DukeLeto69 Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Ok while I think we can all agree that The Beast Arises had its flaws and had some weaker books it also had some really excellent entries and as an overall story was pretty darn good! IMO it was an excellent idea that had a few problems in execution. From a marketing POV it was an excellent idea as it created a huge buzz in the BL community and a pipeline of product we were almost guaranteed to buy each month. Personally I would love BL to do more sequential series (ie a single large-scale story told over several books by a group of authors) although I would like to see tighter editorial control and perhaps slightly fewer authors involved. So what entry in the 40k timeline would you like to see covered by future sequential series? I will start with... THE ASTROPATH WARS BTW - I expect many people will say The Age Of Apostasy or Reign of Blood etc I thought so too initially but now I think that would lend itself better to a Setting Series more like Horus Heresy as it spans a long time frame and probably has room for hundreds of different stories/characters. For me a Sequential Series needs to be more tightly focused and probably covering a shorter timescale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xisor Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 I think you've hit two great points. First: tighter focus. Second: be a setting. Like the HH opening trilogy. What they might want to do is a focussed tight series, but that lends itself to divergent/other big stories. So the Age of Apostasy told three books Vandire's assistant, three books of Thor's best pal. Intimate and heavy character driven, but absolutely huge capacity for soin-off stories. The same idea, for me, would be workable for: - The Abyssal Crusade. (Go extraordinarily heavy on cameos/incidental characters.) - The Nova Terra Interregnum - The Moirae Schism I'd love to see the Moirae schism as told by a coterie of trainee techmarines. Really go deep into it. 3-8 books, extraordinarily character driven. Big plot things, very few tedious go-nowhere fight scenes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelborn Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Oh the Abyssal Crusade would be cool. What I would like to see? - Badab - the False Primarch - the Black Crusades - the first Tyranid war (just for the sake of retcon Wards "We were outnumbered but somehow we won!" UM stuff) - Abyssal Crusade (now that it was mentioned) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felix Antipodes Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 I really liked the one per month, over in a year pace of TBA, but the number of books should be dictated by the story not the other way around. @Xisor named two of the stories I would most like done (Abyssal Crusade, Moraie Schism) but I also wouldn't mind seeing the Badab War done in a similar fashion. FW did a great job in their IA books showing the overall campaign, but I believe it being retold in TBA style, with the politics at play and deeper characterisation of the main players, would make another great series. Limiting the amount of authors involved might sound like a good move, but could affect the quality of the books (restricting it to just 4 would mean 3 each to write). A good, tight editorial team is more important IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felix Antipodes Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 @Kelborn - I also thought about the Black Crusades (one book per Crusade) but was afraid it would step on ADB's toes re his Black Legion series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grotsmasha Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 I'm a fan of doing the Badab War too. I'm also going to say that GW missed a trick by not having a monthly model to accompany the books. Who wants a Chapter Master Koorland model? I do. How about Grand Master of Assassins Vangorich(sp?)? I do. Or The Beast? Who doesn't want a Dreadnaught sized Ork. I do. Hopefully it becomes a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felix Antipodes Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 I'm a fan of doing the Badab War too. I'm also going to say that GW missed a trick by not having a monthly model to accompany the books. Who wants a Chapter Master Koorland model? I do. How about Grand Master of Assassins Vangorich(sp?)? I do. Or The Beast? Who doesn't want a Dreadnaught sized Ork. I do. Hopefully it becomes a thing. Totally agree. That is the way to sell models using BL - Tie the model(s) to the books not the books to the model releases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petitioner's City Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 And the Beast Krule! It would be like LOTR/Hobbit-level, IP inspired by IP inspired by text levels of interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeLeto69 Posted January 22, 2017 Author Share Posted January 22, 2017 Loving ALL the suggestions, especially Badab War :-) Here's some more... Cataclysm of Souls War of the Golden Cog War of the Confessor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roomsky Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 The Gothic War. The old duology is rather hard to find, and I think there's a lot of untapped potential still in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Good suggestions everyone. For me it would be awesome to have in that order: 1) Gothic war - full battle of Gethsemane (not 4 pages of text for it) and Shiendlegaist. 2) Scouring full list of cleansing ;) 3) - The Nova Terra Interregnum4) Badab5) The Black CrusadesEverything else is meh for me. Age of Apostasy is the most uninteresting event where Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeLeto69 Posted January 23, 2017 Author Share Posted January 23, 2017 Age of Apostasy is the most uninteresting event where Really! Well different folks and strokes and all but AOA = Goge Vandire Reign of Blood (lots of politicking opportunities there). Daughters/Brides of the Emperor and birth of the Sororitas. Sebastian Thor! Founding of the Ordo Hereticus! Plague of Unbelief. Founding of the Amalathians. Nah i reckon that would be a nice series (though as I said in OP a setting series not a sequential series). