DarkChaplain

TWO releases in a single month? How greedy can you get :')

We're getting an illustrated edition of Ciaphas Cain: For the Emperor More importantly, though, after over two decades, Cain & Jurgen are FINALLY getting their own miniatures! First 40k models I'll be buying in years, those.

There's actually a section in the Afterword about this, haha. Makes me proper glad that he wasn't involved with Varangantua, to be honest. Though maybe if he had been, Crime might have survived a little longer, so that authors would at least hit their sequels...

Looks like it

Are we forgetting that Armageddon is basically the poster planet for global Multi-Chapter wars? The first war was only about Angron and his entourage of Bloodthirsters, with Space Wolves & Grey Knights. Guard was purged afterwards. The second war had Guard, Blood Angels, Ultramarines, Salamanders, plus Yarrick taking on Ugulhard by himself. The third war had Old Man Yarrick back, with Space Marines from the Blood Angels (rip Tycho), Space Wolves, Black Templars, and Grey Knights, but also elements of numerous other chapters like the White Scars, Marines Malevolent, Relictors, Flesh Tearers, Mortifactors... I'm probably forgetting a bunch. It makes complete sense that multiple major Chapters are involved with Armageddon's fourth war. Heck, we can go back to when it was still called Ullanor. The War of the Beast had a lot of stuff hinging on a big assault on the planet, and it originally was conquered during the Great Crusade as part of the war against the Orks of old, then razed to the ground to make a parade ground for Titans so the Emperor and his kids had a spectacle to celebrate Horus being made Warmaster. Armageddon is a big deal. The only thing I'll be inevitably disappointed by is that BL no longer does stuff like Space Marine Battles shorts/novellas that allow multiple authors to cover the new war, allowing for many different perspectives and warzones to be showcased.

WarCom be like "#New40k - Novel revealed". Much wow. As much care promoting it as I've come to expect...

Hmmm..... Fehervari for comparison, from Requiem Infernal's Exordium. Sadly, this also made me realize that the Omnibus does not include the "Afterwyrd" from Requiem Infernal's original hardback/paperback/ebook. Which is a flying shame, because it directly addresses a bunch of things about the narrative and should be seen as an extension of it, not a tacked-on Afterword. Completely agree on the font design lately. Whichever intern does that now, he should be replaced by a proper cover designer.

Aaaaaand nothing announced this week. Obviously, since they decided to flood a few releases alongside major releases again.

Every single sodding Omnibus should be a range item that sticks around and gets reprints as required. They used to be like that, too. Omnibuses are the END STATE of the novels. You can milk them through hardback, paperback, ebooks and audiobooks for *years* before an omnibus arrives. There should be no artificial scarcity with omnibuses from GW/BL. That they've actively chosen to introduce it for omnibuses is a sign of corporate disease, not a healthy company that gives a damn about what it puts out. And yeah, I'm also still miffed about Saturday's City of Ash disaster. Thankfully I should be good according to my prefered retailer, who I preordered with, but god damn they can't even make a freakin' STARTER SET that's obviously aimed at entirely new customers with one of the included booklets a new range item instead of a surprise limited edition which you only get confirmation on the moment the store page is up, with an order window of 4 minutes before it's sold out. Frankly, GW is driving the intentional supply issues up the roof and I can't wait for the moment it backfires on them. Hope they produced enough boxes of Armageddon, I suppose.

This discussion just made me look up if Scott Lynch's "Thorn of Emberlain" had actually released while I wasn't paying attention, since it was rumored/"confirmed" over and over since 2024 again. Nah, placeholder date of December 31st, 2026. Go figure. Book 4 of 7 and stuck on a major bloody cliffhanger since 2013.... Anyhow, wasn't Spears 2 supposedly almost done, too, and likely to be released before the Drach'nyen Black Legion novel anyway? Not seeing that one releasing anytime soon, either...

Imagine having the sort of announcement->preview->preorder->release pattern GW does and then only noticing that you need to delay a product two days before it's supposed to go up for preorder, afte you have already announced it as coming that day. If they had to delay it due to logistics, like because a shipment is delayed, they could've just said so and set the preorder window longer than two weeks. That they're not doing so would indicate a longer delay, which bodes ill. Might be a full-blown production issue that they only just caught - which would speak volumes about their quality control. But who am I kidding, they even manage to get the title or author wrong on covers and spines of limited edition books.

I got bad news for you there. The Black Library website is going the way of the dodo =/

I might actually try converting him into a Weirdnob Shaman for my Ironjawz. Should work well with some slapdash armor panels and tusks to cover up where the cables got removed. Definitely has a more aggressive stance than the actual Weirdnob Shaman model, which is nice.

FYI, Space Hulk's return also comes with a free update for previous owners on Steam. The three DLC Campaigns, Space Wolves Expansion and skin packs are all included for free now. The game got a bad rep back in the day because it really is just a straight up adaptation of the board game, and folks on Steam were complaining about it not being more action focused, which is why they released a modified version subtitled "Ascension" a while later, which bent the rules a bit to give a more dynamic experience. This has also returned. Well, they still had the license expire and went bankrupt... One game that hasn't returned in this wave is Eisenhorn: Xenos, which was.... pretty bad and never got followed up on. Probably another licensing issue. Also still gone is the Lane Defense game Storm of Vengeance, which adapted the Piscina IV Dark Angels stuff. It was sort of a reskin of the developer's original IP mobile game, and pretty rough, and again, expired license. Regicide, a loose adaptation of Chess with Space Marines and Orks and such (with a few gimmicks) also remains shut down and unavailable. Went from 2015 til finally getting taken offline in 2022 after one final tournament.

All of these have been available on GOG for years, and I seem to recall them also being either free or at least cheaper there at some point. Battlefleet Gothic Armada and the Dawn of Wars also never went away, so no Return. At least Space Hulk is back, though. The devs literally couldn't keep paying GW for the license extension, and went bankrupt.