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Honour Imperialis (Warhammer 40,000) by [Braden Campbell, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Chris Dows, Steve Lyons, Rob Sanders]

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The Astra Militarum: known with good reason as 'the Hammer of the Emperor', are possibly the single largest military force that the galaxy has ever seen. The tales of heroism and desperate futility surrounding the men and women of the Guard are many - this omnibus contains the three novels detailing the battles of some notable warriors of the Astra Militarum, as well as a number of extra short stories.

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It's three novels and four short stories featuring the massed ranks of the Astra Militarum (or Imperial Guard for the old school among you) up against a variety of the Imperium's enemies.

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Rob Sanders is a writer who teaches and a teacher who writes. Every day he goes to Mintz Elementary School in Brandon, Florida, to teach students about books and words and reading and writing. Then he heads back home to write fierce and funny picture books for kids. Rob likes to grow things, teach things, learn things, and read things. He’s definitely an earthbound human, but he has high-flying ideas, hopes, and dreams. Nothing gets him soaring quite as much as hearing boys and girls say, “Read it again!” Visit Rob’s website at RobSandersWrites.com.
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N4EA6KJ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Library (Nov. 15 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3888 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 912 pages

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Rob Sanders is the author of twelve novels, as well as numerous anthologised short stories, novellas, audio dramas, computer games and comics. His fiction has won national writing competitions, been featured on the BBC and appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list. His poetry has been short listed in national contests. He lives off the beaten track in the small city of Lincoln, UK.
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Gabriel

some good ones and some ok ones

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 14, 2018

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Series of short stories, some good ones and some ok ones, all in all happy with the read

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Johnmcl7

A reasonable collection of stories for the money

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 25, 2014

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Honour Imperialis is the third omnibus released in the Imperial Guard series and contains Cadian Blood, Redemption Corps, Dead Men Walking and the short stories Regicide, Down Amongst the Dead, Hunted and The Mouth of Chaos. It follows on from Imperial Guard Omnibus Volume one (contains Fifteen Hours, Death World and Rebel Winter) and Hammer of the Emperor (contains Desert Raiders, Ice Guard and Gunheads). Each of the novels in the Imperial Guard series is standalone focusing on some part of the Imperial Guard which frees up the writers to do as they want, allowing them to produce more believable stories about soldiers who are unlikely to survive long in the brutal world of Warhammer.

The omnibus kicks off with Aaron Dembski-Bowden's Cadian Blood which follows a Captain in the Cadian 88th Mechanised Infantry, their regiment has been withdrawn from defending Cadia to assaulting a shrineworld that has fallen to a plague. The Captain has to deal with the frustration of being withdrawn from Cadia, the respect from the rest of the regiment for earning the Ward of Cadia (which he doesn't believe he deserves) and the difficulties in working with other, less competent regiments from other worlds. ADB's depiction of the Cadians is convincing as they come across as extremely professional and capable but not too over the top although the book overall feels more like part of a series than a standalone novel and much of the main plot is fairly standard fare. My only real issue with the book is that I'd have liked there to be more of it given ADB sets up some interesting characters and there's very few novels featuring Cadians.

Second is Redemption Corps by Rob Sanders which I'd bought previously after enjoying Rob Sanders' Iron Warriors Heresy short but was disappointed by the novel. I gave it another go since I'd bought the trilogy however my thoughts were much the same as the first time. The titular Redemption Corps are a group of specialist yet unconventional Stormtroopers led by Major Zane Mortensen and are regularly assigned the difficult jobs. As a result of repeatedly succeeding suicidal missions and the Major having survived the destruction of his planet, he's been gaining a reputation for being immortal and touched by the Emperor putting him on the radar of the Sisters of Battle. For the first few chapters, a character is introduced with a flash forward to near the end of the book when despite fighting for the Imperium they're confusingly in the situation where they've been captured by the Sisters of Battle. Sometimes a flash forward mechanic can work well (ADB pulls it off effectively in Void Stalker) but the way it's used here is just irritating as it just confuses the story given most of the flash forwards occur at the start of the book. The last portion of the book where it should satisfyingly tie in with the flash forwards doesn't really work, there's an extra plot element added in which feels rushed and not well thought out.

