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 Yodhrin wrote:
Ah goodie, so they can't even stick with their own material for a couple of years. Wonder who else they're going to dig up and rob of the tiny shred of catharsis and closure the End Times could charitably be credited with giving.

In a perfect world, the dead stay dead, but GW buried a trove of valuable stuff when they burned WFB down. There's no way GW will let any of it rot for long.

They brought back Squats, for God's sake.

 Alpharius wrote:


Your review - and that price - convinced me to buy it - thank you!

You won't regret it!


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 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
That's the Anno Dracula series I believe? I've been meaning to get around to those. Also that Neferata ltd is smexy. I don't normally care about the ltd's, but that one is speaking too me.

Anno Dracula is a (slightly connected but...) different animal. Same author, the setting is a take on the Dracula novel where he beats Von Hellsing and turns Queen Victoria into a vampire. The first book is a steampunk dystopian vampire novel where vampires are the new upper class of Victorian England and literally bleeding the peasants dry. Lots of literary and historical references, like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but written years before.

Later books get harder to read since the references and characters are under copyright so they have to be veiled.

Fun reads but sometimes way too proud of their own cleverness. Much like LoXG.

Genevieve appears in Anno Drac with slightly different spelling as a renaissance era French teen turned vampire. GW might have a case to kick up a stink but apparently everyone is cool.






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 Knockagh wrote:
As much as I love Gotrek I reckon this is pretty pathetic. I think AoS fiction has been struggling after the disaster of the realm gate wars. They need good new fiction to bring people in, not bringing back old dead characters. Dallas all over again

Disagree. Bringing back a familiar face and exposing them to an entirely different world, and getting their reactions, could be interesting and fun. It also gives me hope that my scaly boi Kroq-Gar gets remembered in all his glory into existence. I'd love to see a new Lizardmen/Seraphon story or novel.

A point of view character is a well-established way to introduce a new setting, probably would have been a good idea for the earliest AoS novels.

Gotrek never did die when the End Times happened. He was in the realm of chaos, not on the old world.

Even better then!

I expect a good amount of references to Samurai Jack from this Gotrek novel. If theres none I'll be dissapointed!

 Galas wrote:
I expect a good amount of references to Samurai Jack from this Gotrek novel. If theres none I'll be dissapointed!

A Lord of Change pulling an Aku perhaps? I could get behind that.

So, this book..



If you liked the first one, do yourself and the author a favour and read this excellent sequel as well!

Good Knightly action, characters made some good developments during the time skip, some nice glimpses into the history of Knight Worlds and yessssss, there is at least one more novel coming in this series, hopefully more!

http://www.gemmellawards.com/legend-award-2018/


some familiar and deserved names on there !

 His Master's Voice wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
Ah goodie, so they can't even stick with their own material for a couple of years. Wonder who else they're going to dig up and rob of the tiny shred of catharsis and closure the End Times could charitably be credited with giving.

In a perfect world, the dead stay dead, but GW buried a trove of valuable stuff when they burned WFB down. There's no way GW will let any of it rot for long.

They brought back Squats, for God's sake.

In a perfect world, we'd be discussing the tie-in novels for the upcoming Bretonnian model range revamp for WHFB 9th, and they'd have just announced a new Gotrek & Felix audio adventure penned by William King

Still, I think dipping too heavily into WHF is a mistake. AoS needs to be its own thing, and the more they bring in elements of WHF rather than create something actually new they move away from that goal. I get that AoS was conceived of under the old regime and maybe now the studio guys have some leeway back they want to resurrect things they liked from WHF that the initial plan didn't call for, but they should be using all that much talked about creative freedom to, you know, create, rather than producing a Greatest Hits album.

They *just* got done killing WHF off, at least give it a few years before they start plundering the tomb for valuables.

EDIT: And while Gotrek got a "rode off into the sunset" ending, the rest of the characters from the book very much did not. Felix is dead. As in doornail. He is an ex adventurer. And why on earth would you want to bring back a character who's *entire point* is to be the mundane, vaguely-rational, everyman foil to all the crazy shenanigans in the series as a god-powered superhuman undying paladin? He wouldn't *be* Felix in any meaningful way, and without actual-Felix(and Max, and Snorri, and Malakai, and Ulrika etc etc) Gotrek is actually a pretty boring character.

Just bring back Genevieve and Detlef to link in with the re-release of her debut novel.

Seeing throuhg the eyes of someone directly from the Old World could be interesting.

The BL authors are devloping some really good charcters of their own now - check of Spear of Shadows for a great variety of them as well as Plague Garden for more and if you want some Stormcast.

Ulrika would also be a wecome character.

From Facebook:

There's just over a week to go until the Black Library Celebration hits a store near you, complete with new books, exclusive merchandise and a model of Inquisitor Eisenhorn to use in your games of Warhammer 40,000.

