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When Damnos is hit by cataclysmic earthquakes, an ancient force is awakened. Deep beneath the earth, the necrons rise from their slumber to decimate the human populace. All appears lost until salvation comes from the heavens – the Ultramarines brave an orbital bombardment to deploy their forces on Damnos, led by two legendary warriors – Captain Cato Sicarius and Chief Librarian Tigurius.
They are the planet's last, great hope against the remorseless alien foes, but tensions within their ranks threaten to derail victory. As battle rages on Damnos, and the Ultramarines seek to defeat their soulless enemies, Tigurius receives a terrible vision – a vision telling of the death of a hero...
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Nick Kyme is an editor at the Black Library and formerly at White Dwarf Magazine. He has launched a successful career as an author of 40K and fantasy novels, including the Salamander Space Marine series. He lives and works in Nottingham, UK.
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The butchering of another 40K saga, April 16 2011
By BFL Fan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Fall of Damnos (Paperback)
I've been a 40K enthusiast for about 5 years now - I have four armies in various stages of completion, more copies of White Darf than I know what to do with, and of course a respectable library of 40K (and some WH Fantasy) novels. I find the backstory to the 40K universe fascinating, but I can count on one hand - with fingers to spare - the number of Black Library authors that do it any justice. And no, Nick Kyme isn't one of them.Mr. Kyme made great pains to base the second company in this book on the diagram of them in the current Space Marine codex that shows them broken into their various squads, with squad names and different weapons and whatnot. So Sergeant Fenion of the "Immortals" has a boltgun and chainsword, and the squad is famed for not having had a single casualty, just like it says in the little blurb in the diagram.
And that, my friends, is about as "fleshed out" as they get. The Ultramarine characters are superficial, interchangeable, and ultimately forgetable. The closest exception would be Sicarius, upon whom a gratuitous amount of drama is placed over his supposed arrogance as mentioned in the SM codex. The two most interesting characters of the book are, in fact, normal humans, and their development in the story is inexplicably truncated...
...as is the main storyline itself.
The Damnos campaign is mentioned here and there in the various 40K gaming suppliments, and those who've read them know that its conclusion is marked by a couple of noteworthy events. Not only does this book not touch on those events - even peripherally - it ends so abruptly that it makes you wonder if Mr. Kyme had run over his deadline.
It might have a larger book format and a neat-o color insert in the book, but it's just typical Black Library dreck in a novel package.
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One of the worst, so far..., Mar 16 2012
By JPS - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Fall of Damnos (Paperback)
First posted on amazon.co.uk on 29 May 2011I was eager to read more about the Necrons after reading Steve Lyons take on them, and having them face the Ultramarines. I can only say that this book is a complete disappointment: it's a caricature from beginning to end and full of cardboard characters. It's also rather poorly written, with the Necron lords thinking of nothing else than extermination and betraying each other, despite being supposedly so advanced, the Ultramarines talking in slogans and the humans feeling permanently doomed.
In addition, the whole plot is somewhat unrealistic: here is a mining world with tens of thousands of Imperial Guard soldiers that get cut to pieces by huge and unrelenting forces of Necrons that a single Company of Ultramarines (about 110) manage to stop and defeat!
Finally, even the end is somewhat lame: the Necrons are pushed back, but still a threat, so that there is no real victory for the Ultramarines and the planet is still infested with them. The Ultramarine captain is still alive and kicking, although he should have been killed half a dozen times. It is difficult to even understand what was the whole point of the campaign, apart from "glory", since the planet was already mostly lost when they arrived and they clearly were too few Space Marines to retake it...
It just didn't make sense to me - rather unrealistic...
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Fall of Damnos, Feb 7 2012
By Will Reeves - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Fall of Damnos (Paperback)
I was not impressed with the book. It certainly has your average battle scenes and some brief attempts to build on the characters but it is for the most part not very gripping and while well written it lacks any real story. I often felt like the book was written as a sort of first/third person battle report from a table top WH40K campaign. So much more could have been done with the story, the characters, and the ending. The Marines are somewhat bland, the humans are copies of each other, and the Necrons are strangely enough the most developed characters. They don't even get much page coverage but there is more character development and perhaps story in those few pages than in the bulk of the Marine sections. It was also written to give a chance for a second novel. The book rates above abysmal but less than mediocre.
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