DarkChaplain

The problem isn't that they're reusing stuff, it's that they're treating a simple reprint as if it was something to celebrate, rather than just, you know, PERIODICALLY RESTOCKING THEIR CORE CATALOG TO MEET DEMAND. There's really no reason for them to re-release a hardcover of The Devastation of Baal or Gloomspite - when all they need to do is keep the paperback in circulation longer, let alone the Omnibuses. There is absolutely NO reason to reprint a hardback of Devastation of Baal, when they released the Lords of Blood Omnibus three years ago, including Dante, Devastation and Darkness in the Blood as well as Astorath: Angel of Mercy. THAT should be part of the main catalog, particularly since it's the core Blood Angels collection of the modern era. Instead, they keep going back, untying relatively fomo Omnibuses which at times become unavailable to purchase within a month of release, just to milk specific novels with another different format release - and these days that's often a format we've already had, even. I'd go as far as to say the whole Horus Heresy redux nonsense with new covers they started releasing before even announcing Scouring 2 or the frakking Horus Primarchs novel, they should ACTUALLY condense the Heresy series in terms of ACCESSIBILITY, not just by scrapping most of the series, resulting in gaps of information for new readers. They SHOULD be releasing 3-4 volume Omnibuses for the series, same way they have been doing for the German and French markets for the past few years - AND KEEP THEM IN CIRCULATION, ad perpetuum, because it's a CORE PART OF THEIR CATALOG. I'd argue that the BIGGEST hurdle to getting into the Heresy series in 2026 is NOT the amount of content, but the lack of easy access to it, coupled with the financial burden it entails; stretched over the course of 15 years or so, with half the series being available in Mass Market Paperbacks first, which you could get for 7€ per volume back then, buying into the series and catching up was feasible. Now it definitely isn't, not when half the time you're expected to pay scalpers a premium. They could alleviate this by bundling books into omnibuses, reducing the cost, space requirement, and accessibility issues, but they choose not to, instead expecting people to buy ebooks that cost more than the MMPBs originally did, and now even do so on a terrible walled garden app with a dreadful reading experience.

More re-releases, meh. At least one sequel, but come on. But I must admit, I like that they at least officially ditched the Space Marine Conquests label on Devastation of Baal.

Yeah, whoever edited this really messed up by not splitting up the chapters into more digestible chunks. The audiobook has additional halfway chapter markers, which helps, but without those being added solely for the sake of navigating the audiobook, we're talking about 1:30h to 2h chapters. You simply can't tell me that there were no points where Abnett could've split them up, or that they all needed to be under the same chapter header. Heck, could've even used sub-chapters/numbered sections, which wouldn't be a first in an Abnett novel. This is the sort of thing where an editor should have raised the issue. This is a big chonker of a book, so long, they had to split it up. Editors should have readability and accessibility on their radar, to make sure the finished book is actually digestible, and that you can find your place easily enough if you happen to miss it. It's the bare minimum of reader accomodation to not endlessly textwall them but maintain a steady flow that makes it able to tell they're progressing at a comfortable pace, instead of getting bogged down in scene 30 of a single chapter. In this case, it seems again that they just let Abnett do his thing and didn't meddle even on the finishing stages, even though that'd have been their job.

Just call it Reanimation Protocols or sth heretekal. Problem being that the modpost ruled out a replacement thread before going into all the nonsense about indexing and splitting and what have you. I guess since that never happened, the ruling is kinda void, huh :')

I admit to rolling my eyes back when that "restructuring" justification was made, because.. that wasn't the first time that idea was floated, and never acted upon. To be honest, it wasn't even a good idea in the first place, so I was glad that it never happened. Funnily enough, back then the reason for it was.... saving space. Too many threads, needing to cull the unnecessary threads/posts and trimming down the forum. Which was nuts, considering the regular weight of text data on any server (if you want to have a laugh, look up what the entirety of the english wikipedia weighs - you probably have an USB Stick lying around somewhere that'd fit all its articles). So when the justification this time was the concentration of posts and the prompting to make more individual threads, that was extra funny to me. And yeah, that "nobody made that complaint" point rings true to me as well. We've had a few of these instances over the years where moderation went a bit overboard (often from global mods, not subforum mods), resulting in changes being forced that left no winners in the community, or worse, actually turned people off from posting entirely. I had a few conversations with folks who left as a result of strange events like these, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who has a PM or two in their inbox about such things. Heck, I recall when we had active posters picked as mods for this subforum, who then rarely to never posted again within a few weeks, even though their contributions had always been appreciated. I certainly liked their posts. It's a pity they either washed or burned out over it. ....all of this is to say: Give me back my Crying and Angry Emoji Reactions, you cowardly gretchin :'D Edit: I also have it on good authority that the creator of the Necromancy thread was indeed rather smart and attractive.

Something something The Scouring

The Print on Demand order window is still open right now, by the way. Regular hardback set for 55€, premium edition at 100€. Orders close in 20h from now, so it's the final day already. Silly to not have more than a few days for it, considering the 180 day fulfillment window.

It's actually a good chunk longer than any of the The End and the Death parts, by around 30%, going by my calibre plugin. Same rough increase in runtime for the audiobook compared with TEATD 1 or 2. 3 is actually a good bit shorter (which makes it even more annoying how Dan handled the ending). Comparing it to Urdesh is actually not that much of a discrepancy. Yes, Urdesh is slightly shorter, but only by about 5-10% I'd say.

They're definitely going to keep them around for later. First priority is damage control by removing the FOMO object from view. Once they can say that everybody who wanted a copy got one already, within 180 days of PoD (which is incredibly stupid because they're limiting it to such a short order window, and on very short notice!), they'll dig it back out, maybe for next year's BL Celebration, if they remember to organize one.

Looking at the Special Edition again, I find it oddly hilarious that HIVE got marketed as if it was a Crime-novel without the imprint, and now the Special Edition looks like it was part of the Horror imprint.

.....well, screw Germany, I guess, huh, GW? Like, their biggest market in continental Europe. They're OBVIOUSLY skipping Germany, France and Spain because of the slated localized releases, but that's just bogus. This also means there's been f all in terms of releases going up this month. Good job, BL.

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...

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