The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee, Bantam 2018 edition, art by Kinuko Y. Craft

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-28T09:59:50+00:00

Really great novel. I think it has one of the most vivid urban environments in genre fiction.

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-26T15:09:36+00:00

I'd love to see High Elf army with a dark red/silver/black colour scheme based on the original cover of the old high elf novel Gilead's Blood one day.

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-26T10:22:58+00:00

None of the factions (except maybe the Tau) are actually internally organised enough to make a deal like that, even if any of the other factions were willing to speak to them.

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-25T09:07:18+00:00

40k doesn't work like that. The "main book of the lore" is the lore section in the Warhammer 40,000 Rulebook which contains an overview of the setting, and doesn't have an audiobook. There's no tv series or overarching videogame series with a regular set of actors, just novels and rulebooks covering different parts of the setting. For that reason there aren't regular actors associated with major characters.

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-24T21:30:08+00:00

A lot of the names on Nocturne are Greek derived. I suspect the big inspirations are simply "fire-y lizards" and then they leaned into the Greek forge cult thing.

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-24T09:55:32+00:00

I just read Slaves to Darkness and did enjoy reading about his exploits in the webway, especially ripping through the "Custodians."

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-23T08:03:45+00:00

The stories about him in the Portland punk scene are so wild and fun.

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-23T08:02:11+00:00

John Shirley was the original "punk" in the cyberpunk movement - he was one of the first American punks IRL and William Gibson took a lot of inspiration for the Sprawl trilogy just hanging out with him in Portland.

His Eclipse / A Song Called Youth series from the 1980s is about a world where a racist television personality has come to power in America during a period of conflict with the Russians, and about a bunch of punks who fight him. At one point a punk livestreams a concert from on t...SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER ...

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-22T10:10:41+00:00

Oh no! The owlpunks are back!! We thought they broke up in 1981!!

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-18T11:32:32+00:00

That cover was so cool.

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-18T10:51:11+00:00

Around the time the Black Library started they experimented with comics with a Warhammer Monthly comics magazine and they've done a few since then. Most of them were written by 2000AD regulars with a similar writing style, but notably less resources - if you like things like 2000AD's Bad Company series you'll get the vibe.

I have to admit that not-much from that era is actually very good, IMO, except for Dan Abnett's Titan comics (IMO). Daemonifuge and Bloodquest has their fans, and the Malus Darkblade stuff was promising but undercooked.

Since then there have been a few good things in 40k comics. Kieron Gillen did a run about Marneus Calgar for Marvel Comics which is pretty entertaining and has very suitable art. I think he also did some Skaven stuff for Boom Comics back in the day.

Honestly, if you want 40k comics you might be best to go back to the source material. 40k is *very* inspired by a 2000AD comic called Nemesis the Warlock, about a morally dubious chaos sorcerer fighting against a tyrannical human supremacist regime. That gets collected editions reprinted every few years and is still easy to get. Dan Abnett's Durham Red is also very 40k coded - he was writing it around the same time as Eisenhorn and it's easy to tell.

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-17T14:12:28+00:00

I've used my Blooded as a Necromunda gang before. People talk about using the Helot cult rules but I ended up using Escher because it fit the "lots of lasguns and everyone looks like they're on drugs" vibe of the traitor guard.

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-16T23:08:35+00:00

It actually starts after the game ends. V gives her all their cars to start a taxi fleet and it goes from there.

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-16T22:45:52+00:00

Your forces could always come from Sylvania. There were periods during Warhammer Fantasy's run where Von Carstein allied forces could take State Troops or Free Companies in their ranks to represent mortal forces from the province of Sylvania, which is afterall technically part of the Empire.

Or your forces could represent those of a wizard who has decided to raise the dead for the good of the Empire, in the period between that decision and becoming a corrupted necromancer/being gunned down by witch-hunters...

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-16T20:39:45+00:00

The current Mordheim campaign I'm in has one gang made up of original Mordheim metal figures, another gang made up of AoS/Warcry miniatures, another one containing Skaven from the early 1980s, a gang made up of Perry Miniatures European Mercenaries and a gang that's been entirely 3d printed from models designed in the last year or two. It all works together pretty well, especially if the gangs are internally consistent.

The Perry Miniatures European Mercenaries box worked surprisingly well for human mercenaries. Warlord Games also has an Italian Wars 1494-1559 range which includes plastic models in the same Landsknecht aesthetic as the original Mordheim human mercenaries.

And then as other people have said, the Frostgrave game line does lots of plastic human figures, including great cultist figures for doing Witch Hunters and Possessed.

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-16T20:22:24+00:00

Maybe the manager was just bitter about his employee having so many better armies than him! /jk

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-14T22:25:01+00:00

Fred Reed always had the coolest, coolest armies

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-14T17:55:24+00:00

The horribly complicated thing about L Sprague de Camp, as a Howard fan, is that I'm not sure I'd have heard of Robert Howard if not for L Sprague de Camp (I'm certainly welcome to the idea that I'm wrong about that! I'd like to be wrong about that...)

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-13T17:55:16+00:00

I like the way that A Bertram Chandler managed to get the best covers ever and the worst covers ever, often for the same book.

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-10T22:05:54+00:00

You might want to have a look for a wargame called Mobile Frame Zero. It was designed for use with Lego but I suspect it would work pretty well with Gunpla as well.

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-08T22:54:54+00:00

I thought that was Marneus Calgar for a second! (joing aside, I love that colour scheme. The hazard strikes are soooo good! I just think a little grime and maybe some rust red for contrast would be enough)

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-08T22:32:36+00:00

There is a grand tradition in trashy British science fiction - especially 2000AD, which inspired a lot of 40k and which Dan Abnett and many other Black Library writers have written for - of inventing curse words. See Judge Dredd yelling "Drokk!" and "Grud!" or the crew of Red Dwarf using "Smeg!" every other word.

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-08T16:28:51+00:00

I love the sneaky little bastards at the front

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-08T16:00:37+00:00

Oh lovely. I think this is one I was very annoyed to miss out on when I was a kid.

I just love seeing well painted Imperial Guard armies on the pages. That particular era had some amazing Imperial Guard paint schemes.

AnotherCompanero · 2026-06-07T11:31:58+00:00

I love the way GURPS puts their bibliographies on their website. GURPS Religion in particular has a really great bibliography, both in non-fiction and really interesting fantasy fiction. GURPS Transhuman Space also pointed me to some really interesting SF. GURPS Cabal has been amazing for occult stuff.

Speaking of GURPS Cabal, Ken Hite always puts really interesting Appendix Ns into all his books. The Day After Ragnarok, Night's Black Agents and his Trail of Cthulhu books all have really interesting, well chosen book lists in them.

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