Angron: The Red Angel (Warhammer 40,000)

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Like Mike Brooks’ Harrowmaster this book shows just how a legion operates after 10,000 years of conflict - the appeal of the World Eaters to fallen Astartes is made clear, and Guymer also manages to plausibly show how so many of the original frothing maniacs manage to survive to continue the Long War. It was definitely challenging to find avenues to look at that in new and interesting ways, exploring how that rage transforms people differently.

The problem is that, swept up as they are in Angron’s orbit, everyone else in the book feels very similar. David: There are three core Chaos Space Marine characters in Angron: The Red Angel , who each represent different points along the spectrum. So we learn quite a bit about the World eaters and Angron is left to his entry in the Primarchs serie.Equally consumed by Angron’s mere existence, they at least have different ideology to the rest of the cast. I fully admit that I am biased, as Angron and the World Eaters are my favorite primarch and legion respectively. For taste, the best scene in the book is a Heresy-era World Eater realising how Angron has been actively screwing over the Legion for literally millennia.

Chris Forrester’s Wrath of the Lost is an excellent example of how to make rage more than just two-dimensional. The book does both immense justice, and manages to portray the world eaters in fascinating light both from inside the legion through characters such as Kossolax (My personal favorite) and outsiders such as Leidis. A novel that, surprisingly, isnt so much about Angron himself, but more that tragedy that surrounds him, and its impact on the XIIth legion.

He's just rage made manifest, and the narrative makes it abundantly clear that there is no possible redemption for him. David Guymer is a freelance author, PhD in molecular microbiology (which still comes in more handy than you might think), and tabletop warlord based in the Yorkshire East Riding. There are some great individual scenes and storylines here, but as a whole I think it lacked a cohesiveness across the various plots to really drive the story forward. Given that his name is in the title, you would expect him to be more prominent, and while he is central to the story, he is not the focus.