Articles tagged with: Warhammer 40000

Closing the second trilogy of books, The Chapter's Due presents a quite weak and simple story of chaos space marines and daemons attacking the homeworlds of the Ultramarines.

The interesting points are a lot of battles and an abundance of known heroes: Uriel, Tiberius, Sicarius, even Maernus Calgar.

But even with all that, the book has a dumb plot, unexciting events, unrealistic battles * and in general feels more like a book just written to close the trilogy instead of because of having a nice story to tell.

* Sometimes a lot of space marines die against normal enemies, while other times a bunch of them kill all that gets in their path.

Publication date: 2013-07-16

Tags: Books Warhammer 40000

Note: This is a short story, published initially in the Hammer & Bolter magazine and now part of The Primarchs Black Library book.

The Dark Angels are my space marine army since I collect Warhammer 40,000, so having more background about their primarch is quite appealing.

This story depicts Lion El'Jonson, through two Horus Heresy events: A chaos attack to the primarch's warship and mediating between Iron Hands and Death Guard chapters on a conflict in a Dark Angels planet.

You get a sharper image of the attitude, character and intelligence of the primarch, and at the end, a better picture of what Lion knew about Caliban before returning to the home planet. Even what or how was his idea of helping to finish the war.

A nice lore information burst added to the Dark Angels background. Too bad it feels too short.

Publication date: 2013-06-01

Tags: Books Warhammer 40000

Fully moving, with sounds, really nice looking (doesn't looks like plastic) and it is also huge!

And at this link all sort of building details and other videos.

Publication date: 2013-05-21

Tags: Warhammer 40000

While Ultramarines Captain Uriel Ventris and it's companion Pasanius are on a death oath and counted as dead already, orks appear in one of the planets under their command and sargeant Learchus will lead the defense and erradication of the greenskins.

With this simple premise, Defenders of Ultramar makes for a plain read. Not wanting to have any amazing plot, nor interesting twists, it is just a visual narration of space marines versus orks, very iconic, displaying a lot of unit types, and typical quotes from the rulebooks. That said, it is quite nicely drawn and painted, and it manages to plug itself into existing lore (at least the one existing in the books).

Not a bad comic if you like Warhammer 40k universe, I got mine second hand and I don't regret it :)

Publication date: 2013-05-04

Tags: Comic Book Warhammer 40000

I recently got two second hand comics, one of them being Fire & Honour, which narrates the adventures of the Cadian 71st Imperial Guard company fighting against the Tau in a planet where the Governor is a traitor (allied with the Tau).

The drawings are quite nice, very well colored and vibrant (despite depicting scenes of war and battle). Here what fails is not the drawing skills but the writing skills. The texts are typical hard-ass soldier speeches, cocky comments and drill sargeant orders, all around a weak, plain and obvious story which doesn't even tries to make itself interesting.

Nice for reading once but much better to grab a Black Library book if you want a good plot.

Publication date: 2013-02-08

Tags: Comic Book Warhammer 40000