important one in the Ravenor omnibus-set between the first and second books. Also, make sure you read the Eisenhorn stories first-they come first chronologically and introduce many characters including Ravenor himself. Finally, the Ravenor books reveal the fates and actions of most of the characters in the former series, so you will massively spoil yourself reading them out of order. Think of them as a single series, starting with Eisenhorn, continuing through Ravenor and currently ending on Pariah, pending Dan Abnett finally finishing Penitent.

edited 6th Oct '17 8:45:42 AM by ViperMagnum357

No no, I'm talking aside from that. There's a lot of tension between those of Azyr and those that survived the whole rigmarole that was the Age of Chaos right now.

Really good ways into Straight Silver now. I think this is one of my favorites of Gaunt's Ghosts so far. The in-depth look at Aexe Cardinal culture we get, the WW 1-style warfare...

Also fuck you Feygor and Cuu, I'm enjoying seeing you two get humiliated over and over again.

Don't know about Feygor, but yeah, screw Cuu.

Feygor's pretty cool IMO. A full-blown Jerkass to be sure, but he's our jerkass.

Cuu... oh Cuu...

The best - or worst thing- about Cuu: Apparently we only got to experience him because Abnett lost the original script of a book and had to rewrite it from scratch - somehow he came up with this jerkass while doing so. :/

edited 13th Oct '17 11:10:17 AM by DrunkenNordmann

I'd prefer whatever had to begin with than someone who is quite literally only surviving multiple murders through the will of the Dark Gods themselves.

Anyway, finished Straight Silver. I wonder how much longer the war on Aexe Cardinal went on for.

Hoo boy...get ready for some tears in Sabbat Martyr. Though there will be at least one tied off thread that will satisfy you. After that is Traitor General, which is either my favorite or second favorite in the series.

edited 13th Oct '17 9:03:57 PM by ViperMagnum357

I'm still waiting for the German translation of Warmaster now. :/

I thought Warmaster does not drop until December?

edited 13th Oct '17 10:16:39 PM by ViperMagnum357

Oh right, I misread on Amazon. But yeah, waiting for the German translation, mostly because I read all the other books in German as well.

Gaunts Ghosts actually got a good German translation - compared to some other 40k works - and I like to be consistent when reading a series.

edited 13th Oct '17 10:14:40 PM by DrunkenNordmann

oh god, cuu was the worst part of gaunt's ghosts. He was BORING above all his other crimes

I really hope Daur at least experiences some remorse once Cuu's crimes come to light. It's all his fault that he didn't die on Phantine, and would anyone really have missed Cuu?

Dan Abnett. The Ghosts are so badass he needs some credible way to thin the herd, and a traitorous Guard sniper and blade fighter shooting his comrades in the back is an awesome plot device

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Hinsidght is always 20/20. Cuu got away on Phantine for one simple reason: He was a Ghost and Gaunt had to prove he wasn't playing favourites. He went into Hero Killer mode after his corporal punishment on Phantine.

The principle was right; shame it benefited such a vile piece of shit. :/

Cuu actually reminds me of Barnes from Platoon; the mere prospect of facing punishment for his actions makes him go nuts.

Im readin the first horus heresy novels and...they are diferent, kudos for the autor to truley make crusade diferent that regular WH 40 K.

30k is a decidedly different setting. Still terrible and brutal, but also with a sense of hope, advancement and accomplishment. Small wonder a Primarch waking up in 40k would flip their shit.

yeah is...lighter, without that heavy sense of everything around you, Loken and is interaction with is brother would be near heresy in modern chapters.

also, I now warrior lodges were bad because chaos, but the idea of informal place were marine can gadther dosent sound so bad....

Remember the formal chaplains did not form until after Nikaea, just a few years before the Heresy. While half a dozen legions had brothers performing similar roles before that, most had no formal advisors for their brothers to speak to on philosophical or spiritual matters.

on the other hand, the sense of brotherhood the luna wolf display is very diferent from this one.

"Dunno why they single out HH for that, though I guess sillier things do go on in that series that people find harder to swallow. "

Well, here is a page that set major complains:

http://veekyforums.com/thread/55174857/games/black-legion-thread.html

In short: it said ABD try to hard to make sympathic rather than letting chaos rejoice in their crimes, that is making Abbadon to much a mary asue and even yet he still fail to move him from being usless meme everyone want to make him.

I've realized that the Norsca are essentially the ironborn just as much in attitude as they are in culture, in the Legend of Sigmar books.

"Haha, all the mainland people are weak and soft even though we've just been killing women and children!"

It's so insufferable, especially when ten years before Sigmar had kicked their asses and nearly wiped them out.

edited 25th Oct '17 6:09:05 PM by theLibrarian