>Abadabadoo in charge of blowing up planets lmfao

>>53701039
What is this?

>>53701116
Weak bait that relies on its "victims" not to do any research or an OP that didn't bother to read the synopsis and leapt at the title. The novel is about the Fall of Cadia.
http://www.blacklibrary.com/coming-soon/september/cadia-stands-ebook.html
Though according to the 8e previews, Cadia is still around and the Imperium wants it back.

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>>53701039
Poor Chaosfags.....how will they ever recover?
13 Black crusades, and in the end the Imperium btfo's them anyway.
Serves you right for betraying the Emperor

>>53701173
Wasn't it more or less split into 2 larger fragment with other smaller bits flying off?

>>53701304
What's that 2 Cadian Shock Troops Factions and infinite little split offs? And here's me thinking another guard army would have to become the poster boys by necessity.

>>53701304
Yes... the guard are still on it though, in the trenches, fighting the hordes of deamons with their lasguns and beyonets. Dying by the thousands.

>>53701517
But it's been a century

>>53701526
The Cadians are undoubtedly the best Imperial Gaurdsmen ever. Yes, really! Thanks to the heritage of Cadia and their myriad heroic deeds, the Cadians are the exemplars of the Imperial Guard. With a few fringe exceptions who originate from worthless deathworlds or possess stolid stubbornness, all Imperial Gaurd Regiments want to be like the Cadians and recognize Ursarkar Creed as their spiritual liege

>>53701526
I kinda like the idea that the stand of Cadia made such a tremor in the warp that guardsmen continually reappear, forever preventing the daemonic hordes from making any real gains, forever sending in the next wave....
Of course, this would mean they are all daemons too.

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>>53701039
Remember lads. The Emperor protects. Good job.

>>53701606
Yeah, this is cool. Like the guardsmen were so valiant in their efforts that Khorne keeps resurrecting them to fight his own troops.

>>53701766
>caiphus kaineis khorne's ahriman

>>53701039

Probably in spirit not in reality. But i dont care about any novel written post guilliman scandal. You can shell out your money on new toys but dont support teh new direction the fluff is taking by giving them your money on fluff related material.

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>>53701606
>>53701766

>My name is Tobias. Trooper, first class.
>I'm one hundred and twenty five...I think.
>I've been fighting for about four-fifths of that.
>My planet is broken. My people are broken.
>But I am not.
>My name is Tobias. Trooper, first class.
>Every morning I wake up with a lasrifle in my hands.
>I remember every death. Every bolt to the chest, head, belly. Every knife, every sword, every maw filled with teeth.
>Every day I die in a new way. I'm a bit proud of that.
>My name is Tobias. Trooper, first class.
>The Emperor's out there, somewhere.
>The way I figure it, if the daemons are fighting, there's something they're fighting against.
>That's where I am. That's WHAT I am.
>My name is Tobias. Trooper, first class.
>And as long as I'm alive, I'll fight.

>>53701766

Stop giving gw shitty ideas.
They have enough of them already.

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black library thread?

just finished this one, wondering what other's hot take on it is

>besides /tg/ typical cynical bitching

>>53702078
I enjoyed it but others will probably say it's trash

>Big end to end galactic stain
>fails to hit even a single relevant system

tip jej

>>53702078
Careful, you may summon some namefag that can't help but bitch about how this book removes every faction but chaos and mankind

>>53702078
>more like master of the mancuck by A.D.B attention disorder bitch.

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>>53702078

>>53701557
>>53701766
>Imperial Guardsmen
>Guardsmen
I believe you meant Astra Militarum-men. What a shitty new name.

>>53701526
So?

The Emperor has been dead for 10,000 years, never stopped him burning that psychic torch to enable Mankind to travel FTL, did it?

>>53702213
>Astra Militamen
>Astra Militarumen
>Astra Militia
>A.M.men
>Amen

>>53701606
I was always considering a Guard army themed around that one Space Marine chapter that pops up, reks nerds, and dissappears again themed around that. I think it was Legion of the Damned or something?

Basically thrn I could just say all the tabletop battles would be "canon", including deaths and losses.

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>>53702078
Always relevant to post in any BL thread

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>>53702364

>>53701526
And? Cadians export one thing, cadians. They dont just die for the emperor, they breed for the emperor.

>>53702415
>Know No Fear
At first I didn't really like the fact that it was written in present tense, but now I actually really like how it created tension and made everything seem immediate.

>>53702364
where's baneblade?

>>53702894
i'd put it at good-tier, it was one of the better ones but the middle section dragged it down despite its great characters and good prose

>>53701304
>>53701517
The Imperium wants its chunks back.

Because fuck Chaos fucking shits.

>>53702364
>A Space Marine Battles Novel

>implying Death of Integrity isn't the fucking bomb

>>53701039
Failbaddon can't even destroy a single fucking planet.

Why do they keep pretending his Black Crusades are worth anything? GW should've killed him off after 13th Black Crusade and had another known Chaos Marine lead the 14th.

>>53703507
OP is trolling you all with the title of the book.

>>53702364
Word Bearers omnibus was the shit
>invade world
>there are so many guardsmen that they start running out of bolter rounds
>guardsmen PoV is basically "well like three of us might survive and actually injure a spiky marine"
i thought it was good. get fucked imperials

>>53703577
that book was great

>entire planet is held by a handful of White Consuls holding together the moral of more guard than you can count

that shit was fucking legendary

>>53702298>>53701606


Legion of the Damned yes. There's also a similarly themed Ork warband under Tuska the Demon Killer. They fight demons eternally in the Eye of Terror.

>>53701039
>Abadon cracks the planet in half
>guardsmen put it back together with fucking 100-mph tape and chew

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>ITT: We trigger /tg/

>>53702364

Gaunt's Ghosts should be broken into two headings: Prior to approximately Sabbat Martyr, and anywhere thereafter. That was about where the kid gloves went on and then turned into big ol' slapstick huge oven mitts. Dabnett shows his roots as a comic book writer in that he just can't kill named characters. I'm sorry, but when three armed and ambushing CSMs happen to anything this side of a Guard company, the result is, "And then the victorious servants of Chaos cavorted in the entrails of their dead uncounted. The End."

>>53702500

It's the sense that you're watching a pictor reel of these events as they happened. It gives you a more tangible connection to the information as you're discovering it, makes it feel more concrete when contrasted with, "Once upon a time..."

>>53704427
>he just can't kill named characters
I thought the ghosts novels whole thing was it killed named characters

>>53704246
The Primarchs had a hard life

>>53704246
As someone who greatly prefers old fluff, I don't see how that's triggering. That, and the line about the Emperor loving nothing but mankind as a whole seems pretty inline with the M41 Emperor in Inquisition Wars

>>53701606
>Legion of the Damned: Guardsman Division.
I've been playing with this idea since Cadia fell but fuck this has reignited my love for the idea.

