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Catachan Devil

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Catachan Devil

By: Justin Woolley
Narrated by: Joe Shire
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An Astra Militarum novel.

Colonel Haskell 'Hell Fist' Aldalon and the Catachan 57th Jungle Fighters arrive on Gondwa VI, a world ravaged by greenskins. The Catachans prepare to go on the offensive, but can they retake a vital outpost when saddled with the barely-trained Trooper Torvin—the last survivor of the Skadi Second Infantry?

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Get up close and personal with the ruthless Catachan Jungle Fighters as they prepare to give up everything in order to claim victory.

The story:

When Colonel Haskell 'Hell Fist' Aldalon and the Catachan 57th Jungle Fighters arrive on the quagmire world of Gondwa VI, they find it locked in the grip of an ever-growing greenskin threat. Rather than shoring up the meagre existing defences, the Catachans elect to go on the offensive and retake the strategically vital Outpost Four. In the process, they are saddled with the sole survivor of the outpost's fall—the barely trained Trooper Torvin, of the Skadi Second Infantry.

As the Astra Militarum clash with savage orks and Colonel Aldalon comes to terms with the cost of victory, Torvin finds himself under suspicion of cowardice by the Jungle Fighters. The young trooper's new comrades may be just as dangerous to him as the xenos marauders...unless, that is, he can pass through this trial by fire and earn the respect of the Catachan Devils.

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Our narrator tried very hard to get a good Waaaaaagh but he just didn't have the deep gutteral fury that you'd expect, perhaps audible should have a few death metal artists record a few waaaghs. Pretty sure they had a voice changer because the deeper voiced characters voices sounded a tinny.
He captured every other voice brilliantly that didn't need a baratone type voice.
Surprised that story wise they didn't really lean into the fact that the catachan are muscle bound and strong beyond normality, it was more subtle in the fact they just go "yep knives out, go chop orks up".

Very nice story

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Light-hearted romp that is more "dark comedy", less "grimdark" (which unfortunately is what I was hoping for).

The narrator performs the Ork characters amazingly which are written by the author absolutely hilariously.

The narration of the lead Catachan character (based on the description and cover art) was a bit of a letdown, as was the writing of his character.

Interestingly the narration of the character starts off fairly solid, but as the story progresses it slowly degrades to a "typical gruff white British male" tone which doesn't really match up.

Similarly, the arcs of the main Catachan character and supporting Militarum character is a bit of a letdown given the Catachan reputation (described even within this story) and come out feeling almost "Disney" in tone, where I would have preferred a much darker / serious storyline for the Catachans. However, in the context of this particular "comedic" story, it's not so bad.

Overall I definitely don't regret the purchase, and genuinely looking forward to seeing more of Nogrok Sneakyguts which was the star of the show for me. That said, I really hope the Catachans get a darker treatment with more depth at some point similar to the amazing "ominbus" sets that entities such as Fabius Bile, Night Lords, Word Bearers, etc have received.






Entertaining in the classic "dark comedy" 40K way

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Possibly my favourite Astramilitarum story since Gaunts ghost!

Follow a group of Catachan jungle fighters as the engage the Orks in gorilla whaaaaggg fare

Perfect for Ork & Astra Militarum Fans alike

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Always good to read about other races points of view other than the imperium of man, it was awesome to read about the ork hierarchy and power struggles.

Good story, great narrator.

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I was a bit sceptical that I'd enjoy this book that much, but I ended up loving it. From a look into the crazed minds of the Rambo's of the 40k universe to the hilarious ork moments.

Very Orky..much WAAAAGH! 10/10

Great book, good voice narration

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Gripping story, well written to hold your interest.
Narrators voice really grows on you and he makes the characters (especially orks ) quite dynamic and with personality.

Recommended for any Guard or Ork fans.

Gripping

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The narration is otherwise fine, but the inconsistent volume makes this hard to listen to

Needs an edit

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Really disappointed in this - the Catachans are a great part of 40K lore, yet this was a struggle to get through. None of the human characters are likable at all, especially the main character. The only saving grace are the Orks. The novel Straken is far more fleshed out and enjoyable for a Catachan based book.
Details says it's narrated by Garerh Armstrong which is wrong.
The volume of the narration is terrible - too quiet at points then suddenly hugely high volume when characters are speaking. The performance is quite poor as well compared to other Black Library readers such as Toby Longworth or Johnathan Keeble.
All in all, not worth the credit spent on it.

Disappointing

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really nice story, I hope there's more about the ghost Orks. not a fan of the VA it sounded like he's reading for a child when you're not a child it just seems condescending.

good introduction to catachan lore

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