Skitarius: Warhammer 40,000

Adeptus Mechanicus, Book 1

By: Rob Sanders

Narrated by: Toby Longworth

The skitarii are the soldiers of the Machine God, the tireless legions of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Holy warriors, they carry the word of the Omnissiah across the galaxy, destroying the impure machines of aliens and renegades and spearheading the Quest for Knowledge.

A discovery of ancient technology sends a skitarii legion, commanded by Alpha Primus Haldron-44 Stroika, into battle on a forge world overrun by Chaos. When a cataclysm cuts him off from his tech-priest overseers, Stroika must rally his forces and battle both corrupt machines and Chaos Space Marines if he is to achieve victory.

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storyline not on par with the excellent narrator

As far as Warhammer 40k stories go, this just did'nt live up to my expectations. As always, Toby Longworths narration was top notch, but I found myself hardly listening as the first book drew to a close. Hopefully the second book in the series will be better.

Ad Mech!

It’s a good book. Not a lot of lore as I hoped, but overall it’s a good book

A truly epic story!

An absolutely epic story! If you like Ad Mech, do yourself a favor and give this a listen.

Good

Greatly enjoyed, listened through to the end during my shift. Looking forward to book 2.

Interesting but shallow

This is a good read if you are at all interested in the Adeptus Mechanicus, particularly the Skitarii side (shocking I know).

However, if you don't enjoy listening to detailed battle scenes about Radium Rilfe slugs slamming into enemies or how Transonic blades vibrate so fast they can peirce armor, you're not going to enjoy a good 80% of the book.

If you do like detailed battle scenes, this is a very fun read that explores the weird weaponry and tactics of the Skitarii. It also has plenty of the requisite 40k "grim darkness" to it if you need that to enjoy a story.

Overall I enjoyed this book, but I also really enjoy the AdMech as a whole, I think someone listening to this without prior interest in them would find it a bit of a slog.

Toby is great as always though.