Animus Malorum (eBook Review)

As with the last book review this is posted in full on http://thefoundingfields.com/ and this is simply a preview. If you want to see it in full then please follow the link through to there.

Since Rob Sanders’ penned the book largely focusing upon the Excoriators, a constant criticism of Legion of the Damned is that the titular chapter was not the core focus. They did not have a speaking role, did not directly interact with the characters beyond haunting and occasionally helping the protagonist and only appeared in force at the end. This short story seems like an effort to address those criticisms, but it only ends up proving just why giving the Legion such a prominent role is wrong.

Fighting on an unnamed world, the warriors of an unnamed chapter fight to hold swarms of orks at bay as they make a last stand upon the planet. Falling one by one, Captain Erices orders Techmarine Marco to detonate multiple charges beneath them and find some form of phyrric victory. Before he can, pale skinned warriors with skeletal iconography claiming to be of the Legion arrive and combat the orks. However, the defence of the Emperor’s world is not all that has brought the Legion there…