Warhammer 40,000

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Hey, Hat, there were Grey Knights in Atlas Infernal. I didn't know they're all psykers! Cool! I ordered the Omnibus last night.

But they got their asses handed to them.

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Nemesis was very good. Book 13-ish of the Horus Heresy. I didn't want to read more HH books, because the series isn't done yet; there's already maybe twenty of them; and, although the main plot (Horus becoming a traitor and trying to take over) is very profound, the books have been fairly mediocre. I read Nemesis because I found out a particular character was in it, and I've been hoping to see this guy in action. Turns out he doesn't actually do anything but talk for a few pages.

Anyway, it's about a team of assassins, one from each of the six clades, sent out to assassinate Horus. A daunting task. (They fail, of course. That's not even a spoiler.) The book was very good because two of the assassins were unique and very interesting. And, while the other four were not unique (a sharpshooter, a berserker, a computer-info guy, and a poisoner), it was fun to see them because of their extreme skills.

The best part of the book, however, was a villain that was mixed in with it all. A very unique creature with interesting and extreme powers. Part human (though a unique human, to be sure), part warp-creature.

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I read the first two Sigmar books over the last couple eeeks. I still have too read the third. Sigmar is the Emperor of the Warhammer universe. Which is not quite the same as the Warhammer 40,000 universe. I'm not exactly sure how they're related and different, but I gather the general idea is that they had to make some changes when they came up with 40K, and they ended up with two mythoses that are similar. Anyway, set in a distant past, sorta Earth, fighting orcs, demons, necromancers, etc. There are actually a few profound moments. And it's interesting to see this guy living insuch barbarous times, dreaming of something so grand and noble as a unified, peaceful humanity.

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So I took a break from Sigmar and went back to the 40K universe. Reading the Grey Knights Omnibus. They're a chapter of the Space Marines who are special in that they're all psykers, and they've all been conditioned to a state of absolute faith. No Grey Knight has ever been turned to the power of Chaos. So here's a passage I had to share. Not a Grey Knight, but...

Yambe hated space. That was why he couldn't stop looking at it. He knew that one day it would rear up and kill him, and that would be the day he had let his guard down. He had been centimeters away from hard vacuum, once, and had seen friends turned inside-out in a hull breach back when he still let himself have friends. Space had killed more men than women had, and that was saying something.

That last line could be a sig.

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I got very, very, very addicted to an idiotic game app (Defender) on my Galaxy Tab, and didn't read for almost two weeks. I only finished the second of the three novellas in the Grey Knights Omnibus Tuesday. Stopped that because Blood Angels - The Second Omnibus came out. The first one was what started this thread, and my immersion into the Warhammer universe. Not much to report yet, but it's nice to see the characters again. The main character of the first omnibus is the main character again. The most powerful psyker, Mephiston, is in it, but hasn't done anything yet.

Point is, it's good to be reading again instead of playing that freakin' game!

The Grey Knights stories were very good. They're sort of the military arm of the Ordo Malleus, which is the branch of the Inquisition that deals with the demons of the warp. So there's lots of good, crazy powers and schemes from the warp, just like the Inquisition books.

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Done with the second Blood Angels omnibus. It was fun. Mephiston never did anything of note, despite being in a lot of the book. Mainly making plans and helping out the leader of the Blood Angels, Dante. But there were other psykers in the book, kicking butt with their psi-weapons. Heh.

Back to finish the Grey Knights now. Much more comples and, imo, interesting stories in the Grey Knights book.

Even moreso in the Eisenhorn and Ravenor books that I discussed above.

[Cleburne]

Fist I have a few of 4000 books a friend gave me a while back but I haven't started them yet I am more into gotrex and Felix and their stories ,I did read one about Sigmar but I need to check ,ok pot later what 4000 books I have

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Cool! Thanks for posting!

I haven't read Gortrex and Felix. Any good?

[Cleburne]

Cool! Thanks for posting!

I haven't read Gortrex and Felix. Any good?

I loved the series 3 omnibus editions based in the olden days ,Felix the human on s drunken night commits to follow Gortex the dwarf and catologue his life and he gets him into all sorts of trouble ,its very good plenty of wit and lord of fighting ,you should enjoy it

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I'm still reading away, in case anybody's paying attention. The first post now starts with what I've read so far.

Some great stuff, and the scope of the whole thing can't be beat. But, of course, there's some that's less than enthralling. Especially (for me, at least) the warfare. Hey, it all started as a game with miniature figures at war with each other, so you gotta expect it. I'm sure there's plenty of folks who would read it specifically for the warfare. And reading through it all really drives home the point of what they're up against. Still, tanks and tanks and tanks and troops and troops and troops... heh

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Yup. I'm still going strong. Just finished Battle of the Fang, and now on The Fall of Damnos. My list at the beginning of the first post is still growing.