THE NOVELS YOU WANT TO READ

I want an Ork story, but with the silliness of Deff Skwadron of just Orks being silly buggers who love war.

Maybe a Deff Skwadron novel that parodies Ace Combat complete with odd one-liners and generalizations about combat and natural Orkish nature to resist mukkin' about.

>A concept, character or story you want to read a book about?
I don't really have a specific thing in mind, save that their best work almost always deals with new events, places and characters.

Probably because there's actual suspense since named character x isn't there to be a guaranteed survival in every fight, named battles to have a predetermined victor, and named planet that is too important in the timeline to be lost.
And the icing on the cake, you can't have a potentially cringey retcon when there's nothing to retcon.

>no named battles to have a predetermined victor, or named planet that is too important in the timeline to be lost.
Slightly better wording, but still probably a bit off.

Maybe one where they don't get shat on. Cult of the Warmason Killed all but one, who they shipped offworld infected with genestealer.

A decent GSC novel would be great.

Fire Caste?

There's the story Broken Sword. It's from the perspective of a gue'vesa sergeant.

Engine of Mork, Evil Sun Rising, and Klaw of Mork, in that order.

They do pretty well in Hammer and Anvil.

What with the whole 'Utterly wrecked the Sanctuary 101 Necrons and Permakilled (No reanimation for him) the leader of them.'

You didn't like LotDM: Genestealer Cults?

>Fire Caste?
Beg pardon? I haven't read Fire Caste, but I'm guessing from the name it's a Tau book, and both of my ideas were pretty Imperium-centric. How does it focus on either of them?

Its name is misleading. They fight Tau but it's like 40k Apocalypse Now.

The title is incredibly misleading. It's focused almost entirely from the IG perspective. In fact, the author has stated that the title was changed without his permission just to trick Tau players into buying it.

I wasn't really thinking along those lines, to be honest. I was thinking of something where the focus of the narrative never leads the command post. You don't see screaming people fighting in the trenches with lasguns and bolters blazing, it's all dots on a screen, messages to captains, voxes through the Astropaths to a more distant headquarters. Something at once both claustrophobic and at the same time where the more obvious sort of danger is comfortably far away. Again, I haven't read Fire Caste so I shouldn't comment, but that's not what you usually see in a BL book, it's generally hoo-rah in the trenches guns flashing chainsweapons scything, where even the top officers are eventually pitched into the battle line (and do amazingly well and often save the day.)

I will say that Fire Caste isn't exactly what you're looking for. BUT it is probably the most unique IG story I have ever read. Far far different than the normal sort of war porn 40k is known for.

All of Peter Fehervari's stories are really interesting and well written, first-person perspectives.

I liked when Sanguinius tore the fucking phantom titan apart with his bare hands.

I'm gonna upboat this one. SOB are my favourite, and it sucks there's so little interest in them from GW/BL.

Seconded

What the fuck would the Eldar think the moment they saw one of the Emperor's Nightmare Titans?

Fire Warrior is old as shit and disliked by some because of the ending but I thought it was still a great read fot the lore and point of view from the Tau that was well made. Kinda like Path of Eldar, you get to understand the race a lot more after the book.

Considering they're all at least mildly psychic, they were probably rolling on the floor in agony.

The whole Craftworld shuddered the moment one of them set foot on there. I imagine the entire place just screaming with psychic agony.

I want a Dan Abnett novel about navigators. Seriously.

The story would be told through episodes in the life of a navigator or a family of navigators over a few centuries, with intrigues, rivalries, assassinations, eugenics, and of course a decent helping of two-fisted action to keep everything nice and 40K-esque.

Failing that, more inquisition would always be good, or more titan legion novels. Xenos-perspective stuff could be good, but it's trickier, and if written well, the Imperium is already pretty alien to us. The one thing I absolutely do not need is more space marine novels.

Are you sure you don't want to hear about Ultra McUltramarine and his brave fight against the evil chaos space Marines?

As for characters, I'd like to see something about what happened to Ephrael Stern post-Daemonifuge. It would also be cool to see more of Miriael Sabathiel.

As for concepts, what about a dynasty of Necrons who legitimately worship the C'tan and are pissed at the Silent King for forcing them to kill the C'tan?

a novel about a unification era general that comes out of retirement, the novel would be interspersed with scenes from his life and his perspective of the foundation of the Imperium.

