Upcoming BL Stuff 2025

[DarkChaplain]

2 hours ago, darkhorse0607 said:

There's also the fact that according to the stream yesterday, Saturnine was around during the Crusade, then Vulkan gave it out to all of the other legions after engineering it, even though in the last rulebook (released only 3 years ago) the chart lists Saturnine armor as launching during the Heresy itself, so that doesn't make any sense.

 

In Deeds Endure from the Shattered Legions anthology, the Salamanders are using Saturnine plate on Isstvan V.... but the Iron Hands don't appear to recognize it yet. So yeah... Forgeworld just retcons a TON of stuff, all the time.

 

My big lol of the Heresy tabletop is still the introduction of Geigor Fell-Hand. Model in the starter set, with the late tie-in audio drama giving him background. I just found out that he even got a freakin' JoyToy action figure!

He's literally a stand-in for Bjorn, the Fell-Handed, who was at the battle of Prospero but canonically lost his hand there, so didn't wield that claw. A character that just got added so that HH had another named character that wasn't Bjorn, but filled the same niche, to the point of copying the original bloke's title.

[darkhorse0607]

Ran across this article on the Guardian, and while it's not specifically about Games Workshop, it covers Audibles announcement that they plan to contract out AI services to narrate audiobooks (pending agreement with the studio that is producing the book) with AI

 

I would hope that BL doesn't go down that road but it's worth keeping an eye on

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/13/audible-unveils-plans-to-use-ai-voices-to-narrate-audiobooks

[DarkChaplain]

CULT OF THE SPIRAL DAWN AUDIOBOOK INCOMING! FEHERVARI IS COMING HOME, BABY!

[Krelious]

On 5/24/2025 at 6:13 AM, Nagashsnee said:

And the first heretic, and the corax book, and a night lords short story, and some iron hand stories, and...

 

And even reading all of them, you never actual get a start-end story, what happened to the loyalist fleets? The Gloriannas of 3 legions ( tho i think the Raven Guard one is confirmed dead),  Like if tomorrow the Salamanders/Iron Hands in 40k showed up with their Glorianna and said ' yeah it fought its way out of istvaan and it got better now,' no one could even say its a retcon.  Did the Iron Hand one even make the battle or was it still under repair? We know their vessels were still arriving in bits and pieces late into the massacre.  There was real meat on the story bones here for BOTH sides. 

 

Isstvan V has been covered in bits and pieces, we know the general gist of what happened, and at this point its been covered enough to not warant a book on it. But IT SHOULD have gotten one. Its one of the most crucial battles of the Heresy and it covered legions that never got real spotlight. How the Salamanders got 3 books and Istvaan got diddle squat is a head scratcher.  And seeing some of the stories that they did go with makes it a real head scratcher. 

 

 

Id imagine that when the 4 secret traitor fleets arrived to deploy their surface forces they likely blind sided the loyalist fleet at the same time as the ground force ambush and likely had similar results not to mention that they could have already been engaged with the original 3 traitor fleets and then been sandwiched between them.

 

That being said im one of the people in the camp of not really caring about the Shattered Legions which is only amplified by hearing about all the Salamander books being crap and anything by Gav Thorpe is a nope for me. 

[cheywood]

On 5/24/2025 at 12:28 PM, grailkeeper said:

I haven't read any of the novels that tie in with edition releases. Have any of them been good? I've a general impression they're mid, but open to finding something I've overlooked.

They’re usually filled with cliches, obvious product placement and an excess of fight scenes. The past two 40k new edition novels stand as some of the worst written material of the past 5 years. But at the same time Dark Imperium was a decent novel, so there’s always hope.