The rough with the smooth - HH Audiobook 'Raptor'

[Shrieker]

As I'm building a 'Raptor' 30k squad I downloaded the latest Gaven Guard (Should that be 'Raven Gav'?) Audio for nuggets of inspiration. I found it surprisingly enjoyable, and would recommend it to any and all with an interest in HH RG.

 

 

 

The good

-'We take the rough with the smooth' - unofficial raptor motto, 'smooths' are clean brothers, 'roughs' are mutated ones. 

 

-Hevar Nef and a few other Raptors characters are developed.

 

-'Practicalities' of Raptors are developed. By that I mean what armour they wear (Mk VI almost exclusively assigned to Raptors, apparently), what adjustments are made by techmarines (Nef has a Mk II/MkIII hybrid with a terminator helm, with gauntlets rigged to let through his natural claws), what degree of deformity is acceptable (Nef can't operate a bolter). That's what I was looking for primarily from a modelling point of view, and there's heaps of readily usable pieces to model.

     

-The space wolves 'minders' sent by Russ and Malcador to chaperon Corax spent 5 years looking for him but couldn't find him ('He's a wily one, your Primarch')

 

-The 'no gamble, mission first' coldly reasonable RG attitude is darker, but remains true to RG 'mindset'.  

 

-The plot twists and turns, the outcome is not predictable.

 

-A long standing Raven Guard plotseed from Index Astartes, 'the Saga of the Weregeld', gets a dusting off (cynics will say Wulfen release related)  

 

 

The Bad

- a bit expensive, £9.99 is a bit steep, maybe wait till it makes its way into an anthology if you're not too desperate to learn about the inner workings of the RG

 

 

The Ugly

-Voice acting is a bit cringeworthy... The spacewolf commander sounds (and acts) like a cross between the mad cosmonaut in Armageddon and FPS Russia; 'facially deformed' raptors are very caricatural. 'Smooths' are also straight from Eastenders.  

 

 

 

 

Overall, more (much more) good than bad  

[Helias_Tancred]

Thank you for the summarized review. Its one of the couple RG audio dramas I don't have and I will be getting it this weekend :)

And I've come to like the character of Hevar Nef from other Raven Guard novellas I've read.

[Race Bannon]

Is there anything that could reasonably translate into later millenniums up to 41st?

[Shrieker]

Frankly, no. The missing link is not there, save the name.