Jareddm

I would note that only the first printing of Galaxy in Flames lists Saul Tarvitz as First Captain. This is dropped in all subsequent printings of Galaxy in Flames, and he's just referred to as captain.

Maybe the whole thing is told in flashbacks from the Scouring and we get both sides of things? Not likely but I am willing to trust Haley with Blood Angels.

Oh hey! A Tetrarch Heavy Lander showed up! Now there's a blast from the past: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Tetrarch_Heavy_Lander

A little over halfway through but I especially loved the chapter of

Neither of those things is true, as will be detailed later. Edit: What I meant was that neither commissar is from their regiment's homeworld.

No one should be surprised by this.

This was an auto buy for me, as James blew me away with his short story, "The Sum of its Parts." Have not gotten to crack it open yet but I have high expectations and find it unfortunate that his first novel is arriving on the back of a small hill of Krieg novels.

The single best book of DoF and it has barely 3% to do with the rest of the series. There's a reason it's been recommended as a standalone.

Wait, really? Was that something stated somewhere?

I was gifted the new edition of First Founding for the holidays and can confirm they corrected the list of Primogenitor chapters.

The only part of that WD article I liked was the Imperial Fists origin and that it is maintained as a 1st Company and above secret. Because on a practical level, the geneseed shouldn't matter for the chapter practice. But on an emotional level, you just know other Fist successors would absolutely not stand for a chapter of their bloodline doing the things the Exorcists do, thus chapter secret. I find it telling that the actual term 'Chamber Militant' has not been seen in print in over a decade. Sure, the codexes say they, "work closely" and are "foremost allies" with the Inquisition but you NEVER see Chamber Militant anymore. The feeling I get is as far as GW is concerned, the DW and GK are fully independent entities that just happen to have overlapping goals with the Inquisition. I thought Ultima SW successors could still have their own organization, it just meant the Space Wolves wouldn't acknowledge them in return as true Sons of Fenris. Like they weren't required to accept the Kin-Pack Declaration. As for my own retcon suggestion, a small one. The Dark Angels legion never agreed to the Treaty of Olympus Mons and thus never had true techmarines. Instead they only had Terran-trained Tech-wrights. In current lore, they have both techmarines and tech-wrights. I find this would be a nice extension to similar lore like the Space Wolves "Not Librarians" and the Salamanders "Not Destroyers." Plus after the Heresy, it would require the DA to come crawling back to the AdMech for assistance in getting the remains of Caliban converted into the Rock.

The Inductii really throws a wrench in the plans of all the people trying to suss out the number of successors based on the old legion numbers. I consider this a good thing. I personally would've gone even further with the presentation during the Siege. Even if the loyalist legions mass recruited, the traitor legions had even fewer restrictions. I could easily see the World Eaters or SoH or Death Guard coming into the Siege with 500k each. If we think about just how many casualties were taken on all side and yet for their still to have been so many traitor forces left to flee even after Horus's death, the old legion numbers just don't work if you want to account for Inductii.

As a concept, I do like that this would be an order the Emperor would give to the Grey Knights. "I'm about to do something crazy and it's going to mess me up. Whatever I say, whatever I do, do not let me leave this chair. And if I do leave this chair, get me back in it ASAP, got it!?" It makes for a fine point of conflict between the Custodes and Grey Knights, which is really all this seems to be. Rationale for a particular TT matchup. It being the Terminus Decree is the real letdown.

My theory for a third book (and good lord does this series deserve a third book) is

MacNiven posted awhile back that the Carcharodons would've either stolen the gene tech from elsewhere or just been given the gene tech to convert their own stores with none of the extra bells and whistles to go along with it. That would explain the presence of Primaris but the lack of Era Indomitus equipment.