Angron: Slave of Nuceria: Slave of Nuceria (Volume 11) (The Horus Heresy: Primarchs)

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And as that's going on, youve got the World Eaters split in those that desire the nails to be like their father, and those who fear what the nails will do to the legion.

As the story is set so soon after their re-naming, there are many among their number who still remember their traditions and creeds.What empire has ever been anything more than the ruins that are discovered by the one that rises after it? United with the War Hounds – now renamed the World Eaters – the gladiator Angron gives his sons an ultimatum that will change their very nature, and their destiny. However, there should have been better ways to balance out a good mix of character development and action without letting the latter eclipse the former for one-third of the work.

Another notable problem stems from a few logical issues and quirks within the timeline, especially in relation to Angron.You've seen the immediate aftermath of Angron's recruitment into the Imperium in the short story 'After Desh'ea' – now Ian St. Angron decides to kick his father Emperor into pulp and undo his work at first opportunity - which remained in domain of theory until finally Horus decided to provide Angron with the vent. I was therefore very much looking forward to another book that delves into Angron’s past and also his impact on the World Eaters. For example, he's already treating the Devourers as an unwanted addition, despite supposedly appreciated by him at first. Not expecting the bombardment, the better part of a Chapter fighting alongside Angron had been incinerated in moments.

The World Eaters have been trying to replicate the Butcher’s Nails and implant them into a Legionnaire. The tragic tale of Angron, and the tragic first step of the World Eaters down the road to damnation. The rebel planet is home to a threat that you just don't see too often in these stories, and seeing the space Marines struggle against them creates one of the more memorable battle scenes. And even the tiniest glimpse on the slave of Nuceria, before he became the Eater of Cities, of Worlds.Anyone who always assumed Angron is little more then a drooling maniac will really be surprised when reading this book. Plus, this leads to one of my favourite visual displays of them taking hold that I have seen to date, where the page itself runs red with blood over the descriptions. To Angron, the transhuman warriors under his command are so weak and worthless compared to the ordinary men and women whose resilience and bravery he’d so often witnessed – those who had fought beside him, bringing terrible retribution upon their oppressors, before the Primarch was snatched from them by a distant entity that denied the only true future both to himself and those he had suffered and fought with.

This book gives a glimpse into Angrons past, showing how he was before the nails poisoned his mind: Kind, calm, and it seems he might have even had some latent psychic abillities.

Angron somehow makes them even worse at battle, with decimation being his go-to form of course correction. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Many characters from that book show up with little true introduction, such as Lhorke and Delvarus, but they are just there.