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I believe the event covered will in fact be the battle at the Phall System.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Battle_at_the_Phall_system

We can look forward to Sigismund getting some attention.

Ah, good call.

I thought Sigismund was on Mars smacking traitor tech priests around around that time?

A quick look at Mechanicum confirms that you are right. I'm pretty sure Flight of the Eisenstein has Dorn dispatching Sigismund to Istvaan though, so I don't think this event has been retconned. He'll just have to make it back in time to be present when Mars gets uppity. A bit of a stretch perhaps, but not a total kick in the nuts to the timeline like Outcast Dead was.

He'll be back in time for the siege of Terra, he has to wear the Crusader armour remember?

Would seem likely then that we're seeing the cover for "The Crimson Fist", a HH novella/tale by Mr. French which features "the Imperial Fists, Perturabo and a whole lotta spaceships" according to what we were told at GD : UK.

.. and moving on...

Double (headed) dragon
It’s a well known adage that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. But how could this book not rock your socks off? It’s got a two-headed dragon on the front!

This art by Cheoljoo Lee is for the forthcoming Warhammer Heroes novel Van Horstmann, telling the story of the infamous Chaos Champion’s fall from grace. As you can see, it also involves a large and terrifying dragon.

Excitingly, Van Horstmann is the first Warhammer novel from veteran Warhammer 40,000 author Ben Counter, best known for his Soul Drinkers and Grey Knights series. It will be released towards the end of 2012. You can check out a short Warhammer tale from Ben in Age of Legend, which is available to pre-order now.

Looks good, Horstmann is a good choice for this series too IMO.

Who is Van Horstmann? Should I know about him?

Begel Dverl wrote:Who is Van Horstmann? Should I know about him?

One of the old Chaos SCs. Basically a former head of the College of Light (in the Empire) who proceeded to become somewhat corrupt, wound up freeing a bound Chaos Dragon and flying around burninating the countryside.

Well, perhaps not the last bit.

News just in: ADB hates Matt Ward's Grey Knight fluff so much he isn't going to write the second of his planned Grey Knight books.

http://aarondembskibowden.wordpress.com/

Ok so I pretty much made up most of the above sentence, but read his diplomatic language and decide for yourself.

Help - I'm work blocked!

What does he say here:

“We are coming up on 6 years since the first Horus Heresy book was published, I know the series is very popular, but being in the know, any idea how much longer it will stretch out before they get to the end?”

I mention that at about 24:25 minutes in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6xxJMo5tl04.

Review - Deliverance Lost.

Gav Thorpe. You write a description of what is happening without myself either feeling immersed or overly interested. I managed to not really care nor be really impressed by the overly long scenes on either Terra or anywhere else, to that matter. The only part that interested me was the Alpha Legion, and that was more due to the ... average nature of the story. The same happened in the Age of Legend series. Lots of description with less feeling, and a few ideas which were decent but not shattering.

Note - this was better than the Purging of Kallidus. However, that is not a compliment. Overall I think he should stick to Eldar/Elves, which he seems to write better, rather than Marines whom he seems to write below par for.

Review - Age of Legend.- I'm done reading Nick Kyme. Now Nick seems to have more potential often than Gav, but ends up delivering as little most of the time. After Grimblades, Fall of Damnos and the finale of the Salamanders series, I'm pretty much ensured that I'm not buying anything more of his unless the press is astonishingly good.

On a good note, CL Werner and most of the other authors were extremely good in the Age of Legends series.

Phillip Adams did well in what was a first read of him for me, and Sarah Cawkwell build from a solid start in The Gildar Rift.

I'm really starting to wish Rob Sanders, ADB, Dan Abnett, GMN, CL Werner, Chris Wraight and the James Swallow who wrote The Flight of the Eisenstein would write some more, and some of the others whose work is less than stellar either get the editorial or managerial assistance they require.

Anyway, after all that venting, still can't wait for Calth to arrive. Plus I'm interested to see the new stuff they reveal during the next phase of HH books.

Temujin wrote:News just in: ADB hates Matt Ward's Grey Knight fluff so much he isn't going to write the second of his planned Grey Knight books.

http://aarondembskibowden.wordpress.com/

Ok so I pretty much made up most of the above sentence, but read his diplomatic language and decide for yourself.

I read that yesterday. Didn't get any sense of "hate" from it about him.

He seems to imply that some of it does not agree with his perception of Grey Knights, but that's the nature of the beast.

Alpharius wrote:Help - I'm work blocked!

What does he say here:

In short: That the Horus Heresy will not end any time soon. When he joined the team, he was advocating to "end it sooner" but he was shown that they have a chance to fully flesh out the Horus Heresy and it's something that should be done not simply just blitz through it as a way to do a cashcow.

Temujin wrote:News just in: ADB hates Matt Ward's Grey Knight fluff so much he isn't going to write the second of his planned Grey Knight books.

http://aarondembskibowden.wordpress.com/

Ok so I pretty much made up most of the above sentence, but read his diplomatic language and decide for yourself.

I think ADB is one of my favorite writers now and I haven't even read one of his books. He hates it, he's just being polite and mature about it.

Kanluwen wrote:

Temujin wrote:News just in: ADB hates Matt Ward's Grey Knight fluff so much he isn't going to write the second of his planned Grey Knight books.

http://aarondembskibowden.wordpress.com/

Ok so I pretty much made up most of the above sentence, but read his diplomatic language and decide for yourself.

