Best novellas about Warhammer

**TheRomanRuler** · December 09, 2015, 07:16 PM

What are best books (novellas) about Warhammer frim same era as this game? Preferably something that focuses on orcs

**panzerschreck** · December 10, 2015, 08:49 AM

Originally Posted by TheRomanRuler

What are best books (novellas) about Warhammer frim same era as this game? Preferably something that focuses on orcs

Skarsnik and the reiksguard/ call to arms/ iron compagny (empire)

**Red Dox** · December 10, 2015, 11:25 AM

Skarsnik
http://www.amazon.com/Skarsnik-Warha...words=skarsnik

Felix & Gotrek omnibus (Skavenslayer is da bomb)
http://www.amazon.com/Gotrek-Felix-F...lix+%26+gotrek

Drachenfels
http://www.amazon.com/Drachenfels-A-...QQF6XMJZXY0V26

Beasts in velvet
http://www.amazon.com/Beasts-Velvet-...east+in+velvet

Headtaker (if you want crazy Skaven protagonists)
http://www.amazon.com/Headtaker-Warh...ords=headtaker

-----Red Dox

**SPARTAN VI** · December 10, 2015, 12:46 PM

Ditto on Felix and Gotrek. They encounter/battle pretty much everything in the Old World, with extra attention given to Skaven. It's been a long time since I've read it (maybe 10 years), but by Skavenslayer, Gotrek & Felix encounter one of their primary nemeses, a Skaven "Grey Seer," Thanquol. There are many many chapters from Grey Seer Thanquol's perspective, which provide great insight on Skaven culture, technology, and warfare.

**IronBrig4** · December 10, 2015, 02:30 PM

Gotrek and Felix is awesome. Gotrek is continually robbed of his mighty doom!

**Hitai de Bodemloze** · December 10, 2015, 03:48 PM

Riders of the Dead was always my favourite, although I didn't read much Fantasy. Warhammer or not, it was a really captivating and intelligent story. There was an accompanying short story called Shyi-zar which came out in a mini-book bundled with a White Dwarf years ago, which was also really cool. Not about Orcs, but those are the stories I rate most highly.

**TheRomanRuler** · December 11, 2015, 06:15 AM

Thanks everbody, would +rep but can't do it with this version of tapatalk

**~~Blastoise Groudon~~** · December 11, 2015, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by Hitai de Bodemloze

Riders of the Dead was always my favourite, although I didn't read much Fantasy. Warhammer or not, it was a really captivating and intelligent story. There was an accompanying short story called Shyi-zar which came out in a mini-book bundled with a White Dwarf years ago, which was also really cool. Not about Orcs, but those are the stories I rate most highly.

I just got it in the mail today and I already started to like it. It seems like a very well organized novel.

**August** · December 14, 2015, 04:01 PM

If you want to travel all around the Warhammer world, Gotrek and Felix series does that. Huge number of books, varying in quality.
Ulrika the Vampire trilogy was surprisingly interesting, though with a clumsy finale.

I can't think of anything about Orks specifically, nothing good anyway.
The best stuff on Orks is in the older Armybooks, in my humble opinion. Orks just don't lend themselves well to a compelling novel. They are always better in the bite-sized lore snippets.

**Shlazaor** · December 15, 2015, 11:24 PM

I am largely unimpressed with Warhammer novels. The Mark of Chaos is one of the worst books I have ever read in the fantasy genre. That being said the Blackhearts series is a hidden gem in the rough of mediocre Warhammer novels. I also quite enjoyed the Gotrek & Felix books. The first couple of books because they really portrayed the sense of being an adventurer in a vast gritty world and the later books because of a strong cast of supporting characters. Between the two I'd recommend Blackhearts as the superior work but Gotrek and Felix is more famous and has many more books in the series.

**alex33** · December 16, 2015, 12:00 PM

the sundering is great!

**Abaddon2488** · December 18, 2015, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by Shlazaor

I am largely unimpressed with Warhammer novels. The Mark of Chaos is one of the worst books I have ever read in the fantasy genre. That being said the Blackhearts series is a hidden gem in the rough of mediocre Warhammer novels. I also quite enjoyed the Gotrek & Felix books. The first couple of books because they really portrayed the sense of being an adventurer in a vast gritty world and the later books because of a strong cast of supporting characters. Between the two I'd recommend Blackhearts as the superior work but Gotrek and Felix is more famous and has many more books in the series.

It's not surprising that you didn't think Mark of Chaos wasn't that good, it was based off of the story for the rts/rtt game Warhammer: Mark of Chaos. Adaptations of games into books are rarely good, just see the Dawn of War books by C.S. Goto. Gotrek and Felix are really where it's at but I would like to pick up the Vampire Wars series it looks pretty interesting.