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Insert snark below.

Me, sounds interesting as an exercise. Wonder how it will turn out.

Also, yes. I do believe that catapult/slingshot does have stats superior to a Lasgun.

WTF is that tech-priest.

Looking forward to the Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor...

Well, all those augments take time!

So how long until we have a chaos lord shout: "I WILL GET YOU NEXT TIME!" as he runs away.

0.9 of a book?


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Now, inevitable snark aside, I wonder if this might be their take on 'Forces of Destiny'.

Mayhap we'll also see boardgames based on these characters?

Will we have to differentiate story as written and story as intended?

Amberely Vail remembers fondly her childhood primer about promethium showing pics of heretics burning

I wonder if this will be the same!

Getting kids into gaming is a good thing or the hobby dies.

I am definitely buying in. If it's good, great. If it's terrible, even better because it will be hilarious. This might just replace the Star Trek TNG/X-Men crossover novel Planet X as the best ridiculous book to pull out at parties.

Lord Kragan wrote:
So how long until we have a chaos lord shout: "I WILL GET YOU NEXT TIME!" as he runs away.

Negative....how many years ago was Abaddon created?

Oooooh, zing!

Great times to awaken the Slaanesh into the Mortal Realms and the wide galaxy!

Funny you should mention Slaanesh.

In the dim and distant, when I was still a GW Till Monkey, had a Dad in buying books to read with his kid at bedtime.

Yeah. He asked about Fulgrim.......

Suffice to say, a different title was chosen!

Lord Kragan wrote:
So how long until we have a chaos lord shout: "I WILL GET YOU NEXT TIME!" as he runs away.

lol I would love a 1980s animated series of 40k.

This, Space Marine Adventures: Labyrinth of the Necrons and blitzbowl seems to be some focus from GW on the younger audience, not bad!

Ha! Blonde Kid ran away from home so he could avoid enlistment in the Astra Militarum.

Clever boy!

Lord Kragan wrote:
So how long until we have a chaos lord shout: "I WILL GET YOU NEXT TIME!" as he runs away.

Nah. It'll be more like "... and I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids and your stupid servo-skull !"

No. Just no. That's like having some "Marquis de Sade for children". The universe is inherently not suitable for children. Make some great sy-fy books for children,great idea, but this will either not be suitable for children or not be truthful to the universe...

"Hey, let's make some children's book about some extremely xenophobic obscurantist empire that are the good guys! That will get some good messages to those kids!"

I don't know about AoS, maybe it could work there, though.

This seems like a lot of fun.

 Nostromodamus wrote:
Will we have to differentiate story as written and story as intended?

Doubt it.

The Tracks on the Landraider Crush The Heretic
Crush The Heretic
Crush The Heretic.

Canonical children's rhyme, courtesy of Ciaphas Cain.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
The universe is inherently not suitable for children.

Perhaps. It wouldnt stop me. I think its a great idea. Universes have to be more widely recognisable and loved and maybe someday (someday!) we will get our own hollywood movie or perhaps Netflix tv series

Here is more info talking about this new product.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/05/21/21st-may-warhammer-adventures-tales-for-younger-readersgw-homepage-post-1/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=AOS&utm_content=AOSWarhammerAdventuresMay21

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
No. Just no. That's like having some "Marquis de Sade for children". The universe is inherently not suitable for children. Make some great sy-fy books for children,great idea, but this will either not be suitable for children or not be truthful to the universe...

"Hey, let's make some children's book about some extremely xenophobic obscurantist empire that are the good guys! That will get some good messages to those kids!"

I don't know about AoS, maybe it could work there, though.

kind of agree

this just scream brand dilution

WTH ? First Disney gets Star Wars and now Warhammer ?!!

This is a real thing that's happening? I'm honestly not sure how to process this

If it actually works and provides recruitment and fiscal return, I'm all for it, it brings fresh blood for the blood god etc.

But also I would be strongly against further dilution of the lore of the core games into 'family friendly' territory.

This ought to be... *sigh* ...interesting.

 streetsamurai wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
No. Just no. That's like having some "Marquis de Sade for children". The universe is inherently not suitable for children. Make some great sy-fy books for children,great idea, but this will either not be suitable for children or not be truthful to the universe...

"Hey, let's make some children's book about some extremely xenophobic obscurantist empire that are the good guys! That will get some good messages to those kids!"

I don't know about AoS, maybe it could work there, though.

kind of agree

this just scream brand dilution

It's a series of age appropriate books. Not an announcement that henceforth, all Black Library will be age appropriate for 8-12.

There is a huge amount of the universes yet to tell stories about.
If they avoid known lore and branch out to character-based serials, this might work.

Glumy wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
The universe is inherently not suitable for children.

Perhaps. It wouldnt stop me. I think its a great idea. Universes have to be more widely recognisable and loved and maybe someday (someday!) we will get our own hollywood movie or perhaps Netflix tv series

I hate to disappoint you, but we’re never going to get a 40k movie.

The books look odd. I know when I was 12 I would have hated the cartoony covers, but I was reading Tolkien and Michael Moorcock back then.

This will be my first experience with 40k lore. I was going to read the Horus Heresy books, but they are so long and don't have any pictures...

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
No. Just no. That's like having some "Marquis de Sade for children". The universe is inherently not suitable for children. Make some great sy-fy books for children,great idea, but this will either not be suitable for children or not be truthful to the universe...

"Hey, let's make some children's book about some extremely xenophobic obscurantist empire that are the good guys! That will get some good messages to those kids!"

I don't know about AoS, maybe it could work there, though.

Of course it is suitable for children. I got into warhammer as a child 30 years ago. Have never heard of animal farm or gullivers travels? There is plenty of space for discussing adult themes in books aimed at children if they wish to. Or they could ignore it. I remember playing space crusade as a kid, and it never occurred to me to think of the marines as anything other than heroes at the time.
I wonder if this will tie in to the space marine adventures game that is coming out.

I think that the 40k IP is big enough to be able to house both child friendly stories and adult ones.