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I liked the old Rogue Trader marines, heavily augmented and brainwashed psychopath lunatics.

> it's much easier to cover expenses

Also when you control the printing process.

For example, they printed limited runs of the Imperial Infantryman's Handbook, Uplifting Primer, and Munitorium Manual, which caused them to hit over $300-$500 apiece on ebay for a while, there, after it went out of print. There was so much demand for those books that Black Library re-released them as The Imperial Infantryman's Handbook and those sold out, too.

There's a guy on deviantart who tried to do something similar back in 2015, but it only goes into the basics of what each organ would look like, and he hasn't done all of the organs yet. I would love to see an actual book that goes into detail about this stuff!  

I think some of the organs would act as enablers for other organs; for example, the secondary heart might circulate through the multilung while the original heart would stay connected to the original lungs, reminiscent of an octopus's three-heart circulatory system.

>...but I heard Guilliman was back and started trying to figure out which novel that happened in and... no where to be found. WTF?

The info you're looking for is in a campaign supplement, not a novel. Gathering Storm: Rise of the Primarch

Shockingly, it's not available anywhere. You can't even find it on the BL website.

I’m currently reading through Perturabo and it deals with the IV Legion trying to take planets during a Hrud Migration.

The Astartes growing old, and being affected by the age confirms to themselves they are not true immortals. All of their Imperial Army assistance is dead, died of old age. And their armour and weapons are failing - but all of the replacement parts are also falling apart just by being in proximity.

It’s an interesting view on a more Alien Xenos race than just Space Elves and Orks which are human +/-.

Sounds like that author needs to read <em>The Mythical Man-Month</em>. You can't throw 1000 times the people at a complicated project and have it built 1000 times faster; if it was that easy then there would be worlds churning out a new battleship every few weeks through use of 10,000,000,000 workers.

I thought they were like this: https://www.xing.com/img/custom/content/insider/header_images/images/000/983/556/web_high/2d07b8aaf1becd49e9fa49f7b49f3af95997c311image.jpg?1511024016

That is, human-like. Probably they were called "Men" because they were like men, but artificial.

As with many others, this series is what introduced me to the 40k universe. It is friendly to people with no knowledge of the lore while still remaining grounded in it. This novel is remarkable in how well it sets up the franchise, with all the characters showing the personalities they would have in future installments. The humor the series is known for is present, though the next novels would improve further on that score. It also has some unique characteristics; there's less focus on combat, and Cain is more reflective. In particular, his conversations with the kroot Gorox stood out.

That said, there is one major issue I have: in this particular novel, Amberley is a textbook Mary Sue. She's gorgeous, a professional-quality singer, shoots and fights better than most soldiers, sees through Cain's facade ridiculously fast, gets to kill the major villain with a cool one-liner, always gets the upper hand in any conversation, and is generally portrayed as having no traits Cain can criticize. Yes, she's an Inquisitor, so she should be talented, but this was over the top. The fifth Cain novel was much better in this regard, as she was highly competent but not impossibly so, and she wasn't above Cain's snark.

I shall provide you Amazon links!

Book 1

Book 2

It bothers me how Tau fluff treats the Codex Astrates. Eldar, who can see the future, and Chaos, who have fought marines for 10,000 years haven't figured it out but against Tau the Codex is an "if A than B" cookbook. This is a wild mischaracterizarion. The Tactical section of the Codex is less cookbook and more Art of War, if Sun Tzu had a couple thousand more years of combat experience and was a supernatural ultra-genius created for the purpose of writing books like that. The Codex gives amazing tactical insights, but knowing what the enemy will do because you read the Codex is as dumb as a modern commander saying they know what their enemy will do because the enemy read The Art of War.

Well, eh, depending on how much they know about modern munitions, they very well might think of real world analogs like the mk-211 Raufoss. It's a pretty nasty piece of work and things only get crazier from there.

Edit: Explosive anti-personal rounds are a pretty old idea, as evidenced by the quite nasty WWII sniper ammo demonstrated by forgotten weapons.

I've always assumed it's a Crowley reference, but that might be due to the fact that I was a bit of a Crowley nerd before I ever got into 40k.

But anyway... 40k Perturabo is an entitled dickhead who craved attention. Crowley aka Perdurabo, was also an entitled dickhead, always desperate for attention.

The definitive biography for Crowley is even called Perdurabo, but fair warning, it's dense and I only recommend it if you're writing a paper on Crowley or have an abiding (or possibly morbid) interest in his life.