>>53704515
They used to be, yeah.

The last big named character that died was the fucking Medic. Of cancer.

>>53704246
Did Girly Man actually just fucking pseudo-communicate with the Emperor?

DID HE? I AM KIND OF OKAY WITH THIS BUT NOT I DON'T KNOW

>>53704619
While I think a lot of cries that 40k isn't grimdark anymore is highly over exaggerated, it's pretty undeniable that BL no longer kills its main characters like it used to. And certainly doesn't help that a higher percentage of current BL's characters are canon characters they couldn't kill off if they wanted to, making the only tension in a story the question of what aspect of the event or character is going to be retconned

>>53704648
He did have a convo with emps yes

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>>53702415
Anyone happen to have pdfs of Legion, Beneath the Serpent, Betrayer or any of your favorites? Archive isn't working for me

>>53701606

>Chaos fucks itself over once agian

I absolutely love it

>>53704656
It's a little painful to see. Fuck, find me one person who didn't get teary over Bragg or Colm. The casual loss of Gaunts Ghosts was poignant and humanised the setting.

>>53704515

That's why there's two headings. Early novels, Dabnett drove home the constant struggle of spending these very few precious lives when engaged in titanic warfare beyond the scope of individual men. Then he softened a little and would introduce new characters to act as chaff and die in the next novel or so. Then he fully jumped the Wartrukk over the Drops by having a select handful get hot-dropped into a world already conquered by Chaos, assassinate a high ranking traitor, critically aid the resistance, fight off CSMs, and secret themselves off-planet to be debriefed and hopefully not blammed for any of 100 reasons. Total casualty count?
A B S O L U T E L Y
N O N E

>>53704246
>>53702078

okay so here's my question - why does GW have the Emperor denouncing the primarchs as his sons and being a dick in general?

it can't be that he's simply some tyrannical asshole, there's too many factors working against that. so why simply state he sees them as nothing but tools? seems odd

>>53702415
Know no fear was so fucking good.

>>53701173
It's a daemonworld now. Why does Imprium want it back?

>>53704648
He's not the only one who has done it either. An Inquisitor talked to the guy in an old as fuck BL book

>>53705486
They want the gate back. Its still a strategic location.

>>53705509
Why is there still a gate?
The gate was caused by the pylon network. The now-destroyed pylon network.
Also chaos fleets now can enter realspace anywhere accross Cycatrix, so the Gate have zero strategic value.

>>53705255
you make these posts as if they beat grappled them to death in hand-to-hand combat one at a time.

CONTEXT NIGGA

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>>53705565
Nevermind me. I thought it was closer to the Belis Corona passage through the storm meaning Cadia and the other cadian gate worlds would be important for controlling it but I'm an idiot. I have no fucking idea why they want it.

>>53701039
>Cadia Stands

Like what, 「Distant Early Warning」or 「The Trooper」?

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>>53705669
[Born to Lead] with it's power, [Tactical Genius]

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>>53705586
Negative of this map looks so much better

>>53705586
Because symbolism you retard.

>>53702078
Is canon-Kitten still in the Warp?

>>53705835
Fuck symbolism channel all those guard regiments into securing one of the passages.

Will the tau get at least their asses pushed seeing chaos everywhere?

>>53702364
I just realized we never had Cain vs Eldar.

>>53705859
We never had actual Cain vs Tau either

>>53705829
It really does. So the cicatrix maledictum is just one galaxy spanning warp storm or something?

>>53705859lets be real. It would probably involve Cain fucking an Autarch who Amberely then kills.

>>53706026
You do realize that all canon Autarchs outside of DoW are males?

>>53702243
the Astronomican is created by continuously burning through thousands of psykers in the Throne Chamber

>>53705844
>Fuck symbolism
You really know nothing at all about the Imperium do you?

>>53706057
It's in the Asctronomican chamber inside the Hollow Mountain (aka Everest). It's not even in the same complex as the Throne chamber.

>>53706081
And you know nothing about girlyman.

>>53702415
Why do people talk shit about OUtcast Dead?

While maybe not a ton happened, it added a lot of backstory and elements to the astro telepathica and the houses of nobles on terra. Could the book not have existed? Sure...but thats about half the HH series so far.

>>53706110
Mostly because it's a chronological clusterfuck.

>>53705445
Denounce? He doesn't ever directly denounce the Primarchs.
I mean his anger is understandable. They destroyed mankinds ONE true hope. Ultimately everyone who sees or speaks to the Emperor hears, more or less, what they want to hear, or at least in how he says it.

In Master of Mankind the Emperor is cold and mean because that's what the Custodes want from him. They do not ever think of him as a father, they see him as the Emperor. Custodes are not a "family" like the Primarchs and marines were built to be. Same as how he appears just a humble scientist to the Magos Land. He is cold and calculated because that's how a Magos thinks. Land is amazed by the Emperor and how perfect he is yet...so human still (well fleshy).

In modern 40k Girlyman was talked shit by the Emperor because that's what he needed to hear. He comes back at the end-times of Mankind, after failing to do his ultimate duty. He knows that the splitting of the chapters was, ultimately, a failure and everything he did post heresy was shit.

>>53705445
>>53704246
what's so surprising about this? The Emp always considered the Primarchs his createst creation in flesh and blood, but he didn't really trust them. Did anyone really think he considered the likes of Konrad and Angron as anything but useful tools? Guilliman knew the love of a father from Konor, and perhaps craved to fill the spot with the Emperor, but most other Primarchs probably didn't have those illusions.

>>53705255
This may be less him being a comic writer and more him having a 10+ novel series and the longer that shit goes on, the more you need to not kill characters for fear of losing the readers.

There's only so many core characters you can kill off before you have no protagonists.

>>53706043
So?

>>53706093
I only remember it being fuelled in the throne chamber during Master of Mankind

>>53706185
But muh grimdak

>>53706185
Abnett has literally stated he will keep writing these things until all the characters are dead or people stop reading them - whatever comes first.

>>53706249
You do realize corpsefuckers have TWO chambers designed for sacrificing psykers - one to fuel the Aastronomican, and another to keep the Big Man alive... well, non-quite-dead.

>>53706267
And moving on A will cause B faster than is... profitable.

>>53706275
I thought the one in the Throneroom was used to keep open the Webway portal

Can anyone recommend me some of the audiobooks and where to find them? I have no clue where to start

>>53706520
I can recomend you to stay away from the audiobooks.

>>53701766

People like this are the same folks who whine about Space Marines because "they never lose and there's no tension".

Guardfags everyone.

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>>53701039
Am I alone in thinking the helmet-less guardsman looks vaguely like Mads Mikkelsen?

