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[Ubiquitous1984]

Great to see more Haley and Cawl on the way.  The Silent King was a letdown imo, but the rest of Haley’s 40K output in recent years has been well worth reading.  Cawl is perhaps my favourite 40K character so it’s great he’s back so soon.  

[Scribe]

8 hours ago, wecanhaveallthree said:

Guilliman Inferior actually, literally, nearly killed me. 

 

Can I even handle knowing what this is?

[darkhorse0607]

2 minutes ago, Scribe said:

 

Can I even handle knowing what this is?

A chatGPT version of Guilliman that Cawl made to talk to 

[Scribe]

5 minutes ago, darkhorse0607 said:

A chatGPT version of Guilliman that Cawl made to talk to 

 

Why must we endure this Heretical Tech Priest...

[grailkeeper]

I'm reading the Remnant Blade now, based off recommendations here.

 

The characters feel a lot more cartoony than ADBs Nightlords. I miss his take on CSM. It made them seem so real.

[darkhorse0607]

1 hour ago, grailkeeper said:

I'm reading the Remnant Blade now, based off recommendations here.

 

The characters feel a lot more cartoony than ADBs Nightlords. I miss his take on CSM. It made them seem so real.

 

I havent finished it yet, and while its not bad bad, it feels very tie-in novel, which is not what I expected. For example when they did the rundown of who had what role, the names were almost verbatim from the roles in Kill Team. I get why they did it, it just felt weird to me, never thought the Night Lords would be so organized 

[wecanhaveallthree]

It is indeed ChatGPT Guilliman and it's just as zany as the Cawl Inferior that Guilliman has. The fact that Cawl made copies of two of the premier leading figures of the Imperium which have BOTH started immediately working on their own weird agendas is just so... so... Warhammer. If you renamed Cawl something like Gearsqueak Quickwhisker, I would wholly and totally accept this as a Skaven plot and strap in for the ride. 

Edited yesterday at 01:27 AM by wecanhaveallthree
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[The Scorpion]

3 hours ago, darkhorse0607 said:

 

I havent finished it yet, and while its not bad bad, it feels very tie-in novel, which is not what I expected. For example when they did the rundown of who had what role, the names were almost verbatim from the roles in Kill Team. I get why they did it, it just felt weird to me, never thought the Night Lords would be so organized 

I agree, but I understand why the writers would do it.
Even without being prompted to make a tie-in, the way that Kill Teams are laid out are just too perfect for inspiration. They are a motley crew with different skills and aesthetics.

Say you gotta write a novel where the cast are Ork Kommandos. Will you come up with 8-10 different characters all by yourself? Maybe, but wouldn't you come up with a better and more distinct character if you made the mental exercise to rationalize why a Burna Boy would come up with the idea of using an oven mitten to hold his skorcha?

Vincent is not the first to do this either. John French's characters in the Horusian Wars novels are based on the minis for the old Inquisitor game, and they come with a lot of flavour.

[grailkeeper]

8 hours ago, darkhorse0607 said:

 

I havent finished it yet, and while its not bad bad, it feels very tie-in novel, which is not what I expected. For example when they did the rundown of who had what role, the names were almost verbatim from the roles in Kill Team. I get why they did it, it just felt weird to me, never thought the Night Lords would be so organized 

 

That's something I noticed too actually. The characters are introduced by their specialisation. So and so is the sniper, so and so has the melta, etc etc. It made them feel like toys.

 

 

[Lord Nord in Gravis Armour]

I believe Archmagos will signal the first time that Haley's not had an ongoing series since Dante. The Dante trilogy, Dark Imperium, and the Cawl trilogy have all overlapped. And that's without mentioning Dawn of Fire, which I'm in too good of a mood to do.

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

I haven't read The Remnant Blade yet but I think it's good to have a different interpretation of Night Lords. A shame the writer may have gone to cartoon villan mode. However I think it's important to show different facets of Night Lords and not treat ADB's work as being the only way - or the only correct way - to show then. 

[grailkeeper]

There's a bit in this that seems like a direct copy of an iconic scene in the Astartes fan films.