Guilliman's Favored Brothers

[Kol Saresk]

I actually wouldn't mind reading something during the Age of Strife. Human psychic warlords capable of summoning storms and throwing around enough power to reshape the very landscape? Sounds bloody awesome!

[Emperor's Furor]

I want to read a story where the Imperial Fists are genuinely fighting during the crusade, and not stuck behind a wall every time.

[Kol Saresk]

Ooh! They have one of those!

[Emperor's Furor]

What's that then?

[Kol Saresk]

The Crimson Fist by John French, in the Shadows of Treachery anthology.

[Emperor's Furor]

That's heresy era though and in space, I want a simple compliance war headed by the fists.

[Kol Saresk]

Ah, apologies. I misunderstood.

[Kais Klip]

Crusade era was hard to read, so I don't know if it was any harder to write. All the bits that were against xenos read a bit drab, since I doubt you have much incentive to invest so much into a species that will be dealt with in a chapter, the one I could bare the easiest was probably Abnett's work in Prospero Burns. The bits of human reclamation (actually maybe thats why 'burns was more readable, oops -_-) were great though, and in fact I would be all geared and ears for novels set from the point of view of those being reclaimed, or even Unified. 

[Captain Idaho]

It's perfectly possible there were some major dramas and battles we don't know about in the Crusade ;)

[Emperor's Furor]

Crusade era was hard to read, so I don't know if it was any harder to write. All the bits that were against xenos read a bit drab, since I doubt you have much incentive to invest so much into a species that will be dealt with in a chapter, the one I could bare the easiest was probably Abnett's work in Prospero Burns. The bits of human reclamation (actually maybe thats why 'burns was more readable, oops ) were great though, and in fact I would be all geared and ears for novels set from the point of view of those being reclaimed, or even Unified. 

I dunno I personally liked reading the compliance stories, from the early ones in the series to the later ones in Promethean Sun etc.

[Conn Eremon]

I would love a Great Crusade series, though I am sure what we glimpse of it through the Horus Heresy series is all we will get.

 

A Unification Wars trilogy would be ideal, too. Book 1 showing the Thunder Regiments in full march, with flashbacks to the earliest days of the Emperor as merely one warlord among dozens and showing the differences in identities and personalities of the regiments. Book 2 shows the Wars wind down, Terra virtually conquered and the Thunder Regiments beginning to question what is in store for them. Book 3 introduces the newborn Space Marine Legions and their preferential treatment during the initial Sol System expansion and closing hours of Terra's unification, while the Thunder Regiments lose more and more men, fresh recruits never coming. Ends on a cliffhanger, the Thunder Regiments choosing death in combat over slow decay, but doesn't show it.

[b1soul]

A GC Thunder Warriors series would be pretty sick. The beginnings of the GC, striking out from Terra, retaking the Sol System. That could be a multiple-trilogy series in and of itself. Proto-Astartes, genebred regiments, all fighting under the lightning banner. And the maestro of kickass himself mowing down the enemies of man.

 

What I'd absolutely love is a pre-Strife novel.

 

I too would love a Unification Wars series. I think the series should end with the betrayal of the Thunder Warriors (which should happen in the early Great Crusade when the Emperor has already begun phasing out the Thunder Warriors). I think there is a brief period of overlap between Thunder Warriors and Astartes. Would love to see how the two groups interact.

 

It would be cool if those responsible for culling the Thunder Warriors are the Custodes and early Terran Astartes.

 

As for pre-Strife, there is some very decent Warhammer 20K fanfiction here: http://www.imperial-literature.net/archives/category/40k

[Apothecary Vaddon]

That's some decent fanfic - actually, I like the format of  a lot of it, in the form of captain's logs and whatnot. That could be very serviceable in BL canon, imo.

[Balthamal]

If we do start looking at GC era stories, Ullanor is a must. Although I'm hopeful we'll get some insight into the actual fighting during ADB's next heresy outing, The Master of Mankind for obvious reasons