>>53704619

Dorden was a major character who's been around since the first fucking book, not to mention that two other characters who'd been around for the majority of the series died within the same few pages.

There's a lot of shit that you can criticize Abnett for, especially in Gaunt's Stus, but "he doesn't kill named characters" is fucktarded.

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>>53706172
>but he didn't really trust them
him trusting the primarchs is why horus had time to organize himself on istvaan
him trusting them is why half of the primarchs he sent turned traitor and massacred the loyalists
him trusting horus is why he's on the fucking throne

some people within black library decided to change that with whatever tangled mess is going on now, but don't say that it's ALWAYS been this way

>>53706156
>He knows that the splitting of the chapters was, ultimately, a failure
Does this get said in the books or is it still just a /tg/ meme? It prevented Marines from pulling anything on the scale of the Heresy for 10k years.

>>53706759
It also meant that it was a lot harder to muster sufficient resistance against big threats, like black crusades, ork Waaaghs and hive-fleets, and bobby G now thinks that while he prevented a heresy, he doomed mankind to a slow decline into the insanity he wakes up to.

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>>53701039
>JUST

>>53706759
Bobby G gets accused of having the Ultramarines in full legion strength in Ultramar. Ultra + successor chapters

>>53706913
And the bitch who voices that line of thinking gets a primarch glare right to the face. He knows he's skirting the rules he made but he has the strength of will and personality to force everyone into line.

>>53706942
Yeah, Bobby also founded the 11th company in the Ultramarines so I dunno, guess we legion now

>>53706982
Bobby gives absolutely no fucks anymore. A century of dealing with the Imperium's collective bullshit has made him a grumpy old bastard who lies and manipulates others to do what he wants.

Hell he even realizes that he's becoming just what he views the Emperor as when he lies to that priest in the church.

>>53706998
That priest was my favourite character, his instinctive devotion in big E's divinity reflected in guilliman's growing doubts had me giggling

>>53702364
The Fire Warrior novel is fucking brilliant, what are you talking about?!

>>53707265
It lost points for inspiring the Fire Warrior video game.

Which I may have gone to the midnight release for.

>>53707138
>>53706998

Oh yeah? What happens with a priest in it? Stuff with the eclessiarchy always is interesting to me as it's not really common in 40k these days.

>>53707301
It inspired the game? Which came first?

>>53707343
I was mistaken, which means it just continues the tradition of terrible video game based novels.

>>53707360
Except it doesn't, because it's better than the game on which it is based.

>>53707360
But it was a good book? I mean its like the first few Halo and Gears of War books. Good books from medicore games

>>53707377
This is objectively true - but being better than dogshit doesn't mean you aren't shit too.

>>53707313
he is somehow similar to martin luther in that he appears normal but has a dildo up his ass that socks his balls whenever he presses a remote

but unlike luther he actually believes in his god and is a rather humble person

>>53707313
>>53707388
>socks
shocks as in with lightning

and the guy really really likes it cuz he is a priest after all

in other words GW is once again tipping its fedora in our general direction

>>53705977
Pretty much. After Cadia got smashed, the storm expanded out of the Eye of Terror.

>>53706554
the problem is there's already a precedent for this in the lore, just replace guardsmen for orks and it's pretty much the same story.

Look up tuska the daemon Killa if you don't believe me.

>>53707398
Come on thats just basic Ecclesiarchy flagellation stuff. The dude was pretty cool. He was a humble priest who marched with the guardsmen and saw active combat compared to the higher up priests that were jockying for the position he got. He was also rather level headed even if he was utterly convinced in the divinity of the Emperor and his sons

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>>53704246
>tfw Horus was always right
Keep living in denial, loyalist fags.

>>53702415
About to read my copy of Magnus the Red, should I expect a good or bad story?

>>53707426
>selling your soul to warp parasites
What a fucking cuck.

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To all the bitches here saying that the Emperor cared and loved his sons, remember when you yelled at me when I said that MoM disproved that and that the final fight is going be waaay different because the Emperor won't h old back or hesitate?

Eat the biggest of dicks. Not only we got confirmation from a trusted source that the Emperor fight vs Horus will be very different from its older version but also from "Dark Imperium" we got further proof that the Emperor cares not for the Primarch as his sons. Picture related.

Anyways
>Girlyman : The Emperor is a hearless inhuman monster that cares nothing for me as a son and views mankind as cattle to be controlled. I would still die for him though!

Is Girlyman autistic?

>>53707431
It's a bit convoluted at times, but I enjoyed it. I'm a Thousand Sons and Iron Warrior fan since long ago, though.

>>53706026

I'd always imagined it being that Cain is spending a pleasant evening with Amberley, who has summoned him over for the usual reason. Afterwards, Cain gets up to find some refreshments, and bumps into Rakel in the hallway, who corners him wanting to know about the noises she heard before. Cain tries to bluff his way out but Rakel pins him against the wall and proceeds to ravish him. Cain is simply too terrified to fight back and Jurgen is obviously no-where nearby. Finally Rakel screams in ecstasy and sends out a massively powerful warp burst. She then climbs off Cain and wanders off to find Amberley. Upon finding her, Rakel comments that she's found a way to send out that psychic signal Amberley requested earlier. Cain scrambles back into his clothes and meets up with Amberley again a little later. Amberley tells him that thanks to Rakel, there'll be a meeting between her and an Eldar leader shortly.

Amberley only finds out about what Rakel does in reading the archives. Her footnotes are suitably furious.

>>53706571
I'm pretty sure Mads is Fulgrim, though.

>>53707457
The Chaos Gods are not parasites. They are older than mankind and the material universe and will continue exist after they are gone. If anything, humanity is the parasites because they are using the warp to siphon power and means to travel. The Warp which belongs to the Chaos Gods.

>>53701729
I want GW to make this phrase canon.

>>53707461
You did pretty good in this post until
>and views mankind as cattle to be controlled.
Bobby himself says that while the Emperor was incapable of loving individuals he loved mankind and wanted them to not only survive but thrive. Everything he did was for mankind.

>>53707475
>The Warp which belongs to the Space Wolf Wolf Gods.

Fix'd.

>>53707457
>implying Horus wasn't using the warp gods like your imperial pussy
Keep sucking that imperial dick like a loyal little bitch.

>>53707483
That's why he eats a fuckton of them daily.

>Bobby himself says that while the Emperor was incapable of loving individuals he loved mankind

Going by what's in MoM. And which chapter did Girlyman say this?

>>53707475
>not parasites
>they require the emotions of living beings to be strong
>>parasite;an organism which lives in or on another organism (its host)
>they help fuel these emotions to insane heights no matter how destructive the results will be
parasitism; In biology/ecology, parasitism is a non-mutual relationship between species, where one species, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, the host.
>not parasites

>>53707381
The only book that was bad from the first few Halo novels was literally the novelization of the game.

