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[DarkChaplain]

I mean, Grimnar and Dante got shown up by the new Necromunda character guy last night. The guy is supposedly older than the Imperium of Man. He beats out Bjorn, for feth's sake!

 

As for dead Marine Characters, Lazarus succeeded Balthasar, the guy from Dark Vengeance, who turned into the generic Company Master Dark Angels model. The bloke had a novella, audio drama about his ascension and appeared in other books, and was axed for a new model that might have just as well been him.

There was also the dead Chapter Master of the Raven Guard, who Shrike succeeded, before stepping down for the new bloke. That Chapter Master didn't have a model, though.

 

[darkhorse0607]

6 hours ago, Nagashsnee said:

You all act like we havent been over this 100 times before

 

And we will do it another 100 times. Until morale improves

 

3 hours ago, Tolmeus said:

Maybe as a side question to the other fraters: Which named character was the last to actually die (Captain Acheran excluded for the moment). Has it been Captain Tycho of the Blood Angels?

 

For Space Marine characters that's a good question and it kind of depends on how deep you want to go with it. For example, Shadowsun killed Severax, the former Chapter Master of the Raven Guard, but he never had a model/he was always off to the side, so I don't know if you want to count stuff like that or the Chapter Master of the Novamarines that was killed by Typhus in Plague Wars

 

For non-Space Marine characters, the easy answer would be Yarrick. You know, until they reverse course and bring him back like they've already hinted at

[Taliesin]

Pleased that I was able to pick up Hereticus illustrated edition, very nice editions.

[Taliesin]

10 hours ago, Tolmeus said:

Honestly, I am surprised by the range of books BL or GW chose to reprint for the HH. I would have thought that they are going for the first 12 books in the series again and than produce the following next chronological 12 books as the next batch. But apparently they chose the HH books, which can still be bought now in the Online Shop as paperback. At some point GW made the call that these 12 books are seemingly the core of the HH. 

 

I do think it's great to get HH books again since we had just recently the discussion that these are still in high demand. But I don't like that they chose to print a "best-of-HH".

 

I just think its a positive that they are doing these re-releases for people that want hardbacks.

Its also somewhat interesting to see what they consider 12 essential novels before Siege of Terra. I was surprised book 4 was in that, I would have thought Thousands Sons would be in there.

[Krelious]

22 minutes ago, Taliesin said:

 

I just think its a positive that they are doing these re-releases for people that want hardbacks.

Its also somewhat interesting to see what they consider 12 essential novels before Siege of Terra. I was surprised book 4 was in that, I would have thought Thousands Sons would be in there.

Given that its a first 12 id imagine they are testing the waters to see demand and sales and its likely they will do another batch of 12. There's just too many books. If anything im surprised they did Slaves to Darkness because that one felt like a big Nothing Burger.

[Tolmeus]

1 hour ago, Krelious said:

Slaves to Darkness because that one felt like a big Nothing Burger.

 

French did a good job putting all the loose ends together in order to be able to start the Siege of Terra. Some plot points could have been better, true enough( Sons of Horus IMO).

Nonetheless, the rest was good enough. Not a 10/10, but a solid and definetly necessary entry.

Edited 3 hours ago by Tolmeus

[Ubiquitous1984]

Chris Wraight was done dirty by this 12-book selection.  Other than that seems a solid list.  A Thousand Sons was a cracking book that I would have also included.