Wrath of Iron

Space Marine Battles

De: Chris Wraight

Narrado por: Andrew Wincott

A Space Marine Battles Audiobook

As foul daemonic hordes swarm into the sub-sector, the Space Marines of the Iron Hands Chapter bring furious retribution to the Slaanesh-worshipping citizens of Contqual.

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The Iron Hands face one of their oldest foes as the forces of Chaos infest a hive world. With surprising links back to the Horus Heresy and the death of Ferrus Manus, this is a defining tale for the sons of the Gorgon.

THE STORY

After months spent in the service of the Chaos god Slaanesh, the ruling classes of the Contqual sub-sector have finally brought true damnation upon their people – innumerable hordes of foul and lascivious daemons swarm from a tear in the fabric of reality to embrace their mortal pawns and drive them on to ever more depraved acts of worship. It falls to the merciless Space Marines of the Iron Hands Chapter to cleanse these worlds of the warp's unholy taint, and it is upon the surface of Shardenus that the fate of a billion lost souls will be decided.

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Grim Dark in all the right ways

Good look at the Iron Hands chapter and the inhumanity of space marines - engaging characters that show the imperium (along with everyone else) aren’t the good guys

Not your typical space marines

I'd heard about Iron Hands and thought they were cool, but this book made me love them in all their intractable glory. They are such a unique Chapter in how they go about things and behavior. The performance matches the story, narrator does a great job voicing these warriors of metal.

Wraight knocks it out of the park!

Chris Wraight is given the un-enviable task of writing up one of the few Iron Hands Centric books, and for my money, he does a fantastic job, as he does with all of his other books written for the Black Library. Andrew Wincott as usual gives a great performance, and while it's not the highs he achieved in the Night Lord's Trilogy, it's perfectly fine for this story and carries the characters well throughout the events portrayed. As for the Iron Hands themselves, Holy Emperor, other than the Marines Malevolent chapter, I've never liked a loyalist Space Marine Faction less! They're actively detrimental to their own goals and through their augmetic-obsessed body dysmorphia, their genetic anger/shame/guilt issues, and their poor-to-nonexistent communication skills leads to very nearly costing them the entire campaign and hundreds of thousands of Guard and innocent lives. The fact that they pull things off IN SPITE of their massive issues does say something for them, but that's not a high bar to clear given their other various glaring issues. Ferris Manus would be so disappointed with how far his sons have fallen from grace... I'm not saying I want Chaos to win, but given how the Iron Hands treat humanity and refuse to face their own issues, I DO want the Iron Hands to lose. Great story overall, and it is the best showing for the modern Iron Hands bar none. My biggest regret in this book is that the Iron Hands aren't smart enough to realize what a joke they are compared to what they were and could have been, and my second biggest regret is that the only long-term consequences of their self-defeating actions that they've faced to my knowledge in their history is losing Ferrus.

TLDR; GREAT story, Terrible legion.

The flesh is weak….

The author makes the story an amazing experience with their perfect inflections on words. If you want to see the Iron Hands legion in its full glory, check this one out. It is an amazing insight into hive cities and the mindset of the Iron Hands.

Space Marines aren't Good Guys

This is one of my favorite Space Marine books. Its oozing in Grimdark and a Brutal reminder that Space Marines are monsters that humans created to fight the other monsters of the galaxy.

This is also the book that got me interested in the Iron Hands. it was refreshing to see Space Marines as Soldiers. Warfare is a job. there was no chivalry, no heroics, no saviours, no glory seeking, no sneaking around, no thrill of the fight, and no boy scouts. They're just brutally effective soldiers with a job to do.

decent.

overall it was alright. I guess the author got lazy at the end though and decided to hand wave away any conflict between the admech and iron hands. That part was weird. Narrator was pretty good.

I dislike the iron hands but this novel is great

While I dislike the iron hands chapter the author makes this novel enjoyable and interesting

Grim Derpness

Chris Wraight is becoming predictable. Every thing the Iron Hands are doing amount to stupid levels of obtuse behavior. Both from a strategic and tactical point of view. At what point do these characters use logic? Sigh. Grim is one thing. But the natural setting is grim enough. Adding more artificially doesn’t add anything but redundancy and ridicule.

Meh

The book was truly boring. They hint at EC in the book but they are just so generic They randomly put in a footnote that the bad guy could have been a famous Captain of the Emperors children but leave out everything else. The story develops characters that never actually do anything except for complain and hide. The biggest enemy in the book is self doubt.

Quality grimdark

Old school grimdark 40k where the galaxy is nightmarish and there are no "good guys."