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=LAST WARNING FOR SPOILERS=
So with the BL having so many books it's often you find yourself remembering one scene over all others in all the books you have read so I thought we should collect them all here! Hopefully it might give inspiration for people to read some books that they wouldn't have before
Personally my most memorable scene would have to be from the gaunts ghost novel 'Traiter General', when the two chaos lightning mechanical beings that don't die charge at the ghosts, and one of the ghosts (Rawne's right hand man, I cannot remember his name ) starts pumping auto canon shots into one of them like there's no tomorrow, and the other ghosts are running around in trucks, just such a great combat sequence! Also any scene that includes a ghost dying...it's just so sad
However the momen't when eisenhorn see's Bequin essentially dead, just takes the icing on the cake
So dakka, what's your favourite BL moment?

In Fulgrim. When Fulgrim laughed at Ferrus Manus and revealed to him that he is the one who lost.

"Fifteen Hours" when IG Sargeant goes into hunt, find his prey ( some creatures big like Dinosaurs ) and then call Basilisk HQ and tells them there is a whole bunch of Orks there and that they should pwned the ground.

Horus' words when he launched the Isstvaan treachery and the virus bombing:

"Let the stars bleed. Let the Heavens burn."

'Helsreach'
The titan battle between the Warclass titan and the Ork Gargant and the Warclass titan sacrifices its self to stop the Gargant.

Brother Coa wrote:"Fifteen Hours" when IG Sargeant goes into hunt, find his prey ( some creatures big like Dinosaurs ) and then call Basilisk HQ and tells them there is a whole bunch of Orks there and that they should pwned the ground.

I liked that one too

Also, In the Caiaphas Cain series when he goes to disarm a bomb and the techpriest tells him to cut the red wire...

All the wires where purple

Two scenes both out of 'Helsreach'.

1. When the ork gargant destroys the warlord itan and the ork "princeps" chastizes his crew for not keeping the head as a trophy.

2. When the BT MoF uses the Ordinatus Armageddon to blow a decently sized hole in the gargant.

TechMarine1 wrote:Two scenes both out of 'Helsreach'.

1. When the ork gargant destroys the warlord itan and the ork "princeps" chastizes his crew for not keeping the head as a trophy.

2. When the BT MoF uses the Ordinatus Armageddon to blow a decently sized hole in the gargant.

Good selection

The March of the Triumph in Eisenhorn.

Lame novel, but the scene in Prospero Burns where the skjald dude is telling the dieing librarian his story about malefacarum, and then it transitions into the snow is quite awesome. Well written, haunting, with some foreshadowing, and a good creepy twist at the end.

Soul Hunter when the Atramentar guy shows up during the ritual to awaken Malcharion. Brothers! Everyone in this room is going to die!

Abadabadoobaddon wrote:Soul Hunter when the Atramentar guy shows up during the ritual to awaken Malcharion. Brothers! Everyone in this room is going to die!

Vraal. "Tech-priest! Come, we must talk, you and I!"

1: In 15 Hours, when Larn killed a Grot with his helmet.
2: In Soul Hunter, when Malcharion and Raguel the Sufferer fight.
3: In Helsreach, the final battle in the Temple of the Emperor Ascendant.

In Eisenhorn when he releases Cherubael and the daemonhost blows up the Chaos warlord titan, and he has to use his acolyte to bind Cherubael, untop of that Bequin gets put into her coma. So sad yet that was pretty awesome.
Another one would be when in Ravenor they go through that portal door and get teleported to a world being sieged by Hive Fleet Behemoth, Nothing quite motivates someone to get a door working again like a tidal wave of Hormagaunts.

Helsreach
1. The showdown betwen Salamanders and Grimnaldus
2. The Sceene where said priest gets elected to lead the Crusade
3. Titan battle

Storm of Iron
1. Forrix takes down the first Titan, only for the dust to clear and him to see the second coming right at him. BOOM!
2. Hawke triumphing, against all odds, and launching the missile.
3. The final charge of the Iron Warriors completely decimating the Guardsmen.

LoneLictor wrote:Storm of Iron
1. Forrix takes down the first Titan, only for the dust to clear and him to see the second coming right at him. BOOM!
2. Hawke triumphing, against all odds, and launching the missile.
3. The final charge of the Iron Warriors completely decimating the Guardsmen.

Man, Hawke was a badass in that book.

1: "Everything I do from this point on, I do for the Emperor."
2: When Gaunt shot the businessman in Necropolis. I mean, some people just deserve it.
3: The loyalist's stand on Istvaan. But now I'm never going to use Lucius in an army.

