Fleet heavy books?

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

Not interested in the HH series, but other than the blood angels series, are there any  books that are at least heavily fleet focused if not all about the imperial fleet?

 

already up to date on all the eisenhorn related books as well.

[wecanhaveallthree]

Execution Hour and Shadow Point by Rennie (Gothic War) are stand-outs. 

 

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yeah but i want something that isn't 20+ years old surely there's something

 

Battlefleet Gothic's been dead for more than a decade. Not gonna be books without a way to sell models.

 

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Yeah, that's why Interceptor City was written, right?

 

That's just one book.

 

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Sure. How about Von Shard?

 

Alright, a couple of books.

 

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Fehervari in general-

 

YOU'VE MADE YOUR POINT.

[Nagashsnee]

Dawn of fire may have been a wet blanket of a series, but Sea of Souls from Chris Wraith was a fantastic book and is near totally focussed on the Navy, tho mostly the mission of a single ship.  Great read.

[Craig]

Currently listening to Pandorax on audiobook and the battle between the imperial and chaos fleets has been going on for a long time. I'm not even half way through the book but a sizable portion is space battle/dogfights.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

10 hours ago, wecanhaveallthree said:

Execution Hour and Shadow Point by Rennie (Gothic War) are stand-outs. 

 

 

Battlefleet Gothic's been dead for more than a decade. Not gonna be books without a way to sell models.

 

 

That's just one book.

 

 

Alright, a couple of books.

 

 

YOU'VE MADE YOUR POINT.

Who are you talking to?

 

in response to interceptor city (currently reading it) isn’t a fleet book and has nothing to do with BFG so I’m not sure why whoever you were quoting was bringing that up

Edited Wednesday at 08:02 PM by Inquisitor_Lensoven

[Antreus]

Relentless is a fantastic read and entirely fleet based

[wecanhaveallthree]

I always forget Relentless for some reason, despite being one of my fave 40K books. It's from that weird Liber Chaotica guy, too! Very good, highly recommend.

 

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Who are you talking to?

 

I was doing a satirical 'bit' in which I created a hypothetical person interested in reading fleet books, who responded to my two recommendations by saying 'yeah but what about anything from the last twenty years'. I did this to critique the dearth of Naval novels at large, particularly carrier-based fiction, by including the numerous Aeronautica releases over the last few years (von Shard is great, Flowers is at the upper-tier of handsomeness for the 'bald white Englishmen' STC that BL print their authors from). 

 

I apologise for any confusion.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

1 hour ago, wecanhaveallthree said:

I always forget Relentless for some reason, despite being one of my fave 40K books. It's from that weird Liber Chaotica guy, too! Very good, highly recommend.

 

 

I was doing a satirical 'bit' in which I created a hypothetical person interested in reading fleet books, who responded to my two recommendations by saying 'yeah but what about anything from the last twenty years'. I did this to critique the dearth of Naval novels at large, particularly carrier-based fiction, by including the numerous Aeronautica releases over the last few years (von Shard is great, Flowers is at the upper-tier of handsomeness for the 'bald white Englishmen' STC that BL print their authors from). 

 

I apologise for any confusion.

Yeah I thought someone got their posts deleted by the mods or something.

[calgar101]

Following as also interested in books with a heavy Naval view.

[sitnam]

It's not a novel, but the rulebook for Kill Team Into the Dark had some interesting background lore on Navy Breachers and their organization.

[Nagashsnee]

Ok so, this is a bit more far field but hear me out.

 

For a chaos POV, lords of silence. While not a naval focussed book, the ship is a living key character, it has a major naval engament in it that is key to the plot and actually showcases the naval fight for Agripinaa, and accurately shows the 'roaming' nature chaos warbands take on at times, where the ship BECOMES the single most important part of the warband.  

 

It is also the best look at a nurgle ship and the positives and negatives that comes with that. While not a naval book, it is a fantastic read and one i feel any fan of BFG would enjoy.  The naval fight is a fair number of pages between ship fighting and boarding and forms a lynchpin of the books plot. 

 

Again it is NOT a ship/space battle focussed book, just a book that heavily features them and is a very good read. 

 

Edit the Basilikons Astra attempt to effectivly 'snipe' the enemy flagship is worth it alone. And shows the crazy side of warhammer space battles.

Edited Thursday at 09:37 AM by Nagashsnee

[Gamiel]

On 1/7/2026 at 12:06 PM, Nagashsnee said:

Dawn of fire may have been a wet blanket of a series, but Sea of Souls from Chris Wraith was a fantastic book and is near totally focussed on the Navy, tho mostly the mission of a single ship.  Great read.

I thought the navel parts in Avenging Son was good also

[Taliesin]

11 hours ago, sitnam said:

It's not a novel, but the rulebook for Kill Team Into the Dark had some interesting background lore on Navy Breachers and their organization.

 

Agreed, a few interesting pages there.