Learn of the Fallen in Black Library’s Index Chaotica
November 19, 2013 by dracs
Black library is really getting into this digital publishing as they have released a series which will pull back the curtain on some of the most iconic units of the Chaos Space Marines. Dare you peak inside the Index Chaotica?
The Index Chaotica series gives us a look at the background and style of various aspects of Chaos in the 41st Millenium, as well as containing art and photos of miniatures. Most of them so far have dealt with various units from the Chaos Space Marine forces, although we have also had a look at that part of the Warp where Grandfather Nurgle has made his garden.
The latest one to be released focuses upon the most enigmatic of the fallen Marines, the sorcerous automata of the Thousand Sons.
Little more than dust sealed inside their power armour, the line troops of the Thousand Sons are the Rubricae. Turned into mindless automatons by Ahriman these marines get explored in this latest instalment to the index Chaotica.
Have any of you read any of these? Will you investigate the Thousand Sons sinister troops?
Although I don’t play WH40k, I do love its fluff – especially the Thousand Sons. So I bought the Rubricae eBook and … it was disappointing. Production was poor, with fonts changing from paragraph to paragraph (though I’m prepared to concede this might be my ebook-reading software). The content is a very, very short history of the Thousand Sons, including the Council of Nikaea, the Kerfuffle at Prospero, the Rubric and Ahriman’s banishment. There’s a bit of fluff about how they perform in battle, a paragraph about the attack on the Black Library (the Eldar one, not the publisher :))… Read more »
Thanks for the review. These digital shorts look like something that would be good to pick up as a collection for a reduced price further down the line. Hopefully Black Library do that.
Another way of telling you the exact same fluff you already know in a different format and charging you top coin for it. Nope. No thank you. Another swing and a miss at the plate GW. Didn’t you strike yourself out already? (I watched Moneyball last nite)
You may know it, but to a fresh 40k player it might be something new and shiny.
Nice, stuff that should have been in the Codex up for grabs for cash! Awesome!