• rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
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    3 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
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      3 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…

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 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?

  • a4ng3l@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 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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      3 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.