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He has a Space Wolves short story and a full Space Wolves novel, Blood of Asaheim, out and they're both pretty good. | He has a Space Wolves short story and a full Space Wolves novel, Blood of Asaheim, out and they're both pretty good. | ||
Unfortunately, he has quite a big problem with plot consistency and following the fluff. For example, in his Thousand Sons novel Bjorn was described as having an assault cannon, and a few pages later he shoots '''plasma''' bolts at a heavy robot (and oneshot it, which is also bullshit, considering Cataphracts are fuckhuge heavily armored killbots, which are extremely hard to bring down even with proper anti-tank weapon). Add to this a Blood Claw Dreadnought, Grey Hunters charging at Thousands Sons through inferno bolt fire, '''sustaining no casualties''' from it, and than being unceremoniously wiped in melee by said Thousand Sons, Magnus forgetting he's a god damned unstoppable magical killing machine, capable of nuking titans and entire cities and rushing into close combat where he got his ass handed to him by a Dreadnought, and you would got the picture. To be fair, there is no way Battle of the Fang couldn't be lost by the Space Wolves without a lot of author favoritism bullshit, so Chris was all but forced to | Unfortunately, he has quite a big problem with plot consistency and following the fluff. For example, in his Thousand Sons novel Bjorn was described as having an assault cannon, and a few pages later he shoots '''plasma''' bolts at a heavy robot (and oneshot it, which is also bullshit, considering Cataphracts are fuckhuge heavily armored killbots, which are extremely hard to bring down even with proper anti-tank weapon). Add to this a Blood Claw Dreadnought, Grey Hunters charging at Thousands Sons through inferno bolt fire, '''sustaining no casualties''' from it, and than being unceremoniously wiped in melee by said Thousand Sons, Magnus forgetting he's a god damned unstoppable magical killing machine, capable of nuking titans and entire cities and rushing into close combat where he got his ass handed to him by a Dreadnought, and you would got the picture. To be fair, there is no way Battle of the Fang couldn't be lost by the Space Wolves without a lot of author favoritism bullshit, so Chris was all but forced to write stupid things to fit the stupid old fluff written by his predecessors. | ||
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Revision as of 19:13, 27 August 2015
Not Graeme Lyon.
In all seriousness, Chris Wraight is a newer Black Library writer, and so far he doesn't disappoint.
His works so far consist of:
Battle of the Fang, a rather awesome Space Marine Battles novel about the Space Wolves fighting their traitor nemesis, Magnus the Red, and the Thousand Sons on Fenris.
Wrath of Iron, another Space Marine Battles novel, where the Iron Hands fight the forces of Slaanesh while being extremely awesome, though also being massive dicks in the process. Nice to see the Iron Hands getting some time in the spotlight.
Iron Company, a WHFB novel I haven't read. Also Sword of Justice and Sword of Vengeance, both are pretty damn good WHFB books focused on Ludwig Schwarthelm and Kurt Helborg, both are pretty damn badass.
Kraken, a Space Wolves short story that I haven't read yet but looks awesome.
Brotherhood of the Storm, a recent limited edition Horus Heresy novella about the White Scars and the event that caused Horus to mistakenly assume the Khan would join him.
Scars, a full length Horus Heresy novel following the Khan as he decides whether to side with Horus or the Emperor.
He has a Space Wolves short story and a full Space Wolves novel, Blood of Asaheim, out and they're both pretty good.
Unfortunately, he has quite a big problem with plot consistency and following the fluff. For example, in his Thousand Sons novel Bjorn was described as having an assault cannon, and a few pages later he shoots plasma bolts at a heavy robot (and oneshot it, which is also bullshit, considering Cataphracts are fuckhuge heavily armored killbots, which are extremely hard to bring down even with proper anti-tank weapon). Add to this a Blood Claw Dreadnought, Grey Hunters charging at Thousands Sons through inferno bolt fire, sustaining no casualties from it, and than being unceremoniously wiped in melee by said Thousand Sons, Magnus forgetting he's a god damned unstoppable magical killing machine, capable of nuking titans and entire cities and rushing into close combat where he got his ass handed to him by a Dreadnought, and you would got the picture. To be fair, there is no way Battle of the Fang couldn't be lost by the Space Wolves without a lot of author favoritism bullshit, so Chris was all but forced to write stupid things to fit the stupid old fluff written by his predecessors.