Reddit reviews The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer, Damocles Gulf Edition

Very nice, but the actual imperial documentation on dealing with Orks is somewhat less accurate.

If you can find a copy of The Uplifting Primer (for less than $300) I highly recommend it, it's a hilarious read.

Both of these are great reads:

Imperial Munitorum Manual


The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer, Damocles Gulf Edition

edit: woah I bought these for $13.59 USD when they first came out...

Updated so that it is on imgur just for you soldier. And remember, "Failure to produce this document at a superior officer's request at ANY TIME carries the penalty of death." [Opening page, Uplifting Primer]

You best make sure you have a copy on hand as the next officer may not be so lenient.

It's still on amazon, but v v expensive - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Imperial-Infantrymans-Uplifting-Primer/dp/1844164845

Read the Eisenhorn omnibus, it's good writing, and covers a lot of good material for 40k universe.


Some of the Horus Heresy gets a little fanfictionish, I didn't like a few of them. It really comes down to the quality of the individual writer, some of them are clearly better than others. This goes for all the various books and series set in the universe.


If you want to apreciate the universe check out the online Lexicanum
and a few other web pages. You don't have to read the rulebooks, but they do have a lot of fluff in them. Most of the important stuff can be found online though. There are some really good pure fluff books from GW, like the Imperial Infantryman's uplifting primer

$250 used

> (as evidenced by every single one I've heard referring to the main character as "Captain" instead of "Brother-Captain", and the last one I watched someone called his service studs "rank buttons")

Sounds like they aren't reviewing their necessary documentation. They better do so before the Commissar finds out.

seriously though I am actually pretty excited. THQ has done wonders with the DoW series (even creating one of the best game intro scenes EVAR) and I'm a fan of the God of War/Darksiders gameplay style they are using.

Fire Warrior was fun, but lacked a lot of the polish I had been hoping for (I did however scream "SUCK IT TIN CAN" the first time I got a hold of and used a bolter in that game). The multiplayer was awful too.