The Dropsite Massacre by John French

[son of the forest]

Looks like the horus heresy isn't finished with this book coming later in the year 

 

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/raonxeh6/the-dropsite-massacre-a-new-perspective-in-the-latest-black-library-novel/

[StrangerOrders]

Before the wave of complaints come in about retreading ground, I would just say that I am so excited to have a PoV on the Massacre written by French!

 

Guy knows how to write pitched and grinding warfare better than most and I genuinely don't think BL has done the Massacre justice yet.

 

So a straight win in my book.

[sitnam]

@StrangerOrders I agree, John French is a great choice for such a novel. His HH Iron Hands work was some of my favorite. I won't read this novel because I don't like the Heresy, but I think he'll do a great job

[jaxom]

I hoping it’s like the Siege of Vraks book.

[Nephaston]

I do like that cover, just a trio of lads utterly shell-shocked. Especially that salamander.

 

[Nagashsnee]

We have had 1 HH series yes....but about second HH series?

 

Jokes aside, hopefully they use books like this to plug gaps that should have been covered to begin with, BRING ME MY DARK MECH BOOK!

[Matcap86]

Honestly I'm very hyped for this. I always held a bit of hope that with the main arc completed, they would go for a more (old) 40k style way of storytelling in the setting instead of hitting plotpoints. Seems like that's exactly what they're doing. Also French's novels are usually great. 

[sarabando]

i for one welcome the horus heresy novel series version 2.0 :D 

[Astartes Consul]

Yeah, this is good. Very good. The weird development history of the Heresy novels means that Istvaan V has frankly terrible coverage in the series. 

 

 

[Neil H]

Hopefully won't issue as a Limited edition after the last few debacles?

And hopefully better than the last two Siege off Terra offerings!

Another book on the shelf.....

Neil

[WARMASTER_]

Really looking forward to this! I feel like a lot of the big events of the heresy weren’t really covered very well this being one of them so definitely happy to see it with an author I enjoy 

[Urauloth]

Insane cover art. Look at those wrecked titans.

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

I am currently reading "The Vietnam War" from Ward and Burns. It highlights really well how GW´s writers have zero sense of numbers in regards to deployed troops in any given  battle. The Legions were said to have around 100K of combat troops which would only suffice for a couple of engagements. However as it is the grimdark of the far future where conflict takes place on many different planets and boarding actions take place in deep space on an even more savage level it would result in both sides running out of troops swifter than you think with the outcome being that there is nobody left to fight for Terra. Therefore I hope they retcon the starting troop strength for each Legion by giving them at least a million troops to begin with which may be increased by recruitment over the years as usual. Otherwise I just can´t take it serious anymore.

[Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf]

I understand that with a release like the Saturnine box set, they want to release novels and the like. And I can even see the logic behind them wanting to put an event like Istvaan V into a single volume instead of six or eight.

But having a BL book for the Horus Heresy, when the saga is supposedly already closed, seems odd to me.

I still think, even though it's not a very popular opinion, that they should have moved on and not gone back to Istvaan V with 3.0.

I think another canonical event could have been used, or one could have been invented altogether as a background for 3.0. I think it would have been much smoother.

 

On the other hand, I think choosing John French as the author was a real success. He is, in my opinion, a solid, decisive, consistent, and very talented author.

[grailkeeper]

I can't wait to read the most anticipated book of 2007.