The War on Memorial DayMar 20, 2025
Reading the Ultramarines books is convincing me that Graham McNeill has pretty serious ADHD. #amReading @bookstodon
Show threadThe War on Memorial DayMar 20, 2025

There are no good religious options in the Imperium but I will allow that every single one of them is better than "I will bargain with a C'tan shard because I am sure that Mr. Nightbringer The Herald of Sorrow will be grateful and cut me a square deal."

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Show threadThe War on Memorial DayMar 21, 2025

Theres not any excuse of ignorance either. He was working with dark elves. He had a copy of the necron codex. He knew that C'tan shards name and intentions. It would make more sense to join a genestealer cult.

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Show threadThe War on Memorial DayMar 21, 2025
I have some frustrations with the writing style, but Warriors of Ultramar just kinda slaps as a book. Half of it is about training PDF soldiers. The ganger plotline is great. It ends in the most Ultramarines fashion possible (someone being a tattletale). #Warhammer #WH40K #AmReading #40k @bookstodon
Show threadThe War on Memorial DayMar 22, 2025
I wouldnt say the same for Dead Sky, Black Sun yet though. Warriors was a solid narrative arc. Dead sky is... well... I hate most books set in the Eye of Terror. I liked Sea of Souls a bunch but they spent the whole book trying to get there from page 1 so no spoilers but its a good book.
Show threadThe War on Memorial Day
I still have my doubts but a giant demon is fighting a posessed freight train because he hates the demon posessing it and... well... I think theres something to be said for that.
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Show threadThe War on Memorial DayMar 25, 2025

"Governor, the fact that Khorne's own freight train is using our war crimes memorial to offload its passengers is troubling and I fear its no coincidence."

"Superstitious nonsense, we put up no trespassing signs on the pile of skulls."

Show threadThe War on Memorial DayMar 26, 2025
The thing is, that this is the daemonculaba book. It shouldnt be good. There are several characters you shouldnt care about but you do. This #book made me empathise with a demon posessed train. #amReading #warhammer #wh40klore
Show threadThe War on Memorial DayMar 28, 2025
I think the funniest thing about the Ultramarine death vow thing is that it comes from a place of "if you had followed the codex you would have died on that mission. You survived ergo you are exiled." And the response of "How can I make it right?" Gets the answer "I have a mission that is impossible according to the codex." #warhammer #40k
Show threadThe War on Memorial DayMar 28, 2025
Like, does the codex astartes approve of you showing up to the operation in a daemon train? No, but its okay, you werent in the chapter while you were doing that.
Show threadThe War on Memorial DayMar 31, 2025
Chapter's Due is... a satisfying conclusion to the series. It isnt the best book in the Uriel Ventris Chronicles. Black Sun is great and Courage and Honor and Nightbringer are actually all better books. But, it does tie up most of its loose ends. It also gives you a broader perspective on the Chapter because it has Calgar and Sicarius as PoV characters but also thats kinda why I like it least. Its more deus machina than the others. I like when #warhammer #books are about making sacrifices. #40k
Show threadThe War on Memorial DayMar 31, 2025
Even in a book like Savage Scars where actually all they do is win because they are the best, what actually happens is that they use time travel to duplicate themselves and the two survivors of the pact with the Eldar/Time Clone strategy just wander off into the webway assured that no one will ever hear their sagas. Like, they cant go home, they cant tell the other version of themselves. They are exiled to the webway. #wh40klore #warhammer #amReading @bookstodon
Show threadThe War on Memorial DayMar 31, 2025
The white scars also, just, cant lose. They would simply fall back to a more secure location and come back in greater force when you are less prepared.