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So I've recently finished the Deathwatch omnibus. It was one of those books that I could have read for hours straight. I didn't want to put it down. Even while I've had my kids crawling over me and stabbing at it with crayons. It's 957 pages long with 15 stories. The one by Steve Parker Deathwatch, let's you in on the recruiting and training, which was very interesting. Ian St. Martin's Kryptman's War, has watch captain Artemis as the main character and he basically charges into a massive space battle between the orks and tyranids to board an ork ship with only 3 kill teams! Less than 20 marines sounds like madness and it was reading it. It was the best book by far. Nick Kyme's Machine Spirit was also one of my favorites. I loved how from the beginning the kill team members are either dead, wounded or just low on ammo, oh and there being hunted to top it off. In all of these books there's good characters because just being a member of the Deathwatch makes you a worthy character. Its Machine Spirit that has my favorite character. A marines malevolent called Vortan. My favorite quote of his ' I approve of this massacre, but what just happened? "

I've got Eye Of medusa (iron hands) in the post, should be with me tomorrow. After that's finished I'm thinking of buying Of Honour and Iron (Space Marine Conquests) because I need to learn more about the primaris and I'm interested as to how the new and the old will interact.

War of Secrets has Primaris interacting with the Dark Angels Inner Circle if that interests you. The ending is beyond dumb though.

The very first 40k book I read was the Grey Knight Omnibus. A friend of mine (who took his life a few years back) lent it to me while we were in Afghanistan. Even after I lost it, he never treated me any differently, and he was just the kindest, coolest guy I knew. I miss him a lot, but even if none of that happened, I would still highly recommend the book to you. At the very least, it might be nice to see Grey Knights being bad-ass (since they're so awful in the tabletop).

Gonna froth about Warhammer Horror. Again.

Y'know, just for a change.

Brand new imprint, but my word it has left an impression. Predation of the Eagle is absolutely stand out superb.

Go. Read them. Now.

pm713 wrote:
War of Secrets has Primaris interacting with the Dark Angels Inner Circle if that interests you. The ending is beyond dumb though.

Interesting, but put off by the dumb ending, I'll pass on this one.


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 flandarz wrote:
The very first 40k book I read was the Grey Knight Omnibus. A friend of mine (who took his life a few years back) lent it to me while we were in Afghanistan. Even after I lost it, he never treated me any differently, and he was just the kindest, coolest guy I knew. I miss him a lot, but even if none of that happened, I would still highly recommend the book to you. At the very least, it might be nice to see Grey Knights being bad-ass (since they're so awful in the tabletop).

I'll probably pick that up at some point. I think a collection of omnibus's would look nice on a shelf.


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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Gonna froth about Warhammer Horror. Again.

Y'know, just for a change.

Brand new imprint, but my word it has left an impression. Predation of the Eagle is absolutely stand out superb.

Go. Read them. Now.

This is new to me. Isn't just a general warhammer book classed as a horror compared to a standard fiction book? Hmm.

Personally, I just finished Maledictions and 'Warhammer Horror' seems like a terrible idea, because it telegraphs the twist/reveal unnecessarily, whereas just making them 40k/AoS novels wouldn't necessarily.
It doesn't help that many of the pre-Black Library novels and anthology collections (Drachenfels, Wolf Riders, Ignorant Armies, Storm Daemon, etc) where _much_ more horrifying. These felt mostly mundane or more puzzling than horror.

A couple of the stories weren't bad, but most were formulaic and trapped by the product line. Each story very briefly sketched a setting and a couple characters then, dun-dun-dun: Warhammer Horror, Bad End!
And on to the next one, which does the exact same thing.

Some of them could have had some shock value if the words 'Warhammer Horror' wasn't stenciled at the top of every page, but that effectively undermines the tension completely.

Had they just been mixed into general AoS or 40k anthologies, they'd work a lot better.

Some also needed a lot more detail on what was going on and why, particularly the ones that end in (or imply) transformations. There is so little material that they gave me a 'and, so what?' reaction.

Of Honour and Iron was surprisingly good, it’s a little cookie cutter, but it shows new and old marines together pretty well.

The first WH book that I got period was Horus Rising, while the first 40K I got was the Ahriman Omnibus. I actually haven't read the final novel in it, as I wanted to check out some other things, but what I've read so far from it is brilliant. It's a beautiful/horrific/fascinating take on Chaos and the Warp, and it has tons of twists and turns and lots of great character development.