For someone who's halfway through the Horus Heresy, a few of the stories were spoilers-lite, but nothing egregious.

The first story `The Skull Harvest' by Graham McNeill, sees the Iron Warriors Warsmith Honsou and his men compete in a tournament for the right to raise an army.

I enjoyed reading these short stories, you know what you are going to get with Warhammer 40,000 novels; lots of bloodshed and action. Die Geschichten sind von unterschiedlicher Länge und Qualität aber ein Kauf lohnt sich definitv für alle die Marines mögen - ob nun die "guten" oder die "bösen". he most heroic battle-brothers in a Space Marine company often form an elite retinue, sworn to fight alongside their Captain. This is very straightforward tale on crimson fists helping imperial guard while on their own mission. Gav Thorpe - Renegades - 3/5 It's avenging sons story - to my knowledge doesn't connect to any previous publish tale.

In my opinion only 3 of the short stories are really worthy of the subject matter, and 2 of them are almost exactly the same. Renegades by Gav Thorpe lacked technical ability and nearly lost me at the beginning, but picked up later on and pulled it out of the hat.

It starts off as your average spess mahreen fluff but as the situation grows dire the space marines slowly crack under pressure and do some heinous things.