DEATHWING

By William King and Bryan Ansell. All rights reserved, this is a non-profit fan reading.
Read by Adam Nicol

[@dubiousjester475]

love listening to this while painting my dark angels thank you good sir

[@codygriffin8256]

I know this is old...Shame on me. I'm probably in the minority by far but I actually really wish they kept the native American dark angels. I made my own army on the TT native..had to after reading this book back in the day. Love it

[@TheFluffenhammer]

I'm with you 200 percent on that one. It gave them a very different feel.to the majority of Astartes both then and now

[@codygriffin8256]

@@TheFluffenhammer For sure. Excellent job on the audio buddy. It rekindled my love for this old story. I also completely agree with you that it made them incredibly unique. Tragically replaced with generic knights and seeeecrets -___- but hey Cloud Runner lives in through my dark angels lists, paint scheme, and 3rd party NA heads haha. Subscribed my man. Keep up the stellar work.

[@TheFluffenhammer]

@@codygriffin8256 that means the world to me man. I love that people enjoy these. Only 2 more to go from the Deathwing book and that's the entire work up

[@s2korpionic]

I personally set mine to have a hybrid theme of native Americans, Knights of the Round Table and Abrahamic.

[@lay-hannowway8943]

I too started a dark angel army on this premise, gutted when it was changed.

[@cwpv2477]

Awesome, also loved the last church! Glad to find deeper stories like this.

[@TheFluffenhammer]

Glad to be of service! I wish there was more akin to this out there.

[@justokayjames3711]

as a player of the Dark Angels army I extend my thanks to you.

[@TheFluffenhammer]

you are very welcome fellow battle brother!

[@blacktoothfox677]

Aye, man. Seconded, with blessings & mindful of our Emperor, I too, proud from the Order of my Chapter, do express gratitude and appreciation, also on behalf of my beloved Battle Brethren. The Dark Winged Sword shall sear across the xeno-infested quadrant of this galaxy until all heresy, impurities and filth are consumed in the fires of our conquest. Never forgive. Never forget. And you're welcome to check out my meagre channel, guerilla gig podcasts especially... Need the views and subs! All the very best

[@richardvaldes3959]

just discovered your channel today and ive been listening to you all day

[@AZTigerMMA]

Richard Valdes same!

[@blacktoothfox677]

FANtastic. Excellent, thanks so much for providing this! "Thankyou for your service"

[@TheFluffenhammer]

More than welcome squire. I hope you enjoy what else is on the channel as well.

[@blacktoothfox677]

@@TheFluffenhammer I did subscribe, & I shall no doubt leave further comments on other uploads. Bless you sirrah;. Hope all is harmonious in your world 🍀

[@TheFluffenhammer]

@@blacktoothfox677 there is coffee and bacon this morning. All is as it should be.

[@failsc2player]

OMG OMG OMG OMG! First off, good job on your readings of these short stories. And an huge marked improvement in audio quality and reciting since your first works, there were a few issues with reading and editing I noticed in your reading of The Last Church that are not present in this one. I am going to sub to eagerly follow any other works you may cover. Keep up the good work, and always remember: The Emperor Protects!

[@happytravelling]

I not only like this story, but enjoy your reading. Thank you. Subscribed...

[@adamfox1669]

Thank you very much. I was just looking through my old white dwarf magazines and saw the original advertisement for this book(several short stories).

[@TheFluffenhammer]

More than welcome mate! I do love Deathwing much more than is healthy. XD

[@adamfox1669]

Yeah you 1st legion guys are all the same!😁

[@tannmann999]

Very good felt like listening to warrior tier or amber prince keep it up brother very good show

[@TheFluffenhammer]

Thank you for taking the time to comment. I appreciate it a hell of a lot. All things going well, I should be getting more short fiction from long ago up again this year

[@tannmann999]

​@@TheFluffenhammer hell yeah glad to hear it I wait eagerly my friend

[@Orbit12345677]

I just listened to The Last Church again and I was about to request you read Deathwing. Thank you for making my day twice! This was the 1st Warhammer story I ever read. Requesting Unforgiven from the same anthology

[@TheFluffenhammer]

same here man. I blame this story for my years of GW spending....

[@TheFluffenhammer]

I'll read out some Ikea instructions for April 1st. :D

[@killtu2]

One of the best stories I've listened to for 40K

[@TheFluffenhammer]

It's a stone cold classic of a tale

[@killtu2]

@@TheFluffenhammer Wish they kept this lore too. Fits perfectly with how 40K is, and regardless of what modern lore says, to me, this is canon, and I will forever name my Deathwing Marines by names such as these ones in this story. XD

[@TheFluffenhammer]

@killtu2 I do exactly the same, and currently planning out a full Deathwing Chapter in Terminator armour for my next project. I may or may not have Terminators on bikes. XD

[@TheTabletopTalkerz]

I love your readings of 40k shorts.i eagerly await your posts.the last church is your finest, with the Emperor and the warmaster a close second. keep it up!

