Cadia Stands

De: Justin D Hill

Narrado por: David Seddon

An Astra Militarum novel.

The storm has broken, and the forces of Chaos batter against Cadia's defences. Lord Castellan Creed leads the defence of the fortress world, but for how much longer can they hold out. Cadia stands...but will it stand forever?

Listen to It Because:

Justin D Hill follows up his Ursarkar Creed short stories in Legends of the Dark Millennium: Astra Militarum with the tale of the hero's finest - and darkest - hour.

The story:

Under almost constant besiegement by the hosts pouring from the Eye of Terror, Cadia acts as a bulwark against tyranny and death. Its fortresses and armies have held back the hordes of Chaos for centuries, but that grim defiance is about to reach its end.

As Abaddon's Thirteenth Black Crusade batters Cadia's defences, and armies of the Imperium flock to reinforce this crucial world, a terrible ritual long in the making comes to fruition and the delicate balance of this brutal war shifts.

From the darkness, a hero rises to lead the beleaguered defenders, Lord Castellan Ursarkar Creed, but even with the armoured might of the Astra Militarum and the strength of the Adeptus Astartes, will it be enough to avert disaster and prevent the fall of Cadia? While Creed lives, there is hope. While there is breath in the body of a single defender, Cadia stands...but for how much longer?

Written by Justin D Hill. Running time 7hrs 39mins. Narrated by David Seddon.

©2019 Games Workshop Limited (P)2019 Games Workshop Limited

Good, gritty and dark

As the title says. Quite a few surprises throughout. Love the atmosphere built up, the story and the narration.

Good stuff. Cadians are great, and the character writing is pretty compelling.

Good story beats that keep you hooked, even though we know how the story ends on Cadia. Love the character arcs for leaders such as General Gruber (sp?) and others.

Grim and dark, just the way I like it!

The story follows many characters, and juggling them all can be a bit confusing at times, but a fine read/listen for any fan of the Imperial Guard!

A day in the life

Not an over abundance of characters. Easy to follow when listening to the audio.

Great Performance, lackluster story

Maybe it was all the memes that spoiled this for me, but I felt the story leaving a lot to be desired, it was lacking a high amount of detail and backstory that I think other black library content would have spent more time on.

An amazing show of human spirit

The Cadians are honorable soldiers, but the thing that shined most was their humanity

Cadia stands, Even as it falls.

The narration for this book at times felt a little low in tone, and at times a little high in tone. It for the most part was pretty good.
Some of my favorite parts of the book are dealing with the abhumans you encounter in it, ogryn, ratling are in the imperial guard but are very very often overlooked in guard novels, let alone imperial novels as a whole. Just in case anyone from black library were to read this, this is something that needs adjusting.

Now, as for the contents, pace and story of the book itself, it was well done and really makes you feel how hard the cadians and imperial forces as a whole fought for every inch of cadia. Frankly though it seemed to deflate a little as the escape began, with feelings of it being useless all up until the climax, with a hopeful message and the cadians keep marching forward. I highly enjoyed and it did give me some new insight to cadians, who i have always somewhat viewed as overrated, over-represented and not nearly as interesting as most of the other guard regiments they overshadowed.

The planet broke before the Guard did!

An excellent story. It expertly transitions you from view point to view point of a drawn out war. Even those not familiar with the Warhammer 40k Universe could follow the story even if some of the signicance would be lost to them.

Loved the focus on the human characters!

In this world of Space Marines and Deamons. It is good to see a war story like this told from the all too mortal and human perspective of The Imperial Guard.

A good listen

A good listen, I’m not a fan of jumping all over the place with different characters and story lines but it’s understandable considering what is taking place in the story