I hope so, I dont remember what happened to him and I really wanted to see more of those two interact.

I always enjoyed the "What happened, someone else must of done something" mentality of the scaven.  Nothing that went wrong, could have been his fault ;)

I failed due to the slackness and incompetance of my minions!  They are all striving to make me fail!  Hey wait....sounds a lot like RL.

hmm, where do i get these 'minions'?  My girls are still a little young ;)

Lurk did indeed escape in Beastslayer after his rebellion failed in the Hell Pit. I had expected him to turn up as part of the Chaos Army, but so far none of it.

He's probly somewhere being a coward and enjoying the blessings from the horned rat. He could go out and defeat all his enemies...but a true skaven thinks himself too valuable and leads from the rear.

Just read the latest Cain book. The Emperor Finest. While it is not a bad book, it misses the oomph from the earlier books in this series. Not the best work from Sandy Mitchell.

In reply to Gwenlynn (msg #185):

Sandy really is hit or miss. Want an example of massive Sandy miss? Read his DH novels... the second is better than the first but only because the first set the bar so very low.

So I finally finished the 'Enforcer' omnibus.

I have very mixed feelings on this one.  Matthew Farrer has a very evocative writing style.  He really evokes the atmosphere and the fantastical feel to the 40K setting, which I liked a lot.  But he completely blows it with weak plots and characters.

The main protagonist, Shira Calpurnia is just not very interesting, although I did like the fact that there was no issue made of the fact that she was a woman.  No fanfare, no comment made about it by other characters - I approve.  She was strong and capable, but seemed a bit lacking on the personality front, and unlike, say Abnett's characters, it was hard to really care about her, or any of the other characters.  They were all a bit wooden (but very nicely described!).


The first book 'Crossfire' I found an absolute slog to get through.  The plot was very disjointed, and I had figured out who the main villain was right near the start (I grew up on Agatha Christie novels - it's always the least suspicious-looking person who's involved right from the beginning...). In some ways this seemed more like a collection of short stories that has been inexpertly strung together as one single plot - each investigation seemed barely connected to those that came before or after.

A bit disillusioned, it took me a good long while before I picked it up again and moved onto the second book 'Legacy'.  This was about a rogue trader warrant that was being fought over by various groups.  I actuslly enjoyed this one far more than the first one.  Calpurnia takes very much a backseat whilst the book focusses on the warring factions.  I really enjoyed the build-up and the plotting, and it all gave me lots of ideas for Rogue Trader games.  But Farrer blew it all at the end, proving once more than writing a solid plot is not his strong point.  After all the build-up, the whole lot just fizzles out in what (to me) was a very unsatisfactory conclusion, and I couldn't help but feel very disappointed.

So once again, it took me a while to move onto the third book 'Blind'.  This one I thought was the best of the bunch in terms of plot (although that's not saying much).  Once again, Farrer evokes a great setting, and seems to have a lot of good ideas, but doesn't really explore them as much as he could.  And like the others, he has too many characters and doesn't spend enough time on them.  Still, the plot does hang together a bit better than the others, and this time my main disatisfaction was more simply that of wasted potential - I would loved to have known more about some of the characters, their schemes and there was talk of a secret faction in the background that looked fascinating, but was only mentioned towards the end (and even then didn't seem to have much to do with the 'main' plot).


SO all in all:  Great descriptions of the 40K setting and very evocative.  Gave lots of ideas for games.  But weak plot and characters, and a lot of wasted potential.

I just finshed the trade paperback Condemned by Fire and really enjoyed it.  A witch-hunter in action with a dwarf and greatsword as allies= awesome.  Great art and story.  Check it out!

4/5 severed Ork heads

Bumping this thread as there has been a lot of book talk lately:)

LMFAO! I find this far more entertaining... are there anymore flakk? :P

google servants of the imperium to get the entire series to date.  Very funny.

Yes very funny stuff and usually updated every week on Sundays...sometimes delayed or skipped but pretty consistent.  I'd love to have a trade paperback of the whole series and would pay nice gelt for it.

The Enforcer Omnibus is excellent! And I agree with the Rogue Trader novel. It's the only BL book that I've seen which treats RT's like they are portrayed in the RPG and older fluff. I also give a strong "hell yeah" to the Arbites being ignored by most folks. So odd since they're the ones with their hands in everything!

I would like to say that I am writing a webcomic with a artist on Deviantart. The comic will be about a Cadian regiment fighting the Eldar of Craftworld Saim-Hann on a newly colonized mining world of Marcia. A Death Korps of Krieg regiment arrives on the planet to aid the Cadians, but this is all part of the Eldar's plan.

I'll post every page here. I think you guys will like the action! I can't give away anything about the plot that paragraph above is just a small overview, plot is way deeper than that.

Looks interesting. I had something similar, but it was Biggles (google it kidz). I'll be buying it anyway.



http://www.blacklibrary.com/Wa...ive-of-the-dead.html

I just finished "Galaxy in Flames", part 2 of the Horus Heresy series.  It was awesome!  Very epic!  I really don't want to put in any spoliers but let's just say the kek hits the fan and stuff really starts to ramp up.  My only beef is the sheer number of characters, but its all good (and there is a handy little glossary of the major characters to help keep things straight).

Galaxy in Flames is the 3rd one.

Doh!  My bad!  And I forgot my ratintg as well-
4.5 severed Ork heads out of 5=:)

In reply to flakk (msg #198):

I'll be interested what will you think of Legion (I think that was the best so far), ohh and also of Mechanicum and Nemesis :)

Just picked up Horus Heresy....


Is this a good place to start trying to understand 40k?

Yes it sets up a lot off why everything so messed up in 40k. Buckle up friend, the Heresy train has no brakes

I'm only on chapter 5...  the references to two emperors in chapter one was confusing, but it's made more sense since then.

ah i remember my first read through :D, not gonna lie some of the books are pretty poor but worth it for the good ones