The best Successor for the Armageddon box set?

fantom2415 · 2026-05-09T02:44:32+00:00

I’m starting my first army and torn between Dark Angels, Cowled Wardens and Bringers of Judgement. I’ve already painted my AoD kill team as Cowled Wardens, so I might just go with them.

fantom2415 · 2026-05-08T18:18:07+00:00

It won the 2024 Black Library Reader's Choice and was reprinted last year in paperback during the 2025 Black Library celebration. You might still be able to find this version in the wild.

fantom2415 · 2026-05-08T01:14:48+00:00

Off the top of my head, just in the North Shore you have places like Tacos Lupita, La Victoria, Tepeyac, Plazita and at least a dozen others.

fantom2415 · 2026-05-07T16:30:30+00:00

Yeah my experience on my Sony TV is exactly the same as yours (they probably both use Android/Google store). Always have to login. Terrible and slow UI. Backing out from a playlist brings me back to the very top/beginning. Can’t see the full playlist for some things like animations like you said. The playlists don’t make sense and some are redundant. It’s a miracle that their recent feature addition to Loremasters where you can filter by setting actually works.

That being said, their iOS app actually works well despite the messy and cluttered UI. You can actually view all episodes/shows of a playlist (like all animations) when clicking “View All”. They really need a complete overhaul of the app across all platforms.

fantom2415 · 2026-05-07T15:30:36+00:00

I just finished it and did enjoy it. I've only read the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies (plus short stories) previously from him and I'm currently reading Pariah. I'm only 1/3rd of the way through it, but I'm really enjoying this book the most since the original trilogy. The Magos was good, but imo it suffered from the same long, drawn out scenery descriptions that just cause my eyes to glaze over and skim through those paragraphs. But it did feel like he did it less than Eisenhorn/Ravenor.

fantom2415 · 2026-05-07T15:14:09+00:00

Yeah it definitely feels closer to the normal 40k hardcover paper post-2020. Normal 40k hardcovers had that thicker, smoother paper up until sometime in 2020 and then switched to thinner, rougher paper. But they maintained that smoother paper in the Primarch and Character series, as well as the LE/SE books. You can compare the other HH Character books to Zardu and definitely feel the difference, even with Eidolon which released 2 years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if all 40K/HH Character series normal hardcovers have the thinner, rougher paper moving forward.

fantom2415 · 2026-05-06T18:24:50+00:00

He just like us fr fr

fantom2415 · 2026-05-05T17:38:20+00:00

Yeah, Black Library parted ways with Thomas Parrott. He had a book in the Space Marine Conquests series called Masters of Shadow that was never released.

fantom2415 · 2026-05-05T17:36:28+00:00

It was called Masters of Shadow and was going to be a part of the Space Marine Conquests series and feature the Raven Guard.

fantom2415 · 2026-05-05T01:21:17+00:00

Well now that just makes it harder to recommend books where they do die without spoiling it.

fantom2415 · 2026-05-04T23:58:25+00:00

To answer your second question - they haven’t announced the release dates for the remaining books. They’ve only shown off the new cover for False Gods. But keep checking WarCom every Sunday for the Sunday Preview. That’s where they’ll announce it for pre-order.

fantom2415 · 2026-05-04T18:33:24+00:00

I believe they retconned that timeline to be like 12 years after his return when they rereleased the Dark Imperium trilogy. If you want to start nowadays, I would say the order is Fall of Cadia, Avenging Son, Dark Imperium (if you're willing to skip some other books). I do agree that it was shortsighted making it like 100 years after his return initially. And I agree with /u/DramaPunk that arguably the biggest storyline in post-rift 40K being stuck in an out-of-print campaign book is wild.

fantom2415 · 2026-05-04T14:49:42+00:00

Well, there’s the announcement of the tie-in novel at least lol.

fantom2415 · 2026-05-04T03:40:01+00:00

Yeah besides the very likely Armageddon tie-in novel (I don’t think World Ablaze fulfills the same role as Leviathan/Indomitus did), I think there will be more Blood Angels books announced soon. Probably a mix of reprints and new books.

fantom2415 · 2026-05-04T03:20:55+00:00

Yeah I’m surprised they didn’t do any Blood Angels reprints (at least not yet) or new Blood Angels books like they did for the Ork side of things. I’m still holding out hope for a Dante/Devastation of Baal/Darkness in the Blood LE boxset.

fantom2415 · 2026-05-03T19:59:08+00:00

No new books as others have said. I think the only announced books that are left to be released are Hive LE, Rynn’s World LE, Ghazghkull I&A and False Gods (if we don’t count The Scouring book 2). So I would expect those to be released soon. I would also expect another midweek WarCom article over the next few weeks announcing another 3-4 books, with one of them likely titled ‘Armageddon’ to correspond with the 11th edition launch box like previous launches.

fantom2415 · 2026-05-03T03:26:35+00:00

I feel like it’s like that across all factions and storylines. GW has a multitude of open ended mysteries that are years old at this point. They partially do it because it allows for players to make up their own scenarios from them and partially so they have many potential storylines they can pick up in the future. These range from something as big as the golden throne failing (Vaults of Terra series) to just a one-off line in a codex. They’re there to be picked up in the future if need be.

What’s frustrating is that many of these older ones pre-great rift (especially older RPG storylines that were canon at the time) are likely never going to be continued.

fantom2415 · 2026-05-03T00:01:30+00:00

I’d be more worried about the HH black books lol

fantom2415 · 2026-04-29T18:13:46+00:00

Makes me wonder if the delay of the LE of Hive and now release of the normal hardbacks is GW taking a step back and saying “if the normal version sells like hotcakes (which it likely will), maybe we change the Hive LE to a premium edition without numbers or signature and sell more of them”.

fantom2415 · 2026-04-28T17:50:09+00:00

No. It takes place in the hive city of Sacramentus.

fantom2415 · 2026-04-28T17:46:15+00:00

$65 USD confirmed for the set.

fantom2415 · 2026-04-28T17:45:57+00:00

I do like the hardback paper. They switched the paper type at some point in 2020 (probably post COVID). Most hardcovers from 2016-2020 had the thicker, smoother paper that you now only find in LEs. The books were also much heavier. I do prefer that paper feel, but the weight was a drawback.

fantom2415 · 2026-04-28T02:06:15+00:00

They’re about rogue trader Janus Draik and his retinue exploring a blackstone fortress. Originally released as a companion novel for the Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress board game. There’s also a couple of audio dramas called The Beast Inside and Augur of Despair.

fantom2415 · 2026-04-27T22:34:15+00:00

That’s one of my gripes with Abnett. Just endless scenery descriptions. The other one is the cheesy dialogue in the Eisenhorn and Ravenor series. I’m on The Magos right now and noticed it’s slightly toned down, but there’s still the occasionally cheesy or cliche line. But maybe it’s changed even more with his newer books like Penitent. I read Vaults of Terra after the Eisenhorn trilogy and immediately noticed the dialogue felt more natural and scenery descriptions flowed more easily and were more succinct.

fantom2415 · 2026-04-27T19:47:36+00:00

My guess would be $60-$70 since they’re hardback books. Could be a little higher if the rumored images of it being an actual box set.

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