Top 5 Warhammer Fantasy Novels

[Evil Hypnotist]

1. Brunner (anthology)
2. Sword of Vengeance
3. Heldenhammer
4 & 5. Malus Darkblade vol. 1 & 2 (anthologies)

The Gotrek and Felix anthologies would come next.

[stormblade]

Is Dead Winter really that good? Would someone mind spoilering it for me?

[shadowhawk2008]

Here's my review of it: http://thefoundingfields.com/2012/04...er-shadowhawk/

[Xisor]

Is Dead Winter really that good? Would someone mind spoilering it for me?

Oddly, there's not a huge amount to spoilerise for it. It's a solid, interesting and well put together book. Lots of characters, all have their own interesting arcs that are treated well, sets up a lot of points for the future and does a terrific bit of world-building and politics-setting.

I worry it's perhaps easy to over-hype it, but it is a damn fine book. Just... really decent.

Whilst reading Temple of the Serpent, I'm amazed I'd forgotten another utterly excellent book: The Burning Shore by Rob Earl. Again, like DW, it's just a relentlessly interesting and well cobbled together book. Lots of stuff in it and very well told.

[eldargal]

1) Bloodborn
2) Bloodforged
3) Razumov's Tomb
4) Skavenslayer
5) Dragonslayer

[Dreadlordpaul]

1) Malekith
2) Shadow King
3) Caledor
4) Nagash the sorceror
5) nagash immortal

[Dryaktylus]

1) Beasts in Velvet
2) Drachenfels
3) Trollslayer

4 and 5... I'm not sure. I'd recommend Gotrek & Felix till Giantslayer and the short stories from Jack Yeovil. I also enjoyed Necromancer and some others, but can't put them in an order.

[joshuaslater]

Zavant is still number one.

[The bearded one]

1. Thanquol's Doom
2. Temple of the Serpent
3. Grey Seer
4. Dead Winter
5. Skavenslayer

I am Thanquol's biggest fan. I absolutely love every adventure that the paranoid, scheming, conniving, treacherous, cowardly, arrogant and self-serving Skaven has. He's met Ikit Claw, Queek Head-Taker, Lord Skrolk and Deathmaster Snikch and survived each one, sometimes barely, and even Gotrek and Felix haven't managed to kill him yet and they never will. Grey Seer was my first exposure to Thanquol and it cemented him as one of my favourite characters, his subsequent adventures in Lustria and Karak Angkul made him one of my favourite fictional characters overall alongside Scorpius (Farscape) and Dean Winchester (Supernatural). Dead Winter makes the list for being a great novel and the first Time of Legends novel I actually cared about enough to get and read. And Skavenslayer is a classic, it shows everything you could need to know about Thanquol and why he fails so often.


SH

I like you.

I've read all of those except dead winter (and I was recently considering picking it up), and they're my absolute favourites. Thanquol is hilariously awesome. The epitome of skaven scheme-yness.

[laudarkul]

1, Riders of the Dead
2. The Ambassador Chronicles
3. Blackhearts Omnibus
4. Guardians of the forest (lots of WE models waiting to be painted)
5. Brunner & Sigmar Anthology

[Jedi152]

I do love the classics, Zavant, Necromancer et al. but a lot of a newer books are lovely too. Knight of the Blazing Sun is good, and the Ulrika trilogy is great.

My favourites of all time are the Blood on the Reik trilogy (Death's Messenger, Death's City and Death's Legacy). Superb reads.

I'd say:

1) Death's Messenger,
2) Death's City,
3) Guardians of the Forest,
4) Death's Legacy,
5) Knight Errant.

Off the top of my head. No doubt i've forgotten some classics.

I'm amazed I'd forgotten another utterly excellent book: The Burning Shore by Rob Earl. Again, like DW, it's just a relentlessly interesting and well cobbled together book. Lots of stuff in it and very well told.

I sort of loved it... The setting is great, it describes Lustria, Lizardmen and the experiences of the men there perfectly, but something about Florin's character jarred with me.

At the start we get the impression he is a layabout rapscallion who has got through life on luck and inherited money. I got the impression he'd be a Blackadder type of character, blagging his way through situations and coming out on top by luck. He blags his way onto a ship to Lustria as an officer and is just randomly really good at it. It's been a while since i read it, but i'm sure he just becomes the best general on the expedition with no training or military expertise.

[Sheena Easton]

After a couple of reads, I have had to change my list, elevating Dead Winter to #3 on my list

At the start we get the impression he is a layabout rapscallion who has got through life on luck and inherited money. I got the impression he'd be a Blackadder type of character, blagging his way through situations and coming out on top by luck. He blags his way onto a ship to Lustria as an officer and is just randomly really good at it. It's been a while since i read it, but i'm sure he just becomes the best general on the expedition with no training or military expertise.

From what I can remember...

He does exactly that