If you're interested in learning more about Crowley, the original bass player from Blondie wrote a really fun and more approachable biography on Crowley called Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World

Should be after, but hard to tell. Both Calth and Thramas started in the same year, and the official timeline by FW has them occupying the same 3 year span with no specific events listed.

Unofficial chronological order puts Betrayer before The Lion.

It was promo issue #0 of Damnation Crusade, which I think was released as a Comic-Con exclusive. Some issues were sold in stores though, since I managed to buy one here in Australia.

Someone uploaded that particular story here (there were a couple of other stories in that issue that I can't find online), and the six main issues here.

Marius shops at Amazon

There're some. The distribution has been a little erratic, via multiple comic book publishers, but you can find them fairly readily. They're currently publishing through Titan, which I think has had a positive effect.

Comixology is having a sale of the most recent series, at the moment. Lexicanum also has a nice list of some of the series and GNs available in book form.

But but by expanding lore for minor xenos they can build groundwork for new factions in the future.

The Necrons were in the background lore for a long time before they became a full fledged faction.

I believe this is the up to date reading order. The core path is publication order up to Fulgrim, then Angel Exterminatus, Slaves to Darkness, and The Buried Dagger to bring you to Siege of Terra. That skips a lot of stuff, both good and bad, so if there are factions or characters you especially want to see, use the colour coding on the chart to pick one of their storylines.

Here are just the story pieces of the culture running into 40k http://sync.in/ep/pad/view/ro.f7Ii2bq8IM01rFxsOm/latest Here's the full forum thread, with all the commentary. http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?256776-The-Culture-v-s-40kverse

There are two more threads after that.

The Imperial Infantryman's Handbook

It apparently combines the old Uplifting Primer with the Munitorum Manual. Not leather bound but fun info written under the idea that it's an in-universe guide to being in the Imperial Guard.

You might enjoy the Ultimate Apocalypse mod. Revamped Dawn of War with more factions, units, better scaling, updated textures, etc. I personally had to uninstall it because I spent far too much time playing it.

> Where was it confirmed that the Silver Skulls

The suspicion was always there (especially since they have the Iron Warrior emblem on their shoulders ....), but lore until 8th edition stated their geneseed is is classified by the Ordo Hereticus and that the founding was unknown. Codex Space Marines 8th edition confirmed that they are part of the 2nd founding and a spin off of the Ultramarines. This simply limits the successor chaptor made of Barabas Dantiochs loyalist warband to exactly this chapter. - Oh and there also is the fact that they quote Dantiochs tactical wisdom in the Silver Skulls novels ...

> Death Eagles are loyalist descendants

The Horus Heresy - Book Four: Conquest, pg.158 "The 34th Millennial of the Legion, also known as the Death Eagles, remained loyal to the Imperium" Here is their colour scheme from White Dwarf.

Yes. Women are physically weaker than men.

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_olympic_weightlifting.html

We are a mammalian species, meaning that for us sexual dimorphism makes males faster, stronger, larger, and have denser muscles and bones than females.

Here are the Black Library and Amazon links. Be warned, I got Warrior Brood and Warrior Coven at a Goodwill for a dollar each and felt ripped off.

I would recommend “ The First Heretic “ by Aaron Dembski-Bowden.

It is as the title implies the start of the corruption by Choas, and it is a good place to start.

You can find the paper copy here and the audio book here

It depends on where you want to get your readers from, honestly. I don't know much about this sub, because I haven't posted my work here yet. I don't know if I will. It's not that I think that I'm to good to do so, but I've got other reasons that I'll touch on in a moment.

I also write a fanfic, and to be honest the only places I've posted it on Reddit are the fanfic subs. I didn't want to run afoul of the no soliciting rule in rule 2 here, because mine is posted elsewhere and I didn't want to just drop a link to it and run, and I didn't want to strip and re-post the content to post it here - one because it's a very frequently-posted episodic series, so I'd probably run into some issues with spamming and two because having yet another place to remember to update my content is just tiring.

But it's about exposure and engagement. I post to tumblr, https://www.fanfiction.net and https://archiveofourown.org. My readership has steadily been picking up, but that's involved creating a lot of content. On ffn, having a frequent and regular update schedule keeps me high on the "recently updated" lists, which means I tend to get more eyes from people browsing, looking for something freshly updated to have a go at. On tumblr that's involved doing a lot more non-content interacting with other bloggers, giving feedback and engaging on their content, so they'll feel interested in coming over to mine.

