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2013/03/12 06:05:02
Subject: Best Described One-on-One Duel in BL Fiction?
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Regular Dakkanaut
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Title says it all.
Now let me be a bit specific about this, in a sense i'm really asking about which author has the best command of writing up a descriptive one-on-one fight.
So name the Book, name the Author, the Duel, and if you'd be so kind, a snippet of fiction to back up the claim.
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2013/03/12 06:18:53
Subject: Re:Best Described One-on-One Duel in BL Fiction?
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Hellish Haemonculus
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Gonna have to say Aaron Dembski-Bowden.
Soul Hunter for the book. The fight between Talos and M'Shen is pretty damn awesome. It doesn't quite meet your criteria, but the fight at the end between the Blood Angels dreadnought and Malcharion/Talos is also pretty damn hot.
Bowden has a good grasp of combat writing, finding the right middleground between summarization and blow-by-blow description. (Reminds me a little of Brian Jacques in that regard.)
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2013/03/12 21:51:27
Subject: Re:Best Described One-on-One Duel in BL Fiction?
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Blood Angel Terminator with Lightning Claws
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When Garviel Loken breaks Lucius's nose in a cage match duel and Lucius is a whining baby saying thatGarviel didn't fight far.
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2013/03/13 00:37:34
Subject: Best Described One-on-One Duel in BL Fiction?
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Pyro Pilot of a Triach Stalker
New York
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Horus Rising: Garviel Loken vs. Lucius
Galaxy in Flames: Loken vs. Abaddon
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2013/03/13 00:57:02
Subject: Best Described One-on-One Duel in BL Fiction?
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain
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Eisenhorn vs Pontius glaw... Jesus that blade cloak...
Fulgrim vs ferrus
Loken vs abbadon
Imperial las cannon gunner 5909288393992889;9200504.2 vs typhus... Teleporting coward.
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2013/03/13 02:25:29
Subject: Re:Best Described One-on-One Duel in BL Fiction?
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Willing Inquisitorial Excruciator
Croatia
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Grimmy vs Mega, ultra, holy, supreme Grand Master Joros in EG LOL
or Abby vs Loken...damn that terminator armor...
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2013/03/13 02:26:40
ADB: I showed the Wolves revealing the key weakness at the heart of the World Eaters; showing Angron that his Legion was broken and worthless compared to the others; that he was the one primarch who couldn't trust his own warriors, and that they didn't care if he lived or died; showing that loyalty to brothers and sons is the heart of success for the Legiones Astartes, to the point even Lorgar makes a big deal out of saying the World Eaters and their primarch were massively outclassed by Russ, and Angron was too stupid to see the lesson Russ had sacrificed time, sweat, and blood, to teach. We're talking about a battle the Wolves won, by isolating the enemy general through pack tactics, and threatening to kill him, without a hope of defending himself. It was a balance, 50/50 - Angron overpowered Russ, and the Wolves were losing ground to the World Eaters; but Russ and his warriors had Angron by the balls, and barely broke a sweat. They won, no question. Lorgar even says: "The Wolves won, meathead."
Dorn won’t help you either. He’s too busy being the Emperor’s groundskeeper, hiding behind the palace walls. The Wolf is too busy cutting off heads as our father’s executioner, while the Lion holds on to his secrets, and has no special fondness for you. Who else will come? Not Ferrus, certainly. Nor Corax either. Even as we speak, I suspect he flees for Deliverance. Sanguinius?’ Curze laughed cruelly. ‘The angel is more cursed than I. The Khan? He does not wish to be found. So who is left? No one, Vulkan. None of them will come. You are simply not that important. You are alone.’ Konrad Curze to Vulkan
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2013/03/13 17:14:48
Subject: Best Described One-on-One Duel in BL Fiction?
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
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Pedro Kantor Versus the "Arch-Arsonist" ork in Rynn's world by Steve Parker. I wish Pedro was that bad-ass in game 
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 413th Lucius Exterminaton Legion- 4,000pts
Atalurnos Fleetbreaker's Akhelian Corps- 2500pts
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