All of that is a shame because the story doesn't need the flash forwards or the additional complexity in the plot as when it's all going along normally it's at its strongest. There's a section in the middle where the Redemption Corps are tasked with retrieving a Titan crew from a disabled Warlord which is the best part of the book and I just wished there was more of that.

Steve Lyons' Dead Men Walking finishes off the collection and features the Death Korps of Krieg who I wasn't familiar with as they've not played a part in any of the other novels I've read. Which is a surprise as they're quite unique amongst the numerous Imperial Guard regiments, their home planet is in a nuclear winter due to their previous civil war leaving the only resource Krieg can provide being is their soldiers who are brought up to want to give their lives as soon as possible for the Emperor. Initially the book follows a Commissar attached to a Krieg regiment who is in an odd position as the exceptionally well disciplined Krieg regiments don't require a Commissar for the usual reasons and instead the role becomes more of a human liaison for the gas masked Krieg soldiers. The book has a good look at the morality of the Krieg approach to warfare as well as the affect on civilians when their city is being ripped apart around them, it suffers from a drawn out middle section where not much is happening but a fairly sharp ending and a particularly poignant last couple of pages makes up for it.

The four short stories are a bit of a disappointment as only one of the four is related to the main novels (and it's a very loose connection) and it's also the only one that hasn't been published already. Regicide is from the Sabbat Worlds short story collection and Hunted(Catachans)/The Mouth of Chaos(Elysians) are from Hammer and Bolter. With some of the previous IG short stories they were linked to the main novels taking part before or after to add a little more insight, it's not a big issue though as the main material is the novels. The short stories are all clumped together at the end rather than distributed between the novels which is the usual way of doing it and works better.

Overall though while none of the novels are exceptional and Redemption Corps is a bit weak, the omnibus is still worth a purchase for the price particularly as the older individual books get more difficult find to find.

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Mr Analyitical

Even when that allure has been burned away by promethium you will still enjoy the visceral detail that the author goes into to

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 13, 2015

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Such a mixed bag in this book.

Some of the stories are deep, engaging and will not let you go once you get drawn into it's deep and mysterious allure. Even when that allure has been burned away by promethium you will still enjoy the visceral detail that the author goes into to. In my opinion these rival the great stories from Dan Abnett's Gaunts Ghosts series which I also highly recommend starting with First and Only (Gaunt's Ghosts) which is the first book in the series.

However some of the stories are disjointed and poor, lacking the cohesion and direction of your standard Black Library quality affair.

Whilst some of these stories are subpar the book is pretty hefty and the better stories are the longer ones and thus factoring in the reasonably cheap price I believe this book is well worth the buy-in price.

ACUREN

Couple of good stories

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 7, 2014

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This book is made up of 3 main stories and several shorts. I enjoyed 2 out of 3 of the main stories but one I found too long and at the beginning thought it was a short story until the following story contained the same characters - confused? Yeah that's how I felt. The entire book itself did not draw me in and whereas other 40k books I can't put down, this one would be put down for a while. Furthermore, I did not feel that this book related to the Guard itself, more to the Elites like Shock troopers. I have given this 3 stars due to the 2 good main stories and one short that stuck in my mind. So to sum up.....I wouldn't recommend buying this however, if you do then you will enjoy a few of the stories.

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dave murphy

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 18, 2018

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arrived fast great detail

Schelli

Unterhaltsame Geschichten aus der Welt des einfachen Soldaten

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on August 21, 2014

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Als "normaler" Warhammer-Fan verschwimmen die Geschichten der Omnibusse über das einfache Soldatenleben im Warhammer 40k-Universum mit der Zeit, da es immer um den Kampf gegen das Böse geht (Kultisten, Aliens oder Dämonen).

Fakt ist jedoch, dass ich mich mit diesem Buch gut unterhalten habe und die Geschichten zügig durchgelesen habe. Das Preis/Leistungs-Verhältnis ist jedenfalls hervorragend, so dass sich der werte Leser dieses Omnibusses auf spannende Lesestunden freuen kann.

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