Fire Warrior wasn't terrible, but it wasn't good.

>>53707497
When he's talking to the priest in the church. Heres the quote
>The Emperor loves no one man, thought Guilliman. He cannot afford affection- that is the honest practical for the impossible task that faces the Master of Mankind. He did not love his sons. He does not love men, but He does love mankind.
Then he goes on a bit until
>Perhaps my father did not wish to be a tyrant either. History has roles for us that cannot be denied. We are but pieces on the board of eternity

>>53707498
Except the Chaos Gods benefit those who are under them and they don't requite mortals to exist.

Heck, Chaos Gods are sometimes the progenitors of the mortal races such the case of the Eldar whose gods are said to be children of the Chaos Gods. The Eldar refer to Slaanesh as both their parent and child.

>The visions became a blur of a passing age, but then stopped, a single vignette of war and devastation, of fires burning the sky and a plain of skulls torn asunder by the fury of battle. A goddess-god, ancient and young, beautiful and terrible, caught up in the flames, dragged into the abyss to share the doom unleashed upon its parent-children.

-"Jain Zar"

A parent cannot be a parasite upon a child.

>>53707462
Thanks anon! I'm a big TS fan too, though I never got around to actually reading it because life got in the way. Time to start reading now, I guess.

>tfw owning collector's edition book for your favorite primarch
Such a nice feeling.

>>53707553
>A parent cannot be a parasite upon a child.
>Implying

>>53704246
Everything stated in that pic was already known since forever

Only an idiot would believe the Emperor felt any different for his primarchs

stop trying to make it into a big revelation. It's not. Everyone knows that. everyone in the hobby before us knew that.

>>53707461
I prefer this Emperor, to be honest. It at least makes sense in a post-irony 40K for the Emperor to be an inhuman cunt.

>>53707535
>but He does love mankind.

Doesn't disprove him looking down on humanity as cattle to be controlled. A Shepard can love his flock even as he looks down on them as hapless animals.

>>53707582
And nothing implies that he looks at them as cattle to be controlled either.

>>53707575
No, you're wrong. This is a revision of the previous canon. Granted, it's not brand new, but it is still a pretty big change that affects a lot of the lore.

Just because you weren't around before the Horus Heresy series, doesn't mean the previous lore didn't exist.

>>53707584
It does. The part where he kills his uncle does. Also the commentary by the custodes.

>>53707602
>commentary from the custodes somehow trumps commentary from Bobby
Yeah nah son we're both just throwing second hand testimony around

>>53707614
Custards were closer to the Emperor than any of the primarchs though.

>>53707616
And he just as easily could have lied to them like he lied to the Primarchs. Theres no actual proof we're all just sperging out over headcannon that we've formulated from hints, vague impressions and conflicting views.

Which is exactly how it should fucking be.

>>53706156
The Emperor doesn't seem particularly cold with the Custodes, to my reading. Maybe somewhat distant, but he's actually almost friendly, for a forty thousand year old semi-autist. He's a ruler, but also a teacher, and tends to engage in philosophy discussion with them, and openly admits that he would never spend the lives of the Ten Thousand if he had any choice in the matter.

He definitely seems cold with the Primarchs in BL stuff though. That's what pisses me off about it.

>>53707600
The Emps has been a dick since the time of digging your poop not to be found by jeanstealers.

"SO DOES THE HYDRA THREATEN US?"
"IMPERILLING OUR GREAT AND AWFUL PLAN TO STEER HUMANITY?"
"DID WE OURSELVES DEVISE THE HYDRA?"
"PERHAPS IN A PART OF US, SINCE THIS HYDRA PROMISES A PATH?"
"SURELY A MALEVOLENT PATH; FOR HOW COULD HUMANITY EVER FREE ITSELF?"
"THEN WE MUST BE MALEVOLENT TOO. FOR WE HAVE EXPELLED OUR SENTIMENTALITY LONG AGO. HOW ELSE COULD WE HAVE ENDURED? HOW ELSE COULD WE HAVE IMPOSED OUR RULE?"
"YET BY VIRTUE OF THAT WE ARE PURE AND UNCONTIMINATED BY WEAKNESS. WE ARE GRIM SALVATION."'
'"NOTHING THAT SAFEGUARDS HUMANITY CAN BE EVIL, NOT EVEN THE MOST STRENUOUS INHUMANITY. IF THE HUMAN RACE FAILS, IT HAS FAILED FOREVER."
"WHEN WE CONFRONTED THE CORRUPTED, HOMIXIDAL HORUS WHO ONCE USED TO SHINE LIKE HE BRIGHTEST STAR, WHO USED TO BE OUR BELOVED FAVOURITE - WHEN THE FGATE OF THE GALAXY HUNG BY A THREAT - WERE WE NOT COMPELLED TO EXPEL ALL COMPASSION? ALL LOVE? ALL JOY? THOSE WENT AWAY. HOW ELSE COULD WE HAVE ARMOURED OURSELVES? EXISTENCE IS TORMENT, A TORMENT THAT MUST NOURISH US. EVIDENTLY WE MUST STRIVE TO BE THE FIRECE REDEEMER OF MAN, YET WHAT WILL REDEEM US?"

>>53707689
This piece of old lore always make me think that Big E doesn't simply noms psykers, he adds them to his large pool of personalities.

>>53704246
>behaved like a prisoner locked in an iron cage who is passed a rasp
Gee, maybe that's because he practically fucking IS locked in a cage?

>>53702364
>No Shira Cal

:'(

>>53705829
I think they do this originally and some moron inverted the colours

>>53706783
HURON DID NOTHING WRONG

>>53707689
>WERE WE NOT COMPELLED TO EXPEL ALL COMPASSION? ALL LOVE? ALL JOY?
>A REFLECTION OF OUR GOODNESS WHICH WE THRUST FROM US.
He's literally saying he had those things before destroying horus.

40k's emperor has always been off his rocker (due to being on the throne for ten thousand years), but the emperor before his internment was originally portrayed as relatively human. Something the collective authors and editors of black library apparently deemed offensive to their sensibilities.

>>53707904
Nothing wrong with being human but autist inclined with his long life, but I always preferred the Emperor as human but magnified. He's all humanity's best, and also has some of its worst.

