Death Or Glory

[Stubber]

After surviving an ambush by Ork ships in deep space and three weeks in a survival pod with his fragrent in all the wrong ways aide Jurgen, Commissar Ciaphas Cain crash lands deep behind enemy lines on the beleaguered world Perlia.
He must overcome Ork assaults, limited supplies and Jurgens distinctive aroma in order to lead what survivors he can find to the safety of Imperial lines...and keep as many bodies between him and the enemy as possible.

I love the Cain series. Easily the funniest books I've read in years.
I'd like to see a more detailed account of the time he charged a Khornite Daemon with only a rusty bayonet and a bottle of holy water.
Or how he found out that Techpriest Felicia's mechandrites are situated at the base of her spine. (A foot note says the subject could have come up in friendly conversation, or not)

[Lord Aulianas Darakathos]

Well, Commissar Cain is tied with the Space Wolves for my favorite series, cause both are hilarious. Sandy Mitchell does a great job.

The 'charging a daemonhost with a rusty bayonet and a vial of holy water' bit may be the next book, in which Cain must survive....

*drumroll*

The 13th Black Crusade *gasp*

Anyway, it's either then, or during a short story in which he encounters the Slaaneshi sorceress for the first time, and there's a daemonhost. I forget if he charges it, and if the quotes specifically says Khornate, but it's one of those two.

Oh, and the uhm... comment... concerning the mechadendrite might have something to do with... 'fraternizing with citizenry.'

[lord marcus]

i love the series and i loved both mentioned footnotes, especially the mechandrite one as his inquisitor girlfriend frowns through her own words....wooo hooo! i just wonder how they got privacy.....

[Stubber]

Originally Posted by Lord Aulianas Darakathos

The 'charging a daemonhost with a rusty bayonet and a vial of holy water' bit may be the next book, in which Cain must survive....

*drumroll*

The 13th Black Crusade *gasp*

The next book? You mean Duty Calls?
He fights the 'Nids.

The position the administratum has taken with Cain is brilliantly funny.
Because he's been presumed dead so often and it takes so much effort to have someone declared alive again they just gave an order stating that no matter what proof exists to the contrary Cain is always assumed to be alive. Resulting in him eventually being the only man in the Imperium to still be on active duty long after being buried with full military honours.

[Lord Aulianas Darakathos]

No, I mean the next book that's coming out. Ho,d on, I'll get the article.

EDIT: Cains Last Stand by Sandy*Mitchell | The Black Library | Bringing the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 to life.

[lord marcus]

Originally Posted by Stubber

The next book? You mean Duty Calls?
He fights the 'Nids.

The position the administratum has taken with Cain is brilliantly funny.
Because he's been presumed dead so often and it takes so much effort to have someone declared alive again they just gave an order stating that no matter what proof exists to the contrary Cain is always assumed to be alive. Resulting in him eventually being the only man in the Imperium to still be on active duty long after being buried with full military honours.

i thought that was such a cool screw up!

[Ion Raptor]

Originally Posted by Lord Aulianas Darakathos

Well, Commissar Cain is tied with the Space Wolves for my favorite series, cause both are hilarious.

So the Space Wolf series is comic too? Never saw that one coming.

[Lord Aulianas Darakathos]

It's not necessarily meant to be 'comic,' but Space Wolves... there's just something about them.

it doesn't help that they're freaking Nordic and are the only 'fun' Marines in a future of Grim Darkness.

That, and when the Rune Priest in Wolf's Honour talks about how Russ punched the Emperor, who punched him back, hard enough to put Russ into a coma for a month.

[Ides]

Leman Russ didn't really have much luck with hitting people, did he? He punched the emperor and got owned. He punched El'Johnson and got owned...

[Lord Erak Grimnar]

Originally Posted by Ides

Leman Russ didn't really have much luck with hitting people, did he? He punched the emperor and got owned. He punched El'Johnson and got owned...

So far no one has beaten the Emporer in a battle so what do you expect. Also the only reason he lost to Lion El'Johnson wsa because Russ was laughing at the foolishness of the whole thing.

Looks like a good book might have to pick it up. I think the whole fought a demon with a rusty bayonet and a bottle of holy water sounds hilarious.

[Stubber]

Originally Posted by Lord Erak Grimnar

Looks like a good book might have to pick it up. I think the whole fought a demon with a rusty bayonet and a bottle of holy water sounds hilarious.

It isn't described in detail. It's just Cain stating some of the crazed things he's accomplished and managed to somehow stay alive, to his own surprise as much as anyone else's.

[Lord Aulianas Darakathos]

As I have said, it is likely explained in Cain's Last Stand. Hopefully, that won't be the last book, given Sandy Mitchell's production of stories at seemingly random points throughout Cain's timeline. I would look forward to another 597th book, and, given Cain's lack of a certain blank in his Perlia retirement, he'll have a few hells, no pun intended, of a time fighting daemons.

[Lord Erak Grimnar]

Originally Posted by Stubber

It isn't described in detail. It's just Cain stating some of the crazed things he's accomplished and managed to somehow stay alive, to his own surprise as much as anyone else's.

I know just a snippet of his character is enough to get me hooked.