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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 7, 2016 15:36:59 GMT
warhammer40klegends.com/homeFirst issue is out now, subscriber free gifts do include a Tankard with your fourth delivery. Looks like a range of books both Horus Heresy and other stuff set in the main 40k timeline. Andy
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Post by legios on Sept 7, 2016 16:16:00 GMT
One would think you'd want to keep the chaos bookends and the inquisition tankard where the latter couldn't see the former... :-)
I'm not really in a "partworks" kind of place at the moment personally, but that looks like a decent package all told. I might be tempted by a hardcover Horus Rising if I see it in passing mind you, have a liking for that book.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 7, 2016 18:42:54 GMT
I have never read or played Warhammer. I know nothing about it other than that Dan Abnett writes some of it and Big Finish do audios.
I like a tankard though. But! If I didn't have cash for the DW partwork I don't have funds to try this.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 7, 2016 22:10:55 GMT
I can't see me subbing for it, but definitely a thing I will dip in and out of.
Andy
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Post by browny87 on Sept 8, 2016 10:43:47 GMT
id have subscribed if it wasn't £10 every 2 weeks, excessively expensive considering the normal books are about £6 a pop
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 8, 2016 22:07:23 GMT
Picked it up, and read the book today - it was one of the Heresy books I hadn't read when I'd abandoned the series.
Honestly, Hachette have done a better job, this really needed to be the first book in the series, rather than the excellent Horus Rising.
Can see myself picking this up.
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 8, 2016 22:20:13 GMT
Is the book size the same as the Dredd/Who ones? or have they created a novel sized template now?
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Post by browny87 on Sept 9, 2016 9:58:17 GMT
im gonna head into WHSmiths at lunch and get it to see the fuss and if its worth it!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 17, 2016 21:41:33 GMT
I did see a copy yesterday. Have to admit that the production on it looks fabulous. Not something I am interested in myself but I do hope it does well so Hachette see there is a market for novel partworks.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 17, 2016 21:49:44 GMT
Indeed, the potential there is very interesting.
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Post by legios on Sept 17, 2016 22:02:02 GMT
I have to say that having done some research I do think this is quite a good package. When you consider that the price of the softcover editions of more recent 40K novels is now £9.99 the partwork series does look like a much more appealing way to get them.
Karl
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Post by blueshift on Apr 2, 2017 18:57:27 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 2, 2017 19:04:16 GMT
Yes I would say so. Especially the first three.
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Post by legios on Apr 2, 2017 21:29:21 GMT
Yep - the first three form a fairly contained "first triology", which could easily be read on their own and still feel fairly complete and with a reasonable sense of closure. Fulgrim is ok, not perhaps as strong as the first three books, but it has its moments, goes further into the Grand Guignol style than other books in places though. Flight of the Eisenstien is...ok too. After that the stuff on the other tiers is a little more variable.
That's been the thing with the 30K novels - when they are good, they are really quite good. When they are bad they are just...kind...of... there...
Karl
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