anybody dove into the war on terra series yet?
I'm pretty out of the loop on current lore, including the Black Library novels. What's the War On Terra? I'm assuming it's about Horus attacking Earth? Real cool subject matter, but my general stance on all Horus Heresy-related novels is that I prefer that era to remain mythos only hinted to, rather than explored in depth the way Black Library has the last few years. We've gotten a small handful of good books out of it (with a few more to come, hopefully), but for the most part the books are meh, and the overall effect is taking a lot of the evocative effect out of the Horus Heresy and turning it into more of a Game Of Thrones-style soap opera instead. With cyclonic Exterminatus torpedoes. I guess moving the HH series into the siege of Terra phase is a positive simply on the basis of it moving the series out of the stalemate it's been in since the first book covering Istvaan. Far as I'm concerned it is high time they wrapped the series up by now. If they are going to flesh the 40k history out I'd rather they move on to the Age Of Strife. There's so much cool shit going on there I don't know where to start.
I think the Horus Heresy series would have been better if they'd winnowed it, and gotten
one of their star writers to handle it instead of throwing their entire roster of writers into the mix. I totally get why they've done it the way they have, but having a healthy Dan Abnett working full time on HH would have been awesome -and I think the subject matter deserved it. Although the books
have provided the basis for a 30k tabletop wargame setting which is real cool (Solar Auxilia ftw). But I'm getting totally sidetracked from the topic here...
thoughts on the ruinstorm?
Just generally speaking? Eh, kinda cool concept. Not at all as bad as Endtimes/Age of Sigmar. Not really a fan of the angle with the Primarchs coming back, and I'm on the fence regarding the Primaris Marines (I think there's potential for some interesting themes there, with the OG marines being replaced the same way the Thunder Warriors once was, but I doubt Games Workshop will go that highbrow).
I don't know the details of the Ruinstorm plotline, but I'm fine with it as long as it doesn't change some of the basics of the setting. The corpse emperor must remain on the throne, for example.
anybody kept up with the war for Baal?
Nope. Sorry...
my thoughts, the dark crusade and abaddon making some progress is good moves the story forward。 not loving the primaris marines or their designs.
The tabletop minis look pretty sweet. I miss some of the gothic bling bling of the older models, but they made the modern look work real well.
I hear they are really large though, to more properly match their size in the lore. I'd call this a kind of size creep, which I'm generally not a fan of. You can have a couple of bigger models in your army for accentuation or whatever, but making your rank-and-file troops larger just takes the "miniature" out of the miniature hobby. It might look like an improvement in quality at first glance, but it isn't really.
Lore-wise? Yeah, they are iffy. See above.
Heresy, blam.
Again, see above. What are they going to do, exactly? Remove the Corpse-Emperor from the setting? Fuck that. They'd have to unravel al kinds of
Cypher gonna redempt hisself woth a bunch of fallen?
Never been much of a fan of Cypher. The Dark Angels a cool as shit (as long as you keep the concept of the chapter having a dark secret vague), but Cypher always felt more like a minor character with just enough backstory to make him an interesting special character for tabletop games. Haven't read any of the novels he's featured in, but I also don't feel any need to.
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