I read that yesterday. Didn't get any sense of "hate" from it about him.

He seems to imply that some of it does not agree with his perception of Grey Knights, but that's the nature of the beast.

I think it is fairly apparent that he's NOT happy with quite a bit of the new GK background.

Kanluwen wrote:

Alpharius wrote:Help - I'm work blocked!

What does he say here:

In short: That the Horus Heresy will not end any time soon. When he joined the team, he was advocating to "end it sooner" but he was shown that they have a chance to fully flesh out the Horus Heresy and it's something that should be done not simply just blitz through it as a way to do a cashcow.

Which is funny because dragging it out is more of a 'cashcow' move then if they'd just move it along already!

I'm not complaining though as I love the setting and the more the merrier for me...

He doesn't make a secret of it when he's "not happy" with something.

Kanluwen wrote:He doesn't make a secret of it when he's "not happy" with something.

How curious that you should say so, from what I have seen of Mr Dembski-Bowden's contributions to the internet he is a subtle, hopelessly polite and as non-abrasive as they come. Why, his discourse on the unusually-shaped faces of certain Star Trek in-universe races was so peacable as to put the Dalai Lama and Mother Theresa both to shame.

automatonsleuth wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:He doesn't make a secret of it when he's "not happy" with something.

How curious that you should say so, from what I have seen of Mr Dembski-Bowden's contributions to the internet he is a subtle, hopelessly polite and as non-abrasive as they come. Why, his discourse on the unusually-shaped faces of certain Star Trek in-universe races was so peacable as to put the Dalai Lama and Mother Theresa both to shame.

Oh I'm aware of his contributions. However, my point is that it's still blindingly obvious when he does not like something. The fact that he named the book after a line in the Grey Knights codex and the most "irked" piece he seemed to have was a big rant about how the Dreadknight does not fit his vision of the Grey Knights(which I'm with him on, for the most part) bodes fairly well for the GK book.

Mine either. I'm just surprised there's something in the GK codex you didn't like Kan.

There's quite a bit I don't like in many codices, I just don't feel like harping on about it all the time.

Except for Cruddace and his stupid "Hotshot Lasguns". Jerks.

Ya, don't like that either.

I've been having a bad run with books recently. I'm hoping something will blow me away soon before I start to associate my Kindle with disappointment and boredom (when are the next ADB and Abnett novels due?)

1Q84 (Haruki Murakami) - Oops wrong forum. My favourite author but it sucked and it was looooooooooong.

Thorn and Talon (Dan Abnett) - The first story, Master Imus' Transgression, was AWESOME. The second story was not on the same level but still enjoyable. The third was kind of a special case. I've read the story already, and it doesn't really work as a standalone story - ideally you'd read/listen to this between the relevant books in the Ravenor series. That said, the production on this one was spot on. If you're not totally sold on audiobooks this will purge your petty reservations with righteous flames.

Deliverance Lost (Gav Thorpe) - I'm halfway through and considering calling it quits. I finished Battle for the Abyss. It's not as bad as that cursed tome, but this is covering events that I should be interested in and it's just enormously disappointing. The thing that makes me want to quit is that it's been getting steadily more goofy as the book progresses, and I don't want my lasting impression of the characters or legions involved to be permenantly tainted. I've been dreading the events covered in <redacted> being picked up by a weaker author, but now it's happened and all the interesting possibilities for one of my favourite legions have come to nothing.

i'm halfway through Deliverance Lost and i'm going to the bookstore to get my money back. utter tripe.

xcasex wrote:i'm halfway through Deliverance Lost and i'm going to the bookstore to get my money back. utter tripe.

Interesting... I did the same with Last Chancers and refused to read anything by him for a while. His Dark Angel stuff was mediocre at best (but not abysmal like the Last Chancers) but his more recent Eldar books were actually good reads. Apparently he's got quite the rollercoaster talent (or lack thereof depending on which part of the ride he's on at the time).

She's a biggun, so just a link to it, lest I get in trouble for stretching the page too much. Just two tiles missing, enjoy: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/Lt_brookman/Advent-2.jpg

Is that Mk II armour or Mk III? I never have been able to tell the difference.

Und one more square remaining, I wonder if the remaining square will unveil a true hardass melon-fether, maybe even Sigismund himself?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/Lt_brookman/Advent.jpg

Also, haha, the walls of that ship are made out of concrete.

Temujin wrote:Is that Mk II armour or Mk III? I never have been able to tell the difference.

That's Mk II, the two armours are extremely similar, but the Mk III helmets protrude much more, giving them a more angular appearance.

First off, here's the complete image from the advent calendar, which is for the Shadows of Treachery anthology coming November 2012.

Free wallpaper of it here: http://www.blacklibrary.com/Blog/a-christmas-treat.html

You can also purchase the e-book version of the Legion of the Damned Space Marine battle book there by Rob Sanders.

And for those who really enjoyed the Legion of the Damned cover, here's a wallpaper version of it: http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/legion-of-the-damned-ebook.html

Picked up legion of the dammed which I've been really really looking forward to reading.

I'll post my views on the book in a day or two.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden just unveiled the title of his next Horus Heresy novel: BETRAYER.