Legatus Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I am not sure there is much more to say on the issue, but I would be game to go over it again. But then perhaps in the 'Age of Darkness' section? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3866245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nineswords Posted November 20, 2014 Author Share Posted November 20, 2014 I too would like to participate. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3866680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoebus Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Sounds good. Â I'm not opposed to either of you starting the topic, but it will be another eight hours or so before I can meaningfully participate. Â :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3867006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legatus Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 OT: I started a new topic for the Battle for Tesstra in the Age of Darkness section. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3867160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sviox Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 It's out. And the blacklibrary.com seems very very slow. Â EDIT: Haven't seen this bad server load since Aurelian. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3880281 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sviox Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Finally, after almost 3 hours of clicking, I successfully placed the order. And I almost began to think that GW doesn't want my money anymore.. Now, let's see how stuck GW main pages are when the new Blood Angels arrive in a few hours x) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3880448 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Tezdal Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Ugh still trying to decide if I want to drop 50 bucks on a novella Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3885525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
helterskelter Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Got my copy, read it, thought it was actually a rather good read. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3888793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Aye, my copy arrived today: haven't read it just yet though! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3888870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miteyheroes Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 I read it, and enjoyed it. Obviously there was going to be someone in disguise, but I enjoyed how it played out. And the cyptic hints for events to come - why did Magnus ask Alpharius to spare that person? Mysterious! Â Also, I love that the Alpha Legion's battlecry is "For the Emperor!" Â I quite want to make a model of the chap at the very end... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3891574 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 I read it, and enjoyed it. Obviously there was going to be someone in disguise, but I enjoyed how it played out. And the cyptic hints for events to come - why did Magnus ask Alpharius to spare that person? Mysterious! Â Also, I love that the Alpha Legion's battlecry is "For the Emperor!" Â I quite want to make a model of the chap at the very end... Â I started it on the train home and finished it a bit later this evening - it's brilliant, really well done! Thoroughly enjoyed it - McNeill at his best. Feels odd reading some of the comments back from this thread admittedly... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3922177 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excessus Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 And yet again, us Alpha Legion fans has to walk away from a book with no surviving named Alpha Legionnaires (well, except Alpharius)... :( Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3927412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyaenidae Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 And yet again, us Alpha Legion fans has to walk away from a book with no surviving named Alpha Legionnaires (well, except Alpharius)... Can I be honest (hopefully without offending)? Would names truly matter? Of any Legion, the XX uses such relics of culture as a new source of confusion. I am more shocked we have any names for the Alpha's at all. A name is a two-edged sword. The Alpha Legion have simply made it their own. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3927815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Rohr Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Unusual considering their affinity for tattoos. :D Tattoos give away identities faster than names. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3927824 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelPaladin Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I would not be surprised if they used electoos that could be altered. Have a hydra on Monday, a chain on Tuesday, etc.  In fact, I swear that this was in a short story at some point. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3927871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyaenidae Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I would not be surprised if they used electoos that could be altered. Have a hydra on Monday, a chain on Tuesday, etc.  In fact, I swear that this was in a short story at some point.  Yep. Tallarn: Executioner. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3927895 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 And yet again, us Alpha Legion fans has to walk away from a book with no surviving named Alpha Legionnaires (well, except Alpharius)... And if they are all Alpharius... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3927926 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excessus Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 And yet again, us Alpha Legion fans has to walk away from a book with no surviving named Alpha Legionnaires (well, except Alpharius)... Can I be honest (hopefully without offending)? Would names truly matter? Of any Legion, the XX uses such relics of culture as a new source of confusion. I am more shocked we have any names for the Alpha's at all. A name is a two-edged sword. The Alpha Legion have simply made it their own. The names they carry isn't the important part, that was not my point... The Alpha Legion doesn't have continuity the same way many of the other legions have with returning characters. Each new story features new characters, and at the end they invariably perish. I'm afraid of when they decide to kill off the last two from Legion, Mathias Herzog and Ingo Pech, because that's where they'll all end up if they get mentioned in a book as it seems now... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3931567 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Naming implies ownership over something - the fact that they are all Alpharius, one and the same, takes away that power of knowing the enemy. Â I don't see it as a problem at all - I can appreciate being a bigger fan and wanting to base things on them, but I quite like that mystery. We've got another seventeen known legions to have heroes for anyway! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3931647 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excessus Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Naming implies ownership over something - the fact that they are all Alpharius, one and the same, takes away that power of knowing the enemy. That's towards outsiders. Inside the legion there is only one Alpharius... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3931727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Â Â Naming implies ownership over something - the fact that they are all Alpharius, one and the same, takes away that power of knowing the enemy. That's towards outsiders. Inside the legion there is only one Alpharius... But I like being on the outside: being on the inside of the sneakiest group ever is like having your cake and eating it! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3931781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
helterskelter Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 And being stabbed/blown up/shot after eating said cake because alpharius demands it! I agree it would be nice for some characters to recur other than the twins. Until he got himself perished spectacularly i believed Ingo Pech had some staying power. The alphas cant really have any official decent ranking characters left if they all have to lay down their lives in such a fashion Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3932997 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excessus Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Ingo Pech is dead??? :( Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3933101 Share on other sites More sharing options...
helterskelter Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Erm.. no? There's a short with it in, I'll hunt it down edit it in. Sorry for the spoilers/your loss. He is a good alpha  completely ignore me I got sheed ranko mixed up with ingo pech Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3933107 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excessus Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Yeah, sad moment with Sheed Ranko... Though he's in good company with Commander Arvas Janic, Sergeant Ashur Maesan and Operatives 'Ort', 'Nestil' and 'Solaro'... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/299132-the-seventh-serpent-by-graham-mcneill/page/4/#findComment-3933126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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