Black Library does have some geniunely good sci-fi hidden under all the crap. The trick is to completely avoid anything involving the Space Marines or anything that might affect the setting’s status quo. Eisenhorn/Ravenor Trilogies is pretty good. Last Chancers is one of my favourites though, It was written when 40k authors were still allowed some freedom with the setting, its about a penal legion being sent on a bunch of increasingly more clandestine suicide missions. Peter Fehavari’s books are an interesting attempt to carve out his little niché. Basically every book he writes, from the full novels to the short stories they write just to promote new models are all interconnected in a very cosmic horror web of connections. Warhammer Crime has some pretty good sci fi in it too, its essentially a series of short story omnibuses and full novels all written by different authors themed around sci-fi detective stories.
To me the Horus Heresy’s popularity makes zero sense. I get how someone can sit through and enjoy a marvel movie alright. But how in the hell can someone sit down for hours to read the book equivalent? Its so much more excrutiating to do.
I get how someone can sit through and enjoy a marvel movie alright. But how in the hell can someone sit down for hours to read the book equivalent? Its so much more excrutiating to do.
Audiobooks my dude, they are fantastic for burning through literary slop. It’s nice to have stuff like the hourus heresy for stuff like yard work or chores, something where it doesn’t really matter if you’re paying attention or if you hear everything. So if you miss something you don’t really feel the need to rewind it or feel lost in the overall story.
Yeah, I hear ya, I do like to have a book in my hands (or at least text on a handheld screen) if I’m trying to internalise all the information in my first read through.
But I do tend to use listening to theory when I want to drift off from it and just want the effects of having to listen to something that dense, with the understanding that doing that as a sleep aid or for other emotional or physical effect is not a replacement for listening attentively or actually reading it.
I wish I had the Last Chancers models. Their rules were hilarious. Basically, if you took Last Chancers, that was your entire army: 12 guardsmen (each an independent character) and a Chimera. It didn’t matter if you were playing a 1,000 point game or 4,000 point game. The Last Chancers themselves were like 500 points total, with 120ish for the Chimera for 600ish total.
And because 3rd. and 4th. have a lot of missions where you get victory points based on models killed, your opponent was limited to 650 points. Once you killed 800 points worth of stuff and maybe nabbed an objective or two, you won the game. The only downside is if the objective is something like table corners, which are a proportion of the point limit in victory points. So if it’s a 1,750 point game, a table corner is worth 437.5 points and your opponent’s deployment zone is worth 875. You won’t have anyone left to contest any corners, which is a serious problem.
Fehavari has quickly become my favorite BL author. He absolutely nails unreliable narrator Chaos fuckery.
15 hours is another 40k classic.
Mike Brooks’ Brutal Kunnin was a lot of fun. The balance between funny ork shit and serious Adeptus Mechanicus was well done.
But yeah. Horus Heresy has never been interesting to me and I don’t know how it garnered so many fans.
I get how someone can sit through and enjoy a marvel movie alright. But how in the hell can someone sit down for hours to read the book equivalent? Its so much more excrutiating to do.
To me the Horus Heresy’s popularity makes zero sense.
Space marines are the most popular faction by a long-shot, and as the player-base has no taste (this is proven by them playing space marines), they will buy any slop released for them.
Black Library does have some geniunely good sci-fi hidden under all the crap. The trick is to completely avoid anything involving the Space Marines or anything that might affect the setting’s status quo. Eisenhorn/Ravenor Trilogies is pretty good. Last Chancers is one of my favourites though, It was written when 40k authors were still allowed some freedom with the setting, its about a penal legion being sent on a bunch of increasingly more clandestine suicide missions. Peter Fehavari’s books are an interesting attempt to carve out his little niché. Basically every book he writes, from the full novels to the short stories they write just to promote new models are all interconnected in a very cosmic horror web of connections. Warhammer Crime has some pretty good sci fi in it too, its essentially a series of short story omnibuses and full novels all written by different authors themed around sci-fi detective stories.
To me the Horus Heresy’s popularity makes zero sense. I get how someone can sit through and enjoy a marvel movie alright. But how in the hell can someone sit down for hours to read the book equivalent? Its so much more excrutiating to do.
Audiobooks my dude, they are fantastic for burning through literary slop. It’s nice to have stuff like the hourus heresy for stuff like yard work or chores, something where it doesn’t really matter if you’re paying attention or if you hear everything. So if you miss something you don’t really feel the need to rewind it or feel lost in the overall story.
I typically use communist theory for that. I’m gonna have to reread it a few times anyway, after all.
Eh, for me that would be too information dense. I’d drift off and have to back play it for context.
For really anything like geopolitics, economics, or philosophy I usually have to have a book in my hands.
Yeah, I hear ya, I do like to have a book in my hands (or at least text on a handheld screen) if I’m trying to internalise all the information in my first read through.
But I do tend to use listening to theory when I want to drift off from it and just want the effects of having to listen to something that dense, with the understanding that doing that as a sleep aid or for other emotional or physical effect is not a replacement for listening attentively or actually reading it.
I wish I had the Last Chancers models. Their rules were hilarious. Basically, if you took Last Chancers, that was your entire army: 12 guardsmen (each an independent character) and a Chimera. It didn’t matter if you were playing a 1,000 point game or 4,000 point game. The Last Chancers themselves were like 500 points total, with 120ish for the Chimera for 600ish total.
And because 3rd. and 4th. have a lot of missions where you get victory points based on models killed, your opponent was limited to 650 points. Once you killed 800 points worth of stuff and maybe nabbed an objective or two, you won the game. The only downside is if the objective is something like table corners, which are a proportion of the point limit in victory points. So if it’s a 1,750 point game, a table corner is worth 437.5 points and your opponent’s deployment zone is worth 875. You won’t have anyone left to contest any corners, which is a serious problem.
Fehavari has quickly become my favorite BL author. He absolutely nails unreliable narrator Chaos fuckery.
15 hours is another 40k classic.
Mike Brooks’ Brutal Kunnin was a lot of fun. The balance between funny ork shit and serious Adeptus Mechanicus was well done.
But yeah. Horus Heresy has never been interesting to me and I don’t know how it garnered so many fans.
The Infinite and The Divine, which is about necron Statler and Waldorf, is also pretty good.
Books are easier for me than movies.
Space marines are the most popular faction by a long-shot, and as the player-base has no taste (this is proven by them playing space marines), they will buy any slop released for them.