• rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    As someone who is all about the 40k lore, have no clue how to play the game, don’t have any miniatures, you really gotta take it all in small doses as there’s so much of it or let someone on youtube explain it for you.

    It’s good lore, it’s insanely deep lore, and it’s all over the place. Keep in mind it all takes place of the span of 10s of thousands of years. there will be entire novels of the most mundane Astartes chapter/legion. There’ll be legions/chapters you have no clue about because no one has written about them or they get shoved off to the side. I know a lot of the lore but I honestly couldn’t tell you anything about the twin Primarchs Alpharius and Omegon nor their Alpha Legion.

    • MintyFresh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I got lost in the 40k wiki for a bit. I’ve tried reading the books a few times. They weren’t bad , just not great. Awesome world building, mediocre story telling. Thus far…

    • orbitz@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I played a small bit in the late 90s, it was fun chilling with my roommate and painting miniatures. Think I spent more time painting than playing though. They never lookrd great but was space marines in red with yellow accents, the odd things you still remember a 1/4 decade later.

  • la508@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    There are 42 books in the picture. Seven months is about 210 days, which works out to a book every 5 days. That seems like an insurmountable challenge for me. I’m such a slow reader.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Flight of the Eisenstein is pretty good too. But… none of the HH books have ever really grabbed me. 40k has some truly good pieces of science fiction (The Infinite and The Divine (probably the best warhammer book, I don’t even think that’s a contentious claim), Ruin/Reign, Flesh & Steel, Assassinorum: Kingmaker), but I was always kinda underwhelmed by the 30k stuff… idk what it was. Maybe the inevitability of the setting?

      • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Dont forget all the fun Ork/Red Gobbo books. Mike Brooks is a treasure. Definitely agree on Infinite and Divine too.

        But yeah a lot of HH is pretty meh even if youre into it.

        • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Oh jeeze yeah, Brutal Kunnin’ was so much fun. I still have yet to pick up most of the other Ork ones, I remember Prophet of the WAAAAGH! being another one that’s just a genuinely good piece of sci-fi. Still have yet to read the Red Gobbo books, really need to get around to that one of these days. Savoring the good fiction, I suppose…

  • a4ng3l@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    6 months ago

    This hits home for me… Once I start a series I have to finish it. Sometimes it’s VERRY long to finish the more boring ones…

    • Ivan Overdrive@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I’m the opposite. Life is too short for bad books. If I’m not into a book within the first few chapters, I drop it.

      I was getting into Warhammer 40k lore on YouTube and tried the first Horus Heresy book. I noped right out of there. I read the Sun Eater series instead, and I’m so glad I did.

  • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zipEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Having read one of them, he’s right: They’re not good. The writing is very basic. There might be a cool story in there, but it’s not executed well.