<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Gaunts Ghosts"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/31.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Gaunts Ghosts Thanks.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5285898.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5285898.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5286092.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5286092.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts You can now get 3-4 books in an omnibus. There are 3 omnibuses currently: The Founding, The Saint and The Lost.
Read them all. Trust.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5286193.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5286193.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5286209.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5286209.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5286262.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5286262.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts IMO, is its characters and the attachment to them you develop over the course of the series. Jumping in at the end, while you may understand most of it, will definitely lessen its impact.

Also a few of the major plot points will make no sense if you haven't read Traitor General and Blood Pact.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5286352.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5286352.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts
 MandalorynOranj wrote:
Don't listen to it without reading the others. Gaunt's Ghosts' biggest strength, IMO, is its characters and the attachment to them you develop over the course of the series. Jumping in at the end, while you may understand most of it, will definitely lessen its impact.

Also a few of the major plot points will make no sense if you haven't read Traitor General and Blood Pact.


Another thing to consider, is that given this aforementioned character attachment.. When you read some major developments throughout the story, having read from the beginning, its direly emotional. I found myself getting teary eyed at some points.
Probably my favourite fiction series of all time.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5286612.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5286612.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts
CaseyColt wrote:
 MandalorynOranj wrote:
Don't listen to it without reading the others. Gaunt's Ghosts' biggest strength, IMO, is its characters and the attachment to them you develop over the course of the series. Jumping in at the end, while you may understand most of it, will definitely lessen its impact.

Also a few of the major plot points will make no sense if you haven't read Traitor General and Blood Pact.


Another thing to consider, is that given this aforementioned character attachment.. When you read some major developments throughout the story, having read from the beginning, its direly emotional. I found myself getting teary eyed at some points.
Probably my favourite fiction series of all time.

Absolutely, I'm not at all ashamed to have cried at the end of Only in Death.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5286633.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5286633.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts
After that you can pick and choose, but if you don't read them all the way through there will be points where you say "Wait, what? When did that guy die? When did this guy join the Ghosts?"

I read First and Only, then not having read any BL books since it was published picked up the 3rd Omnibus, Traitor General was a weirdly perfect book to get back into the series with, but there was a lot of stuff that got spoiled for books 2-6 that I wish I hadn't known about in advance.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5286641.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5286641.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5287690.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5287690.page GMT Re:Gaunts Ghosts ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5289019.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5289019.page GMT Re:Gaunts Ghosts
Personally, I consider Salvation's Reach to be the point where the series jumped the shark. Way too much melodrama.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5289040.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5289040.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5289090.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5289090.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5289266.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5289266.page GMT Re:Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5291377.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5291377.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts IMO is the best of the omnibuses and contains the most important parts of the plot ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5291677.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5291677.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts
MandalorynOranj wrote:Don't listen to it without reading the others. Gaunt's Ghosts' biggest strength, IMO, is its characters and the attachment to them you develop over the course of the series. Jumping in at the end, while you may understand most of it, will definitely lessen its impact.

Also a few of the major plot points will make no sense if you haven't read Traitor General and Blood Pact.


Who doesn't love Colm Corbec (Coincidently Colm is oneof my brother's middle names)

MandalorynOranj wrote:
CaseyColt wrote:
 MandalorynOranj wrote:
Don't listen to it without reading the others. Gaunt's Ghosts' biggest strength, IMO, is its characters and the attachment to them you develop over the course of the series. Jumping in at the end, while you may understand most of it, will definitely lessen its impact.

Also a few of the major plot points will make no sense if you haven't read Traitor General and Blood Pact.


Another thing to consider, is that given this aforementioned character attachment.. When you read some major developments throughout the story, having read from the beginning, its direly emotional. I found myself getting teary eyed at some points.
Probably my favourite fiction series of all time.

Absolutely, I'm not at all ashamed to have cried at the end of Only in Death.


