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CANON HERESY IS STILL HERESY

Space Marine is better

Nowhere.

40k fiction is basically 13 year olds jerking off to Veeky Forums memes.

A Thousand Sons sucked ass though

>Angel Exterminatus
>Mediocre
That one is my favorite in the series. I'm pretty biased, but I say it deserves a much higher ranking. It's God-Emperor tier at best, Good tier at wort.

It's meh... Prospero Burns and Know No Fear are the beast I've read so far but that's just my opinion. Abnett is usually spot on except for Legion but that may just be the shitty subject

Ian Watson's Space Marine is the first, last, and only decent 40k novel. Even his Inquisition books were a substantial drop in quality.
>inb4 muh scat & sadomasochism fixations
>it's just what the setting warrants and you know it
>not even joking

I thought Legion was great right up until the last 15 pages or so.

Throw Double Eagle on the good tier and Dead Men Walking on acceptable books and that's pretty damn accurate.

Ian Watson's Space Marine was the first book I ever read for the lore. It was, and is, an amazing piece-setter, a fantastic look into the grimdark of 40k.

Which Order do the HH books go in, and where can I find audiobooks of them?

But as a representative of His Holy Inquisition Draco can't be a heretic Commissar especially since his actions were vindicated during his conversation with the Emperor himself.

Has the Emperor personally went out of his way to talk to you Commissar? It seems like you might be the Heretic, who else would doubt the Emperor's personal approval of the actions of His Most Holy Inquisition?

Is it not the assertion of the Emperor's Holy Inquisition that no mortal man is incorruptible? How sure can you be that Inquisitor Draco has not lied to you and committed unforgivable heresies with the Inquisition's own resources?!

Do you truly claim the Commissariat has authority of judgment over His Holy Inquisition, granted supreme authority by both writ of Him On Earth and to Draco in person? Lord Draco has had his very SOUL linked to The Emperor, how dare you assume authority over one set to watch over you, he whose spirit has communed with His Divine soul?!

Execute thyself lest your heresy go any further!

LEGION OF THE DAMNED MOTHERFUCKER

READ IT

BEST FUCKING SPACE MARINE BOOK EVER

"What if he communed with a Daemon, or some foul Xenos spirit!? We have no proof of his communion with the Emperor save his own word! If the Inquisition will not police it's own, then it is the duty of the commissariat to-" -BLAM-

"Carry on, nothing to see here, just another filthy traitor dead. Terribly sorry for all the fuss, Inquisitor."

Priests of Mars should be on a higher tier desu

Horus Heresy, motherfucker.

"Carry on with the Emperors work Officer. Now pardon me, i must go help my Callidus Assassin sensually attune her polymorphine implants so she may prepare to infiltrate a pleasure cult on planet /d/. The Emperors work requires constant vigilance!"

>Fulgrim
>Acceptable

"oh man, I picked up this sword and now I can hear voices in my head. I should listen to them and betray my closest friend and his legion.

Also let's ignore our actual core reason for the great crusade and not colonize any worlds.

Also everyone who went to that planet i got those swords from is flaying people and torturing themselves and each-other, I should promote them all and spend lots of time around them."

>And that all happened in about four chapters, the rest was hyperbolic build-up, angst, author self insert 'tortured artist' and let-downs after letdowns with random name dropping in between.

wow, is it seriously that bad?

I love fulgrim as a character, but hearing that I'm not sure I want to read the book.

it's so bad that I had to force myself to finish it, by about chapter 10 I wanted to burn it and never speak of it again.

it was unpleasant to read, fluff raping and didn't explain anything with anything approaching justifiable justifications.

Don't, BL is at best an absolute waste of time, and at worst actively detracts from the setting. Same goes for Horus Heresy, though that at least has audio dramas so you can fully appreciate the derp instead of skimming through it.

It doesn't really matter, they are all pretty much the same.

>Mechanicum
>Acceptable
Bruh that book was dope.

I rather liked it, but it was a bit rushed. They tried to cover what happened to Horus during three books in a single book.

I don't think it's as bad as other user says, though.

>a bit
Read very, actually.

Daeth of intergrity was a pretty good book. Gave us a view into two chapters we previously new jack diddly about. And how marines clear a spacehulk.

