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I figured since they all appear to be Techmarines they were there for training and got caught up in the action.

 

Well, two of them definitely look the part with the servo arm and the mechadendrites, respectively, and you could in theory get away with attributing the Raven Guard as a techmarine too but what about the Fist and the Ultramarine? Neither of the look particularly techmarine-ish (barring the bionic eye)...

The Fist wouldn't need to be one, they were the actual marines force sent to purge Mars.

Not too pleased on the 40k skitarri being there. Being able to use pretty much any concept from blanche and turn it into awesome art, they instead go with the skitarri seargent (including pose) of the box plus friends and onagers in the back. How BL has fallen....

 

I figured since they all appear to be Techmarines they were there for training and got caught up in the action.

 

Well, two of them definitely look the part with the servo arm and the mechadendrites, respectively, and you could in theory get away with attributing the Raven Guard as a techmarine too but what about the Fist and the Ultramarine? Neither of the look particularly techmarine-ish (barring the bionic eye)...

 

The Ultramarine could of been a new inductee so only had minor bionics before hand and hadn't yet received his servo arm? The fist was probably just part of the force sent a long with the techmarines.

At this point its all assumption but it would be interesting to see the inner workings of such a Techmarine A-Team and how their potential varying degrees of induction into the secrets of the Mechanicum Impacts them as Marines let alone how their Legion Heritage Conflicts with their tutelage.

 

Id especially be interested in the perspective of a Raven Guard Techmarine; something weve more or less never seen!

I'm all for more horus heresy novels, but this limited edition thing has gotten too regular. It was novel when it was one every year and a half or so but now its starting to price readers out of content, and in some cases even limit the number of readers.

 

Limited released in the last two years.

Cybernetica

The Seventh Serpent

The Purge

Tallarn - Ironclad

Scorched Earth

Tallarn Executioner

Corax Soulforge  

 

while the last two received normal prints (two years later) the remaining books have not, some having taken weeks if not months to sell out a few thousand copies.

I'm all for more horus heresy novels, but this limited edition thing has gotten too regular. It was novel when it was one every year and a half or so but now its starting to price readers out of content, and in some cases even limit the number of readers.

 

Limited released in the last two years.

Cybernetica

The Seventh Serpent

The Purge

Tallarn - Ironclad

Scorched Earth

Tallarn Executioner

Corax Soulforge  

 

while the last two received normal prints (two years later) the remaining books have not, some having taken weeks if not months to sell out a few thousand copies.

 

And Ravenlord, making it 8 since the start of 2013. Sedition's Gate too?

 

Compare to novel releases since then:

Betrayer

Vulkan Lives

Scars

Unremembered Empire

Vengeful Spirit

The Damnation of Pythos

Deathfire

 

There have been more limited edition releases than actual novel releases over the 2.5 years. I know the limited ed. ones are shorter, but even so, that's just absurd.

Also that Raven Guard Legionary must get sick of people mistaking him for an Iron Hand.

That's clearly Meduson, with half as much grey matter and twice as much iron giving that subterfuge thing a go. Small steps and buckets of white paint wins the race.

 

Those 'Hands just keep on grinding.

 

And as for the techmarines, here's hoping we get our own little alternative heresy amongst the Astartes mechanics.

 

I'm all for more horus heresy novels, but this limited edition thing has gotten too regular. It was novel when it was one every year and a half or so but now its starting to price readers out of content, and in some cases even limit the number of readers.

 

Limited released in the last two years.

Cybernetica

The Seventh Serpent

The Purge

Tallarn - Ironclad

Scorched Earth

Tallarn Executioner

Corax Soulforge  

 

while the last two received normal prints (two years later) the remaining books have not, some having taken weeks if not months to sell out a few thousand copies.

 

And Ravenlord, making it 8 since the start of 2013. Sedition's Gate too?

 

Compare to novel releases since then:

Betrayer

Vulkan Lives

Scars

Unremembered Empire

Vengeful Spirit

The Damnation of Pythos

Deathfire

 

There have been more limited edition releases than actual novel releases over the 2.5 years. I know the limited ed. ones are shorter, but even so, that's just absurd.

 

 

I think it says it all that I actually glossed over one of the limited editions which I own. Its loosing its special feel. 

 

although I wouldn't count sedition gate as an event exclusive release, and a short story compilation. Personally I think some of the best writing of the horus heresy series occurs in short stories so I don't get so worked about them. Plus if we count those we get;

 

Blades of the Traitor

Death and Defiance

Legacies of Betrayal

Sedition's Gate 

The Imperial Truth

Mark of Calth 

 

And if we add those to the novellas it makes Black library sound worse. Which is not what i wanted to do.

Don't worry, it'll be exclusively limited to X number of copies, and still be available... I'm going to guess 5 months down the road it still won't have sold out, if the trends these days holds true.

 

Sanders is pretty good though, it may go within a week, depends on the price point too I guess.

I was stoked or this, really I was, and now I'm losing my enthusiasm.

£30 Limited Edition of 128 pages dry.png

The galling thing is, the overall idea of it sounds really good, and very different from the last 10 or so books. We're away from the Shattered Legions and Isstvan, and we're back in the Sol system - Mars specifically. We've got more Mechanicum (hopefully), some more FIst and a wide spread of represented Legions, and the premise is excellent. I'm guessing it must be about the presence of the Dark Mechanicum on Mars, the continued internal civil war on the Red Planet, and the Siglette deciding "We can't have these guys so close to Terra, sod it, kill them all!". Throw in some good character development, some decent Mechanicum characters, and lots of intrigue from the likes of Malcador and Dorn, and we have have a really good full-size novel on our hands.

128 pages...

£30....

I finished reading Deathfire last week, and I found mself thinking "That was a bad read, shame it was a full-size novel that's part of the main series. Most of the novellas and short stoy collections were better", and now I'm bemoaning yet another LE novel-price but novella-length release.

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