please someone save the Great Horned Rat's fastest boy he doesn't deserve to be exploded

I love the classic scheme, but I always chose the most annoying thing to do 🙃

I really like the two tone shield on the Lychguard, and the blue/silver on the death marks gives really nice blocks of contrast!

There's a good haul ! I'm stuck forever in the Necron grind.

Oh, I've seen some beautiful work done with colour shift metallics. I'm very excited to work with them myself.

The resin extension kits for these deathmarks are such a major pain to use. Arms refuse to fit correctly. But, it's 25 bucks or so to use up those spare guns. Hard to pass up.

Mmhm. I tend to read very quickly, stopping to reread certain passages over and over. So we definitely have a sharp distinction in perspective there.

Well, I think it's a shame you could not enjoy the book since I believe it's one of my favourite 40k novels. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

Yeah, I think that's why I'm struggling to put myself in your line of thought. I read the novel to read about Trazyn and Orikan and the necrons and their wacky adventures. So the story just appears in front of me to enjoy. For you, it seems, you are asking yourself "should I stop reading this"?

I can see that. Especially with no narrative primer on the wider universe. If you went into the novel with a classical eye and took it very seriously. It's a very interesting perspective to me. I think I read the novel to just enjoy an adventure. A self justifying pursuit. Reading it to read it.

It was odd coming from finishing Andor, then watching it entirely again, to watch Ashoka all the way through. It's a very "STAR WARS" show which Andor is not. But, I liked it.

Huh, I find this a little strange. I suppose there is an amount of baseline knowledge 40K books ask. A WW2 novel requires knowledge, any period piece really. 40K books sort of are period pieces. But, I read a book to know the characters. Which can take time, right? Not always the first chapter.

Hmmm. Do you feel like you don't understand Trazyn as a character after the opening adventure? I had prior knowledge going into the book, but I thought it's established who he was well and prompted curiosity towards the final purpose of the sequence. Which, it does pay off in the end.

Not to be too abrasive, but do you normally dislike Cold Opens? The point of the destruction of the exodite temple is to introduce you to Trazyn as a character, not really to create a sense of dramatic tension. The novel does a very good job with foreshadowing as well.

An experienced artist knows that "looks correct" is often better than "is correct".

...And with fire came disparity. Heat and cold, life and death, and of course, Lightning and Big.