So, the ltd Magos is in-store sales now on 24th?

Where did you see that poster? I doubt the book will be in stores, there are on the web site as available to order from the 24th no mention of shops.

 Knockagh wrote:
Where did you see that poster? I doubt the book will be in stores, there are on the web site as available to order from the 24th no mention of shops.

Black Library Facebook account, yesterday. Also last week when I was in GW I git given a different flyer and the staff member said they'd have the mangos limited but I put it down to have as in "order online instore".....

https://twitter.com/wraightc/status/964613241388363776



"The Lords of Silence. They're coming.


Is this for the primarchs series?

Nope, mainstream 40K "

I think he said a while back he was working on a Death Guard novel.

Picked up my legacy format of "Praetorian of Dorn" from my local GW today.

Regular edition copy of "The Maqos" will be picked up next week between 10- 11;30ish when Mr Abnett is doing another wee signing at my local

Lucky you, I'll have to order mine, though I am happy that the format of the paperback is the same as the reprints of the Eisenhorn trilogy, so they'll look quite nice together on the shelf.

I ordered myself an Eisenhorn mini on Element Games website, looks like I was lucky to get one, but there will be a further release later in the year (31st March). I am not sure what the direct-order situation is, though.

I ordered mine through element as well. Is it a limited mini? I didn’t think it was, they still have them for sale at the minute.

It says the following on the EG product page now:

"Eisenhorn Product Description
PLEASE NOTE: As of 10:37 on 17/02/18, we have sold through our initial allocation of this product. We are still taking order, however Games Workshop are estimating that we will not receive additional stock for another six weeks (this applies to all retailers). This is because all subsequent orders will be made-to-order, and after the next print run this mini will no longer be available.

If you wish to avoid delays we recommend placing a separate order for any other products you require, as adding this product will affect the dispatch date of your entire order. "

I didn’t notice that I’ve no idea if mines the later date or not!

Looks like I will be waiting a while on a few things. I ordered Kal Jerico & Scabbs as made to order. Classy looking models!

I don't see the mini on the GW order site... is it not orderable until next week?

More info: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/02/18/black-library-celebration-loot/

Sadly going to miss out on a lot of this, Saturday is a work day for me.

I was one of the many who pre ordered Eisenhorn from Element Games, just hope they have enough stock for mine.

I'll be picking up the limited edition of Magos when it drops, it still annoys me that none of the 40k limited editions match, they all look wonky on the shelf.

They do indeed. I remember someone saying when they brought out the new look limited editions it would have been fantastic if they had made the spines matching. That would have been fantastic. Even if they had matched 5 or 6 before changing colour. The vaults of terra don’t even match. Still buying them and they are nice but they missed a trick when they remodelled them.

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 Knockagh wrote:
They do indeed. I remember someone saying when they brought out the new look limited editions it would have been fantastic if they had made the spines matching. That would have been fantastic. Even if they had matched 5 or 6 before changing colour. The vaults of terra don’t even match. Still buying them and they are nice but they missed a trick when they remodelled them.

That might have been me, I usually avoid buying any series until it is complete and available in a single format unless I must have it now. I think I'd have avoided buying the current range of limited edition 40k books if I had realised that they would look so messy. Now I'm committed to buying them as mixing in a limited edition and a normal hardback or large paperback would look even worse. I hope it'll sort itself out at some point. I can't believe they managed to get it right for the HH (assuming you bought the hardbacks), The Primarchs, and Beast series but nothing else.

Oh yeah, the €22,- hardback range has some wonky dimensions in there as well. Most look nicely next to one another as a neat row, but then we've got the Imperial Knight books (excellent series, BUY BUY BUY), shorter than the rest for some reason!

The spines of the Inquisition novels are sexy by the way.

 Looky Likey wrote:

 Knockagh wrote:
They do indeed. I remember someone saying when they brought out the new look limited editions it would have been fantastic if they had made the spines matching. That would have been fantastic. Even if they had matched 5 or 6 before changing colour. The vaults of terra don’t even match. Still buying them and they are nice but they missed a trick when they remodelled them.

That might have been me, I usually avoid buying any series until it is complete and available in a single format unless I must have it now. I think I'd have avoided buying the current range of limited edition 40k books if I had realised that they would look so messy. Now I'm committed to buying them as mixing in a limited edition and a normal hardback or large paperback would look even worse. I hope it'll sort itself out at some point. I can't believe they managed to get it right for the HH (assuming you bought the hardbacks), The Primarchs, and Beast series but nothing else.

The Heresy hardbacks were so wrong! They had a curved spine until Eye Of Terra and then they moved to flat spines! Why oh why would anyone do this!!

Even the Primarchs series should have stayed with gold/silver details on the boxes. Fulgrims purple is an abomination. But like yourself I keep at those special Ed’s and can’t get enough of them! Haha