Astra Militarum (Legends of the Dark Millennium)

Forgot how much I liked reading about non Astartes! If you enjoyed any of the Gaunt's Ghosts novels this will result in a good read as well...

Great buy.

FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!

Loved reading

In the grim, dark universe of Warhammer 40,000 the Imperial Guard are the ground pounders, the expendable riflemen who go in and do the dirty work while the superhuman Space Marines get all the glory. This is a weird book, a collection of novellas by three authors. Three novellas focus on established IG characters (Commissar Yarrick, Iron Hand Straken and Lord Castellion Creed) while the third is on a new Cadian officer. So with no common writer or characters basically the only thing you can count on is that these will be about the Imperial Guard.The stand out was definitely the opening stories about Yarrick. Yarrick was on the first 'special characters' established for Warhammer 40k and he was paired in eternal combat with the Ork warlord Ghazgul. These stories flesh out their eternal war with Yarrick definitely getting the worse of it. About halfway through it hit me, this is Ahab vs Moby Dick, with Yarrick as the crippled, bitter Ahab never able to get revenge on his foe.The other stories vary from fair to mediocre. They scratch that itch of wanted to read 40k fiction but didn't really stick with me.

It all makes sense

A compilation of stories about some of the main characters of the Imperial Guard/ Astra Militarum: commisar Yarrick, colonel Stracken and general Creed.For those who play Imperial Guard or like the WH40K Universe.