Krelious Posted December 30, 2025 Share Posted December 30, 2025 On 12/26/2025 at 2:13 PM, The Praetorian of Inwit said: The thing I like about that front cover is you have a space marine, biologically enginererd and armed with (by our real world standards) advanced weaponry and armour yet he has a candle on his backpack. The contrast between advanced science/tech (to us) and archaic brutal religious fanaticism is peak 40k. The candle serves as a tactical distraction as opponents using heat vision for example would try to shoot the candle instead of getting a headshot on the marine. I would imagine Eldar helmets kind of function within a similar purpose being so big and longer than their actual heads would trick opponents into aiming for other parts while the sloped nature would serve to also naturally deflect shots. byrd9999 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6148882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
byrd9999 Posted December 30, 2025 Share Posted December 30, 2025 On 12/26/2025 at 7:13 PM, The Praetorian of Inwit said: The thing I like about that front cover is you have a space marine, biologically enginererd and armed with (by our real world standards) advanced weaponry and armour yet he has a candle on his backpack. The contrast between advanced science/tech (to us) and archaic brutal religious fanaticism is peak 40k. This x100! I feel this is something we all "know", but enough isn't made of it. Mike Brooks could do with a reminder of this in some of his books... the Lion Son of the Forest was awful and lacked any sense or feel of "40k". It featured a bunch of Chad Marines hanging out in a flat, like an episode of Friends... theSpirea 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6149008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tolmeus Posted Thursday at 12:39 AM Share Posted Thursday at 12:39 AM Btw, happy new years 2026 follow fraters! byrd9999, Taliesin, Roomsky and 3 others 2 2 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6149295 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wecanhaveallthree Posted Thursday at 02:11 AM Share Posted Thursday at 02:11 AM When I woke up, the first 40k-related thing I saw was Lupus Daemonis, which bodes incredibly ill for the future. Like seeing a whole herd of black cats on your front lawn. Roomsky, Ubiquitous1984 and byrd9999 3 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6149301 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkhorse0607 Posted Thursday at 06:01 PM Share Posted Thursday at 06:01 PM Carnage Unending looks interesting just given the names ("hope is the first step" and all that), jokes about the cover aside, I will take ones like that every day as long as it means an end to covers like Elemental Council and a bunch of others that we got last year And it's good to see that BL are such cowards about me asking for Black Legion 3 and @wecanhaveallthree asking about the Horus Primarch novel that they didn't even mention the traditional December book announcement thing that they skipped this year I know I'm late complaining about that, I needed a break from social media so I'm making up for lost time by complaining now wecanhaveallthree and Roomsky 1 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6149449 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wecanhaveallthree Posted Friday at 12:55 AM Share Posted Friday at 12:55 AM The longer the Horus book goes without information, the more I suspect he's coming to 40K. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6149544 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scribe Posted Friday at 01:31 AM Share Posted Friday at 01:31 AM 36 minutes ago, wecanhaveallthree said: The longer the Horus book goes without information, the more I suspect he's coming to 40K. .... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6149546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkhorse0607 Posted Friday at 04:30 AM Share Posted Friday at 04:30 AM 3 hours ago, wecanhaveallthree said: The longer the Horus book goes without information, the more I suspect he's coming to 40K. Sure Abbadon killed one Horus clone, but how about TWO Horus clones? The twist nobody saw coming I think the Horus novel should actually be about the clone Scene 1 "Ah, what a nice day of my birthing from the gestation pod, oh look my favorite son, Abbadon, Im sure we will have many good talks. And he even brought me my Talon. Swell egg that Abbadon" Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6149564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wecanhaveallthree Posted Friday at 07:03 AM Share Posted Friday at 07:03 AM Quote Scene 1 Surely you mean 'I was there the day Horus slew the Emperor...' Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6149575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedor Posted Friday at 06:09 PM Share Posted Friday at 06:09 PM With all of this buildup, I'm now betting on the Horus book being a safe, bland recounting of some forgeworld GC campaign/battle. At the end of it Horus will be mildly frustrated at the increasingly inefficiency of Imperial bureaucracy. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6149657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roomsky Posted Friday at 06:32 PM Share Posted Friday at 06:32 PM 20 minutes ago, Fedor said: With all of this buildup, I'm now betting on the Horus book being a safe, bland recounting of some forgeworld GC campaign/battle. At the end of it Horus will be mildly frustrated at the increasingly inefficiency of Imperial bureaucracy. If it's not McNeill writing a (necessarily truncated) Horus odyssey inside the gate on Molech, I'd be fine with this. It'd be nice to have a novel account of the Battle of Gate 42. Fedor, darkhorse0607 and DarkChaplain 2 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6149660 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeLeto69 Posted Friday at 07:18 PM Share Posted Friday at 07:18 PM Maybe the Primarch series will forever be one book short because…Black Library! darkhorse0607, Roomsky and skylerboodie 2 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6149666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkhorse0607 Posted Saturday at 04:19 AM Share Posted Saturday at 04:19 AM 9 hours ago, Roomsky said: It'd be nice to have a novel account of the Battle of Gate 42. Please this Roomsky 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6149736 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Marshal Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago (edited) Next week has the Farsight: Blade of Truth paperback, alongside the long-needed Vaults of Terra omnibus, a Siege of Terra omnibus combining Sons of the Selenar and Fury of Magnus, plus the paperback of Fulgrim: The Perfect Son. Edited 10 hours ago by Lord Marshal Nagashsnee 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6149920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neOh (AV) Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago 10 minutes ago, Lord Marshal said: Next week has the Farsight: Blade of Truth paperback, alongside the long-needed Vaults of Terra omnibus, a Siege of Terra omnibus combining Sons of the Selenar and Fury of Magnus, plus the paperback of Fulgrim: The Perfect Son. Isn't it the first time we've got an omnibus with a completely new cover drawn specifically for it and not with some reused art (looking at you, twice dead king omni)? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6149924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagashsnee Posted 9 hours ago Share Posted 9 hours ago Vaults of terra let's go! Lord Marshal and Ubiquitous1984 1 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6149936 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkhorse0607 Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago Such a solid update to the artwork for Vaults of Terra Ubiquitous1984, cheywood and Lord Marshal 3 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387216-upcoming-bl-stuff-2026/page/2/#findComment-6149943 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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