Phoebus Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 I took no offense! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc warhammer Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 chainsword and book gun in universe- both devastating. chainsword and book gun outside universe- both silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loesh Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 chainsword and book gun in universe- both devastating. chainsword and book gun outside universe- both silly. Yeah, I mean you can say that about tons of stuff in the Warhammer universe really. The key is that it's put together in such a way and there's so much of it that it loops around from silly back to serious in the context of the Warhammer universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 As silly as super humans outside of context really... Least he tried something - even if most agree it didn't have the desired effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonerhino Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Scale is not the issue here. I have no problem with a weapon of the size and scale described in the book. My problem is with the ludicrous image of a book opening to reveal a giant gun - an image that hitherto has been the province of children's cartoons. It's a ham-fisted attempt at visualizing the theme of violence backing up ideology. It's a concept that would have worked far better as a statement (something along the lines of "Our faith is backed by our weapons") than as a literal object. This is something a Word Bearer would make if his intent was to satisfy sophomoric expectations/humor. I'm sorry if I'm coming off as blunt. This is, frankly, the most inapropos image I've seen in this series thus far. Maybe I'm a little biased because of my name/profile pic. But the Stone Rhino battle mech has cowls that cover the huge lazers that form its arms. This is to protect the weapon's tips from damage. I took the huge book covering the plasma lance as being the same thing. A huge chunk of armor in the shape of a book protecting the most vulnerable part of the weapon. IE the parts not already being protected by the ship's normal armor and hull. The fact that the armor takes the shape of a book is just 40k as usual, symbolism just for the sake of symbolism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebris Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 IMO Battle for the Abyss is the worst HH book to date. I have read it eagerly when it came out and I have even borrowed the audio version (need my fix when I paint and I have listened to all BL audiobooks so far), but in truth I disliked both. Not only the loyalist are invincible gods of battle, killing Word Bearers by the score with a kitchen knife, but also in general the "scenes" were ill set. 2/10 in my rating scale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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