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Astra Militarum: Warhammer 40,000
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Narrated by:
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Gabrielle Nellis-Pain
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By:
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Victoria Hayward
About this listen
An Astra Militarum Audiobook
On a planet trapped in the closing jaws of the Great Devourer, Major Wulf Khan of the Catachan 903rd receives a final, desperate mission – one which will take her soldiers into the maw of the tyranid threat.
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It’s a chance to see the Catachan Jungle Fighters in action on a planet almost as deadly as their homeworld. Dive into their gripping battle for survival as they face a voracious force of invading tyranids.
THE STORY
Lazulai is a world beyond the brink, its battle against the tyranids all but lost. Once-magnificent cities lie in ruin. The seas boil. The skies crack. Horrific alien bioforms devour. In mere days the planet will be consumed.
The 903rd Catachan ‘Night Shrikes’ defend one of the last fortresses still standing. Led by Major Wulf Khan, to die fighting is all that is expected of them… until she is given one last mission: to lead a squad through the apocalypse and recover a piece of archeotech that may doom or deliver the entire Lazulai System.
Facing impossible odds and zero hope for aid, the major must hold her squad together as they pick their way through an endless xenos jungle. The enemy is merciless, relentless, endlessly adaptable and formidably resourceful... but so too is Khan.
©2024 Games Workshop Limited (P)2024 Games Workshop LimitedAmazing voice over really helped in selling the story
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Gripped from the start
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Working through the stereotypes and cementing the Catachan as truly honorable soldiers with a good respect for their other war fighters. The first gut punch for me was "Cadia Stands". They didn't stop coming.
The horror tone was perfect. It perfectly echoed the fear I felt reading the first White Dwarf I remember about Tyranids, the death of a world being eaten alive in all its micro and macro terror.
The comedic aspects we're very well done. I remember the Sly Marbo and real world analogue jokes being told in the Troop offices!
I hope we hear more from the survivors in the future!
Catachan Poetry
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The end of a world
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Having listened to the audio book I was struck by how flat some of the scenes felt and that the melancholy atmosphere of a dying world didn't come across very well.
Worth a read, but not the best narrated rendition if I'm honest.
Great Story, Mediocre Narration
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A new favorite!!
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Absolutely loved it.
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An epic story which gives good detail into the final days of a Tryanid Infested planet, with cultists, nids, and lots and lots of flamers. A mission that will see you apprehensive about who will survive or not.
if you love guard and like bugs this is the book for you.
cadia stands!
What do you call a cultist without a cult?
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spoiler free
unique perspective and insight into late stage Tyranid invasion really capturing the grim darkness and futility of their situation.
I was fascinated to see how the Tyranids consume a planet beyond what we usually see with space marines battling them etc.
some really graphic and descriptive scenes to this effect, great stuff, more please.
this is an Indiana Jones action movie where the characters are constantly going from one death defying sequence into another without breath or recovery time.
unique point of view character that came along for the ride, gave an interesting perspective.
nice little nods to other authors and building tie-ins in universe, Abnets mutant "twists" and "the many armed emperor" mentioned from day of ascension etc
absolutely loved the pacing feeling like a real action movie but a but disappointed in the ending to be honest (trying to keep it spoiler free here) it was grimdark with a distant glimmer of hope all the way through, It'd have given the book a much more powerful ending in my opinion if that glimmer of hope was utterly snuffed out at the end.
hope this review helps anyone undecided about this book.
top book, highly recommended and I hope to see more from Victoria in the future.
thanks.
drinking game
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Catachan heroics on a dying world
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