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 Mr Morden wrote:
The idea seems sound - although why they would all lie with each other is slightly more dubious - I assume its not a goup thing!?

A special, one off legio that gets isn't a good idea. Equality is multiple legios of just women, just men, and more that are a mix, not a single one off legio (and its very clearly stated in the book that is just this one legio that is women only at least in HH timeframe). It comes across as patting women on the head and a man saying they solved sexism in 30k for them and then asking them to make a cup of tea.

The women in the legio seem to have open relationships with each other, yet will sleep with men outside of the legio (all the men in the legio are tech priests so unlikely to be interested/capable). That's a bit of a male fantasy trope. Its made creepy as the women are all related/clones. I know incest does happen for some navigator houses but that is for procreation of navigators, so this is a fair bit different.

Yip, said I wouldn’t buy it, didn’t say anything about the Mrs! Lovely lovely booky! 5 chapters in and it’s divine, if I hadn’t turkey to eat my head wouldn’t lift all day. My wife is a smasher

Lucky you, can't wait for the regular release to drop this Summer.

By the way, today's digital release: https://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/advent-2018-25-scourge-of-fate-ebook.html

THE STORY
Archaon, the Everchosen, is the most powerful and feared of all the great Champions of the Dark Gods. Warlords of immense cruelty, who have waged innumerable campaigns of suffering and slaughter, thirst to fight by his side. Such Knights of Ruin are known as the Varanguard.

Though Vanik the Black Pilgrim’s blade drips with the blood of conquered empires, he is yet to prove himself worthy of ascension into the Fifth Circle of the Varanguard. At last, he faces his final, nocuous quest: to hunt down and slay a legendary hero of Order that prophecies foretell will liberate the Mortal Realms from the stranglehold of Chaos. Yet when a betrayal strikes the very heart of the Varanspire, the great fortress of the Everchosen himself, it soon becomes clear to Vanik that Sigmar’s Chosen is not the only threat to Archaon’s reign that he must defeat. For Vanik, there will be only victory or oblivion. For he is a Varanguard, and no enemy of the Three Eyed King will escape his blade, lest the Varanspire fall.

Tomorrow's release will probably the sequel to Cadia something, which will no doubt be more gruesome deaths and whatnot if you happen to be Cadian.

ADB has taken a really fresh approach to 40k in this book and pulled it off (so far) fantastically well. It’s wonderful to see an author with the cahoonas to try something like this. Well done those big balls.

 Knockagh wrote:
ADB has taken a really fresh approach to 40k in this book and pulled it off (so far) fantastically well. It’s wonderful to see an author with the cahoonas to try something like this. Well done those big balls.

Which book are you referring to?

Currently reading Scourge of fate, it's really good. Essentially the lands around the varanspire in the eight points are the "new" chaos wastes of the setting where tribes, merchants and other worshippers kill and ply their trade. So far it does a lot of world building for chaos and now I find myself glancing at the varanguard models from time to time.

Robbie is great at fleshing things out, he turned the Space Sharks into something really good and proper.

 BrookM wrote:
Robbie is great at fleshing things out, he turned the Space Sharks into something really good and proper.

Aye, after reading those books I felt he is great at world building. I am trying very hard to avoid spoilers but I do recommend chaos fans to pick up the book.

Sounds fantastic! The early AoS stuff, whilst sometimes doing world building, got a bit hooked on the battles and not enough on the characters I felt. I'll have to consider picking it up after getting through more of the stories I've got building up into a backlog at present.

The first batch of AOS novels do suffer from a limited scope and a lack of material to work on, this in contrast to a lot of the stuff they're putting out right now that takes full advantage of just how big, fantastical and messed up the new realms truly are.

 Malika2 wrote:

 Knockagh wrote:
ADB has taken a really fresh approach to 40k in this book and pulled it off (so far) fantastically well. It’s wonderful to see an author with the cahoonas to try something like this. Well done those big balls.

Which book are you referring to?

Spears of the Emperor.

Just finished Scourge of Fate. If you are interested in more world building for AOS in general or a chaos fan? Grab the book. Also the book captures how the varanguard are "different" to your bog standard chaos lord, it also describes what sets them apart from the rest as well.

