mc warhammer Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 calling it: rg is possessed by a daemon in a sword. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4645560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1soul Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 Holy crap boys...is this for real? I've been hoping for this since the introduction of the Heart of Iron https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/02/03/gathering-storm-iii-rise-of-the-primarch-first-look/ This is really a case of damned if you, damned if you don't. I'm glad GW just went ahead and very substantially advanced the plot. Yes, 40K is more of a setting, less of a linear story...but good story progression prevents current 40K from becoming very stale. Looks real... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4645675 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carach Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 cant say im a massive fan of that model compared to the HH one. too many flicks not enough straight Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4645715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelborn Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 Still thinking that this is Omegon. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4645728 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taliesin Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 It's definitely real and coming next month. This whole Gathering Storm narrative ( 3 books in total, the last one in March) is quite exciting, actually progressing the narrative. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4645738 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carach Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 it certainly looks like the emperor's sword. so i guess he is now the praetorian in the absence of Dorn Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4645742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1soul Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 This whole Gathering Storm narrative ( 3 books in total, the last one in March) is quite exciting, actually progressing the narrative. I'm pleasantly shocked that GW has the balls to do this Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4645808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkChaplain Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 it certainly looks like the emperor's sword. so i guess he is now the praetorian in the absence of Dorn Confirmed as being the Emperor's sword on Warhammer Community, too. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4645892 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mellow Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 How can it be His sword? It's leaning up against the Throne and His sword is psychically activated. Plus for someone stuck in stasis he looks a bit old and crinkly! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4646577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felix Antipodes Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 While BL is back in charge of their own destiny again, I can't see them not following up on the Gathering Storm storyline advancement at some point. As mentioned by DarkChaplain, they are probably waiting for the entire trilogy to hit first (as well as searching for an author or two to write it!). For those saying it will be retconed; no chance. GW are in full command this time, not having their scenario highjacked by a group of very clever gamers. One thing of note though; the GS1 storyline picks up where the official 13th BC campaign ended (as published on their website at the time) so they don't appear to have regated any of that campaign result, just continued where it left off. More pause than retcon it seems. Well played GW. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4646794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mellow Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 A novel detailing the moment of him coming out of stasis. From the moment he went in millennia before. Maybe just a paragraph of the events and pain of the poison just before stasis. Then the moments coming out and him having to have a sitrep of the state of the Imperium. Would be nice. I think I'd prefer something along those lines to the Bolter porn of him fighting. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4647027 Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronDrake28 Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Totally agree Mellow, though I doubt we'd get that novel. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4647054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelborn Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Roboute Guiliman - Groundhog Day with Chaos Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4647064 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 While BL is back in charge of their own destiny again, I can't see them not following up on the Gathering Storm storyline advancement at some point. As mentioned by DarkChaplain, they are probably waiting for the entire trilogy to hit first (as well as searching for an author or two to write it!). For those saying it will be retconed; no chance. GW are in full command this time, not having their scenario highjacked by a group of very clever gamers. One thing of note though; the GS1 storyline picks up where the official 13th BC campaign ended (as published on their website at the time) so they don't appear to have regated any of that campaign result, just continued where it left off. More pause than retcon it seems. Well played GW. Sadly I had high hopes too. But: we have zero totally 'new' titles for Horus Heresy till JUNE! Anthologies all over again. Authors write what they want to write - not so. There are a lot of unnessecary stuff and reprints again. LE again all the way in. No novels for the Gathering Storm! For feth sake it's Guilliman rise - and they does not have a novel! It seems that 2016 was an exclusion of release programme. Pre-release titles absent! At HH Weekender - the biggest HH event of the year - they had NOTHING! ZERO! Even previous 4 years they at least had an anthology for release :( And again - seems most of the releases would be at BL Weekender late November! Roboute Guiliman - Groundhog Day with Chaos Lol - true Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4647360 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 It's past time - but where were rumours on different forums and resources that BL will do some books about new cycle of events in W40K. But only after the 'Gathering Storm' (3 books) - so probably we will have something April-May? Plus it was long a dream of McNeil to write the resurrection of Buirlliman and at the same time destruction of Macragge. Sooo - maybe we will have our wishes come true? Maybe even a little bit later as a novel. Plus something tells me that in the next trilogy after the 'Gathering Storm' they will destroy Macragge. For Guilliman to go to Terra. AS of now - I think we will have a 12 month event. With 12 books like 'Gathering storm' - 1 book per month. And at least 2-3 novels to attend the truly CRUCIAL moments. But that's only mine humble opinion Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4662290 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mellow Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 I like crumble opinion. I want a series of novels for these events. Something expected. Like a rushed bunch of half ass books with pointless side stories. Y'know. Like TBA. