Jareddm

Rhuairidh is a secret GW treasure and is going to knock people's socks off when he gets a higher profile novel some day.

To this day the best Salamander stories in the Heresy are Haley's "Unforged" and "Unspoken" and "Upon the Anvil of War" in Retribution.

Is the collection of audiobooks in the app distinct from the downloads section of the Black Library website? I've never used the app but if they link to the same account, I imagine they could still be downloaded through the site.

His prequel EC short story, "A More Perfect Union" was strong enough that I'm thrilled he's getting to expand on them. Refreshing take but still solidly Slaaneshi. His Erebus short, "Visage" was decent but had some wonky pacing. Will still be checking out his novel.

I think we can all agree that the real winner is Black Library: The Art of the Horus Heresy Though I voted for Fall of Cadia as well.

My wife and I have been working on a story based on the idea that at least one of the Abyssal Crusade chapters was refounded as part of the Ultima Founding, in our case, the Sentinels. This included being given their original homeworld. But the chapter is kept on a chokingly tight Inquisitorial leash and no one in the chapter knows why, unaware there ever was a prior Sentinels chapter. That it's not until they have a run-in with some of the original Sentinels (now fully Corpus Brethren) attempting to return home that the chapter has to deal with their history. We submitted it for the last BL Open Submission but it sadly was not accepted.

When I think about how to apply this to the Imperium, I can imagine this as part of a family tree of different data profiles. That adepts would not just deal with decrypting the formats directly into information, but would also need a genealogy map (more likely a giant tome) that explains how to translate from one data profile to another through means of half a dozen transitory syntax states, each of which at one point in the past was deemed the "best format" and "new standard."

The opposite of this was the Assassinorum: Kingmaker audiobook which included the reading out of every single Imperial Knight classification with all weapon configurations in full. It was a little much to say the least

I know a lot of folks have grouped all of the anthologies into "bad" by default and new readers are skipping them. But if there was one that I wish more people read, it'd be Shattered Legions (Technically Meduson, as I hated The Seventh Serpent but otherwise it's the same). I'll also second Old Earth (the worst part about the book is you have to read Deathfire to get to it) and add Pharos. A lot of folks had a problem with the Night Lords portrayal, but I feel it worked fine because they were at a double disadvantage. It was an open warfare set piece environment, which is not their strong suit, and that their force was made up of Gendor Skraivok's recruits, the batch that everyone in the VIIIth legion looked at and said, "these are trash." The batch that made Curze call Nostramo a lost cause.

We now know that the missing implants in the Imperial Fists lineage is due to Dorn consciously choosing to not implant these two into inductii in the lead up to the Siege. He felt they would not be useful in such a campaign and that it was more important to get more marines made faster. The problem was after the Siege, when they tried to reintroduce the implants, they failed to take. So if there were mission legion marines mixed in amongst them, they likely would've been affected as well.

Seeing a lot of love on other site's discussions about Haar for an all-purpose battle-damaged upgrade kit. What do folks think?

For any other character I would agree but Haar for me is supposed to be bulky and odd as one of the earliest astartes.

The audiobooks do not include the appendices from the back of the book. Which if your interest is in how the broader Indomitus Crusade operates and is organized then they are absolutely not to be missed. Personally, I found them to be some of the best parts of the series and it is a tragedy the audiobooks don't include them. As for the cover, my only complaint is that tiny little bolt rifle barrel! No bolt shell is going to fit through that!

If Imperium Secundus was an attempt to maintain the Imperium as it was at that moment, but that the Imperium as it was was not what the Emperor intended it to be, it's likely that the Emperor would've opposed the whole idea of Imperium Secundus from the start if he had known about it. It would've been interested to have seen the clash between those 'in the know' regarding where the Emperor was driving humanity against those who were trying to maintain the status quo of the Imperium. Though the only groups I could really see occupying the former would be Custodes, and maybe some Knights Errant. Just a rambling thought.

Never read any Cain books so any references there went over my head. And it's funny you think it was too long, as I read Ashes immediately after both TEaTD V2 and Fall of Cadia so Ashes felt like it flew by in comparison.