Black Library

[Cariñito]

Black Library?
Be prepared to do alot of shushing.

 

[AngryWeasel]

They are about to publish a Belisarius Cawl / Fabius Bile book.

https://www.warhammer-community.com...its-against-the-biggest-brains-in-the-galaxy/

My mecha-dendrites are hard and my gene-seeds ready

 

[AngryWeasel]

(and being a fan of the Bile trilogy and already wanting to grab the oncoming Forges of Mars omnibus I guess I'll have to get Belisarius Cawl book too now to make the bridge)

fuckers

 

[Rob Battisti]

Siege of Terra series pulled me back into the lore.


Also...


BLOOD FOR THE FUCKING BLOOD GOD AND SKULLS FOR THE FUCKING SKULL THRONE!!!!

Someone had to say it!

 

[Yoricks Wisdom]

Black Library?
Be prepared to do alot of shushing.

 

[AngryWeasel]

Finally finished the Forges of Mars omnibus.

It was globally good, with occasionnal epic events and twists, but not my fav. It occasionnaly dragged a bit and some ennemies (the crystallines) were meh.

Anyway I'm now on a custom made omnibus reading list wich make some sense timeline-wise : Fall of Cadia, Belisarius Cawl and Genefather.

Fall of Cadia goes hard as fuck as the get go and only seems to amp it up. Cool imperial and chaos cross povs. Lot of characters and subfactions represented. Happy to see Trazyn as a side guest.

Can't wait to get to Genefather tho, and see the pater mutatis back on scene.

 

[AngryWeasel]

Ho and BL finally pulled the trigger on a Dark Coil omnibus !!! Fehervari FTW

 

[liner]

What do Asians do at the pet store?

Spoiler: Not Racist

Pick out their Dinner

Spoiler

Okay, maybe a little racist

I used to tell my filipino friend he eats dog. He hated it. It was my go to insult

 

[Phlog]

Reading Vulcan Lives, book 24 now. Looks like I might be at this a few years more.

 

[AngryWeasel]

Reading Vulcan Lives, book 24 now. Looks like I might be at this a few years more.

Yeah, you choose the hard long road option ... A ton of fillers in HH too from what I gathered ...

Did you read some 40k stuff beforehand or just jump in commando style with a mission in mind ?

 

[Contempt]

Abaddon finally did fuck up Cadia, creating a massive warp breach in the galaxy and cutting the Imperium in two. the Silent King came back from it's outer galaxy trip, worried by what he had seen and is waking up all Necrons dynasties. The Eldar tried to re-unite all of their factions to awaken their god of death to defeat Slaanesh but failed. The space dwarves (Squats) still exist and are some uber-space-hustlers, mining, trading and living in equal foot with their robot AI pals. There is a new chaos demi-god of technology that with the help of Abaddon and Angron stirred some shit and is now in the webway up to no good. Both Orks and Tyranids came out stronger from their imperial-induced stalemate war. The emperor is on his way to be the 5th chaos god ...

I don't know how old all of this is (played as a kid, recently got back in the lore) but it seems that quite some things are happening

Wow... that's something. I really need to catch up as I hadn't heard ANY of that.

 

[Meatspin]

Scanning a few suggested reading order guides, there's a shitton to choose from. Just going to grab something and get to it.

 

[AngryWeasel]

Scanning a few suggested reading order guides, there's a shitton to choose from. Just going to grab something and get to it.

I advise to avoid the Horus Heresy to begin and test the waters with standard 40k books, especially standalones. HH is the prelude to the setting, 10k years in the past and something like 70 books long ...

 

[Meatspin]

I advise to avoid the Horus Heresy to begin and test the waters with standard 40k books, especially standalones. HH is the prelude to the setting, 10k years in the past and something like 70 books long ...

Agree, definitely leaving that for later. Will probably just do Eisenhorn to start.

 

[Phlog]

Yeah, you choose the hard long road option ... A ton of fillers in HH too from what I gathered ...

Did you read some 40k stuff beforehand or just jump in commando style with a mission in mind ?

I read a couple of books, think one was called space marine, about a hive kid becoming a marine, back in the 1990s. Then just media, short stories, online lore etc.

Had a worldeater army back then so I researched the lore of the HH a little in the rulebooks etc but couldn't dive into it. That was always my favourite part of the story, the fall of the emperor by his favourite son, very classical.

So really this is a chance to really fill out my knowledge of it all. It's pretty good to fall asleep to.

 

[AngryWeasel]

Vorbis was alright, but nothing impressive. Eisenhorn is a fantastic series with depth and solid character building.
Check out some of the Warhammer Crime series, pretty cool stuff

One year later answer ...
Yeah Vorbis was kind of a wet squib ; lot of characters, lot of trails and ... not much in the end. But I did like the squat/ogryn duo and got myself The Wraithbone Phoenix wich is apparently a heist story with these two.

Tried Eisenhorn but switched to Forges of Mars quickly. In the end, I like my 40k middle to big scale, and if xenos or chaos are involved that's a big plus. Love the diverging pov and ethos, and all the grimness of chaosy stuff.

Harrowmaster was a cool recent read about Alpha Legion getting their shit together and doing concrete stuff, with panicked Imperials trying to keep up with their constant 4d chess.