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4662523 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 I like crumble opinion. I want a series of novels for these events. Something expected. Like a rushed bunch of half ass books with pointless side stories. Y'know. Like TBA. yeah, but smaller. 6 books - 1 per 2 months more than enough! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4663302 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xisor Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 If anyone wants solid BL to consume and get in the mood for the Gathering Storm, check out "Valedor" by Guy Hayley. For one: it's excellent. For two: it ties in fantastically well. (Well, thematically and conceptually it's spot on. Plotwise there's no Yvraine or Visarch or whatnot.) It's an ace novel. And it accompanies Gav Thorpe & Andy Chambers' Eldar novels brilliantly too (which would also help a lot, mood wise - the DE ones especially). Seriously. If you've not read them - check them out pronto. If you have read them, give them a re-read and chat about them 'coz I'm dying for good chat about this stuff. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4663688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareddm Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Valedor was great! I loved the poetic nature of Eldar speech, like we were reading it being translated into Gothic, rather than the Eldar speaking Gothic (as side note, his Ork stories are written the same way). As far as tying in, the Harlequin's performance made it pretty clear that the birth of Ynnead was something they had been working on for awhile. I haven't read the Dark Eldar Path books yet, but they are on my list. Personally, I know people may not care for it, but the tie-in stories for the Sanctus Reach and Valedor Warzones are some of my favorite stories in all of 40k. It's why I'm split on the idea that these campaign books don't have tie-in stories as well. Sure, plenty of them weren't great, but the ones that were great were REALLY great. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4663740 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 Valedor was great! I loved the poetic nature of Eldar speech, like we were reading it being translated into Gothic, rather than the Eldar speaking Gothic (as side note, his Ork stories are written the same way). As far as tying in, the Harlequin's performance made it pretty clear that the birth of Ynnead was something they had been working on for awhile. I haven't read the Dark Eldar Path books yet, but they are on my list. Personally, I know people may not care for it, but the tie-in stories for the Sanctus Reach and Valedor Warzones are some of my favorite stories in all of 40k. It's why I'm split on the idea that these campaign books don't have tie-in stories as well. Sure, plenty of them weren't great, but the ones that were great were REALLY great. Indeed. Valedor was a really good war story made from the eldar point of view. A lot of eldars on different Craftworlds worked upon Ynnead birth - on Biel-Tan, on Ultwe, on Iyanden etc. Valedor was an interesting warzone and what interesting - not long ago Guy Haley (whose Baal book would be released this October) said Valedor would have consiquences and impact on Baal defence. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4678023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1soul Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Guys...so the plot of Rise of the Primarch has been revealed (see Amicus Aedes board section) What y'all think? I like the story progression, but seriously...this deserves a lengthy novel series (and I'd prefer fewer factions crammed into the plot) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4678965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZebraM Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 It all just feels ridiculously rushed. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4678999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelborn Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Kind of. One book per month is indeed rushed. I remember a time when we had at least 2 or 3 months in between each new codex. Nowadays it's like: HERE! GS 1! Cadia falls! Give us your money! oh wait HERE! GS 2! ELDAR UNIFY! GIVE US YOUR MONEY! and before I forget HERE! GS 3!!! RG RETURNS! GIVE! US! YOUR! MONEY! bonkers -.- One can't enjoy the fluff and it's consequences anymore. 'Cause next month, there's new stuff coming which will blow your head yet again. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4679092 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scribe Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 It's pretty rushed to me, and until or if quality authors fill it out it leaves me a bit sour. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4679099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Guys...so the plot of Rise of the Primarch has been revealed (see Amicus Aedes board section) What y'all think? I like the story progression, but seriously...this deserves a lengthy novel series (and I'd prefer fewer factions crammed into the plot) No it does not. It like a speedrun of a game. The story does not structured correctly. Some interesting events are rushed and take 5 sentences and others, like some pointless daemon invasion take several pages. It's pretty rushed to me, and until or if quality authors fill it out it leaves me a bit sour. Exactly. It is so childishly written that you do miss good old fluff from Imperial Armour books Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/330583-gathering-storm/page/2/#findComment-4679293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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