I just want an entire novel focused on some Cryptek and the different shenanigans of a conclave

I'd like to read something that's not about space marines shooting things.

Admech book, about how the politics of Mars works and possibly some awesome Matrix-style Magos duels. Also a book about some of the other Magos specialisations than Dominus, so you get a Biologis, a Reductor, an Explorator, maybe a Juris or Malagra, the more civilian Macrotek, etcetera, and have them work with their relevant forces to command a war since their Forge World didn't have a suitable Dominus candidate, so they sent a council instead.

Maybe flesh out some of the Codex battles, but for the love of god don't make it like the Forge of Mars books where there's Spess Muhreens and Guard and Eldar and weird Living Saint dude taking all the screen time. I really liked those, I just wish there was more Admech in the Admech books.

Didn't the Necrons slaughter every single Sister and everything else on the planet?, until some century later when the sisters came back with a massive rageboner for them?

I always wanted a novel or a series on Lokhir Fellheart plying the seas and plundering the coastlines of the world, dealing with the distant politics of Naggaroth (and maybe invading Ulthuan) along the way. Maybe they could start it off by following the story of how he got his red blades and his octopus helmet.

But now WHFB is gone so that idea is shot. I always felt Lokhir never got the attention he deserved.

I would read something from the point of view of a dreadnaught that does not like how his chapter has changed in the years between him becoming a heavily armored cripple and finally becoming senile due to old age.

Check out Desert Raiders.

About the Tallarn Guardsmen v Tyranids featuring two regiments of opposing clans within Tallarn race forced to come together. Not as focused on the whole sympathetic leader thing, but it's an element.

An SM overcoming fear in some way.
An SM becoming an initiate through combat and not an endurance trial.
An invasion from the perspective of a PDF trooper.

1d4chan.org/wiki/Bjorn_the_Fell_Handed#Storytime_with_Bjorn_the_Fellhanded

Necron trilogy, from the perspective of Nemesor Zandrekh, where he engages on a massive campaign against a rogue dynasty, argues bout the virtues of honorable treatment, pisses off Imotekh with his tactical genius but fair play, and has discussions with Trazyn about the old empire and lapses into silent moments of melancholy about his former freinship with the Silent King and chilling out with Vargard Obyron.

Plot twist, all the "necrons" he has been killing in this masterful campaign are actually various races and the "Young twisted noble who Vargard hates" is a Dark Eldar, who becomes horrified after learning what terrible things Nemesor did during the War on heaven and the only reason this crazy old coot isn't some nightmarish blood drenched destroyer of worlds is because he thinks they are all wayward kin

Anything about orks & necrons & Tomb Kings.

>An SM overcoming fear in some way.
Angron's Monolith
>An SM becoming an initiate through combat and not an endurance trial.
The Last Days of Ector
>An invasion from the perspective of a PDF trooper.
Predator Prey

>Dan Abnett novel about navigators
No thank you. Give me Guy Haley, Chris Wraight or Peter Fehervari and now we're talking.

Motley book series as he goes from one place to another annoying Eldar and maybe even lesser races and getting shit done.

Necron stuff from their perspective. Where Lords are not made out of wet cardboard, im talking taking a powerfist to the face only to have the first itself break and rebound and a gobsmacked expression from the marine.

>Necron stuff from their perspective. Where Lords are not made out of wet cardboard, im talking taking a powerfist to the face only to have the first itself break and rebound and a gobsmacked expression from the marine.
I'd love this. A first company veteran running towards the Overlord, punching him straight into the face with his powerfist. The Overlord just stands there for a second, mildly confused, before cutting the Marine in half with his warscythe.
I mean, Overlords are pretty much at the pinnacle of the necrons technology, with bodies that stood the test of time for 60 million years. Those are guys who quite successfully fought Eldar and Orks before they were a dying race/green hooligans with a cockney accent AND had the backing of the Old Ones. I'd just like to see them being one of the scariest beings you could ever meet.

>Peter Fehervari

Yes, his weird as fuck novel about guard fighting tau was...sublime, it was heart of darkness/apocalypse now with no catachans needed.

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