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>>53701039
>Abadabadoo

Abadabadoo Abadabadoo
Abadabadoo Abadabadoo
Abadabadoo Abadabadoo Doo
Abadabadoo Abadabadoo Doobadoo
Abadabadoo Abadabadoo Doo
Abadabadoo Abadabadoo Doo
Abadabadoo Abadabadoo
Abadabadoo Abadabadoo

There's no hoooolding me back

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>>53702078
All right my dude.
I recommend Deathwatch by Steve Parker, Red Tithe by Robby McNiven, Baneblade, Shadowsword, and the associated short stories by Guy Haley, Heart of Medusa by...I don't remember his name, Dead Men Walking by Steve Lyons, Death of Antagonis Warden of the Blade by David Annandale and pdf related that you can't get anywhere on BL because of legal shenanigans.

Have fun my man.

>>53707498
> Is a man not entitled to the power of his own mind?
>'No,' says the man on Terra, 'it belongs to the emperor.'
>'No,' says the man on Sicarus, 'it belongs to Gods.'
>'No,' says the man on Mandragora, 'it doesn't belong to this reality.'

>>53708361
>Baneblade, Shadowsword, and the associated short stories
Are there any other shorts beside Stormlord? Phoneposting else would check

>>53708509
Iron Harvest, which is, in my opinion, very essential to enjoying Shadowsword. This way you learn the origin of the crew, and it makes their interactions a lot more enjoyable and it feels like Band of Brothers/Fury.

>>53708634
I'll definitely get a hold of it then, since i felt that Shadowsword was certainly a lot weaker than Baneblade-not due to anything in particular, but prose felt blander and characters less interesting, not to mention the storyline was a lot less engaging. Admittedly, a weirdboy using psyker-crystals to try to turn into Orky Emprah while piloting a psychic gargant is really hard to top.

>>53708688
You might want to re-read Shadowsword after reading Iron Harvest. It's a lot more enjoyable. Golff's whipping and the crew's interactions is one of the best I read in a 40k book imo.

Admittedly, the passages of the Governor always bored me, as I really enjoyed the fighting scenes and the crew moments. The introspections of the lieutenant are always just as enjoyable. Just like he 1st one was about the horrors of war, the 2nd is more about how he behaves off duty, politically.

>>53707788
In the words of the big E himself
>RELAX MORTAL MAN, OR YOU WILL DIE IN SUCH PAIN THAT WE ALWAYS ENDURE.

>>53707904
>Something the collective authors and editors of black library apparently deemed offensive to their sensibilities.
Well when you give the task of writing the Horus Heresy to ascended chaosfags, one of the more prominent ones having actual daddy issues...

>>53708754
See, the later fight scenes in Shadowsword felt weaker than baneblade by a large margin, at least to me, and the politicking was definitely my favourite chunk of the book. I did reread Baneblade immediately before Shadowsword, and felt the crew felt a lot less fleshed out in the newer book. The Governor was a sympathetic viewpoint, too-we all know that one weak-willed friend who gets pulled around by the nose, by girlfriends, bosses, family, whatever-that we feel equal parts sympathy and derision for. Definitely going to go get my hands on Iron Harvest though, Haley's been putting out the best BL books consistently over the last little while. The only one of his i havent liked much was Pharos.

>>53707904
This. Anyone who actually likes/knows the old fluff and didn't just join the BL-hate bandwagon when it got briefly popular years back, could tell you that there's really nothing in this novel that contradicts any of the old characterization of the old Emperor.

>>53704246
Would only trigger a certain subsect of people who have built up an idealized Emperor and think that man still exists. He doesn't. The Emperor Ascended, He Who Endures On Throne, is, and always has been, in the fluff, batshit crazy and incapable of compassion or love - enduring only because of an obsessive compulsion to protect humanity from Chaos.

>>53705829
>Tau empire enveloped by ultrasmurfs, a warp storm and Sautekh.

Crib death? Crib death.

>>53705829
Holy shit, you're not wrong there. This is much better.

>>53709297
Will you fuck off with this bullshit?

All the shit you talk illustrates to me you know sweet fuck all. Tired of autists like you.

>>53710419
>Sick and tired of autists who can't stop crying about badwrongfluff in a setting with the loosest of canons
Perhaps not the board for you, /tg/ is. Only pain and suffering, will you find here.

>>53709317
Well the fact that they basically get one shot per fight while in the Shadowsword doesn't help, I see what you mean. In comparison, the attack on the hill against the Anti Tank Leman Russ is absolute top notch, because they're all active, everything moves. They're not stationnary, waiting to shoot.

To each their own I guess, it bored me very fast as soon as the Imp is shown to be weird yet attractive and his aunt to have something odd, you just know what's going to happen at this point.

But yeah, Iron Harvest is necessary to enjoy it more. What is basically one line aboit this or that member in Shadowsword is expanded A LOT upon in the short story.

>>53701039
>not Abadadabadoo
2/10

>>53701606
Fuck you, I only have so much time and money to spend painting guardsmen and I don't need another damn idea for a time consuming conversion project.

>>53707553
>A parent cannot be a parasite upon a child
you haven't met my parents, have you?

>>53702364
>Ian Watson in Acceptable Tier
>Not placing all of his works in God-Emperor Tier

That picture is a summary execution waiting to happen, my friend

>>53702364

>Night lords up top

Meandering hot topic garbage.

>I hate everything and have no actual motivation, but I murderhobo about from Warzone to Warzone for 10,000 years anyhow
>AVE DOMINUS NOX

>>53706172
just go away aaron and watch some more more cuck porn or whatever else you do in your free time

>>53704246
the only way this is stupid is because it invalidates Emp's reason for the hesitation before killing Horus
if they'd truly been tools, he would've struck him down without a moment's doubt

>>53713719
Black Library intends to totally redo the final fight, up to, and possibly including Sanguinus dying, according to Lady Atia.
So if you're not a fan of the HH series, just remember that Guilliman is meeting the Emperor in M41 and M41's Emperor... Well you've probably seen the quotes all over /tg/ the past couple of days.

>>53704648
That crazy SoB who killed Vandire did too.

>>53708361
Its been five years, do you think we'll ever get another Parker novel? I feel like he actually had a plot he wanted to pursue with Karras and Sigma, and the crazy shit of the modern 40k plot advancement sounds like a great place for him to do so.

>>53704246
Is this from MoM? Does it have a stinger with Guilliman in 40k, or is this one of the new books? I am super behind since I don't know where the fuck any BL books can be found on a shared mega or something.

>>53704246
If this is set in 40k that is pretty well fitting of the way he is depicted in the Inquisition War. I know that apparently people are mad about Master of Mankind, so I can't speak to 30k here, but this actually sounds a lot like when Jaq Draco met the Emperor which is a pretty neat old, old 40k reach back

>>53714448
>>53714519
It's from Dark Imperium. It takes place 100 years after 999.M41

>>53705829
wait there is still a warp-free corridor near cadia
does that mean that there is still somr necron stuff working back there ?

>>53714548
Is that the new status quo year? Which is fine with me, it makes the logistics of chadmarines being spread out not as insane to swallow.

