Warhammer 40k

[Male Idiot]

I jusr don't think 40k needed a shakeup, and I am sure it will be current year. Erda, anyone?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I jusr don't think 40k needed a shakeup, and I am sure it will be current year. Erda, anyone?

Erda is incredibly based when you think about it. Everything wrong with the setting is a result of a woman moment to end all women moments. I also don't know if Bequin is set at current date 40k to justify it changing things up. The higher ups at most would want chaos custodes/evil inquisition models to sell

 

[p1138]

Erda is incredibly based when you think about it. Everything wrong with the setting is a result of a woman moment to end all women moments. I also don't know if Bequin is set at current date 40k to justify it changing things up. The higher ups at most would want chaos custodes/evil inquisition models to sell

The Bequin books take place at some point mid m41. I want to say 450 or something like that? The current 40k timeline is already in m42. The ravenor books were around early 400 m41, most of the eisenhorn stuff was during 300-400 m41. So yeah, having Valdor of all characters coming back into the setting 500+ years before guilliman and having no impact for half a millenia wouldn't make any sense. They already had to retcon the timeline for dark imperium as it was. I don't believe they had to retcon the badab war, so much as pretend it was no longer as important as it had been considered previously, and most of the new lore they've been leaving ambiguous as to when it happens in m42, likely to avoid having to shuffle events around as they did previously.

Even if it turns out to not be Valdor, there's still the matter of the multiple craftworlds inbound in what Abnett has basically made into his own avengers end game type thing with the bequin books so I'm sure that'll also turn out to be a mess.

If GW wanted a new range of models to sell after bringing squats back halfassed, giving WE half(at most) of a model range, and we know EC is in the pipeline to be released at some point eventually, they probably would have done something with Vashtorr and dark mechanicum stuff, but then seem to have just put whatever that plot thread was supposed to be on the backburner other than an indomitus fleet all going berserk due to angron blowing something up and offing himself in the process. Hell, it's been a few years now and they haven't done much with that pariah nexus storyline either, only just finally moving Cawl along into eventually maybe doing something with the pylons after that fabius bile book.

 

[Humble Architect]

I can honestly say that I was and still am more excited for the Lord Commander Eidolon novel than I was the HH finale by Dan.

He does the Dave Filoni (Star Wars Clone Wars gay furry autist) thing where he forces his fucking OCs down your throat and ingratiates them into the mythos retroactively making them important. We didn’t get the Emperor being interned in the throne but we absolutely needed to know what the gay retards in the library where doing and oh, this random is a big deal in my own book.

He’s lucky that my boy Argonis was alright and not forgotten like Lucius

 

[Male Idiot]

Yeah the original Eisenhorn was set mid M41. But Abnett can always just mske all his characters perpetuals and have them gallivanting around until Papa Smurf and Forest Johnny show up.

 

[p1138]

Yeah the original Eisenhorn was set mid M41. But Abnett can always just mske all his characters perpetuals and have them gallivanting around until Papa Smurf and Forest Johnny show up.

Nah, wouldn't even have to do that. Warp fuckery is already a thing regarding the passage of time as it is in the setting. Like I said on the previous page, all they'd really need to do is hang around in their little dust city pocket dimension thing for a few centuries. That's not a good cop-out, but the "rules"(or lack there of really) in the setting would already allow for it.

 

[AncientPhosphur]

I just want to say I think Custodes are neat and enjoy them in books. Watchers of the Throne is entertaining. (And yes I have a custodes army)

 

[I don't like goblins]

Hello. Welcome to my book report.

I just finished the novel "Wolfblade" today. It was pretty good. Despite being a Space Wolf novel on paper; really, this was actually a Navigator book.

The plot synopsis: A young Ragnar Blackmane loses the Spear of Russ (the Dionysian Spear Russ used against Horus during their fight in the Heresy) when he used it to banish an invading Magnus back into the Warp. As punishment for losing the spear, he is sent to Terra to serve as a Wolfblade, a bodyguard and agent in the service of the Great Navigator House of Belisarius (no relation to Belisarius Cawl), which the Space Wolves have a long standing alliance with. The Wolfblades are seemingly made up of weirdo Spacewolves that don't fit in with the rest of the chapter. They are:

1.) Valkoth: Old and grumpy.

2.) Torin: Has a snarky attitude and a Terran-style pencil moustache. Is sissified from being on Terra too long, but otherwise competent.