Coolyo294 wrote:

LoneLictor wrote:Storm of Iron
1. Forrix takes down the first Titan, only for the dust to clear and him to see the second coming right at him. BOOM!
2. Hawke triumphing, against all odds, and launching the missile.
3. The final charge of the Iron Warriors completely decimating the Guardsmen.

Man, Hawke was a badass in that book.

Agreed; I love CSM and wanted them to win really badly, but at the same time I was hoping Hawke would somehow survive. And I got exactly what I wanted. Huzzah!

I don't remember what Gaunt book it was, but it was when he shoots a few natives with his bolt pistol after they assaulted his chief medic and physician.

How it's described just sticks in my head.
Will look up the book and edit this.
I've found it!

Gaunts Ghost The Saint Omnibus, page 615

"A bolt-round went off very loud in the close air.
The brawling figures broke away from Curth and Dorden at the sound.
Ibram Gaunt walked across the much, white smoke escaping through the vents of his bolt pistol's flash retarder.
He was splashed from head to toe in mud and blood, and powder burns marked his cheeks.
"I am Imperial Commissar Gaunt" he said. "I am known to be a fair man, until I am pushed. You've just pushed me"
Gaunt lowered his weapn and shot two of the Aexegarians dead where they stood. The rest flead. For good measure, Gaunt sighted and shot down one of the escapees too.

The scene in 15 hours where they are infiltrating into no mans land and they get caught and the guy jumps on an ork while his guts are spilling out and pulls the pins on all the grenades on his bandolier, BOOM! if your gonna die thats the way to go. Also just about any scene in the entire gaunts ghosts series.

Sovereign6 wrote:I don't remember what Gaunt book it was, but it was when he shoots a few natives with his bolt pistol after they assaulted his chief medic and physician.

How it's described just sticks in my head.
Will look up the book and edit this.

Haha, I was going to say that one! Well then, the final of the first three Horus Heresy Books where Loken gets killed at the end. I want him to win every single time or at least still be alive but there's just no chance!

Soulhunter: When Talos goes down into the bowels of the prison to liberate the female psyker.
Had an ultra grimdark feel to it I thought; the implied rape (a subject amongst others that 40k never goes near - not that it should have to mind), the Batman-esque undertones, the absolute terror conveyed through the prisoners as this unstoppable hunter came for them, the setting - some horrific prison of nightmares.
And then the lingering question did Talos save her simply because he needed her as an astropath or was there some tiny sliver of humanity left in him that he would kill the would be rapists and make them suffer.

Cant recall the short story name (it was in one of the HH compilation books) but the scene where the infiltrator turns the town against itself and the young man is left atop the conveyer complex watching his town fall to pieces knowing he is helpless to save it. Nasty stuff but done so well.

Jihadnik wrote:

Sovereign6 wrote:I don't remember what Gaunt book it was, but it was when he shoots a few natives with his bolt pistol after they assaulted his chief medic and physician.

How it's described just sticks in my head.
Will look up the book and edit this.

Haha, I was going to say that one! Well then, the final of the first three Horus Heresy Books where Loken gets killed at the end. I want him to win every single time or at least still be alive but there's just no chance!

Yep.

Also, when the Dreadnought reveals that he isn't sealed against the virus bombs anymore....

Czevak owning 5 grey knight terminators with an omega-minus class blank embryo.

Oh yes, the Dreadnought one, great catch.

Theres something about Dreads going down that always tugs a heart string.

"Why do you weep?' he asked. 'Is it for us?'
Euphrati shook her head and gestured to the heavy locked hatch. 'For him, Nathaniel, because he can't. Today you and I have broken a brother's heart, and nothing will ever mend it".

Soladrin wrote:Also, when the Dreadnought reveals that he isn't sealed against the virus bombs anymore....

Yeah. That one was one of the sadder moments.

The end of Double Eagle, when the plane kept flying on...

I loved it in "A Thousand Sons" when Magnus was totally broken down, seeing Tzeentch manifested in the broken mirror was his eyes of all shades. That imagery chills me to the bone to this very day!

Durza wrote:

Soladrin wrote:Also, when the Dreadnought reveals that he isn't sealed against the virus bombs anymore....

Yeah. That one was one of the sadder moments.

The end of Double Eagle, when the plane kept flying on...

Yeah, I'm gonna change my vote for this!

I felt so bad for Marquall. He is could be a perfect tragic hero from one of Shakespeare's plays. He was starving for glory and fame, and yet he just faced disappointment after disappointment and ended with an anonymous and meaningless death just after downing Chaos' best pilot and finally becoming an ace.