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Perhaps not to everyone's favour, but anything by Sandy Mitchell is also good, since he often delves into the lighter side of the universe, especially in his Ciaphas Cain books. Note that his writing becomes predictable after a book or three, but he never failed to amuse yet.
 
Ciaphas Cain also no end of amusing references, such as Captain Horatio Bugler of the Imperial Navy, or the blue-painted Tau sympathizer screaming that the Imperium may take his life, but never his freedom.
 
Festivus said:
So I'm very much new to the franchise other than the video games. A friend recommended to me the Forges of Mars Trilogy as a good starting point for getting more into the lore of 40K. Would you guys agree with that assessment or is there a better book/series to start with?
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I'd recommend just starting with anything related to your preferred faction and branching off from there to other subjects of interest.
If you like the Guard my recommendation since Cain and Gaunt were already said would be the Macharian trilogy. You get an account of one of the greatest commanders the Imperium ever had told from the perspective of a common man that was with him by circumstance.
 
Does anyone read Warhammer 40k books? I'm not a fan of the games but the lore is awesome. I'm reading "Dead Sky Black Sun" right now and it's so good. I like it so much that I'm going to analyse it later to get better at writing.


I love the descriptions of all things chaos. It's so creepy & weird.

Can someone recommend other books?
 
Sinners Sandwich said:
Does anyone read Warhammer 40k books? I'm not a fan of the games but the lore is awesome. I'm reading "Dead Sky Black Sun" right now and it's so good. I like it so much that I'm going to analyse it later to get better at writing.


I love the descriptions of all things chaos. It's so creepy & weird.

Can someone recommend other books?
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Horus Heresy, Gaunt's Ghosts, Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies are all generally pretty good. Ciaphas Cain is a more fun take on the grimdark. Most of the Space Marine Battles/Conquest novels are decent; I especially recommend The World Engine if you can find it. Same for Storm of Iron, if you haven't read it already, especially because it ties into Dead Sky.
 
gangweedfan said:
who are some of the biggest exceptional individuals in the 40k community? considering how popular it is getting these days it seems to me that its only a matter of time until the fandom gets involved in some drama or spawns a cow
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Mat Ward was a truly exceptional lolcow and there's the additional benefit of him being in a position of power (overwrote 40k lore solely to make the Ultramarines look cooler, wrote hilariously OP army books, threw a bitchfit when nobody bought his Lord of the Rings game).
 
Love_Machine011 said:
Monthly reminder that the blood angels and salamanders are the best space marines.
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I just started a Blood Angel army last month. I only have 4 and a half marines painted so far.

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This is my first WH40K army, after reading their codex and lore I went with the 9th. I keep waffling between a pure Blood Angel army or a successor chapter like Flesh Tearers or Angels Encarmine (White Sanguinary guard yis). For now I'm just gonna paint up a tac squad as Blood Angels though as I get the hang of it.
 
Azazel said:
I just started a Blood Angel army last month. I only have 4 and a half marines painted so far.

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This is my first WH40K army, after reading their codex and lore I went with the 9th. I keep waffling between a pure Blood Angel army or a successor chapter like Flesh Tearers or Angels Encarmine (White Sanguinary guard yis). For now I'm just gonna paint up a tac squad as Blood Angels though as I get the hang of it.
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I'd love to have a whole army of just the beakie armor. Nice job on those.
 
Azazel said:
I just started a Blood Angel army last month. I only have 4 and a half marines painted so far.

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This is my first WH40K army, after reading their codex and lore I went with the 9th. I keep waffling between a pure Blood Angel army or a successor chapter like Flesh Tearers or Angels Encarmine (White Sanguinary guard yis). For now I'm just gonna paint up a tac squad as Blood Angels though as I get the hang of it.
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I just picked my first army too. It was between the angels and custodes, though the custodes won out for me.
 
Love_Machine011 said:
Monthly reminder that the blood angels and salamanders are the best space marines.
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Wrong.

Chaos (Space Marines) is the only true answer.