3.) Haegr the Mountain: Enormous in size and appetite. He is the only fat Space Marine, due to a flaw in his genesseed that makes him always hungry. He is my favorite. He is always threatening to hand out beatings for the slightest disrespect and exagerates his own abilities. That being said, he is completely devoid of fear, is always the first to go into battle, and is surprisingly intelligent.

House Belisarius' main rival, Cezare Feracci of the Great House Feracci, has been secretly orchestrating the assassinations of the high ranking members of the other Navigator houses. He does this because the current Navigatorial Representative (a High Lord of Terra) is on his deathbed, and Cezare wants his son Mishra to be elected to fill that roll. The other Great houses would veto Mishra's appointment, so Cezare's plan is to weaken and destabilize them to the point that they no longer have the influence necessary to properly oppose House Feracci. To further this goal, Cezare has been secretly supplying an anti-mutant, fanatical militia called "the Brotherhood" that have been launching attacks on Belisarius and the other houses.

Eventually, the Brotherhood launches a full scale attack on house Bellisarius, lead by the assasssin Xenothon. Cezare hires Xenothon because Xenothon suppossedly has the skills and equipment necessary for killing Space Marines. Unknown to Cezare; however, is that Xenothon is a double-agent Callidus Assassin secretly working for an unknown High Lord of Terra that is planning on eventually killing all of the Navigators.

This culminates in an epic battle in the Belisarius vaults where Ragnar gets his ass whooped Xenothon but is ultimately able to to defeat the assassin by giving him a bear hug that immobilizes him long enough for the other Wolfblades to show up and fill him full of bolter shells.

I give it a solid 8/10, but it's entirely skippable if you don't care about Space Wolves or Navigators.

As a final note, I would like to mention some incongruities with modern lore that this book brings up.
Navigators apparently run their own trade empires and make trade deals about shipping cargo like Rouge Traders.
Navigators just walk around with their Pineal Eye exposed with no negative reprecussions.
Elder Navigators eventually devolve into intelligent Chaos Spawn that secretly pull the political strings of their houses.
The alliance between the Space Wolves and Belisarius has somehow existed since before the founding of the Imperium.
The Inquisition hates all mutants, even sanctioned ones like the Space Marines, Psykers and the Navigators and would kill them all if they could, despite the fact the Imperium could not exist without them and that most Inquisitors are themsleves Psykers.

This concludes my book report. Thanks for reading.

 

[Mikoyan]

The alliance between the Space Wolves and Belisarius has somehow existed since before the founding of the Imperium.
The Inquisition hates all mutants, even sanctioned ones like the Space Marines, Psykers and the Navigators and would kill them all if they could, despite the fact the Imperium could not exist without them and that most Inquisitors are themsleves Psykers.

These two are whoppers.

While despising the mutant is all well and good, the Astartes are the literal Work of the Emperor, calling them mere mutants could be seen as Heresy.

 

[Humble Architect]

Really dig the old Jes Goodwin design for the crackheads, started a small force of guys inspired by this sketch, started with an Assault Squad and built some Breachers (I wanted to use the shields), I don’t care if the shields are undersized cause my rationalization is that they’re just to get the marines close enough to switch to their sword then they become a dueling shield and bigger, heavier shields would inhibit that.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Wolfblade

One of my favourite novels. Legit could have an entire series based on astartes on terra and it would be awesome and expand the lore. Ragnar really toes the line of being Mary Sue but is still fun and has his fears and mistakes.

A young Ragnar Blackmane loses the Spear of Russ

Besides the hilarity of Russ hating the spear. Half the chapter wanted to give Ragnar a reward for fucking over Magnus yet again.

Navigators apparently run their own trade empires and make trade deals about shipping cargo like Rouge Traders.
Navigators just walk around with their Pineal Eye exposed with no negative reprecussions.
Elder Navigators eventually devolve into intelligent Chaos Spawn that secretly pull the political strings of their houses.
The alliance between the Space Wolves and Belisarius has somehow existed since before the founding of the Imperium.
The Inquisition hates all mutants, even sanctioned ones like the Space Marines, Psykers and the Navigators and would kill them all if they could, despite the fact the Imperium could not exist without them and that most Inquisitors are themsleves Psykers.

