Interesting info. Thanks, Rag. Makes we want the book even more now.
I presume a "bident" is a two-pronged trident.
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| Author: | ragnarok [ Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:04 pm ] |
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I managed to get my hands on an advance copy of Titianicus at the week end and devoured it very quickly. I wont give much away apart from technical snippets. Legio information We get to see a host of our favourite weapons and some new one. Vulcan mega bolters Plasma blast guns Plasma destructors Turbo lasers Volcano cannons (not as common as destructors) Missile pods (more on these later) Power fist/claw Power flails Chain fist Bident Fusion Mace. The missile pods hold 5 missiles with a variety of war heads, as well as having spares in the titan that are then slotted in as the first ones are fired off. They also seem to be either fired directly at targets in focussed groups, which is the main way used, to either fell shield or to finish of titans. The other way, which was only used one by chaos titans is the mass saturation we are use to from missile pods. Chaos warhounds were also spotted with missile pods and close combat weapons. Warlords also have a bridge crew of 4. Princeps, moderati, steersman and sensori. They also have an extyra enginseer helping maintain the reactor and other systems. The also often carry a princeps in training. Skitarii Totally different to those that we have met. They have personality and are not slow clumsy things! The servitors from both sides (and both forge worlds for the imperium) all seem to be people with hard wired devices who are fanatically devoted into serving the forge and its masters (which leads to, in my mind, some very funny exchanges between a member of the legio and his skitarii body guard and vox servitor). Skitarii are gene bred into hulking brutes, about Catchan size, with hard wired weapons and massive spiked armour, covered in pelts and bright colours. They are designed to look fearful. It was also mentioned that their ferocity could match that of the space wolves (though normally when facing dark mechanicus). |
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| Author: | Dwarf Supreme [ Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:04 pm ] |
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Interesting info. Thanks, Rag. Makes we want the book even more now. I presume a "bident" is a two-pronged trident.
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| Author: | Evil and Chaos [ Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:31 pm ] |
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I have my copy too. 
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| Author: | ragnarok [ Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:40 pm ] |
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Quote: (Dwarf Supreme @ 08 Sep. 2008, 20:04 ) Interesting info. Thanks, Rag. Makes we want the book even more now.  I presume a "bident" is a two-pronged trident. I assumed that too. It is a close combat weapon. I assume that abnett used bident instead of trident so that us old warhorse wouldn't get it confused with the trident missile. 
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| Author: | redsimon [ Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:13 pm ] |
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Quote: (ragnarok @ 08 Sep. 2008, 20:04 ) Skitarii Totally different to those that we have met. They have personality and are not slow clumsy things! Of course they have personality, they are not robots. |
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| Author: | Otterman [ Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:41 pm ] |
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Thanks, Rag! |
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| Author: | levinas [ Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:11 pm ] |
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Giving nothing away about the book (I've had mine for weeks  ) I'd say it's probably worth a read if you like titans - and who doesn't!Other than the entertainment factor of titan on titan action it's not that great a novel. Certainly not Abnett at his best. If you've read the Titan: God Machine graphic novel you'll spot some themes about the relation between the Titans and those that drive them. I look forward to seeing what the rest of you make of it. |
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| Author: | zombocom [ Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:52 am ] |
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Ah, titan porn. |
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| Author: | The_Real_Chris [ Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:32 am ] |
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To be honest Mr Abnet writes okay fiction, but really quite often poor 40k fiction. Normally settling for the modern day plus a couple of funny words for computers and similar. In fact you could change a few words and make it any of the future fantasy settings that are knocking around. I once glanced at the comic though and the titan stuff looked pretty dire (on a demon world or something?). |
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| Author: | alansa [ Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:49 am ] |
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Quote: (The_Real_Chris @ 10 Sep. 2008, 09:32 ) To be honest Mr Abnet writes okay fiction, but really quite often poor 40k fiction. Normally settling for the modern day plus a couple of funny words for computers and similar. In fact you could change a few words and make it any of the future fantasy settings that are knocking around. I once glanced at the comic though and the titan stuff looked pretty dire (on a demon world or something?). In 'The Saint' he did manage to capture a spot of medieval supernatural happenings - miracles you might say. Otherwise you're right - gaunt's ghosts seemed pretty 20th century: a modern army in a somewhat medieval world. That's how it is with the Imperial Guard I guess though. His Titan Graphic novel started out ok, but yes it got rather silly. I imagine it's actually rather hard to write a decent novel about giant walking robots. |
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| Author: | redsimon [ Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:03 pm ] |
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Quote: (The_Real_Chris @ 10 Sep. 2008, 10:32 ) To be honest Mr Abnet writes okay fiction, but really quite often poor 40k fiction. Normally settling for the modern day plus a couple of funny words for computers and similar. In fact you could change a few words and make it any of the future fantasy settings that are knocking around. I once glanced at the comic though and the titan stuff looked pretty dire (on a demon world or something?). To say it more bluntly: He writes the same stuff over and over again, it could be used for anything, fantasy or SF or modern and for any universe. I detest it. The only part of the Titan comic that was any good was book one. |
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| Author: | ragnarok [ Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:08 pm ] |
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I agree that the story was rather bland and the odd jumping between characters, who sometimes only have a chapter, ot confusing every now and then. However Titan on Titan action is great, especially with slaaneshi Titans 
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| Author: | zombocom [ Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:15 pm ] |
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The titan comic was just terrible. Two lines of dialogue, 5 pages of explosions, two lines of dialogue, 5 pages of explosions, etc. |
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| Author: | Evil and Chaos [ Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:32 pm ] |
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Quote: (zombocom @ 10 Sep. 2008, 17:15 ) The titan comic was just terrible. Two lines of dialogue, 5 pages of explosions, two lines of dialogue, 5 pages of explosions, etc. Yeah, Titan Porn. 
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| Author: | British [ Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:26 pm ] |
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Gotta love that Titan Porn...still Book One was enjoyable...if not for the interactions between the different members of the Legion when someone who was essentially an 'untrained rookie' got the control of a Warlord... Still I think with Abnett is the problem lies more in the fact he can write something thats quite good to start off with, but just doesn't know when to stop, and drags it out to the furthest possible point while becoming gratingly boring. |
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