Do we have a BL mega anymore?

>>53714780
Yeah, but there was a bit where Guilliman says the Imperial history got so fucked that they might not even have the year right, and it could be anywhere from early M41 to a thousand years later.
So GW might pussy out of changing the millennium and changing the opening, when I think they should just have three eras with three openings.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Word Bearers Omnibus, are there any other good quality chaos focused novels?

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>cadia stands just in the hill

>>53714871
You read the best ones. But Storm of Iron is pretty legit.

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>>53704648

And low, the Emperor of Mankind did speak, and said:

"the Administratum is a humongous festering bureaucratic blister upon the once fine musculature that is the Imperium, so do your thing and be useful for once you little derivative pile of blueberry pudding pop fuckery."

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>>53714646
right here !
that or they just copy-paste the old map, those lazy gitz

>>53714177
Its never actually stated that she spoke to the Emperor, only that she was taken to the throne. Back then it was significantly more up in the air whether the Emperor was 'alive' or whether it was really a supremely dessicated mummy on top of a monstrous machine doing all the work. I'm actually somewhat disappointed that they've come down on "he's actually (kind of) still there and conscious enough to hate"

>>53715405
It's heavily implied though, because one second she was going to die fighting the Custodes for Vandire, and then the next she's BLAMMING him.

>>53714016
>Well you've probably seen the quotes all over /tg/ the past couple of days.
Let's say hypothetically I haven't.

>>53715445
True, but you could also read it as her being shown that Vandire's rule, the things he'd done to recruit the proto-Sisters and all the things he had them do was based on a truly monstrous lie.

>>53715568
>"SURELY A MALEVOLENT PATH; FOR HOW COULD HUMANITY EVER FREE ITSELF?"
>"THEN WE MUST BE MALEVOLENT TOO. FOR WE HAVE EXPELLED OUR SENTIMENTALITY LONG AGO. HOW ELSE COULD WE HAVE ENDURED? HOW ELSE COULD WE HAVE IMPOSED OUR RULE?"
>"YET BY VIRTUE OF THAT WE ARE PURE AND UNCONTIMINATED BY WEAKNESS. WE ARE GRIM SALVATION."'
>'"NOTHING THAT SAFEGUARDS HUMANITY CAN BE EVIL, NOT EVEN THE MOST STRENUOUS INHUMANITY. IF THE HUMAN RACE FAILS, IT HAS FAILED FOREVER."
>"WHEN WE CONFRONTED THE CORRUPTED, HOMICIDAL HORUS WHO ONCE USED TO SHINE LIKE HE BRIGHTEST STAR, WHO USED TO BE OUR BELOVED FAVOURITE - WHEN THE FATE OF THE GALAXY HUNG BY A THREAD - WERE WE NOT COMPELLED TO EXPEL ALL COMPASSION? ALL LOVE? ALL JOY? THOSE WENT AWAY. HOW ELSE COULD WE HAVE ARMOURED OURSELVES? EXISTENCE IS TORMENT, A TORMENT THAT MUST NOURISH US. EVIDENTLY WE MUST STRIVE TO BE THE FIRECE REDEEMER OF MAN, YET WHAT WILL REDEEM US?"
It's a pretty good bit of fluff that I think does a great job setting the tone for the Imperium.

>>53715627
Actually, everyone seems so fixated on that one bit, but I'll go ahead and post the whole scene.

THROBBING PIPES RIBBED the walls of the vast throne room beyond. The muscles of the room were thick power cables feeding stegosaurian engines. The air was spiked with crisp ozone and bitter myrrh, and ointmented with balmy, somewhat greasy fragrances. The holiest battle banners, icons and golden fetishes flanked the arena of dedication where psykers were soul-bound. Squads of Emperor’s Companions who guarded that vast hall, a mob of tech-priests ministering to the machinery, a gaudy Cardinal Palatinate and his entourage, a red-robed High Lord of Terra and his staff – not to mention great clusters of astropaths, chirurgeons, scholastics, battlemasters: all were motionless.
The immense, soaring, tube-ridged throne resembled some fossilised, metastasised sloth crafted by some mad master of the Adeptus Titanicus. And it seemed to Jaq, though he did not know whether what he saw was true, or mere delusion instilled by that same psyker-dream, that this enormous, sacred prosthetic device, more precious by far than any gold, framed the wizened, mummified face of the God-Emperor.
Who looked not; though he saw through eyes of the mind, saw far beyond his throne room and his palace and the solar system. Who breathed not; yet he lived more fiercely than any mortal, enduring a psychically supercharged life-in-death.
>‘WE ARE CURIOUS,’
came a mighty, anguished thought which itself transcended time.
>‘WE HAVE FOLLOWED YOUR INTRUSION INTO OUR SANCTUARY, OUR ANTRUM AND ADYTUM.’
‘My lord.’ Jaq sank to his knees. ‘I beg to report to you before I am destroyed. I may have uncovered a major conspiracy—’
>‘THEN WE WILL STRIP YOUR SOUL BARE. RELAX, MORTAL MAN, OR YOU WILL SURELY DIE IN SUCH PAIN AS WE ALWAYS ENDURE.’

>>53715674
Jaq breathed deeply, slowly, stilling the panic that fluttered under his ribs like a trapped bird. He surrendered himself. A hurricane roared through his mind.
If the story that he had thought to relate were a tangled forest – and if each event in that story were a tree – then within moments all the leaves were stripped away from all of the trees, denuding them to bare wintry twigs, to a raw basic life without the foliage of memories.
He was drained of his story; that was sucked from him in a trice, all of those leaves whirling into the mind-maw of the Master. Jaq gagged. Jaq drooled.
He was an imbecile, less than an imbecile.
He was less than a new-born baby.
He neither knew where he was, nor who he was – nor what it even meant to be a someone.
The inquisitor sprawled. All that was known to his body was distress, the gurglings of the guts, breath and light. Light from afar.

ABRUPTLY, ALL MEMORY flooded back. On that instant, each leaf sprouted anew to recloak the forest of his life.
>‘WE HAVE PUT BACK WHAT WE TOOK AND TASTED, INQUISITOR’
Trembling, Jaq regained his kneeling posture and wiped his lips and chin. The previous moments were a hideous limbo, unknowable, immeasurable. He was Jaq Draco again.
>‘WE ARE MANY, INQUISITOR.’
The voice boomed in his mind almost gently – if gently was how an avalanche would sweep away a doomed village, if gently was how a scalpel might strip a life to the bare aching bones.

