I can agree with you there. Several time in the books i've read something and gone "wtf? that's not possible/right".
The thing I dislike the most of the books is the vast generalisation when it comes to the forces involved - Captain Garro only seems to actively command three squads including his own, despite a captain back then easily being in command of 200+ marines, the other squads are never even named.
In all the books there have been silly things like:
huge massive battle going on so its fair enough that the writer focuses on one unit, but they do it to the extent that you forget its a big battle with thousands of marines and troopers, making it loose all sense of scale.
Galaxy In Flames is the best so far IMHO (not surprising, I love Ben Counters stuff, always seems more real than anyone else's), although I have a copy of Fulgrim sat on my bookself still unread (its taken me longer than expected to get through The Last Chancers - and I've got Armour of Contempt to read as well). |