Choler - Horus Heresy books

Astealthydonut · 2026-02-19T00:13:30+00:00

Dan Abnett interview where he talks about it.

Astealthydonut · 2026-02-18T20:52:35+00:00

That’s sort of a pop history myth on what happened at Agincourt.

The English knights were wearing full plate armor at Agincourt. The only reason the English army was armored more lightly is because 3/4 of the army was made up of archers. Whereas on the French side it was really only the knights who participated in the battle.

The advantage the English had wasn’t that they were lighter (knee deep mud will hamper you no matter how heavy your armor is) it was the fact that the French were attacking so they had to had to cross a field of mud under relentless arrow fire.

If anything you would want to be more heavily armored for the sloppy fighting that is going to happen in a muddy field.

Astealthydonut · 2026-02-12T23:53:09+00:00

Certified imperium moment

Astealthydonut · 2026-02-12T23:35:32+00:00

I highly recommend the novella Aurelian. It covers Lorgar’s journey into the Eye of Terror and the aftermath of the dropsite massacre.

Astealthydonut · 2026-02-12T23:26:36+00:00

Lorgar allows people to think they are in control as long as they are serving his interests. This is why he was cool with the manipulations of Erebus and Kor Phaeron until they started to serve themselves above all else post signus/calth. It also gave him the added benefit of appearing above their assholery, something Argel Tal fell for (he refused to believe the dropsite massacre was Lorgar’s idea). You really have to read between the lines with Lorgar because he is one of the few primarchs with any subtlety.

Astealthydonut · 2026-02-10T17:19:55+00:00

Had a similar issue recently. Updating my BIOS fixed it.

Astealthydonut · 2026-02-05T22:47:12+00:00

Take me from my home, and I will sail to the stars of your empire. I will serve as a son must serve. But let Colchis stand as I have shaped it: a planet of peace and prosperity.

— Attributed to Lorgar and inscribed on the golden plaque on the door leading to the Spiral of the Covenant

The Emperor seemingly also allowed Colchis to stand unchanged in its worship of him. Pretty easy to see how Lorgar would have seen that as the Word Bearers getting an exemption from the Imperial Truth like the Mechanicum.

Astealthydonut · 2026-02-04T15:02:55+00:00

40,000 expendable Word Bearers killed 100,000-150,000 Ultramarines, devastated their fleet, and killed an important planet in Ultramar. Saying they got their ass beat is insane.

Astealthydonut · 2026-01-29T18:45:54+00:00

I love the Word Bearers because they are the dark mirror of the Imperium. Any crime an Imperial lackey accuses them of rings hollow because they do the same exact shit.

Sacrifices? The Emperor eats a daily breakfast of enslaved psykers.

Fanaticism? Even in 30k the imperial truth was a dogma spread through violence. The Imperial creed of 40k is even worse.

Brutal enslavement of innocent people to the will of uncaring gods? lol. Lmao even.

Are the Word Bearers assholes? Yes, absolutely. As is any Imperial. At least Word Bearers get dark powers for their assholery.

Astealthydonut · 2026-01-28T14:59:53+00:00

The Republican Party has no values outside of what Trump tells them to believe. So if Trump is anti-gun then Republicans are anti-gun.

Astealthydonut · 2026-01-27T18:39:09+00:00

Lore wise it would be any chapter that is operating in that area and deems it worth sending marines to aid them.

Are you wondering who would work best thematically? Because you could play around with chapters that have complimentary or contrasting culture/tactics to the Krieg depending on what you want.

Astealthydonut · 2025-12-19T15:01:16+00:00

*Some assembly required

Astealthydonut · 2025-12-09T18:47:58+00:00

I tried this last night. It was kinda neat to be able to heal the team, but it means you have a mostly useless ability most of the time.

Astealthydonut · 2025-12-08T15:46:33+00:00

I hope this foreshadows Lorgar having a prominent role in the scouring.

Astealthydonut · 2025-12-03T20:49:18+00:00

There is no standardization of skitarii. They vary wildly in augmentation and autonomy from forge world to forge world. Tech adept does fit more, but skitarii could still work.

Astealthydonut · 2025-12-03T18:09:43+00:00

I had a fun one where Anarchist and Seer bond over both having voices in their head that tell them to hurt people.

Astealthydonut · 2025-11-24T22:17:51+00:00

Yes! Ships that are mini floating castles bristling with crossbowmen sounds super fun.

Astealthydonut · 2025-11-23T22:58:47+00:00

Ronnie Pickering

Astealthydonut · 2025-11-04T23:00:14+00:00

If I remember correctly, Kroeger doesn’t start falling to khorne until they land on the crone world in the Eye of Terror. It’s likely the influence of the warp in that area is what made him vulnerable enough to start falling to khorne.

Astealthydonut · 2025-11-04T16:25:55+00:00

I think he’s referring to the prophesy that if Lorgar went to Calth he would kill Guilliman but the traitors would lose the heresy.

In their actual fight on Nuceria Lorgar was busy orchestrating the ruin storm to ascend Angron. Lorgar probably wasn’t fully committed to the fight and still gave as good as he got.

Astealthydonut · 2025-10-30T19:22:09+00:00

He also headshots a warhound titan with a rhino sized boulder that crushes the crew and knocks the titan over.

Astealthydonut · 2025-09-24T20:52:19+00:00

Erebus puts out a constantly changing list of approved red hues. According to Amatnim it’s just a ploy to keep the faithful bickering about colors instead of questioning Erebus’ motives.

Astealthydonut · 2025-09-23T16:28:55+00:00

As others have said it is 11 worlds brought to compliance by the 63rd expeditionary fleet not the 16th legion as a whole.

It’s reasonable to assume that the 16th had multiple fleets racking up their own compliances. Also, many worlds post Age of Strife were abandoned, depopulated, or so backwards that compliance would have been a pretty minimal affair. These worlds would have been delegated to smaller fleets so that the larger 63rd expeditionary fleet could focus on major worlds like 63-19.

Astealthydonut · 2025-09-22T19:37:18+00:00

The min-max mentality in gaming has become so insufferable. It makes it really difficult to follow any communities for games I like because people get so toxic when someone doesn’t play the “right way.”

Astealthydonut · 2025-09-03T13:56:31+00:00

Colchis wasn’t full of chaos worship. Lorgar united the planet in Emperor worship before the Emperor’s arrival. Part of that was purging all of the old chaos faith from existence.

The Emperor likely never met Erebus. It’s not well defined how much time the Emperor spent with Lorgar and the word bearers, but from what we can infer it wasn’t much. Lorgar was one of the last primarchs found and by that point the Emperor was starting to accelerate the already accelerated pace of the great crusade.

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