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Still painting up a long-delayed Mighty Skullcrusher whilst also dabbling in Blood Bowl miniatures, with yet more Khorne-ery and Nighthaunts sitting around in their boxes waiting to be assembled.
 
Love_Machine011 said:
Never heard of them, must be a bunch of losers and nerds.
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Hey man, no need to project...

On a more serious note, were the Ultramarines always the poster-children of SM? My vague recollections of joining onto Warhammer told me that Blood Angels and Imperial Fists were all centre-stage some 20 odd years ago, and Ultramarines were just those guys who fought the Tyranids. At what point did that change? Surely not only when Matt Ward arrived.
 
That Chris Guy said:
Hey man, no need to project...

On a more serious note, were the Ultramarines always the poster-children of SM? My vague recollections of joining onto Warhammer told me that Blood Angels and Imperial Fists were all centre-stage some 20 odd years ago, and Ultramarines were just those guys who fought the Tyranids. At what point did that change? Surely not only when Matt Ward arrived.
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Again I only just now started getting into the tabletop, but from vidya the blood angels were by far the most popular when DoW2 dropped, imperial fists I honestly dont remember being all that popular, ill just take your word for it. I always remember ultramarines also being somewhat popular, Matt 100 percent skyrocketed their popularity by force tho. When I ask my normie friends today its always Ultramarines or Blood angels when they think of a 40k space marine. The ones picking blood angels tending to be older.

The real answer is that these 3 legions are the primary colors, and are thus the most popular due to that.
 
Blood Angels were GW's go-to before Ward took over, being the original stars of the Space Hulk boardgame and I believe a few others things that were before my time. Imperial Fists and successors had awesome shit for them like Armageddon and the Siege of the Imperial Palace. Also, I can recommend "If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device" if you want what is essentially the "A Kiwifarmer explains shit to kids these days" take on Warhammer 40k lore and events. Spoiler: the Space Wolves are highly unimaginative and the Iron Warriors are a bunch of angry, bitter lolcows. If you want some actual quality UM stuff, the Ultramarine novel series has got you. Between Ventris and Titus the 4th Company really seems to pick itself the best captains.
 
Snekposter said:
Blood Angels were GW's go-to before Ward took over, being the original stars of the Space Hulk boardgame and I believe a few others things that were before my time. Imperial Fists and successors had awesome shit for them like Armageddon and the Siege of the Imperial Palace. Also, I can recommend "If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device" if you want what is essentially the "A Kiwifarmer explains shit to kids these days" take on Warhammer 40k lore and events. Spoiler: the Space Wolves are highly unimaginative and the Iron Warriors are a bunch of angry, bitter lolcows. If you want some actual quality UM stuff, the Ultramarine novel series has got you. Between Ventris and Titus the 4th Company really seems to pick itself the best captains.
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Emperor TTS is legit one of the best game related parody shows. No question.
 
Love_Machine011 said:
Again I only just now started getting into the tabletop, but from vidya the blood angels were by far the most popular when DoW2 dropped, imperial fists I honestly dont remember being all that popular, ill just take your word for it. I always remember ultramarines also being somewhat popular, Matt 100 percent skyrocketed their popularity by force tho. When I ask my normie friends today its always Ultramarines or Blood angels when they think of a 40k space marine. The ones picking blood angels tending to be older.

The real answer is that these 3 legions are the primary colors, and are thus the most popular due to that.
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Besides fighting the Tyranids, I think Ultramarines also got to be the faction used for Chaos Gate - and the demonstrated faction colours for the 3rd Edition paint set - but even by the end of 3rd Edition they weren't heavily advertised or pushed to the fore as far as I can remember. Blood Angels also had the distinction of having Warhammer Monthly run the Bloodquest series at the time, and they had the kind of fanfare behind them that wasn't really matched until Armageddon revealed the Black Templars and Salamanders.

TTS is pretty fun. Space Wolves have always sucked as far as I'm concerned, but that's a rant for another day.
 
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