DarkChaplain

I actually think I prefer this cover over the original Flight of the Eisenstein, actually. That one really was wrong, with how it features a Legion of Imperial Fists (only one of which is clearly visible on the novel cover, the rest is on the back / the full art) and... they're up against a Great Unclean One, also on the backside. Where's the flight? Where's the Fly Guy? I'm not sure what Garro is looking at, might be the Choral City or the Somnum Citadel on Luna, but either way, it evokes him as a bystander, not in an action scene but as a witness. The Aquila on his chest is framed to be looking slightly towards the scene in the backdrop, implying that the Imperium sees it now. The clenched fist shows resolve while his expression shows regret and conflict without him having to hold a Boltgun. It's also more focused on the character Garro, who has been absent from the old cover while being very prominent on later covers. The back of the art has the other Death Guard and a navy bloke look at a star map projection, and half at Garro, who has turned his back on them and towards the massacre. So he's actually aboard the Eisenstein here. They feel out of sorts, in shock, even just from their stances. One MAJOR criticism I have of the new covers is that they DROPPED THE SUBTITLES. Horus Rising: The seeds of heresy are sown False Gods: The heresy takes root Galaxy in Flames: The heresy revealed The Flight of the Eisenstein: The heresy unfolds Fulgrim: Visions of Treachery The First Heretic: Fall to Chaos Prospero Burns: The Wolves unleashed Know No Fear: The battle of Calth Betrayer: Blood for the Blood God Praetorian of Dorn: Alpha to omega The Master of Mankind: War in the webway Slaves to Darkness: Chaos undivided Those bylines actually got better as the series progressed, and they generally give you a decent idea of what it's going to be about. Dropping them for the 12 book redux is lazy.

The hell? Your post was completely inoffensive and in complete good faith. There's no reason why it should have been retroactively removed. Moderation here truly is more arcane than 40k's bureaucracy.... If anything, I'm more excited having read that comment yesterday to get that book onto my reading pile than I already was.

I mean, Ghazghkull is PROPHET OF THE WAAAGH, the bloke everyone believes to be IT, and we all know how Ork faith works. Him surviving against Ragnar Blackmane despite losing his head has only cemented their belief that he's unkillable. So yeah, Ghazghkull *is* Ork Jesus to the Orks. That being said, he's also the closest thing 40k has to the "Primorks" of way back when, during the War of the Beast. And those, funnily enough, smoked Vulkan (and might have caused him his hopefully final death due to the Waaagh energy consuming him. Don't you dare bring him back, GW).

How many more times will they change the author for a Huron Blackheart novel? We went from Sarah Cawkwell to Mark Clapham to Mike Brooks to now Marc Collins. Not that I mind who writes him now, but come on, Huron Blackheart has had it rough with author retention.... I expect the NEW NOVEL thread on the News subforum to pop up any minute and result in a half-dozen discussion posts we'll never see as actual activity on this board when the book actually releases, by the way.

Especially since loyal customers end up doing word of mouth marketing for the company anyway, winning new customers through positive vibes and peer pressure :')

Don't worry, we probably still have around a month before they check back in and close this one, too :^) We should enjoy our little book club on this ENTIRE BOARD while we can. Personally, I have no idea about most authors mentioned here, but I'm taking notes!

They also just announced it officially on warcom. Is this only the second AoS book they are releasing this year? First Marshal and this one? Crazy!

Speaking of website issues, who the hell thought it was a good idea to have the category headers for the different systems hidden behind a Shop-button, just to do one more layer of their horrible navigation system? Such a pain.

Comparable novellas from back then clock in more around 3-4 hours. It's specifically mentioned to be a release in THREE PARTS, which would indicate the rough estimate holds true here as well. The Traitor's Gorge novella for Rynn's World had about the same word count according to my calibre plugin's estimate, and clocked in at 3h22m in audio. Kyme's Promethean Sun was around 10% longer (and had literally no chapters, what the heck) and the audio was a bit over 4 hours. Aurelian was a little shorter, and hit 3h17m anyway. This runtime, if anything, makes it look like they're planning a CD set release, since it's about what an audio CD is capable of, and they're trying to milk it on audiobook platforms / their terribad app, before they release it that way.

Wow. There's actually a new audiobook dropping that they haven't spoken about so far, as far as I'm aware. Audible lists "Armageddon: Blood and Fire" by ADB for September 1st. https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Armageddon-Blood-and-Fire-Part-One-Audiobook/B0H8TQN83G However..... "PART ONE", of THREE, runtime 1 hour, 18 minutes. The runtime might indicate a CD release / audio drama format, but... it's just Jonathan Keeble narrating, so this seems unlikely. In other words, they're cutting up the Blood and Fire novella from 13 years ago, to sell it in THREE PARTS, when it's just a sodding novella and nothing indicates that they're giving it the audio drama treatment of old to come close to warrant this decision. Nevermind the cover being recycled art, not the original artwork of the novella, let alone the Armageddon omnibus art, and the Space Marine Battles layout was also scrapped. It seems solely aimed at milking the Armageddon launch box hype.

Yeah, this entire forum serves as a book club after all. Actually funny to me (and rather typical) that the other discussion remained open for almost a month and a half before it got locked like that, and new threads still were made and commented on, at least when GW/BL released anything warranting it. Cadia still stood, regardless. In better news, the Wicked and the Damned is coming sooner than expected, preorder next Saturday

Would you look at that, a new Black Library post on Warcom.... .....and it's for the re-re-re-issue of Galaxy in Flames. Yay....

Nothing new coming, but at least they're talking to Jonathan D Beer about his upcoming novel "Tomb World", which totally hasn't been released in October 2025. Nuh-uh.

It still ticks me off how they did Lucius dirty. He just got axed for no reason whatsoever in a novel not even covering his own Legion, without him being close to the protagonist in that book, and just never brought up again for *years*. As if nobody in publishing even remembered he existed, or maybe his entry in the spreadsheet got deleted on accident when the intern spilled coffee on the keyboard. There CLEARLY was a plan for him there. McNeill set him up to appear in that novel FOR YEARS. And then The Crimson King ended up in limbo, the Ahriman trilogy happened and TCK was already in a weird spot, and then it did so many different things on the side and forgot about Lucius in the aftermath, clearly set up for something BIG? Heck, as of right now, he's literally been missing for years during the Heresy and Siege, and we have no confirmation of when during the Scouring he'll even show back up canonically. The Siege should have been where Lucius fully embraces Slaanesh's offerings, but now he might actually be the most sane Emperor's Children character we got. That McNeill also dropped the ball on Magnus having plans for the Sysypheum crew as per Alpharius/Omegon in The Serpent Beneath, which he acknowledges having forgotten in the afterword for his Siege of Terra novella, is crazy to me, too. Damn that stuff makes me miss when they had Laurie Goulding actually keeping plotthreads together, because lord knows whoever took over after him clearly did not.

I mean, they held WHFB stuff back even way back when, to a point where it never got released before the End Times killed the system and put an end to BL covering it. Some of Josh Reynolds' short stories got lucky and went into Hammer & Bolter at some point iirc, but that's that.