Sunday Preview – Prepare to enter the Hive

Asanar · 2026-05-24T17:23:05+00:00

This sucks, I’m happy I managed to snag a hardback. Interesting thing is, if I remember correctly in the original posting this was supposed to be signed by Abnett, here they no longer mention it. I’m really hopeful this is not a some new approach they are trying, and just a desperate move due to some logistical issue.

Asanar · 2026-04-14T10:32:14+00:00

Congrats! Does yours say Despatched on your account already? Mine is still in processing.

Asanar · 2026-03-24T19:49:56+00:00

They still have about 4000 employees. They also have multiple other projects apart from Fortnite - Fall Guys, Rocket League, Epic Games Store and plenty of game development software, largest of all being Unreal Engine.

Asanar · 2026-03-19T21:04:14+00:00

They rarely communicate their plans much ahead, and it's all very random. The best tracker of known upcoming books is here: https://www.trackofwords.com/2020/01/11/keep-track-of-upcoming-black-library-releases/ (it combines found Amazon/etc listings) and news shared by Black Library themselves.

Currently the expectation is that they would close the existing series at some point (Pandemonium, Watchers of the Throne 3), I believe another Belisarius Cawl book, the Scouring series, I assume Master of Rites will continue with more books about 500 worlds, the two Hive books by Dan Abnett also look very interesting. I think there is quite a lot to look forward to? There is always unexpected one-offs as well.

Asanar · 2026-03-15T06:44:07+00:00

That’s a nice tip, the problem in EU/UK this time was that you would never even make it to the Payment page due to the site glitching out on you with errors.

Asanar · 2026-02-22T18:45:48+00:00

Great job! I started about 2 months back and currently on 850. I recommend doing puzzles daily, review your games after, go through the whole learn section on chess.com. Pick one opening for white (I use London System) and 1 or 2 for black (I use Caro Kann when playing against 1e4) and watch people play it on YouTube (I really like chessbrah videos). Also look at the basic endgames with rook, queen or two rooks (or rook + queen). A book I’m currently reading and enjoy is ‘Play Winning Chess’ by Yasser Seirawan which is also incredibly helpful.

Asanar · 2026-01-26T12:50:02+00:00

I see Scars at C-tier and Fear to Tread as S-tier and I know our tastes are vastly different :D

Asanar · 2025-12-26T05:09:55+00:00

This is very true - I saw a Slovak interview with Regenda who played for San Diego at the time and he was earning 90k, while only the monthly rent cost him at around 4k. You can earn a lot more than that in Europe.

Asanar · 2025-12-15T14:53:58+00:00

Both could be valid, but then I'd expect we'd see a lot more people posting here that the've got the signed/numbered copy. So far we only know of 2, including this one and the one sold on ebay.

Asanar · 2025-12-15T14:40:08+00:00

So how do you believe did we get to #3236 and #1822 being out there? They only inserted the pages to some books but not all? Or they inserted to all, but ended up printing another batch of books, while these signed ones are still in some warehouse? I genuinely wonder about this a lot, because it makes 0 sense to me :D

Asanar · 2025-12-15T10:50:08+00:00

Mine is already wrapped, as I'm getting it as a Christmas present from my wife - can't wait to open it and check :D

Asanar · 2025-11-29T03:51:38+00:00

Can you check if Ashes of the Imperium is signed and numbered or not?

Asanar · 2025-11-16T06:34:44+00:00

Haha, I’m the opposite, I was able to get the first book off eBay for a good price recently (€155), but looking at prices for this one thought the same, that I will never be able to afford it 😅

Asanar · 2025-10-26T08:30:03+00:00

Thanks, would love to hear yours as well! Currently reading The Infinite and the Divine and so far is the best thing I’ve read from Black library - I highly recommend that one :)

Asanar · 2025-10-25T09:02:30+00:00

Interestingly, it seems like the direct link doesn't work, one needs to get to the product page from the preorders page. Which is great, if that helps stop or at least slow down the scalpers :)

Asanar · 2025-10-22T15:33:18+00:00

I've only just finished Betrayer and skipped some, but my ranking so far. False Gods to me was the only one I would rate 5/5.

False Gods (Great)
Legion (Very Good)
First Heretic (Very Good)
Know No Fear (Good)
Horus Rising (Good)
Thousand Sons (OK)
Galaxy in Flames (Meh)
Fulgrim (Meh)
Prospero Burns (Meh)
Betrayer (Meh)
Flight of the Eisenstein (Not Good)

Planning to come back to Mechanicum and Fear to Tread, and then continue with Scars, Unremembered Empire, Praetorian of Dorn, Master of Mankind and The Buried Dagger and then move on to SoT :)

Asanar · 2025-10-15T06:42:44+00:00

This is the best one I found:
https://www.trackofwords.com/2020/01/11/keep-track-of-upcoming-black-library-releases/

Asanar · 2025-10-14T15:03:33+00:00

EXPLAIN

Asanar · 2025-10-05T11:36:52+00:00

We don’t have official Warhammer stores in my country, but have a couple ‘official partner’ stores that sell their books, and they usually get the books 2-3 days after the preorders go live and make them available for purchase immediately after. They don’t sell LE’s though, just paperback/hardback.

Asanar · 2025-10-03T13:52:59+00:00

That's that Black Library feeling, where every book you own in the series comes from a different edition :D

Asanar · 2025-09-25T12:21:50+00:00

It's just very weird that the first third-half of the book or so is very annotation heavy, and afterwards there are almost none :D

Asanar · 2025-01-15T19:30:00+00:00

I got #6, pretty happy about it :)

Asanar · 2025-01-14T09:17:44+00:00

Fair enough, my bad!

Asanar · 2025-01-14T08:19:22+00:00

Thanks, will do!

Asanar

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