You can just throw your work out there and hope, but as a good friend of mine who is also a creator said to me once - it's all marketing. You have to make people want to read your stuff, otherwise you're just shouting into the void.

That's definitely wrong. My epub was purchased 26th of April. Goodreads lists it as 24th April https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269795-mortis. Amazon lists 13th of April https://www.amazon.ca/Mortis-5-John-French/dp/1789998166. Whatever it is though, definitely not 5th of next month. The BL website lists that as the audiobook release.

I got my hardcover version on amazon but i ordered in Germany and it came from an reseller. Try smaller merchants or more local bookstores. If you from US maybe here

Ok, so it isn't as bad as I thought. So what you want to do is:

1. Check Bell of the Lost Souls Codex: Adeptus Arbites - http://raukoras.pagesperso-orange.fr/40k/Adeptus-Arbites-v1.pdf it is for 5ed. but has some interesting ideas.

2. Check Matthew Forrish's Codex: Adeptus Arbites - https://www.scribd.com/doc/235201798/Codex-Adeptus-Arbites-7th-Ed this is for 7th ed and is much more comprehensive.

3. Get Warhammer 40,000 Roleplaying splatbooks - Book of Judgement, Hostile Acquisitions and Ascension.

4. Absolute must read for you is Matthew Farrer's Shira Calpurnia trilogy, conviniently bundled in an omnibus titled Enforcer.

5. You should also invest in some Necromunda novels but I can't tell you which, I don't remember which had significant Arbites presence cause I've read them decade ago.

if you have a look at this website http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

you can see that the population of this planet has grown by 9 million people and we're only in February. I'm no mathematician but in the 28K years bewteen now and the heresy even with old night the human population of the galaxy must be astronomical. a few hundred colonists on each new world in that time would have very far reaching numbers of population growth. now if you assume that all the worlds that now fall under the imperium have their tithe of guardsmen that they need to send off to war, if a billion human worlds each send 100 men a year then you're talking 100 billion men joining each year. If the number of imperial worlds is only 10 million and each world provides on average 10,000 troops (see gaunts ghosts series for a small population planet providing a whole battalion even if most of them died before leaving the planet.) thats still 10 billion men joining each year. Thats alot of troops for the guard.

No darling should remain unmurdered. Good advice.

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You're welcome.

The other two would be Farsight: Crisis of Faith

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Farsight-Crisis-Faith-Warhammer-Book-ebook/dp/B071WQ8CS3/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=farsight+phil+kelly&amp;qid=1604870070&amp;sr=8-2

and Farsight: Empire of Lies,

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Farsight-Empire-Lies-Warhammer-000/dp/1789991854/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=farsight+phil+kelly&amp;qid=1604870100&amp;sr=8-1

both by Phil Kelly. But, as I said, the short story in The Tau Empire I linked above is a prequel to these. So it might be better to start with that one and see if he likes it

There's a collection of short stories called The Tau Empire of all things which might be a good start. I've not read it (yet), but it's got short stories by Peter Fehevari, who is HIGHLY praised on here, and Phil Kelly, who has written some well received Tau novels about Commander Farsight.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tau-Empire-Legends-Dark-Millennium-ebook/dp/B01N5FP33X

Hopefully someone on here can comment on it's quality, but it looks promising to me, and isn't too expensive

https://www.amazon.com/Spear-Emperor-Warhammer-40-000/dp/1789990238

I saw Google say the release date was December and when I looked around I found that Amazon page. I'd previously seen June reported as the release date so maybe Google is wrong and Amazon is just getting the book much later?

Oh you know government of my country(Kazakhstan) thinks that it's too dangerous. THEY REALLY THINK IT IS PROMOTING TERRORISM! Also they've banned 600 porn sites. Yup, they use money to just ban porn instead of you know building hospitals, schools and updating them.

Oh and don't worry people in my country aren't that stupid. I use DotVPN. Great thing btw can't recommend it enough.

A complete or even close to complete collection? I doubt it :| Even wikis are going to have tons of holes in terms of actual available sources. But here is what I believe is the main-stay for final battle:

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOCBOccHHozQBvggRHvAwROX3NINV9cnASyqYpC6yj9OviQaTB68PKRWdOQw8kjhA/photo/AF1QipNfdcgMg5Zg1fsVaeU5XQqQHwuB_RBUInS8T10L?key=b0FlV1ZOX3JDMXR6VGFvaW43TFA0TjZkd1B1LWJn

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ghostmaker-dan-abnett/1008691862?ean=9781849708692

Yeah they're reprinting alot of stuff right now, so check around various retailers. Not sure what you have in Australia so I'm a bit in the dark.