>>53715692
>‘HOW ELSE COULD WE ADMINISTER OUR IMPERIUM—’
>‘AS WELL AS WINNOW THE WARP—’
>‘HOW ELSE?’
The Emperor’s mind-voice, if that truly was what it was, had dissociated into several voices, as if his great undying soul co-existed in fragments that barely hung together.
>‘SO DOES THE HYDRA THREATEN US?’
>‘IMPERILLING OUR GREAT AND AWFUL PLAN TO STEER HUMANITY?’
>‘DID WE OURSELVES DEVISE THE HYDRA?’
>‘PERHAPS IN A PART OF US, SINCE THIS HYDRA PROMISES A PATH?’
>‘SURELY A MALEVOLENT PATH; FOR HOW COULD HUMANITY EVER FREE ITSELF?’
>‘THEN WE MUST BE MALEVOLENT TOO. FOR WE HAVE EXPELLED OUR SENTIMENTALITY LONG AGO. HOW ELSE COULD WE HAVE ENDURED? HOW ELSE COULD WE HAVE IMPOSED OUR RULE?’
>‘YET BY VIRTUE OF THAT WE ARE PURE AND UNCONTAMINATED BY WEAKNESS. WE ARE GRIM SALVATION.'
Beside Jaq, the squat twitched as if he had heard himself named. At that moment did the voice resonate within the abhuman? Jaq felt that he was listening to a mighty mind-machine argue with itself in a way that no Imperial courtier had perhaps ever heard, and that no High Lord of Terra even suspected could occur. Were Meh’Lindi and Googol aware of the voices in the way that Jaq was? Or was he imagining it all, caught up in some warp-spawned delusion, yet another twist in this labyrinthine conspiracy? He sensed the fabric of time attempting to tear free, and guessed that not much longer of this strange stasis remained.
>‘NOTHING THAT SAFEGUARDS HUMANITY CAN BE EVIL, NOT EVEN THE MOST STRENUOUS INHUMANITY. IF THE HUMAN RACE FAILS, IT HAS FAILED FOREVER.’
Maybe Jaq was too young by hundreds, by thousands of years, and his intellect too puny to comprehend the multiplex mind of the master who was forever on overview, whose thoughts battered in his mind. Or maybe the master’s mind had become chaotic. Not warped by the Ruinous Powers it surveyed, oh no, but divided amongst itself as its heroic grasp on existence ever so slowly weakened...

>>53715718
>'WHEN WE CONFRONTED THE CORRUPTED, HOMICIDAL HORUS WHO ONCE USED TO SHINE LIKE THE BRIGHTEST STAR, WHO USED TO BE OUR BELOVED FAVOURITE – WHEN THE FATE OF THE GALAXY HUNG BY A THREAD – WERE WE NOT COMPELLED TO EXPEL ALL COMPASSION? ALL LOVE? ALL JOY? THOSE WENT AWAY. HOW ELSE COULD WE HAVE ARMOURED OURSELVES? EXISTENCE IS TORMENT, A TORMENT THAT MUST NOURISH US. EVIDENTLY WE MUST STRIVE TO BE THE FIERCE REDEEMER OF MAN, YET WHAT WILL REDEEM US?’
‘Great lord of all,’ whimpered Jaq, ‘did you know of the hydra before now?’
>‘NO, AND WE SHALL SURELY ACT IN DUE TIME—’
>‘YET SURELY WE KNEW. HOW COULD WE NOT KNOW?’
>‘ONCE WE HAVE ANALYSED THE INFORMATION WITHIN THIS SUB-MIND OF OURS.’
>‘HEAR THIS, JAQ DRACO: ONLY TINY PORTIONS OF US CAN HEED YOU, OTHERWISE WE NEGLECT OUR IMPERIUM, OF WHICH OUR SCRUTINY MUST NOT FALTER FOR AN INSTANT. FOR TIME DOES NOT HALT EVERYWHERE WITHIN THE REALM OF MAN. INDEED TIME ONLY HALTS FOR YOU.’

>>53715738
>‘WE ARE AN EVER-WATCHFUL LORD, ARE WE NOT? DID YOU HOPE TO GAIN OUR UNDIVIDED ATTENTION?’
>‘HOW ELSE SHOULD WE SOUL-BIND PSYKERS AND OVERVIEW THE WARP AND BEAM THE ASTRONOMICAN BEACON AND SURVIVE AND RECEIVE INFORMATION AND GRANT AUDIENCES ALL AT ONCE, UNLESS WE ARE MANY?’
>‘AND YET STILL WE MISS SO MUCH, SO VERY MUCH? SUCH AS THAT WHICH GUIDED YOU HERE.’
>‘OUR SPIRIT GUIDED YOU.’
>‘NO: ANOTHER SPIRIT, A REFLECTION OF OUR GOODNESS WHICH WE THRUST FROM US.’
>‘WE ARE THE ONLY SOURCE OF GOODNESS, SEVERE AND DRASTIC. THERE IS NO OTHER SOURCE OF HOPE THAN US.
>WE ARE AGONISINGLY ALONE.’
The Emperor’s voices faded from Jaq’s mind as time tried to stretch back into shape. Grimm tugged at Jaq’s sleeve.
‘It’s over, lord. Don’t you understand?’ Yes, Grimm must have heard something – other than what Jaq heard; some simple order. ‘We gotta go, boss. We got to get out.’

Just got back into 40k lore due to the 8th edition.

What's the next big piece of fluff that moves things forward after Dark Imperium?

>>53716068
Presumably the world-wide campaign.

>>53714871
The Night Lord one is pretty good.

>>53716642
But I said chaos anon :^)

But seriously if it's good I'll check it out. Maybe Curzefag is on to something.

>>53716679
>But I said chaos anon :^)
There is some of course, even if they're more renegades than chaos marines. The Ahriman trilogy is quite enjoyable too, but I'm a bit biased.

>>53716828
What do you think Marduk is doing as of the Gathering Storm?

>>53716856
No ideas anon, I didn't read the WB omnibus.

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>>53702007
capped for posterity

>>53707475
>older than the material universe
Try again chaosfag. Us Necrons are older than your gods.

>>53717384
Wrong. Be'lakor has memories of the first Necrontyr Necropolis.

And the Daemon Cages predate the War of Heaven by billions of years.

>>53717503
Fucking what? But the warp was all calm not not chaosy before TWIH. Is this some crap new fluff from when GW was having that chaos wank fest?

I mean we'll still put your "gods" into pokeballs

>>53717542
>Is this some crap new fluff from when GW was having that chaos wank fest?
Yes. So you have to make the decision to remind yourself of all the "everything is true" quotes we've heard through the years and shrug it off; or have an autistic fit and screech at anyone who reminds you that fluff you don't like exists, which Carnac, as a Professional Troll Extraordinaire, will do at every opportunity.
I'd like to trust you to make the right choice, but unfortunately, this IS /tg/.

>>53717736
Why not both?

