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[Rain]

The Alan Bligh FW books were very intentionally written in the style of military history set in the 40k universe. This made them feel very grounded, and gave them a sense of verisimilitude. To be fair, I haven’t bought any of these campaign books, but I did buy the Arks of Omen Angron book, and it was…very far from the gritty pseudo-military history style of FW of yore.

 

I still think that the Badab War books by Bligh were the most engrossing 40k lore ever written. It felt like reading about a real war in a way that no other 40k lore has, before or since.

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6 hours ago, Rain said:

The Alan Bligh FW books were very intentionally written in the style of military history set in the 40k universe. This made them feel very grounded, and gave them a sense of verisimilitude. To be fair, I haven’t bought any of these campaign books, but I did buy the Arks of Omen Angron book, and it was…very far from the gritty pseudo-military history style of FW of yore.

 

I still think that the Badab War books by Bligh were the most engrossing 40k lore ever written. It felt like reading about a real war in a way that no other 40k lore has, before or since.

 

While Bligh was and remains eternally wonderful, it's always good to remember the IA books were written by multiple authors - and has a manner set up earlier than his contributions - Kinrade up to volume 8, as well as Wylie, Fox, Hoare *and* Bligh, among others. Bligh was such a good fit because he continued the framework and style established by Warwick Kinrade so so well. 

 

Badab remains a high point of his career, definitely, and among the obituaries written about him, the lovely one by French, his often co-writer, remains the most focused on Bligh as a writer (even if it lets French airbrush himself out of their many collaborations, contributing to the hagiographising Bligh himself didn't seem a fan of, and many say he wouldnt have appreciated)

 

However id also encourage people to look out "early" Bligh - ie his work for Specialist Arms (eg Necromunda) - as well as his FFG work. Both also emphasize his collaborators and co-creators, just as FW does - Andy Hoare, John French, Owen Barnes and others. It feels like there is little written about the histories of these kind of projects, which is a real shame - and tends to blank out the people who played key roles too.