But yeah you're goin to pay an arm and a leg. I live by Nasa in Houston Tx, so lots of the Scifi guys sell their old 40k books. I got lucky and found the majority of the originals. But I still pay ~35$ or so for the older ones that aren't in print. The omnibus' are really expensive here too.

You've gone so much into detail here that your interpretation hinges a lot on the source you're reading. How the Inquisition operates exactly depends largely on who wrote the book you're reading. For example, in Games Workshop's own Thorian Sourcebook, the many steps you list such as "Acolytes", "Trusted Acolytes", "Primes", "Master" etc. simply do not exist. There, the steps are Apprentice -> Inquisitor -> Inquisitor Lord, except that Inquisitors may call the Apprentice by a variety of titles such as Interrogator, Neophyte or Approbator. Because in GW's interpretation of the setting, the Inquisition as an organisation simply is not as uniform as you make it sound here, and there, the Inquisitor simply is "the basic unit of the Inquisition".

Much of your info seems to come from FFG's roleplaying game, which in turn takes much of its take on the Inquisition from novel author Dan Abnett. Don't take Lexicanum articles as gospel: they are, in the end, representative only of the editor's individual attempt at merging different sources that may well have never been intended to co-exist.

&gt; when you look at a map it seems they control huge amounts of space.

That's because you're looking at 2D representation of a 3D object. The Imperium is probably less spherical as it's shown from above, and closer to looking like a neuron. With vast tendrils of occupied space seperated between even larger tracts of unexplored "dead space"

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/3d-neuron-isolated-on-white-background-760440166

This is potentially not accurate. Uncoordinated unskilled opponents lose awfully against trained hardasses, here's just one such scenario, I can pull other articles..

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joseph-torrez-mma-fends-off-four-attackers-kills-one_n_4548172

And yes, I know that this is just one such scenario, but a master as you put it will pull off every trick he knows to level the playing field, not just stand there and let all three swing at him at once. He'll move to tighter confines to force 1v1s, he'll move at angles so that they are forced to constantly be circling each other to get around each other.. etc.

Sure, numbers help, but amateurs vs. "the best alive" is not in the realm of needing to get "crazy lucky."

The reason that GW and Blizzard didn't make a game together isn't that Games Workshop got cold feet but because Blizzard wanted to control their own universe. This Kotaku article is literally the only one I found that isn't just random forum users posting heresay .

> "Warhammer was a huge inspiration for the art-style of Warcraft, but a combination of factors, including a lack of traction on business terms and a fervent desire on the part of virtually everyone else on the development team (myself included) to control our own universe nixed any potential for a deal. We had already had terrible experiences working with DC Comics on "Death and Return of Superman" and "Justice League Task Force", and wanted no similar issues for our new game."

> "It's surprising now to think what might have happened had Blizzard not controlled the intellectual property rights for the Warcraft universe - it's highly unlikely Blizzard would be such a dominant player in the game industry today."

Creating everything "from scratch" (which is almost never actually from scratch) has its upsides. Mainly creative control and a lack of expectation or rigidity to adhere to. And when you're pumping in millions, that can be very valuable.

You'd be surprised about what goes on: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-pentagon-s-bottomless-money-pit?utm_source=pocket-newtab

(Warning: it is a long read) TLDR: There's probably billions of dollars that disappear every year in the US military budget, and decades of attempted auditing can't even put together a statement that isn't just completely made up.

I've played an assortment of the Space Hulk games, but mostly the more modern releases. I played Space Hulk on the PS3, and then Warhammer 40,000 Deathwatch on PS4. They play similar to XCOM and Final Fantasy Tactics (isometric turn based), where Deathwatch has a real sense of progression. They are releasing a newer Space Hulk variation that looks to be focusing on customization and progression - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XDVDCCgguM

If you liked Dawn of War 1, did you ever try the Ultimate Apocalypse mod? I still play it here and there, but definitely should give it a try if you haven't. https://www.moddb.com/mods/ultimate-apocalypse-mod

I did a poll on that actually. The majority is for newcrons, which makes since given the number of shortcoming oldcron have. However, the lack of inertialess drives and pariahs in the newcron lore really does irk me.

the BitTorrent client that i recommend is qbittorrent

As for what program takes mobi files the best ereader i know of is calibre.

