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Nice little free download to promote the forthcoming book, taken from the "Heroes of the space marines" collection.

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More like Vulkan " The only hero of the space marines"

Chapter 1

Vulkan shows up

Chapter 2

All other SM characters go home

Chapter 3

Vulkan clones himself and appears in EVERY space marine army

Still need to read that one, I kinda dropped Heroes of the Asstartess after reading the excellent story "the Skull Harvest" by the only big name in the list Graham McNeill. Still need to dig through "My First Space Marine Book" a.k.a. Dawn of War 2..

BrookM wrote:Still need to read that one, I kinda dropped Heroes of the Asstartess after reading the excellent story "the Skull Harvest" by the only big name in the list Graham McNeill. Still need to dig through "My First Space Marine Book" a.k.a. Dawn of War 2..

I feel you. Ive been pushing DOW2 all along my shelve for ages. Just read courage and honour and fallen angels and after the disaster that was the DOW series, I really DONT want to read DOW2 *sigh*

I really liked "Heros of the Space Marines." I thought all of the stories were interesting and good. "Tales of Heresy" however, I did not enjoy as much, and found some of the stories boring and lame

BrookM wrote:Still need to read that one, I kinda dropped Heroes of the Asstartess after reading the excellent story "the Skull Harvest" by the only big name in the list Graham McNeill. Still need to dig through "My First Space Marine Book" a.k.a. Dawn of War 2..

Only thing I didn't like about The Skull Harvest was the name. Honsou sounds......different.

Meh, I guess it's just me.

That book is a mixed bag. I'm half way through and I've noticed two things.

1. The title is somewhat deceptive: half the stories so far are about Chaos. Huh.

2. The writing is really hit or miss. Some stuff isn't that good. So far the Salamanders story has been the best of the lot with the Skullharvest being 2nd place.

I bought Heroes of the Space Marines just for the Salamander story. I was a bit disappointed, but I guess everyone gets disappointed with their favorite chapters stories. I kept reading into the story after that "The Labyrinth", I quite liked it. More than a bit predictable, but it does feature the Sons of Malalice, which is nice.

IA:6... now THATS a read.

My first 40k fiction read was Graham McNeil's Dead Sky, Black Sun. The writing was okay, ranging from juvenile to tolerable. Overall, I wasn't impressed enough to read any of his previous or subsequent works but can't say I hated it. Nick Kyme's prose is much better. Even though he has very similar themes, his characters are more compelling. His descriptions are also far less jarring and his battle sequences are quite good. I enjoyed the story and look forward to reading th book.

I liked that story a lot, admittedly the writing was a bit hit and miss,
But it had a good plotline and it set up the forthcoming trilogy quite well.
I will definately be buying the full length books, as they are the only ones available that feature the salamanders.

I love this cuz i have a salamanders army

KommanderKurtikai wrote:I love this cuz i have a salamanders army

So does everybody now that Vulkan He'Stan exists. I liked the Codex: Armageddon Salamanders list I used to play better as I went to the end of 3rd ed in 2 different countries and never came across another Sallies player. Now they're every-frakking-where. It's not the same...

Back (sort of) OnT, I just read Tales of Heresy, and it's really pretty forgettable, with only the Angron story and the Space Richard Dawkins story being any good. I was going to purchase the Heroes of the Space Marines collection purely for the Salamnder story, but if this PDF is identical, then I guess GW just saved me the 8 bucks to spend on Fallen Angels.

No kidding. Slamanders everywere and in every color nowadays. I especially like the blue marines that look Ultra but are really salamanders.

chaplaingrabthar wrote:

KommanderKurtikai wrote:I love this cuz i have a salamanders army

So does everybody now that Vulkan He'Stan exists. I liked the Codex: Armageddon Salamanders list I used to play better as I went to the end of 3rd ed in 2 different countries and never came across another Sallies player. Now they're every-frakking-where. It's not the same...

Yeah, the proliferation of Salamander armies kinda killed my interest in them, too.