By order:
* I don't think Navigators having trade empires contradict the lore considering they are essential for trading. Rogue Traders just have the caveat of doing illegal shit no questions asked.
* Strange, I don't remember it being that way. The eye should be lethal for everyone looking at it.
* It's still canon but nothing really came out of it, especially as it rips off Dune a bit too much.
* Could be it was before the great crusade.
* A good chunk of Inquisitors and SOB think that, usually they are pragmatic enough to not act on it

 

[NerdShamer]

So, out of curiosity, I'm halfway through with that Ravenwing novel. So far, it's mainly just the author jerking off to how great it is to be in the 2nd company of the Dark Angels, along with the some of the school shit that the First Legion have...Until one their riders got shot through the leg and flipped his bike. And the other Marines assigned to them are busy bitching about being stuck on the sidelines...Because it's the Dark Angels, obviously. I'm at the point where the captain with the hoverbike is losing his shit at the possibility of an Chaplain going rogue. So far, it's kind of mediocre, tbh.

an unknown High Lord of Terra that is planning on eventually killing all of the Navigators

Wat.

 

[get_ur_gamon]

Auspex joins in with the gemposting.

 

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... "Gemposting?" What?

 

[Penne Dreadful]

As a final note, I would like to mention some incongruities with modern lore that this book brings up.

William King is one of the better Black Library writers - Farseer (despite being an Eldar novel on paper, it's actually a Rogue Trader book) is probably my favourite BL book - but it definitely shows that he wasn't following some modern autistic mandate about how things should be (and, with his 40k work being written in the late '90s and early '00s, before much of it was codified), often for the better.

 

[I don't like goblins]

So I was looking for my next book, and I found this bullshit on amazon.
Why the fuck does a paperback cost a thousand fucking dollars!?!

The other paperbacks by this author are also outrageous at 80 and 100 dollars, but wtf.
He's the guy behind the new Dark Coil series in the Warhammer Horror line, which I have been interested in getting into, but now maybe not.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

William King is one of the better Black Library writers - Farseer (despite being an Eldar novel on paper, it's actually a Rogue Trader book) is probably my favourite BL book - but it definitely shows that he wasn't following some modern autistic mandate about how things should be (and, with his 40k work being written in the late '90s and early '00s, before much of it was codified), often for the better.

He also made Gotrek and Felix into the Warhammer Fantasy icons they are, and once he left the quality nosedived.

So I was looking for my next book, and I found this bullshit on amazon.
Why the fuck does a paperback cost a thousand fucking dollars!?!
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The other paperbacks by this author are also outrageous at 80 and 100 dollars, but wtf.
He's the guy behind the new Dark Coil series in the Warhammer Horror line, which I have been interested in getting into, but now maybe not.

Scalpers.

 

[Male Idiot]

William King was my favourite 40k and fantasy author. However the novels are very old, think 3-4th ed so they aren't airtight anymore.

I mean Abnett does wonkier shit nowdays so it should still be fine.

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

So I was looking for my next book, and I found this bullshit on amazon.
Why the fuck does a paperback cost a thousand fucking dollars!?!
View attachment 5805450
The other paperbacks by this author are also outrageous at 80 and 100 dollars, but wtf.
He's the guy behind the new Dark Coil series in the Warhammer Horror line, which I have been interested in getting into, but now maybe not.

Peter Fehervari's Dark Coil stuff is worth reading. I'd suggest trolling secondhand bookstores and their sites to see if you get lucky. If all else fails, ebooks or audiobooks.

 

[Humble Architect]

I read “The Path of Heaven” last night, I find it really funny that the White Scars and the Khan are pretty much the 2003 Clone Wars cartoon’s depiction of Clone Troopers and Obi-Wan now. Like reading Warhawk they do that “Mount up” scene almost 1:1.

But regardless the Khan is awesome, he’s one of the few likeable loyalist Primarchs and his rivalry with Morty is hilarious, it’s a Mongolian gigachad versus a hunched, racist farm boy who drinks rancid moonshine.

Book was good, had some neat ties to the larger world and conflict but was mostly self-contained. Eidolon calling Horus a “warp-bloated abortion” was inexorably based and he steals the spotlight, at one point giving Mortarion a man to man talk about the warp and it’s consequences, “the bill comes due” sorta thing.

Wraight also deserves props for repairing the characterization of Mortarion from his past contradictory appearances. This is also the book where Horus gives his “My brothers are witless idiots, you’re my only friend Morty” monologue.