It's actually a game. As far as I know Mac can emulate a subset of Windows with Wine. I'm using it on Debian and the only bad thing I can say is that long tables (say, company view) can drag performance down to a sluggish hell. It got better though, even my crappy laptop can handle it reasonably but since Chapter Master is in alpha stage it can get weird between updates.

There is also Winebottler but since I don't have a Mac I can't really assert if it is any good.

Given just how fucking metal the setting is I imagine that would be a great genre choice. Check out &quot;Every Noise at Once&quot; for an enormous list of genres & artists of all kinds - complete with an especially large section devoted to metal and it's sub-genres.

If you want something that's not complicated (like a rule book,) and gives you a flavor of the universe then simply go to Amazon, and in the search bar type, "Dan Abnett Warhammer 40K."

I would suggest starting with the Gaunt's Ghosts series, it's how I got into 40K. It gives you a down to earth view of what living in the Imperium is like for a normal soldier...with the demi-gods and demons and shit generally off in the distance somewhere.

Here is a link for the first omnibus collection of Gaunt's Ghosts books (I think this particular volume has the first four novels in it for $18.)

Gaunt's Ghosts: The Founding

Yep, the Jurassic Park sequel took its name from that one.

There's also a much better know TV show about it, which follows a sliver of the premise and none of the plot: https://www.amazon.com/Arthur-Conan-Doyles-Lost-World/dp/B0000E69H6

Hardcover now available, no sign of the ebook yet. You could try to figure out how long it took for other audiobooks to be released following the hardcover launch, but then again this is the pandemic times, so estimates may be off.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1789992915/ref=x_gr_w_bb_sin?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=x_gr_w_bb_sin-20

I'm just thirsty for the ebook...

Just to mention as people have already pointed out the Warhammer Adventures younger readers books, there's a 40K one specifically focusing on Nurgle due out next year;

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Plague-Nurglings-Warhammer-Adventures-Galaxies/dp/178999036X/

How the fuck do you have plague war already?

Google and Amazon say it's not releasing until April 30th 2019, was there an early release in Europe or something? I really want to get it before then but ebooks have zero appeal to me.

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Imperium-Plague-War-Haley/dp/1784969109/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=

Amazon lets you preorder but says it wont ship until april next year

Good question. The Buried Dagger will be released as paperback in August 2019, but there's no mention on the Coming Soon page of when Slaves will be available as Paperback. Maybe send BL a mail and ask them?

E: Checked Amazon. There it is

It's on the Amazon site

Trust me on this. Lord of the Night.

Lords of Silence is pretty much exactly what you asked for, but I prefer the subtlety of Lord of the Night.

I just think that's a silly notion. The tactical sections of Codex Astartes aren't a perscriptive, "If A happens then do B" battle manual. If it was, Space Marines would basically be robots. The Codex is more like The Art of War. It would be ridiculous to say "Well, I know Gen. Smashfucker read the Art of War, so I can now predict his next move".

Further, in all the lore only Farsight seems to manage to do this. In 10,000 years none of the ageless Eldar or Chaos marines who fight the Imperium regularly think to check the perscriptive battle manual that apparently exists, but the Tau manage to figure it out in a single lifetime without even getting a copy of it? It's all just so ridiculously convenient for the Tau and not in keeping with the established lore and actions of the other factions.

Horus - The bicycle he obviously never received

Leman Russ - A muzzle

Ferrus Manus - A Latin/English dictionary

Fulgrim - Prettier armour

Vulkan - Adamantium bones and claws

Rogal Dorn - A tree house

Roboute Guilliman - The Art of War

Magnus the Red - Protective eyewear

Sanguinius - Therapy for his martyr complex

Lion El'Jonson - Reddit

Perturabo - A bit more attention

Mortarion - Rehab

Lorgar - A diary

Jagathai Khan - Racing stripes for life

Konrad Kurze - A Batman mask

Angron - A time-out room

Corax - Nothing, he already has too much bird themed shit

Alpharius Omegon - Tell them they can keep what they steal from the rest

I always recommend Eisenhorn as the best onramp for the 40k setting in general. You can't go wrong with

Now now, maybe Trazyn himself is Alpharius ...

plot intensifies

But, on a more serious note, here's a nice book on a city-state that was actually run (top-to-bottom) by the "intelligence agency/secret police": Venice's Secret Service

> I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust.
A Modest Proposal

Yeah, but fascism isn't structural. Compare the IoM to Eco's 14 traits of Fascism and tell me that the Imperium isn't fascist.

