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Post by coymastermikhail on Nov 29, 2018 16:03:18 GMT -5
The Lords of Mars trilogy by Abnett is great. Im pretty sure it comes in an imnibus now
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Post by stofficus on Nov 29, 2018 18:17:49 GMT -5
Just finished False Gods... ...poor Magnus... But Horus does have a good point when you think about it.... making my support of chaos even more justified. The most important takeaway from that book is Erebus is a jackass. |
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Nov 29, 2018 21:37:29 GMT -5
even I'll agree with that!
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Post by thesanityassassin on Nov 29, 2018 22:03:41 GMT -5
I'll throw in my hat for the Ciaphas Cain books by Sandy Mitchell - like 40k Flashman - lots of great action, and a TON of hilarity, with an amazing cast of recurring characters.
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Post by LizardTau on Dec 2, 2018 8:20:56 GMT -5
I signed up for audible and finished horus rising myself also.
What a great book. I fully enjoyed it.
The whole megarachnid thing makes me think of an early tyranid invasion.
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Dec 2, 2018 8:41:15 GMT -5
...I immediately thought "hmmm how do I make a megarachnid army?"
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Post by LizardTau on Dec 2, 2018 8:52:37 GMT -5
...I immediately thought "hmmm how do I make a megarachnid army?" Yes. That would be awesome I was thinking of an interex army. But I don't know how you could even start to make an army with cyborg centaurs |
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Post by trantos01 on Dec 3, 2018 21:22:13 GMT -5
Can anyone recommend a 40k book that has some xeno PoVs in it? Eldar, Tau or Necrons woud probably be the only options since the 'nids are all about "nomnomnomnomnomnom" and the Orks are well.....Orks.
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Post by coymastermikhail on Dec 3, 2018 21:23:53 GMT -5
There are the Path of the Eldar and something similar (path of the dark eldar?) Trilogies by Gav Thorpe. Very good insights into the Eldar societies
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Post by trantos01 on Dec 7, 2018 21:31:31 GMT -5
On a fluff-related note, the cutscene in Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 showing Trazyn the Infinite chatting with Cawl on Cadia was just beautiful.
The VA they picked for old Trollzyn had just that perfect level of smug upper crust noble even as he's talking Belisarius into listening to him.
BC: Foul machine Xeno, die in the name of the Omnissiah!  Trazyn: Lookie here boy, I got tech treats (shakes box). BC: New best friend!  |
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Jan 10, 2019 9:03:54 GMT -5
Flight of the Eisenstein done.
Dorn is a douche. Garro is a badass. That is all.
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Post by voodoo on Jan 10, 2019 9:53:00 GMT -5
Garro = The First Grey Knight
Not to mention he’s a freaking Terran born marine, making everything he’s done all the more impressive because he’s just a mini-marine.
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Post by LizardTau on Jan 10, 2019 14:05:54 GMT -5
Garro = The First Grey Knight Not to mention he’s a freaking Terran born marine, making everything he’s done all the more impressive because he’s just a mini-marine. Oh is that a thing? That terran marines are smaller then marine that come from the other planets? |
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Post by voodoo on Jan 10, 2019 14:26:48 GMT -5
Yeah, the "Thunder Warriors" were smaller than the later-on genetically altered space marines. It led to some bad blood and hard feelings within certain legions that were particularly insular, like the Death Guard. They called out several times that the Death Guard from Barbarus never fully trusted the Terran marines in their legion as they’d not grown up in the hard landscape of Barbarus and hadn’t lived under the Tyrant’s oppressive thumb.
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Post by ohgodsnakes on Jan 10, 2019 14:55:52 GMT -5
*Edit* I forgot this:  As far as I'm aware, the Terran Marines were the same size as marines from their Primarch's adoptive home worlds. They were made of the same genetic stock, and underwent the same augmentations. The Thunder Warriors were not marines at all, but "Proto-Marines". They were all killed by Emps, Custodes and the original astartes before setting off on the Great Crusade. They had served their purpose during the Unification Wars on Terra. The annihilation of the Thunder Warriors is actually brought up by some of the legions as a reason to commit the heresy. They argue that once the Emperor is finished with the great crusade, he will dispose of the legions in the same way. The Death Guard definitely don't fully trust Terran marines though, for all the reasons listed.
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