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Title:
The Redoubt
Series: Warhammer 40K: Astra
Militarum
Author: John Sollitto
Rating:
3 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages:
18
Words: 6K
Publish: 2025
This
short story was about some of the Astra Militarum on some contested
world fighting the Tau and their human allies with no reinforcements
coming.
It is short, brutal and you know at the end, ultimately futile, since there are no reinforcements on their way. We follow Captain Mazzon as he attempts to hold out at a Redoubt (hence the name of the story) against the Tau war machine. He knows it is futile, that it would be better to fade away and carry out a guerrilla warfare style fight, but he has his orders. So they fight.
A lot of the short stories/novellas in this Death and Duty anthology have been published before and hence have their own covers and everything. This story was written just for this anthology and so there is no entry at Devilreads nor is there an official cover for it. That set me down the path of making my own cover for it. I used the logo of the Astra Militarum and then used the Bleeding Cowboy font to write in the title and the author. It looked rather plain, and gave zero info that it was in the Warhammer 40K universe, so I added that little subtitle There was still a lot of black space at the bottom and I realized that in 10 years, I might not remember this was in the “Death and Duty” anthology, so I added that to the cover as well. Then I decided I’d done enough and that was that. Now, the bleeding cowboy font isn’t the easiest to read and it really doesn’t fit into the WH40K universe but I think it looks cool. I did consider trying some sort of blocky, chunky font to give it the same aspect I imagine the people in the Astra Militarum all have, but that wouldn’t have looked as cool, so I didn’t. I know there are a couple of more original short stories in the Death and Duty anthology, so maybe with those I’ll try some other font.
★★★☆☆
From the Publisher:
There is nothing from the publisher because Black Libary is a scumbag filled company with lazy, no-good, greedy money grubbers who have sold their souls to chaos and eat babies for breakfast.
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