[@TheFluffenhammer]

at some point, I'm def going to redo Emporer and the Warmaster with my new set up, try to get a better quality of that done. many thanks!

[@maestrolodahl8681]

Emperor and warmaster..from what book? Eye of terra? -and thx for your readings so far :) Last Church was very,very good :)

[@willwharton5813]

Great read and amazing story

[@TheFluffenhammer]

Thanks man! I'm glad you enjoyed!

[@iagree6677]

Them feels at that ending though. Thank you for the upload!

[@TheFluffenhammer]

johnny galt very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed!

[@JacintoDeSousa-bq2wp]

SO GOOD!

[@TheFluffenhammer]

Thank you. This one was an absolute passion project

[@paulellington1505]

Love the Dark Angels so thanks for this

[@TheFluffenhammer]

This is easily my all time favourite Space Marines tale. It's a proper classic

[@flcmaybe]

This was my first foray into listening to this kind of thing. You did not disappoint! Outstanding work dude. Thanks for making my commute a little more awesome

[@TheFluffenhammer]

You are most welcome. I thank you for taking the time to listen, and to make a comment. It really does mean a lot to me. I hope you enjoy the rest if the channel!

[@stormxlr]

As a member of Deathwing, I re-listen to this story to find deeper meanings.

[@elias1579]

Great story!!!

[@TheFluffenhammer]

It's one of my favorites without a doubt

[@jayblack7495]

Goosebumps beneath my ceramite armour? Praise the Emperor! For the Lion!

[@patrickmcabee123]

Great episode..👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@MaskedVengeanceTV]

First of all, excellent, well done. Also really funny to hear a dreadnought complaining about Cold steel corridors.

[@TheFluffenhammer]

I ....had not picked up on that one. :D :D

[@ThroatSore]

Is it me, or would.this gent sound mighty reading out the construction instructions on a flat pack wardrobe? Really brought back memories about the importance of story telling in gaming.

[@TheFluffenhammer]

I'll happily read a flat pack instructions if people want it! :D

[@TheWookiedan]

now then.... bloody marvelous!

[@svenneumann2816]

This is amazing, also how the hell did the dreadnought manage to be cute and wholesome?

[@TheFluffenhammer]

All Dreadnoughts are wonderful cat lovers. You just have to get through the murderous firepower

[@TheCorrodedMan]

Ah,I can feel the warp trembling with happiness

[@ClipCoyote]

Great story with very deep lore! Makes me want to try a Warhammer game! Any good games on the fantasy end? The pre-tech, vampire / demon slaying genre. If not I'll role play Witcher 3 when I can.

[@TheFluffenhammer]

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is the mutts nuts mate.

[@ClipCoyote]

@@TheFluffenhammer I'll check it out! That universe is rich with lore!

[@vladimirseesyouwatchyourba8928]

I want deathwing but im ultramarines Edit: is this your voice? It’s awesome

[@Marcoffs83]

I wonder why this video remains in the years while other audiobooks always get removed after a while:\

[@TheFluffenhammer]

I'd guess because it's fallen out of lore and not been in print since around 2000(I think it was originally written about 1988 or so)

[@HighlanderFrag4Life]

that is right and proper reading

[@knot8676]

Does Adam Nicol have his own channel? I can't seem to find it. Plz help. I need more.

[@TheFluffenhammer]

Hey fella. The only other channel I do at the moment is the Riveted Sounds channel

[@Marcoffs83]

this is epic.

[@GiveBlood555]

very well done

[@RichardBRiddick-n7x]

Brilliant

[@TheFluffenhammer]

Many thanks mate!

[@adamharrison5173]

i love the names in this looool

[@TheFluffenhammer]

The 80s were....an interesting time

[@themaraca]

there was once a book about scouts in a tyranid ship. can't find it anywhere. must have been from the late 90s. anyone remember it?

[@TheFluffenhammer]

craig beverley i remember it being in White Dwarf..

[@themaraca]

Adam Nicol, it was yes. brilliant read. after an absence of maybe 20 years from 40k, I'm back into it. I still remember the black and white drawings and Adrian being an Ork. This is how I remember the deathwing though, cloud runner and lame bear. almost like they were recruited from native americans. Nice audio book.

