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Moving to Japan, 6 day road trip fallowed be 31 hour flight. I play Alpha Company. Just wondering what other people think.

This should be in general discussion, YMDC is for rules discussions.

Alpha Legion is in the Dawn of War series. Most of the other books or stories are Heresy era. Legion, Serpent Beneath and Faces of Treachery I think.

The Night Lord Trilogy by Aaron Dembski-Bowden is my pick.

The three books are:

1. Soul Hunter
2. Blood Reaver
3. Void Stalker

I think treacheries of the space marines recently came out.

I'll second the suggestion of the Night Lords trilogy. They're just well-written books, as well as great fiction for Chaos Space Marines.

Graham McNeill's Iron Warriors omnibus isn't quite to the level of the NL trilogy, but it's fun. It has the Storm of Iron novel and other goodies.

Night Lords Trilogy far and above are the best. Storm of Iron probably after that. McNeil often fumbles but he got it right there. Avoid its sequels though.

Helsreach and any Cain novel for me...........

 Mr Morden wrote:
Helsreach and any Cain novel for me...........

Are not Chaos. One of them is BT and the other is IG.

On topic I second the Night Lords, those books were amazing.

Iron Warriors Omnibus FTW

 Harriticus wrote:
Night Lords Trilogy far and above are the best. Storm of Iron probably after that. McNeil often fumbles but he got it right there. Avoid its sequels though.

This.

Or some of the HH novels, such as The First Heretic, but these aren't true Chaos yet IMHO.

Agree with people above , currently reading night lords trilogy and loving it

I read the Iron Warrior Omnibus after the Whole Ultramarine series and just loved them all since I got both sides of the whole scheme of things. Lord of Night is another good NL book. Blood Gorgons is a good one I recently finished.

Thanks guys, I will give the night lords a look!

You won't be disappointed. Hope everything goes well in Japan!

Word bearers omnibus is the best
i read it when i was 12, when first started and it hooked me on chaos. it has great characters and awesome description.

good luck in Japan!!!!

I really enjoyed the Iron Warriors Omnibus, it was the first Warhammer book I read and I recommend it.

Storm of Iron, Daemonworld and Lord of the Night would be my recommendations.

+1 for lord of the night.

Any heresy books are always good.

I really enjoyed Angel Exterminatus - More Iron Warriors. With many nods to Storm Of Iron

The Night Lord trillogy gets my vote. Void Stalker is a tad weak but still good.

It's not a straight up Chaos book, but Battle for the Fang has a fair amount of writing from the Thousand Sons' point of view.

Soulhunter, Daemonworld, and Storm of Iron are the crown jewels of Chaos novels.

Definitely enjoyed the Night Lords trilogy and Storm of Iron, and the Word Bearers Omnibus was EPIC. I also wanted to through down a vote for The Siege of Castellax. Orks lay siege to an Iron Warriors forge world. I'm about two thirds of the way through it and it's definitely been a very fun read. The lack of any Imperial perspective is refreshing

Tycho wrote:
Definitely enjoyed the Night Lords trilogy and Storm of Iron, and the Word Bearers Omnibus was EPIC. I also wanted to through down a vote for The Siege of Castellax. Orks lay siege to an Iron Warriors forge world. I'm about two thirds of the way through it and it's definitely been a very fun read. The lack of any Imperial perspective is refreshing

I just got that book and can't wait to read it.

I am currently reading it and it's pretty good. But it doesn't get as deep into the idea of being a Chaos Marine as some of the other books people have mentioned here. Will post a full review as/when.

Either Lord of the Night or Storm of Iron.

Blood Gorgons is another one to look into.

Blood Gorgons is another one to look into.

Can you elaborate on that one a little bit? I've been tempted several times by it, but I keep holding off because the description makes it sound like it's going to be about one single Chaos Marine by himself on a recruiting world. Not sure if that's up my alley or not. I would love to hear more about it though if you have a second to describe it.

Sure. While there is a solo-mission type sequence throughout the middle section of the book, it's about more than one CSM. The Blood Gorgons are a fallen Cursed Founding chapter and it was interesting to look into their view of Chaos and the politics of their chapter.

Thanks! I may give it a try once I'm done with "Siege".

FYI, It's about as good overall as Siege of Castellax but (IMO so far) Blood Gorgons never gets as good as the parts where Siege gets really good.