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Post by Arguleon Veq on Oct 10, 2008 7:13:59 GMT -5
Anybody read it yet? I thought it was awesome, possibly the best Fantasy book I have read. Made me really tempted to get an ancient, living Nehekara army.
The Ushabti were great, Warriors blessed by their gods. The bit at the end was a bit daft with the wise hero for no reason at all giving Nagash the answer to his siege problem.
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Post by Deraj on Oct 12, 2008 14:07:53 GMT -5
I thought this book was absolutely terrible. It felt like nothing but battle report, 2 pages of people talking, batlle report, rinse, repeat. I just got bored of it 3/4 of the way through and its not acting as a pedastal for... a secret project.
Heldenhammer on the other hand was awesome, and felt like it was an epic myth like one of the ancient Norse or Arthurian ones.
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Post by Arguleon Veq on Oct 12, 2008 14:35:29 GMT -5
I preffered the Nagash one to the Sigmar one. I agree that there was a little too much fighting though and didn't really explain why Nagash was evil. It filled in a lot on Nehekeran culture though and the battles were done very well.
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Post by Deraj on Oct 12, 2008 21:29:13 GMT -5
True. That made it feel like a history book to me though, whereas the Sigmar one felt like a myth, or more of a story.
The way I see it, the history in Nagash was important, but the characters in Sigmar were more important. (as in to the writer, not saying that Sigmar is more important than Nagash...)
Though everyone knows Nagash got the crap beaten out of him by a lowly merc....
Well.... not everyone.
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Post by Arguleon Veq on Oct 13, 2008 8:47:55 GMT -5
The two books should link eventually with Sigmar fighting Nagash, which should be fun.
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Post by Kaffl on Nov 3, 2008 22:33:33 GMT -5
Sigmar fighting Nagash could be a book all in and of itself.
I haven't read the Nagash or Sigmar novels, though I do intend to read Nagash. Surely one such as I will be entirely enthralled by such tales of heroic feats. Nagash was the good guy, by the way.
As a shameless act of I-feel-awesome, I feel it is entirely necessary at this point to point out the fact that Phil Gallagher was the man who invented Sigmar. Why is this important? Because I regularly play games against his sons who come out to our store in Timonium constantly. I felt that needed to be said, I have played games against (and even beaten a few times) the Brothers of Sigmar, in flesh. That means something to me.
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Post by Arguleon Veq on Nov 4, 2008 10:50:12 GMT -5
The main problem with the Nagash book is Nagash himself really, he is very one dimensional, there isn't much of a reason behind his evil.
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