Arium already basically means room:

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/-arium

• Arium

a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, which often denote a location or receptacle (armarium; caldarium; solarium; vivarium). It has limited productivity in English, especially in words denoting an artificial environment for plants or animals, on the model of vivarium or herbarium: aquarium; insectarium; terrarium

Not inspirational in the real world sense, but I’m in the middle of Honourbound

https://www.blacklibrary.com/french/warhammer-40000-novels/deathwatch-fr-ebook-2020.html

Or

https://www.amazon.com/Deathwatch-Warhammer-Steve-Parker/dp/1849704473?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_dls&amp;dplnkId=d9b32e7f-9975-4ecc-890c-01aba0b2bf91

I mean, you still gotta buy em. $8 for kindle/epub version is a steal tbh.

Well technically the HH books are finished, the story is carrying on in the Siege of Terra novels which as the name suggests is all about the traitor assault on Terra. Eventually they will get to the showdown between Horus and big E.

The next book in the series comes out near the end of September and is book 7 in the series.

As long as you have a smartphone you can download the Kindle app and read it on there, it's what I do with pretty much all Warhammer books. Here is the Kindle edition of Path of the Dark Eldar which includes all 3 books in one

The whole point of that story is to show us that these two characters have incompatible drives. Russ intends to teach Angron a lesson, because he erroneously assumes that Angron has a similar motivation.

Behind the theatrical barbarism and bravado, Russ is a man that believes in the Emperor's dream, and his willingness to destroy and conquer is hinging on his need to see its completion, while being clever enough to survive all the way to the finish line.

Behind Angron's fury and blunt anti-imperialistic sarcasm, is a broken man that wanted to die with his family. He instead got forced into the role of a general of an army he doesn't want, fighting for an Imperium he doesn't believe in, headed by a leader he identifies as being just as dictatorial as the leader that enslaved him. He can't stop fighting though, because that's all he knows how to do, and he's stuck with a device imbedded in his brain that forces him to continue on that path.

The story isn't about who's stronger, or who won the fight. It's a short story that gives us insight into both characters psyche, while simultaneously also being a parable - a teaching moment - for Russ, wherein he learns not to assume the people around him shares his worldview or zeal.

That's one of the things that makes Russ' character arc so great. He starts off as a hypocritical, headstrong, loudmouthed, opinionated, brute, and throughout the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy he is constantly humbled. He makes several massive blunders and pays for them dearly, and by the end of his solo book (Leman Russ: The Great Wolf), right before he leaves the setting, he's older, wiser, more humble and overall likeable.

Oh and prepare for more heartbreak September 13th:

https://www.amazon.ca/Echoes-Eternity-7-Aaron-Dembski-Bowden/dp/1800260881/ref=asc_df_1800260881/?tag=googlemobshop-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=579190954544&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=3896026854548744454&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqm...

Siege of Tera, Echoes of Eternity (Volume 7).

We’ll finally read exactly how the angel fell. Damn man…just damn.

UK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Infinite-Divine-Warhammer-40-000-ebook/dp/B08J7DJCSJ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=DQK0F4NZCWKO&amp;keywords=the+infinite+and+the+divine&amp;qid=1659109580&amp;sprefix=the+inf%2Caps%2C91&amp;sr=8-1

Start with the first book titled First and Only

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1841542687/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=orderofbooks0a-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=15121&amp;creative=390961&amp;creativeASIN=1841542687

There’s planes but you’re right they aren’t mentioned much. Dan abnett wrote a book on pilots called double eagle https://www.amazon.com/Double-Eagle-Dan-Abnett/dp/1844160904

I read it years ago but it didn’t leave much of an impression I guess because I barely remember what it’s about.

Audiable has the entire Horus Heresy series. You might also find it on Scribd. It is available on Amazon but I wouldn't recommend paying through the nose, even if it is a good book.