>That art
>Assaulted by genestealers from all sides
>"Shit, just gotta hold my sword to the ground for a minute"

Death of Integrity was great, though. I read it as part of Defenders of Mankind, which I also recommend.

Even though the Legion gets very liitle screentime in its own book.
But its still good. Excoriators have the manliest captain.

Prince of Crows gets too silly towards the end to be any higher than Good Tier.

Also, I love Thousand Sons, but it starts off slow as fuck, which can be a real problem to some people.

Outcast Dead I at least Mediocre.

Also, where the hell is Age of Darkness?

>thousand sons
>god tier

hahahaha, no.

Muh nigga.

The was a point to him not colonizing those worlds.

You understood that, right?...

Sort of like this. Just pick the factions you give a fuck about. And Horus Rising, False Gods, and Galaxy in Flames go first, in my opinion.

15 hours should be higher in my opinion. Was a great read - and a re-read!

Also I did like very first book of Horus Heresy. It devolved into heresy with following books though.

Not seeing atlas infernal on here. I love the grim derp, but a fun fucking two fisted pulp romp through the eye of terror that is fun as shit from beginning to end, and also includes the best dressed Inquisitor to ever get trapped by stinking eldar.

Imo, the only cool parts of it are the bit you get about the wars for unity from those particular soldiers turned crime Lords (I'd be more specific but I don't know how to spoiler!) Also, some full on the astropaths was neat, but the plot is pretty eh.

>I don't think it's as bad as other user says, though.

This will probably change when you grow up and start reading grown up novels instead of Twilight.

I read plenty of grown up novels and still enjoyed the book.

I only realized how poorly paced Fulgrim's fall was later on.

Read this one book called Relentless, about a captain in the imperial navy who survives an assassination attempt on him and has to crawl through the slave ranks to get revenge

fucking awesome ending involving combat with a dark eldar raider, it tears the starboard side of the ship apart and then just hovers there because the guns are gone. How do they drive it off? By initiating a barrel roll so the port guns are facing the raider as it gets closer

I really enjoyed the focus on non-combatants adn the daily life of civilians. Kinda wish we'd get more of that sort of thing.
Plus Jestream Sam is in it.

My favorites
>Death of Integrity
>Eisenhorn Omnibus
>Hellsreach
>Legion of the Damned
>Pandorax
>Lord of the Night
>Night Lords Omnibus
>Rynn's World
>Titanicus
>Pawns of Chaos
>Angels of Death collection
>Let the Galaxy Burn anthology
>There is Only War anthology
>Armageddon (2 books + 2 short stories)
>Flesh Tearers stories
>Gaunt's Ghosts series
>Macharian Crusade trilogy
>Baneblade and the related short stories
>Gunheads
>Cadian Blood
>Dead Men Walking
>Imperial Glory
>Fifteen Hours and the related short stories
>Double Eagle

Any books that follow a necron POV, or at least heavily involved them?

That's the chapter master during his weird Holos flashbacks. He's acting strange the whole time, and the chaplain has his back.

>WAAAAAAAAAH! PEOPLE AREN'T ALLOWED TO LIKE THINGS I DON'T LIKE! [4 year old tantrum noises]

>Macharian Crusade trilogy
Last book really rustled my jimjams when it lost the entire point of Macharius being an Alexander expy with a relatively short but ultra-successful campaign that ended when his soldiers decided to go no further and he died on the way home.

But then at this point I'm more or less numb to shitty retcons by GW. I just ignore them canon be damned.

Otherwise solid list tho.

>Pariah
>Acceptable Tier

I thought that untill half the book, then i realized its pretty gud.
Tho the beginning had a dead givaway.

>doesn't feature Soul Drinkers or Lord of the Night

I actually kinda prefer this version.
>the soldiers are tired but it's the generals that start stirring shit
>Macharius starts growing weaker but doesn't want to show it
>gets assassinated, but the official version is that he died as a hero
>the pov soldier gets lost in some no name regiment, but at least he isn't killed
It's grimdark but not over the top. And if they kept the Alexander in speehs theme he would have died as a broken husk of a man on the way home because of Chaos fuckery or still assasinated, either by his rivals or still by the Imperium, but at that point it would be too late to save his reputation. So in the end he got a happy ending in this version.

the bottom two has to be battle for the abyss and fallen angels.

I'm reading Fateweaver now, so far all the stories in it are pretty shitty "JUST AS PLANNED" non sense

Wait, Souldrinkers is good? I remember drooping it after the first half of the first book.