Who didn't? I actually took it off my shelf today and it's one of my favourite GG novels (aside Blood pact, Traitor General and Sabbat Martyr)

KingDeath wrote:I suggest to start with Necropolis and end with Sabbat Martyr. The later books are, thanks to the increasingly "sueish" tendencies of the ghosts ( or better, their scouts ) less enjoyable.


I dunno, I mean who doesn't love the hell out of Mkoll. Th only really sueish moments is Ezra and Mkoll's tracking of Guants abductors and Ven in general but he is the "Epic" character ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5291854.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5291854.page GMT Re:Gaunts Ghosts lol]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5294352.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5294352.page GMT Re:Gaunts Ghosts
BlaxicanX wrote:
The Ghosts in general are pretty sueish.The entire concept behind them is that they're way smaller than most of the other regiments, are only light infantry, and generally get sent to do the shittiest, most impossible missions, and yet their success rate is like 90% at least. lol


If I could just make an analogy; I really like the Die Hard movies. (Haven't seen the new one though). They're a lot of fun. Blowing gak up, gun fights etc etc. John McClane is a cool character too. I would be pretty pissed off if he fails and dies 20 minutes in. Then in the next movie he's replaced by some other character who I've got no interest in. Might be realistic for McClane to have died, but it doesn't make a good movie or movie series. Doesn't make good books either.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5295288.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5295288.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5295728.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5295728.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts

I don't really find most of the charectors over the top, especially if you take the series as a whole. Gaunt is a brilliant charector.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5295737.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5295737.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5295746.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5295746.page GMT Re:Gaunts Ghosts
And the Ghost's are at their most mary sue in the first two books, after that things become Anyone Can Die (except Gaunt) and they start getting used like actual light infantry for the most part, so it's not nearly so bad.

Edit: actually, I just realized what the two posters above probably meant, so disregard that first part as actually relevant to the discussion at hand.
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A gary stu is defined by its characteristics. The Ghosts have unparalleled snipers, unparalleled scouts, unparalleled commanders in Gaunt (who is far more reasonable and strategic than 90% of the other commanders). Every regiment they meet is awed by their skills and tenacity, and either hate them or admire them. Despite being smaller than most of the other regiments and less well armed, they can hold their own against any opponent through sheer skill, and always inflict more damage than they take, they never get outsmarted, never get outmaneuvered, generally only coming close to losing due to being vastly outnumbered, etc. That tons of them die doesn't really matter. Every group suffers turrible losses- it's 40K.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5295793.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5295793.page GMT Re:Gaunts Ghosts
Generally, I do agree that the Ghosts are pretty overpowered (I mean, Mkoll alone), but I really don't find it an issue in the books.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5298110.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5298110.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts LOL]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5298577.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5298577.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts
BlaxicanX wrote:
Ahhh yes, Ghostmaker. Is that the one where Mkoll kills like twenty guys by himself by due wielding laspistols and going backflips and gak? LOL


Dude, that passage is epic. It's way more dire than you make it out to be with your rather brief brush off. If I remember correctly he's fighting while there's a psychic storm going off, falling off loose ground, getting shot at from all directions...pretty damn heroic fight for survival. Besides, Mkoll is sort of like the Marbo of the Gaunt's Ghosts novels. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5299588.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5299588.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts
 gpfunk wrote:
BlaxicanX wrote:
Ahhh yes, Ghostmaker. Is that the one where Mkoll kills like twenty guys by himself by due wielding laspistols and going backflips and gak? LOL


Dude, that passage is epic. It's way more dire than you make it out to be with your rather brief brush off. If I remember correctly he's fighting while there's a psychic storm going off, falling off loose ground, getting shot at from all directions...pretty damn heroic fight for survival. Besides, Mkoll is sort of like the Marbo of the Gaunt's Ghosts novels.


That and that whole incident was fuelled by Eldrich magic

And MkVenner is Marbo, Mkoll is like Marbo -0.001]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5299807.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5299807.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts
 BryllCream wrote:
I have only ever heard the phrase "mary sue" on dakkadakka.com


Prepare to have your mind blown...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarySue

I apologise to your friends and family for introducing you to that site.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5301138.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5301138.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5304067.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5304067.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts
CaseyColt wrote:
I've read them all, and I highly, highly recommend them.
You can now get 3-4 books in an omnibus. There are 3 omnibuses currently: The Founding, The Saint and The Lost.
Read them all. Trust.