Here's the Amazon link- Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium! It's the first one.

https://www.amazon.com/Ciaphas-Cain-Hero-Imperium-Warhammer-ebook/dp/B07TY1L5X9/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=12R1M8MCPK23I&amp;keywords=ciaphas+Cain&amp;qid=1655722026&amp;sprefix=ciaphas+cain+%2Caps%2C183&amp;sr=8-2

The entire thing looked a lot like the synopsis of this book: The entire scenario sounded to me like the synopsis of https://www.amazon.com/World-Engine-Space-Marine-Battles/dp/1784961698 anyone agree?

link

Looks like only the digital copy is available right now, physical is being released later this year. I listened to the audiobook and I highly recommend

Well, there was supposed to be a new one called <em>Masters of Shadow</em> but unfortunately the author had a falling-out with GW so it was never published.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1800260881/

> Echoes of Eternity (7) Hardcover – September 13, 2022 by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

I seem to recall every single HH ebook release coming out several weeks before the official release date of the hardcover book version. Is this tracked or announced anywhere? As is, I guess I'm just setting a reminder to start checking Amz and BL every few days sometime in August?

May I introduce you to these badboys

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LWP84P7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

All your tungsten needs without the hefty price tag

It’d be funny if they’re hiding under the surface ice of one or more gas giant moons in Imperial systems, just living quietly. The book Alien Oceans, written by one of the astronomers studying such things now, offers neat possibilities.

> Read Xenology and be enlightened

Dude. But jokes aside (the pirate is easy to find), Xenology is… Complicated.

Tone-wise it’s very well-done. I just really dislike how it leans into the ‘everything is one big easy interconnected narrative’ idea (even though I understand that is the entire point of a book that is all about emulating conspiracy theory imagery).

I am happy the author flat-out said to not take the book as the definitive answer.

I also think it’s important to frame it in the time it was published. The tablet at the end loses a lot of the cosmic horror elements when Necron Pariahs were retconned out and the waking C’tan stopped being a major presence.

The books called indomitas. Based 10yrs into the indomitas crusade and is ultramarines vs necrons. Quite a good read, I certainly enjoyed it.

Book seven coming out in September according to Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Echoes-Eternity-7-Aaron-Dembski-Bowden/dp/1800260881/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=1NYDZ5EM7V4TJ&amp;keywords=echoes+of+eternity+siege+of+terra&amp;qid=1647451385&amp;sprefix=echoes+%2Caps%2C177&amp;sr=8-1

Damn that’s a wait☹️

You've never read his and Lanning's run on Nova?

https://www.amazon.com/Nova-Abnett-Lanning-Complete-Collection/dp/1302911341

idk about his solo stuff, but I feel like it's impossible to dislike their Nova run.

Amazon’s showing book 7 being released in September 2022. I’ll have entirely forgotten what’s going on by then.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Echoes-Eternity-7-Aaron-Dembski-Bowden/dp/1800260881/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=PJ7NJU1K0020&amp;keywords=echos+of+eternity&amp;qid=1647293307&amp;sprefix=echos+o%2Caps%2C104&amp;sr=8-1

The Night Lords Omnibus, bonus points for wing maybe the most acclaimed books in the black Library. Curze’s Primarch book is also a great place to start.

Several of the stories in Matt Cardin's To Rouse Leviathan include characters seriously wrangling with how Christian theology must change once Cthulhu rises. I imagine the Lectitio having that much weirdness in it.

To Rouse Leviathan (free on Kindle Unlimited)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T2FSSRL/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_a_X3QHRST3WC7RJ9VX1JTM

> Jonathan Keeble

Since I've got some credits sitting in my Audible account I figured I'd take a look at some other stuff he narrates. Turns out he also did A History of Western Philosophy By: Bertrand Russell which is kinda cool.

https://www.audible.com/pd/Pharos-Audiobook/B0763YMM7Z

That is the link I get when I search for Pharos U.S. auidobook. If that doesn't take you to the correct novel on Audible you'll have to contact audible itself. I can't find another provider of it. It's entirely possible it's not yet been released to your country for some reason.

This flowchart explains the super complicated, complex order of the series. It is six months old, but shouldn't miss too many stories.

To be honest, I haven't read the series but would love to. My understanding from similar posts in the past is that you focus on the main core books, then read the series based on factions, heroes, writers, sub plots, and so forth that you enjoy.

Some stories and authors are great, some suck, some individual stories are great by themselves, and others are great as a sub-series, but ultimately not every single story needs to be read to see the overall picture.

It's similar to how you can watch the latest Spiderman without having to have seen all prior 30+ Marvel films from the past 20 years.

As a Scandinavian forename, it was extracted from the Frankish ruler Charlemagne's Latin name &quot;Carolus Magnus&quot; and re-analyzed as Old Norse magn-hús = &quot;power house&quot;.

reanalysed as OLD NORSE

Magnus the Good (died 1047), king of Norway, who was named for the Emperor Charlemagne, Latin Carolus Magnus ‘Charles the Great’. The name spread from Norway to the eastern Scandinavian royal houses, and became popular all over Scandinavia and thence in the English Danelaw

Please, by all means, provide a source to the use in a Christian context

Yeah that all seems really weird tbh.

