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Finished a couple rereads of HH books and Gaunt’s Ghosts. Forgot how off the edge Abnett was with his “woe machine” retcon of Kolea’s kids because I previously flipped through the book so quickly in first read I must’ve pushed it out of my head Really just out of nowhere with zero indication. Would’ve much preferred and made more sense if the one spouting the black shadow stuff was a psyker at least.
 
The Secret Sauce said:
While we're having slapfights about Black Library, Infinite and the Divine is overrated. Any Ciaphas Cain novel mogs it in terms of humor and plot :jaceknife:
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Fuck it, Im going all in

The worst Black Library novel is still AT LEAST competently written. Excluding the actual contents of the story/lore itself, the writing has ranged from above average to superb in the 30-ish books Ive read. Ive read actual drek that barely counts as literature, and BL authors are by and large GOOD authors, if not outright great at their prose. Ill go one step farther and say I havent read a book front to back in the warhammer universe that I even disliked. There are certain major issues with some books (Total Perpetual Death) but by and large Ive enjoyed it.

For spooky month I want to read either the Night Lords Omnibus, or the Lords of Silence. If you guys have reccomendations for bad books then shoot them my way. Im halfway done with the Blood Angels omnibus. Its pretty good.
 
Got my recasts of Endryd Haar and Kaedes Nex in. Needed a little bit of greenstuff to fix some mold slippage and holes, but I paid $40 for the both of them so I didn't mind putting in a little bit of work.
Now I just need to prime them and then toss them on a shelf to get to... eventually... while I chase after some other hyperfixation, like trying to convert some of my MK VIs into Mor Deythans.
 
You vill get a Vespid gf. You vill fuck zee bug.
 

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If a person were to want to start reading the books, where is a good launching point? I know there are a fuck ton, so I have no idea how to even approach it.
 
Rick The Stick said:
There's also a lot of fun shenanigans around the Battle of Eskrador that could easily be twisted in favor of Omegon surviving, but it's extremely unlikely.
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Considering the Alpha Legion themselves think Omegon died in Eskrador, and unlike all fanon memes, Guilliman never denies it happened....
Honestly, Omegon being dead fits, the entire point of the AL in Index Astartes was "they are too decentralized, they are the only legion who wont break if their primarch dies". Its like Sanguinius and Ferrus, their deaths are vital for the identity of the legion, if Omegon just show up and unites the AL, it just wont be the AL we know anymore.
Meat Target said:
hiding from Corax/
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Not at all, not only Shadow of the Past is just after the Scouring, the 8th ed CSM codex indicates hes back to real space (the Piety Perverted entry)
harbringer883 said:
It's not even like mudslime like TC. To them its islamophobic or something.
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Basically, the Alchemists are blasphemous because they are creating new life while using sacred words from the Koran on them. Its like the Meta-Christ, except no christian is up to murder the authors over this, while the Sultanate lore got the risk of getting a fatwa and thus a similar effect as the Satanic Verses book
 
Norms Abused Liver said:
If a person were to want to start reading the books, where is a good launching point? I know there are a fuck ton, so I have no idea how to even approach it.
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Pick a faction that you like and read their books. Quality will vary, but most will be standalone or short series; it's mostly just the Heresy that's a massive sprawling mess.
 
Norms Abused Liver said:
If a person were to want to start reading the books, where is a good launching point? I know there are a fuck ton, so I have no idea how to even approach it.
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If you want 30k, start with the main three (Horus Rising, False Gods, Galaxy in Flames). If you want 40k, well... I guess we can say that every WH baby's first book is the Night Lords trilogy (Soul Hunter, Blood Reaver, Void Stalker) and the Infinite and the Divine. If you want Word Bearers, Anthony Reynold's books are fun (in a Word Bearer kind-of-way); Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn (about an Inquisitor, reads more like a crime novel than WH); Sandy Mitchell's Ciaphas Cain is also fun; Graham McNeills Iron Warriors; James Swallow's Blood Angels (Rafen); Nick Kyme's Salamanders (Tome of Fire); you could also take a peek at Ben Counter's Soul Drinkers, Grey Knights and Ragnar books. Nate Crowley has Necrons (Twice Dead King) and orks (Ghazgkhull). Guy Haley's Belisarius Cawl is good. If you want Mechanicus - Forges of Mars; Thousand Sons - Annandale's Ahriman. etc etc etc and of course, my beloved Last Chancers (a penal legion scum under the command of the bestest boi(s) in the entire universe, Colonel Schaeffer (and Kage))

And these are all (mostly) series. There are many more standalone books and shorts so you really have an option to pick and choose here, so I think it would be easier if you told us what interests you
 
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
Talking about spooky month what happened to the horror novels black library was supposed to be releasing? I know they did a few only a couple years ago but I've heard nothing since. Surely if there was a time to release that stuff it would be now.
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My guess is they didn't sell as well as they were hoping, so they ratcheted back on them. I've read several, and tbh most of them were just standard horror novel plots with some Warhammer window dressing slapped on. The only ones that I found really interesting and have gone back to reread were Peter Fehervari's.
 
Apparently there was a massive STL leak of basically GW's entire range of official 3D files. Not sure.

Grummz has a tweet about it and there are some hobby drama channels talking about it but the Telegram STL groups I'm in say it was more of a /tg/ style megatorrent of every "best" proxy of each miniature.
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
Apparently there was a massive STL leak of basically GW's entire range of official 3D files. Not sure.

Grummz has a tweet about it and there are some hobby drama channels talking about it but the Telegram STL groups I'm in say it was more of a /tg/ style megatorrent of every "best" proxy of each miniature.
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Seeing the same on my own STL Telegrams. Given that Grummz didn't know the difference between an orc and and ork the last time he covered 40k, I can't see him as a particularly authoritative source.
 
winderson_silva said:
Considering the Alpha Legion themselves think Omegon died in Eskrador, and unlike all fanon memes, Guilliman never denies it happened....
Honestly, Omegon being dead fits, the entire point of the AL in Index Astartes was "they are too decentralized, they are the only legion who wont break if their primarch dies". Its like Sanguinius and Ferrus, their deaths are vital for the identity of the legion, if Omegon just show up and unites the AL, it just wont be the AL we know anymore.
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Some XX Legionaries do actually think Omegon is still alive. They're so fucking fractured they can't even agree on that lol. But yeah, I fully agree. It's just fun to speculate. The twins don't matter in the grand scheme of the Alpha Legion, and never really did. They're just cool characters on their own.
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
Apparently there was a massive STL leak of basically GW's entire range of official 3D files. Not sure.

Grummz has a tweet about it and there are some hobby drama channels talking about it but the Telegram STL groups I'm in say it was more of a /tg/ style megatorrent of every "best" proxy of each miniature.
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If this is legit then legal are gonna be working overtime.
 
The Secret Sauce said:
While we're having slapfights about Black Library, Infinite and the Divine is overrated. Any Ciaphas Cain novel mogs it in terms of humor and plot :jaceknife:
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The Ciaphas Cain books are paint by numbers adventure novels. This isn't a bad thing, I thoroughly enjoy them, but they are far from the height of comedy. They're a comfort read (or listen in my case). I can always expect a dash of mystery, several references to Jergen smelling bad and having strange rashes while bringing Cain tea in a circumstance where it's odd to do so, a refence to a romantic dalliance that isn't explicitly described, and catty comments by Amberly about how self centered Cain's narrative is.

It's comfortably formulaic while keeping the specifics different enough to make the next book feel fresh.
 
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