>being this blind

any good 40k graphic novels?

I don't read any book without pictures in them.

>Wait, Souldrinkers is good? I remember drooping it after the first half of the first book.
Evidently someone disagrees with your opinion.

Titan, or something similarly named
From a while back, my first introduction to 40k actually

Fifteen Hours is Emperor-tier, and Soul Drinkers was acceptable.

Last Chancers is my favorite 40k book, I'd rank it much higher than Gaunt's Ghosts, if only for the fact that it seems to grasp the concept of brothers in arms even for a band of complete psychos, which is an issue in the earlier Ghost stories. I think Thorpe spend some time in the military, because it's a rather good portrayal.
Necropolis is excellent, though.

What about "First and Only"?

Battle for the Abyss deserves its own tier at the bottom. It's the only HH novel I put down, and I'll read any military sci-fi regardless of how trash it is.

Even Posleen War or Salvation War? You're stronger than I am.

Horus Heresy series. Starts with Horus Rising.

Anyone have an up-to-date MEGA link for the HH books? I'd like to read Prince of Crows

The fact that it is on neither list is a tad disturbing.

>Posleen War
>trash

There's some opinions there, bub. At least Ringo's giant tanks make sense.

I wish i could go back and read Ravenor/Eisenhorn again for the first time. Even for non-40K fags those are top-tier books.

The Siege of Castellax (or something like that) deserves it's own special tier for being EXTRA HERETICAL.

It's about Iron Warriors attempting to defend one of their planets from Ork invasion and sucking at it because they're all a bunch of autistic, Stupid Evil manchildren who spend the entire book trying to betray each other and refusing to properly equip, train, or feed their human slave soldiers and then wondering why they're not able to each kill 100 Orks in hand to hand combat.

Like that's a thing that happens. One of the human officers effectively defends his position and is then murdered for his trouble because "an Astartes would have done better"

I couldn't even finish it. All the characters were basically stupid assholes, to the point where I was rooting for the Orks.

The perfect protagonists sliding through a sea of mediocrity (at best; criminal incompetency at worst), and the ideological points bordering on constant spiteful remarks about the RL military establishment prevented me from fully enjoying the books, despite a positive first look.
For salvation war, it was the tech wank. And I've read Hugo, so I'm accustomed to long descriptions of mundane objects.

But as you said, it's only personal opinions, and I'm sure that if you have different sensibilities they're very enjoyable books.

>The Lion
>Heresy Tier
Now, I haven't read any of the HH books (and probably won't), but if pic related is from that book, I'll consider this one scene canon and disregard everything else.

Damnos if you can stomach the last part of the book and ultramarines

One of the few I couldn't finish. Just didn't care after half of it.

It was alright, one of my first books from BL so I might be remembering it foundly. I remember one of the books in the series being dumb as fuck though.

Read the gaunts ghost series if you're sadistic and love heroic stands. Prices of it are fucking retarded like 5 guardsmen killing 5 chaos marines, one in melee during a sword duel

It's amazing that a company as incompetent as BL (and GW as a whole these days really) can still occasionally produce a gem of fluff.

God, that's bad ass. Got more?

*Reads Baneblade*

Well that was...okay. If nothing else it really makes me want to buy a Baneblade. Too bad for them I've already decided to go the no-superheavies route for my army.

Want more tank books though.

Sorry, but could I get pointed to the Necron featuring books? Sororitas ones?

>*Reads Baneblade*
Can you just say you read Baneblade you ginormous prancing la-la homo man

*Understands reference*

Did it make you scream "IT IS THE BEHHNNNNBLEHHHHHHDD!!!!" at the top of your lungs?

From the beginning you faggot all of Horus heresy books

Why are we still here?
Is it just to suffer?

Hopefully never. Eisenhorn was good, Ravenor was okay, Pariah was hot monkey garbage.

Go away Iori. Your money is saddening me.

Hold the fucking phone. Who else has read the monstrosity known as Bastion Wars?

Lion still would've lost that fight if his underling hadn't cut in.

Curze truly is the best primarch-

this is superb

wrong type of book I guess, but was the deathwatch codex ever scanned? anyone know?

mauris meus.

Grimdark at its finest, and Kage and Schaeffer have such a good dynamic.