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>>53717753
I'd say because the past month of /tg/ has had more than enough derails of that nature and I've grown exhausted of it. But you do you.

>>53717542
Chaos fucks with time itself. Once those fucks could influence realspace a bit they were always there.
There's not really a beginning point that could be found in hindsight.

That been said, Belacukc lore is shit anyway. So it Newcron calvinball lore.

>>53714403
I wish, but I think that the author isn't really the one to decide whether or not he writes something that will be sold. Maybe his novels didn't sell and BL bid him goodbye?

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>>53717839
That's lame, his book was fun. I think its tone wasn't too good on Space Marines when they were on the station (a bit too much like fighting mortals) but sometimes it clicked and flowed. And the action and horror was spot on.

I wish BL had some opacity as to who was on their contracted write staff so we'd know vaguely at least. I only found out we get no more Cain books due to the contract negotiations with the author falling through a few months ago. Super sad, but at least The Greater Good was a dramatic finale to go out on.

>>53717918
As with all businesses, it's the little things that can gave a massive impact.
Umbra Sumus, the pdf I posted, was pulled from the BL page 2 weeks before release because of copyrigjt isdues and was never brought back. Can you imagine being Kearney, writing a whole goddamn novel, having it approved, ready to sell, only to be denied at the last second? I'm genuinely surprised he continued to work for BL after that, and bought his 2 Calgar novels to support him.

I also suspect him to be the one that put up his novel in torrents, in the hope that some people might read it nevertheless.

>>53718599
>I also suspect him to be the one that put up his novel in torrents, in the hope that some people might read it nevertheless.

I can't blame him if so. That had to fucking sting.

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Does anyone have a pdf or ebook of The Carrion Throne yet? I've always been partial to Inquisition focused novels but am luke warm on the author who has written books I like a lot and books I found really boring so don't want to pay blind on this.

>>53718854
vk com /artofwar
You'll have to do some scrolling.

>>53714403
I would love for it to happen, but I kinda feel like if it was going to, it'd have been during the Overkill-Codex Deathwatch push. And they did other DW books at that point instead.

>>53719039
Thanks, anon.

>>53719039
Actually wait no, that just leads me to russian facebook with no books on it I can find. If this guy does uploads I sure as fuck don't know where it is. He hasn't even posted since before the book came out.

>>53719177
It's Warhammer_Art_of_War.
It's russian, but the commies upload english language .epubs

>>53719218
I can't find this one. I've found the page host uploaded a wallpaper of the cover though. I either can't navigate russkiebook or they didn't upload the pdf of this. Either is possible

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>>53719422
You'll have to do A LOT of scrolling to find the Carrion Throne, they post a ton. I find it easiest to drag the bar down a lot to load a ton, and then control f ".epub"

>>53719476
Found it. Thanks, and you're not kidding. These people are ungodly active

>>53701039
>overrun world with literally hell and make it a demon infested hell hole
>still can't swat some normal ass humans and their flashlights
That is pretty fucking pathetic.

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>>53703270
>imperium wins
>proceeds to execute all of the survivors and all personnel used for the reclaiming efforts because they're now tainted by the warp

>>53719944
Trazyn is the only reason that planet stood as long as it did. The Guardsmen were inconsequential.

>>53720071
Point is, it's been a century and possibly even longer that the guardsmen have been there (or maybe it's been 1 second, the warp is teh lulz ramdon at the best of times) and they have been fighting demons in hell. And they're still there.

>>53720068
Bobby G is more sensible than that and he's the Emperor in All But Name at the moment.

>>53720068
Guilliman cures nurgle plague abd refused to bomb infested cities.

>>53720104
No. Just no, you idiot. Cadia fell in a few months at most. And Cadia wasn't in the Warp. The Pylons were warding the Warp away.

>>53720165
>cures
didnt him trying to be humanitarian backfire and unleash seven nurgle legions plus Ku'gath in the middle of Ultramar's biggest foodbowl?

>>53720165
>>53720254
It wasnt even him being humanitarian it was him realizing that Ultramar was running low on manpower and they needed to recycle.

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Since we're talking about Guardsmen being awesome, here's a nice story that came out of nowhere from a random thread, carried single handedly by one anon.

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Dumping some novels.

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>>53720482

>>53720534

>>53704246
GULLIMAN BTFO

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>>53720678
Well then.

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>>53720828

>>53704246
Stuff like this always made me curious though: how does the Emperor view himself with respect to Mankind? His existence is by no means a pleasant one, but he continues to endure it. His stated goal during the Great Crusade was to make himself unneeded. If you believe him, he was willing to stay behind the scenes and play puppet-master for 30,000 years, rather than rule openly.

It's entirely possible he sees himself in the same utilitarian fashion he sees the Primarchs and the rest of humanity.

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>>53721041
Well with the old shaman fluff, he literally was created, and exists, with the sole purpose to protect mankind from the chaos gods, until Mankind is strong enough to protect themselves.

>>53715674
>>53715692
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>>53715738
>>53715755
Pic related, it's like pottery, it rhymes.

>>53718854
Its in the mega folder
https://sys.4chan.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmega.nz%2F%23F!BxI1HSgI!0tKymKh9RZTzGpgIA5EyCg

In Vaults of Terra

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>>53704246
fuck right off

>>53721437
Is there any of the regular generals we see this mega in? Because I have been looking for it for a while.

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>>53714843
>The Emperor of Mankind
>A nigh-divine being of such incomprehensible might and intellect that he created works of science and war that terrify all who know their implications
>A being who has existed for tens of millennia, seen the best and, more often, the worst reality has to offer to the sane and mad alike
>Uses contractions

I mean...

>>53715755
Maybe they could have alleviated the Emperor's suffering if they had just played Orinoco Flow on a loop.

>>53720457
Is there more where that came from?

>>53721976
1 - He's not a Battletech Clanner.
2 - Translated from High Gothic
3 - Contractions are efficient

>>53722845
Not that I'm aware of, a follow up thread was never made.

>>53701304
The two large chunks probably crashed back together due to gravity.

>>53706554
>my space marines won't be the center of attention
>waaah, guard fans suck for liking a different faction of the imperium than I do

>>53720243
Every cadian is a mini doomguy and they've been fucking up demons for several decades.
Chaos just has to deal with that issue now.

>>53721041
>>53721088
He probably should have explained that to his sons.

And told them to suck it up, because at least they still had a dad.

The Emp had his foster dad killed by his shitty uncle.

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>>53701606
>>53702007
muh dick

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>>53708419
>I rejected those ideas
>I chose something different
>I chose.... Comorragh
>Were the Big wouldnt care for the Small
>Were the Artist wouldnt be censored
>Were Scientists wouldnt be hold by petty morailty
>And with the slaves of your raids, this too can become your city