And today's offering: https://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/advent-2018-26-cadian-honour-ebook.html

For ten thousand years, Cadia stood as a bastion against the daemonic tide spewing forth from the Eye of Terror. But now the Fortress World lies in ruins, its armies decimated in the wake of Abaddon the Despoiler and his Thirteenth Black Crusade. Those who survived, though haunted by the loss of their beloved homeworld, remain bloodied and unbarred, fighting ruthlessly in the Emperor’s name.

Amongst them is the indomitable Sergeant Minka Lesk. Sent to the capital world of Potence, Lesk and the Cadian 101st company soon discover that a rot runs through the very heart of the seemingly peaceful world. Lesk knows she must excise this taint of Chaos, for it is not only her life and those of her company at stake, but also the honour of Cadia itself.

Written by Justin D Hill

Good on her for the promotion to sergeant, but I wonder how many are still alive by the end of this book, as killing off loads of Cadians is the new trend in BL stories these days. The more gruesome the better.

That is a great cover image.

Agreed. Nice that they made sure the artist did the violet eyes that are common among Cadians as well.

Reminds me of Alexandra Daddario. Which is a good thing.

Brilliant cover. The first book in this series was absolutely fantastic. Can’t wait for the physical book with paper etc to come out..

Sounds like I may have to get the first one by all accounts

Yeah, I am also rather interested in a series of IG books that are from the point of a Guardsman/woman rather than a Commissar.

The previous slew of Imperial Guard novels focused on a regiment and its soldiers each, with varying quality depending on the author involved.

Though a lot of these boiled down to "We got a special mission, do the special mission" kind of plots.

Fifteen Hours is really good though, no special mission, just a white shield trying to survive his first fifteen hours.

I know, I read most of those. Problem is, the characters in those books are hardly known, meanwhile, Cain and Gaunt are probably the two biggest names as far as Guard goes outside the codex.

The Crimson King is out now in the old , legacy, pprbk format.

Got it on my shelf for a week now.

Next up, Tallarn (53 days to go), Ruinstorm (109 days), Old Earth (165 days) and the Burden of Loyalty (221 days)

Just finished up Warlord by Annandale.

There are some serviceable descriptions of Titan combat. But I didn’t appreciate the author’s depiction of Legio Solaria. The real conflict of the novel is between the philosophies of Legios Solaria and Pallidus Mor. Annandale tells us the former are glory hounds but then has their leadership act extremely conservatively? What? Ah well, the author just makes them the fall guy for the Pallidus Mor protagonists.

I wish BL authors would think a little harder, or perhaps be allowed to, about the conflicts they are writing. The Pallidus Mor princeps never conceives of the possibility that she might be wrong until the very moment she conclusively decides she is right. The story would have been so much more interesting if she had actually been wrong and had to fight her way out of mistakes.

As it stands, the climax comes far too soon (with extra insult to Solaria) and then there are dozens more pages that are pure obligation.

This trade paperback cost 16USD. It just ain’t worth it. These are MMPB grade novels, at best.

 Manchu wrote:
Just finished up Warlord by Annandale.

There are some serviceable descriptions of Titan combat. But I didn’t appreciate the author’s depiction of Legio Solaria. The real conflict of the novel is between the philosophies of Legios Solaria and Pallidus Mor. Annandale tells us the former are glory hounds but then has their leadership act extremely conservatively? What? Ah well, the author just makes them the fall guy for the Pallidus Mor protagonists.

I wish BL authors would think a little harder, or perhaps be allowed to, about the conflicts they are writing. The Pallidus Mor princeps never conceives of the possibility that she might be wrong until the very moment she conclusively decides she is right. The story would have been so much more interesting if she had actually been wrong and had to fight her way out of mistakes.

As it stands, the climax comes far too soon (with extra insult to Solaria) and then there are dozens more pages that are pure obligation.

This trade paperback cost 16USD. It just ain’t worth it. These are MMPB grade novels, at best.

Yea, it’s an awful book. Laziness and lack of fitting original thought is a hallmark of David Annandales writing.

If you want good giant robot fiction, read the Imperial Knight novels.

I’ll bear that in mind. But next on the block is Gav Thorpe’s Imperator, which isn’t too thrilling yet, 40 pages in.

Imperator was painful to read.

Reprints of Inferno 6-10 are up! Only 3 weeks this time around so not a long window to get a hold of them (worse if you also want those Soviet style winter Imperial Guard models that are only up for a week - really makes me think GW's special order system should be loner!)

 farmersboy wrote:
Imperator was painful to read.

It’s starting to feel that way to me, too.