[@happytravelling]

There are a couple. Do you mean the one where the scouts are scavenging in a tyranid ship and find a battle brother in the ship? Or where scouts board a ship not knowing it is a tyranid ship? Or where scouts board a ship that has prisoners waiting for brain sucking and save some of them and leave behind a big bomb?

[@joecarpenter1550]

I believe both of those stories are contained in a book called Let The Galaxy Burn. Its a collection of some of the best 40K stories I've read. Two of my favorite being The Black Pearl and Defixio.

[@TheFluffenhammer]

craig beverley I may have found it... at long last

[@pandagod6541]

Bloody Moon is my favorite story teller

[@urielsedd7899]

The Deathwing are one of my things about the dark angels (Deathwing Knights look awesome)

[@AZTigerMMA]

They feel like rough biker gangs rules and honor

[@lucaswilkinson6441]

I've painted models and resd a couple books, I'm drawn to dark angels for some reason. 40k fluff is awesome

[@TheFluffenhammer]

The Dark Angels are a great chapter. More mysteries than questions and less answers than truths. Noble as the night is long, but just as dark and hidden

[@lucaswilkinson6441]

@@TheFluffenhammer i just need some terminator armor in my life lol

[@TheFluffenhammer]

@@lucaswilkinson6441 it would make catching a bus so much more interesting. :D

[@MmmChipotle]

PURGE, BROTHERS! CLEANSE THE XENOS WITH HOLY FIRE!

[@danielhouse897]

Love the story but i cant hear it very well. Slightly louder would be nice

[@boomstix]

I am extremely confused,is deathwing a chapter here? Coz they don't look or sound like first company dark angels,even in lore I look into it they weren't once plains indians

[@TheFluffenhammer]

These are what the Dark Angels were back in the days of Rogue Trader. It wasn't until the 93 release (second ed(ish)) that they become the space monk chapter we know and watch for heresy for today

[@SteveCave]

Your recording is great, but what the hell with this story - 200 year old space Marines complaining about old age? Whining about how they'll die of old age soon, and that they're tired?! I had no idea that Deathwing Marines were so lame and pathetic. But your reading is awesome! Keep it up!

[@TheFluffenhammer]

This is oolllllddddd stuff. This is way back when before the Marines got super-duper-ubermenchsed. No Fallen in this lot. :D Thanks man. It means the world to me that people enjoy these.

[@khornebezerker7251]

Awesome ending

[@TheFluffenhammer]

Many thanks fella!

[@sir-meatsheild]

The original lore the original story. ave imperator.

[@axemurderer010]

wow i didnt know they were native american themed. what on earth were they thinking changing them to knights , why not both lol ? smh, i understand the feathers on them now anyways lol i love finding out the old ways of 40k,. so why did the armor change from black to green? i was told it was an artists mistake & they just kept it lol .

[@s2korpionic]

"so why did the armor change from black to green?" I believe this was in response to them disassociating themselves from their old legion identity, which was compromised on the loyalty front. " what on earth were they thinking changing them to knights , why not both lol ?" In my head canon they're a hybrid of both cultures, you should do so to if you want it. There's also the heavy abrahamic naming style the Dark Angel heroes have to consider.

[@konamanstudio2447]

😆🍻🍺😊

[@108stitches1]

cover looks a lot like a hydralisk

[@TheFluffenhammer]

108stitches1 Blizzard very much were looking at Genestealers and Tyranids when creating Starcraft. which were in turn nicked from Aliens. :D

[@TheEyez187]

I didn't enjoy this. Don't get me wrong, it's very well read, it's just the story itself, IDK it just didn't grab me!

[@TheFluffenhammer]

It's a old one, and written in something of a archaic style, I can certainly understand why it isn't a lot of peoples cup of tea

[@TheEyez187]

@@TheFluffenhammer I think it's Ansell's writing that doesn't jive with me. I've enjoyed Kings other stories! Also, I didn't realize you'd narrated so many yourself, I knew of a couple, but I've listened to and thoroughly enjoyed three more since last night and about to start on the fourth: Seed of Doubt! Many thanks for keeping me entertained! Are you still narrating, I haven't actually checked? :D

[@TheFluffenhammer]

@@TheEyez187 when time allows, oh yes. I do hope to get to the last short story from Deathwing to round it out by the end of the year. Fingers be crossed!

[@TheEyez187]

@@TheFluffenhammer In that case, I shall subscribe and eagerly (but patiently) await further of your works. I know what you mean about time. Why is it that so often, life gets in the way of life!? :D

[@ratherbewargaming3753]

Azrael is pleased