gregorgross reviewed Damocles (Anthology) by Ben Counter (Space Marine Battles)
For fans!
3 stars
I don't know the reasons anymore why I chose this book. We bought it when my son was painting Warhammer alot. He is reading a quite alot and recommended one of his Warhammer books. Yet he moved out so I never figured which one he meant (and this one actually looked unread, I have to admit).
This book contains four short stories about Space Marines defending a certain planet that the Tau (Xenos) want to conquer even if they supposedly want to free it. So the books cover the entire campaign.
But Space Marines books are, of course, about Space Marines battles and fights, so these books are full of that: descriptions of weapons use and fighting and lots of gore.
I personally found this not always amusing, actually, and favored two of these stories:
Black Leviathan by Ben Counter: because it is a deep espionage …
I don't know the reasons anymore why I chose this book. We bought it when my son was painting Warhammer alot. He is reading a quite alot and recommended one of his Warhammer books. Yet he moved out so I never figured which one he meant (and this one actually looked unread, I have to admit).
This book contains four short stories about Space Marines defending a certain planet that the Tau (Xenos) want to conquer even if they supposedly want to free it. So the books cover the entire campaign.
But Space Marines books are, of course, about Space Marines battles and fights, so these books are full of that: descriptions of weapons use and fighting and lots of gore.
I personally found this not always amusing, actually, and favored two of these stories:
Black Leviathan by Ben Counter: because it is a deep espionage and counterintelligence story and it also shows that the Tau are not as good as they claim to be.
Hunter's Snare by Josch Reynolds: which then tells us of a hunt to bring the Tau leader of the operationale theatre to dead. In the end, it turns out, the entire universe is about war, which will never end, I think.
But in any case, the two other short stories were not bad. I just favored those ones, but anyone else might favor others.
So if you like Space Marines or the entire Warhammer setting, go ahead. In these short stories you also get to see the world from the eyes of the Tau, which I have heard is unheard of in Warhammer books?