I just had a play with https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/space-travel, if you can handwave away their drives needing fuel (or they can somehow be more than 100% mass -> energy efficient) and if they're doing smallish distances like 10ly, and can accelerate at say, 40g's, travel time is reduced to ~106 days shipboard, and ~10 years would have passed on the septs. Maybe it's not as absurd as it sounds as long as they can sort out the fuel/energy source situation. Other than never being able to reinforce somewhere due to objective travel time and the event you're trying to intervene in is long over that is.

Here's one that I found awhile ago:

https://vk.com/doc27794867_477927308?hash=1c45b0d70440038380&amp;dl=6244ea3ad42c575541

There was also a book I read in which a first mate did a coup on a captain. The captain ended up as part of the chain gang-pressed members of the crew. He had to then get back to the captain position of the ship.

A lot of lore bits in the book on the day-to-day workings of imperial navy ships. Like how data was exchanged with ports when they are docked.

This is the book: https://www.amazon.com/Relentless-Warhammer-40-000-Novels/dp/1844165019

>I imagine Tau/cult crossover isn't SUPER common in the library, but if there are more stories like that, I'm interested.

I just read one short story with this crossover by Marc Collins called Respite's End. It's in the Inferno Warhammer 40k anthology, which have a lot of good shorts and almost no Space Marines so far.

The best Genestealer Cults novel for me is Cult of the Spiral Dawn by Peter Fehervari. You can also check out Deathwatch by Steven Parker and Fist of the Imperium by Andy Clark, both feature Space Marine protagonists but they have some great characterization/POV chapters from the Cult's perspective.

Aside from Devastation of Baal, you should check out The Last Hunt by Robbie MacNiven. Has some extremely visceral Nid scenes, like this one where we get a first person POV of a human crew on a space station getting nommed by the approaching Tyranid Hive Fleet.

&gt; Throughout the course of Vermintide’s development, we worked closely with Games Workshop. Each time we had a new concept, marketing asset, in-game render or the equivalent, we would send it over to our contacts at Games Workshop for feedback and approval. On top of that, we got help from two of Games Workshop’s veteran writers to create the lore for Vermintide and to weave it into the official stories from the End Times. We were even told that Vermintide would become a part of the canon.

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https://www.greenmangaming.com/intel-feature/vermintide/vermintide-qa-with-fatshark/

Meanwhile, this narrative of power reminds me

>Than here, in our New Testament.
I feel impelled, its meaning to determine,—
With honest purpose, once for all,
The hallowed Original
To change to my beloved German.
>
>(...)
'Tis written: "In the Beginning was the Word."
Here am I balked: who, now can help afford?
The Word?—impossible so high to rate it;
And otherwise must I translate it.
If by the Spirit I am truly taught.
Then thus: "In the Beginning was the Thought"
>
>This first line let me weigh completely,
Lest my impatient pen proceed too fleetly.
Is it the Thought which works, creates, indeed?
"In the Beginning was the Power," I read.
>
>Yet, as I write, a warning is suggested,
That I the sense may not have fairly tested.
The Spirit aids me: now I see the light!
"In the Beginning was the Act," I write.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (1831)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14591/14591-h/14591-h.htm

No worries! And bravo for writing and communicating in a second language. It's never easy and I'm happy to see others try. You're English isn't bad, but I did want to check so I could understand you.

If you are interested in how people would create unique Chapter tactics or strategies, then maybe you could make another thread sometime about that. If you can find a copy in either English or your own native language, I suggest read this book. It has an excellent Space Marine Chapter creation system in it.

just go ahead and read it, you're three chapters in. you won't mess anything up even if the lore has been developing over the years

i always pitch this:

https://www.amazon.com/Imperium-Ciaphas-Sandy-Mitchell-author/dp/1849702705/

its more of a comedic bent

There are two, actually, I believe. This one has Rebel Winter, as well as a Catachan story and Fifteen Hours, infamous for contributing to the idea that IG are cannon fodder. I'm not a fan of it, but you might like it.

I've checked in with some associates, it looks like your best bet is probably to get a PDF copy and have it printed/bound :(

If it's super important to you to have the legit article, I'd suggest looking over ABE at this point.