| Branko2166 said: At the moment I am reading the Horus Heresy series of books from the Black Library. Right now reading a novel called Fear to Tread which highlighs the Blood Angels Legion.
So far so good as this is an extremely rich universe and the writers appear to have done it justice. For those interested here is a sample from this book. Spoilers
For a moment, Sejanus thought he saw something dark pass over Horus’s face; then the instant was gone. ‘We have dethroned all the gods,’ said the Luna Wolf, ‘and you are only pale shadows of those things.’ The grey let off a hooting cry in its own language and the legion of nephilim advanced, each of them phosphorescing an angry yellow. ‘We will destroy you,’ it said. ‘We outnumber you.’ Horus gave a rueful nod and drew his sword, a massive scimitar-curve of oiled steel and adamantium. ‘You will try,’ he said. ‘But today you face the Emperor’s sons, his warriors. We are the Luna Wolves, and this Legion is the anvil upon which you will be broken.’ From high overhead there was a low crackle and a sound like distant thunder as sonic booms from the upper atmosphere reached the desert floor. Sejanus looked up, his acute eyesight picking out lines of white contrails, hundreds in number, flaring out behind great crimson tears and scarlet-hued hawks as they fell at supersonic speeds towards the silver sands. ‘We are the anvil,’ Horus repeated, pointing with his sword. ‘Now behold the hammer.’ The heavens screamed. Ejected from the launch tubes of a dozen capital ships and battle-barges in low orbit, a rain of ceramite capsules tore through the outer atmosphere of Melchior and fell like flaming meteors towards the Silver Desert. Falling with them were diving hawks; Stormbirds and assault gunships turning and wheeling through the air towards the gargantuan nephilim encampment. They were red as blood, red as fury, and within they carried company upon company of the warriors of the IX Legion Astartes. The speed of their assault was the key to victory; the alien invaders and their zealots had successfully been drawn out to confront the massed forces of the Luna Wolves, leaving the defences on their flanks thinned and permeable. But the xenos giants were not slow in their thinking, and the moment they understood that they had been duped, they would attempt to regroup and fortify. |
COPAIN !
I've this one to read yet. Know No Fear is awesome, especially after the huge letdown which was Prospero Burns and Thousand sons. My favorite of the whole Horus Heresy is Mechanicum, I love its descrition of princeps, I felt the same thing as a princeps in a Titan when I had my first dreadnought in EVE ^^. However, I m a bit concerned with the discontinuous quality between the titles of Horus Heresy. The first arc till the Flight of the Eisenstein is yet to be completed and it's been years I've been looking for a sequel.
Have you read Battlefleet Gothic ? Bit harder to find now, but the story is stunning !