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Age of Apostasy is the most uninteresting event where Really! Well different folks and strokes and all but AOA = Goge Vandire Reign of Blood (lots of politicking opportunities there). Daughters/Brides of the Emperor and birth of the Sororitas. Sebastian Thor! Founding of the Ordo Hereticus! Plague of Unbelief. Founding of the Amalathians. Nah i reckon that would be a nice series (though as I said in OP a setting series not a sequential series). I do not like stories based only on human ambitions or daemons or heretics. I love CSM (there are none from Vandire side), love tactical and void warfare from the point of different sides. All that and especially Sebastian Thor story are too religious. And religious is bad in case of BL. Cause all the Garro stories based on 'religion' and fate are the worst thing from all the Horus Heresy stuff released to date Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xisor Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Age of Apostasy is the most uninteresting event whereReally! Well different folks and strokes and all but AOA = Goge Vandire Reign of Blood (lots of politicking opportunities there). Daughters/Brides of the Emperor and birth of the Sororitas. Sebastian Thor! Founding of the Ordo Hereticus! Plague of Unbelief. Founding of the Amalathians. Nah i reckon that would be a nice series (though as I said in OP a setting series not a sequential series). Ditto, Duke. I could do with less tales of Space Marines bearing grudges. Let's see something of the modern-day Kor Phaerons and Luthers, the Sindermans and the Malcadors. In short: let's see those Inquisition books due out. And maybe a resurgence of Necromunda, political and provedural stories. Give me the worst monsters of the galaxy: Humanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Cohort Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 The nova terra Interragnum is probably at the top of my list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkChaplain Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Speaking of Necromunda, the developers of Mordheim are doing a game adaptation of it soon. Here's hoping GW realizes there's demand for it on the tabletop as well. I'd like to see the Abyssal Crusade to see how big a clusterfrak they can pull of there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Age of Apostasy is the most uninteresting event whereReally! Well different folks and strokes and all but AOA = Goge Vandire Reign of Blood (lots of politicking opportunities there). Daughters/Brides of the Emperor and birth of the Sororitas. Sebastian Thor! Founding of the Ordo Hereticus! Plague of Unbelief. Founding of the Amalathians. Nah i reckon that would be a nice series (though as I said in OP a setting series not a sequential series). Ditto, Duke. I could do with less tales of Space Marines bearing grudges. Let's see something of the modern-day Kor Phaerons and Luthers, the Sindermans and the Malcadors. In short: let's see those Inquisition books due out. And maybe a resurgence of Necromunda, political and provedural stories. Give me the worst monsters of the galaxy: Humanity. Yes yes yes and yes. Inquisition novels from Wraight is a must read for me. I can't wait to get my hands on them. Wraight excerpt at BL Live 2016 from his incoming book was AWESOME! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Kjaran Coldheart Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Age of Apostasy is the most uninteresting event whereReally! Well different folks and strokes and all but AOA = Goge Vandire Reign of Blood (lots of politicking opportunities there). Daughters/Brides of the Emperor and birth of the Sororitas. Sebastian Thor! Founding of the Ordo Hereticus! Plague of Unbelief. Founding of the Amalathians. Nah i reckon that would be a nice series (though as I said in OP a setting series not a sequential series).Ditto, Duke. I could do with less tales of Space Marines bearing grudges. Let's see something of the modern-day Kor Phaerons and Luthers, the Sindermans and the Malcadors. In short: let's see those Inquisition books due out. And maybe a resurgence of Necromunda, political and provedural stories. Give me the worst monsters of the galaxy: Humanity. QFT Im pretty sure most would agree that the best of the Beast Rises series was the politicking behind the scenes. An entire series of that would get all of my money and love Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veterannoob Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 besides the apostacy, UNIFICATION WARS! Maybe a TBA type series is a good way to start it off to gauge interest :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelborn Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Naaaaahh Don't know if we need the Unification era being covered. Maybe one to give a glimpse of how the setting was back then, featuring Big E and Malc. Only thing I would be interested in: how was it back then in terms of regions, kingdoms, tribes and the like. Though the HH books done by FW give a good glimpse, something like a world map of UW Terra would be cool. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veterannoob Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Naaaaahh Don't know if we need the Unification era being covered. Maybe one to give a glimpse of how the setting was back then, featuring Big E and Malc. Only thing I would be interested in: how was it back then in terms of regions, kingdoms, tribes and the like. Though the HH books done by FW give a good glimpse, something like a world map of UW Terra would be cool. eeeeeeeh, I'm gonna stick with my love for Unifacation Wars ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1soul Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Unification Wars would be very cool if done by good authours It could be a whole setting in and of itself...the Age of Thunder, post-apocalyptic Earth brimming with psykers and techno savages. The rise of the Emperor and his thunder legions. The Emperor himself need not be the focus. PoV characters could be mortal soldier, Thunder Warrior recruit, newly conquered subject, what have you. If people don't want to know about that period, disregard/don't buy the books! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Formosus XVI Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 For Imperium focused stuff: I'd like to see Nova Terra Interregnum/Cataclysm of Souls/Moirae Schism novelized. I probably won't wind a ton of friends with this but I'd like books where Xenos are the protagonists. Perhaps a series on the rise of the Kabals in Commorragh? Or a series on the establishment of the Farsight Enclaves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelborn Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 @veterannoob: and its your good right to do so :) @Formosus: didn't think of that but yeah, Fatsight enclaves would be something of interest for me as well :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1soul Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Fatsight enclaves would be something of interest for me as well :) Hilarious type-o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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