This.I love the series and urge you to start at the beginning.Particular favourites of mine are Necropolis,Honour Guard,Traitor General and Blood Pact.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5304140.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5304140.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts I really want to make Tanith force now ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5304449.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5304449.page GMT Re:Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5304614.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5304614.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5305019.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5305019.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5306532.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5306532.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts
'Try again, Bragg.']]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5307371.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5307371.page GMT Re:Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5307431.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5307431.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5307436.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5307436.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5307514.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5307514.page GMT Re:Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5308126.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5308126.page GMT Re:Gaunts Ghosts
 Anfauglir wrote:
He's mentioned a possible prequel arc, dealing with Gaunt's service with the Hrykan 8th. So that's another three, at least.


That'd be quite nice as well

Of course we have a couple of flashbacks already but not much beyond those ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5308266.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5308266.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts
I really would suggest starting from the beginning, Abnett's Ghosts book is arguably the best and most consistently good series of 40K books there is. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5315678.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5315678.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts
 Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:
 gpfunk wrote:
BlaxicanX wrote:
Ahhh yes, Ghostmaker. Is that the one where Mkoll kills like twenty guys by himself by due wielding laspistols and going backflips and gak? LOL

And MkVenner is Marbo, Mkoll is like Marbo -0.001


Sad I don't see Bonin get his due - I mean, the man's a legend too, deserves to be named along with those two. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5426706.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5426706.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5433795.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5433795.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts A series this welll written deserves to be read completely.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5433827.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5433827.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts
xXWeaponPrimeXx wrote:Yeah
A series this well written deserves to be read completely.


Nest Book is scheduled for December

Captain Roderick wrote:Bonin's a Determinator, he just keeps going despite being horribly injured. He's not like Marbo, more like Sean Bean's many characters, except he's not dead yet.


Except he was born under a lucky star and as a result hasn't ended up like every single one of Sean Bean's characters (Didn't even Sharpe die in the end?)
]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5433957.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5433957.page GMT Re:Gaunts Ghosts Plus they are dirt cheap in omnibus,.. even cheaper if you download them ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5434344.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5434344.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts
 Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:

Except he was born under a lucky star and as a result hasn't ended up like every single one of Sean Bean's characters (Didn't even Sharpe die in the end?)


Nope, there is no death of Sharpe in either the books or the movies. In fact the son he has with Lucille turns up in some of BC's other books about the ACW...]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5441483.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5441483.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5446056.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5446056.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts
Blackcrusader wrote:
Does anyone no where i can get everyone of the books cheap?

Do an online search for the paperback omnibuses - The Founding, The Saint and The Lost. That's the first eleven books. Abnett's halfway through The Victory at the moment, the fourth - and possibly final - omnibus, or "arc" in the current series.

Anyway, the paperback omnibuses are by far the most cheap option.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5446125.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5446125.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5446786.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5446786.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts
 Captain Roderick wrote:
 Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:

Except he was born under a lucky star and as a result hasn't ended up like every single one of Sean Bean's characters (Didn't even Sharpe die in the end?)


Nope, there is no death of Sharpe in either the books or the movies. In fact the son he has with Lucille turns up in some of BC's other books about the ACW...


Ain't nothing can kill Sharpie *twitch* They flogged the bugger and he didn't die, they stopped the flogging, ruined the justice they did, you can't stop an honest flogging, see sir? *twitch* The Frenchies can't do for him, bastards *twitch* but I can kill him, yes sir, I can kill him, because I'm blessed by God, I can't die mother, see my neck? i can't die. Oh mother. *twitch*

And do read the gaunt books, salvations reach is the only one I wasn't really that much of a fan of, and thats because I felt it would have been better being longer and resolving the story.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5446808.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5446808.page GMT Gaunts Ghosts http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5448023.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/507610/5448023.page GMT