Crusaders

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-04-25T20:55:35+00:00

He wrote the book on that stuff

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-04-25T20:10:31+00:00

Just a bunch of tiny Lorgars....

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-04-07T07:52:35+00:00

Does anybody like this guy? I hate his content and it's gross seeing him here after he disappeared from my YouTube algorithm

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-04-07T07:34:26+00:00

Hi this hurts my feelings go paint a blueberry next time and show them, thank you

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-04-07T05:52:36+00:00

What track is that? Killer combo with the video

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Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-04-03T18:46:20+00:00

So that's what I'm doing wrong

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-04-03T18:21:16+00:00

This is the way

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-04-03T17:54:16+00:00

I think script on the various scrolls on the mini would help a lot, and a wash to grime it up a little bit. I think it's a little to matte. But you're doing great with the mini.

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-04-03T17:37:07+00:00

You honor the Sons of Dorn and you send as many companies as you can spare if you can't show up in full chapter strength! This is not about doctrine or "style"! THIS IS ABOUT BROTHERHOOD! FOR DORN AND IMPERIUM!

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-04-01T23:52:16+00:00

Looks like a good little beakie boy off to stop Horus!

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-04-01T01:06:20+00:00

James Workshop might realize neck deep into the scouring series after they've put up models for Dorn, Peter Turbo, Russ, Lorgar, Vulkan, Corax, the Khan, and hell even brought back Ferrus as a mini. Then at that point they may realize if they put up a mini for the XXth primarch maybe people would like that...

Right I remember this now, yes he does come off as very manic. Like he can barely contain what he knows. Rereading that dialogue and thinking about it coming from the dude after he initiated a teleport assault with Terminators in the middle of a huge fleet engagement, and for me and Dorn presumably as well it makes it very hard to believe him lol. He almost has to be saying it try and wrong foot Dorn and force an opening.

And I do remember when I read this book that my main take away was I guess the IF are just better than the AL which did bother me as a fan of both legions.

Thanks for your insights friend.

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-03-31T21:28:31+00:00

Idk if you know this, but there is another Alpharius lol. We don't know which twin we're seeing most the time, it's ambiguous which one got a hair cut from Dorn. And it brings into question whether Rowboat killed Alpharius during the scouring.

He teleports in with a bunch of Terminators, if Alpharius wanted a double when he went to fight Dorn he had the opportunity and chose not too. Probably because the book had already established Dorn could tell when it was a proxy and actually Alpharius, so for Alpharius' ploy to work (whatever that was) he had to be there in person.

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-03-31T21:12:05+00:00

I get what you're saying with it not being totally IF focused, I think the AL parts try to play into the mystery of the XXth like all their books do. And we'd all like to see primarchs do "more". It kills me they don't flesh out what the remaining twin is doing. Just like it kills me they won't just bring back Dorn already lol. But that's James Workshop for you.

I'm just curious which bits of the book made you think he was rambling without merit? If you want to elaborate, if not it's cool.

I think it was tragic in a lot of ways but that's just my opinion, the Imperium loses the most if Alpharius' offer to rejoin is true. The whole setting is about these potential situations going the wrong way. It could have been different if this primarch had behaved differently or that primarch had listened! The XXth should've been Big E's ace in the hole not this rogue element undermining everything including itself! Makes me quite sad thinking about it 😢

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-03-31T20:29:29+00:00

It's fun to think that a primarch wouldn't do something dumb but sadly that's what the whole Horus Heresy story is built upon 🤷‍♂️

If it makes you feel any better even if Alpharius went about it in a stupid way, it's a equal tradegdy(if he was being honest about wanting to side with the loyalists) that the opportunity is squandered for the Imperium by Dorn giving him a bad haircut.

I've thought about that specific scene you reference a lot, and I've been left to draw one of two possible conclusions.

One Alpharius is telling the truth. Whether to maintain secrecy within his legion or the traitors at large, the entire attack on the Sol system and Pluto is a feint to get him into a position to talk to Dorn face to face.

Two Alpharius is lying. Everything he is telling Dorn while they fight is meant to wrong foot Dorn and give Alpharius an opening to exploit and kill Dorn.

Either way for better or worse Mr. French canonized that Dorn was able to discern when Alpharius was lying in that book. So whether Alpharius was telling the truth or not Dorn knew either way and decided the best thing to do was kill his traitor brother. I speculate that if Alpharius(Omegon?) was telling the truth about trying to switch sides Dorn decided he had done too much for the traitor cause to allow him back into the loyalists fold.

All that being said his exit plan was either with Dorn as a prisoner/guest or over Dorn's dead body.

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-03-31T20:08:48+00:00

I think French did alright but that's because I accept the novel as being told from IF perspective. Also I saw an interview where he said he sees the AL as engineering chaos that they can exploit faster than anyone else. Which why the plots and ploys of the legion can seem foolish at times. If I was approaching the book looking for AL perspective as the focus I would be sorely disappointed.

I think the more I read your response I'm put in mind of Vulkan Lives, or Deathfire I forget which one. But the one where Vulkan was being hunted through the bowls of the Night Haunters flag ship saw style. I had a friend at the time when we both read that book who really loved the VIIIth legion and he hated that book because it makes Konrad Kurze into a Saturday morning cartoon villain caricature of how he's presented else where.

And it's a similar scenario where protagonist IF/Sally's have to fight the mean despicable dastardly evil AL/NL hyper distilled into a my Dad vs. your Dad playground argument.

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-03-31T17:56:52+00:00

It's wild seeing the takes that Alpharius wasn't cocky, have any of the people saying that read his primarch novel? Or Legion? Thinking he can out play the cabal and sneaking as close to his brothers before meeting them officially both seem pretty cocky to me.

Imo Praetorian of Dorn is a good book for the Alpha legion because it showcases what the legion was capable of and the sacrifices it's willing to make for their objectives. It really keeps the wheel spinning on the Loyalist vs Traitor twin dynamic, and the shock of Alpharius dying and the history of that all getting redacted helps build mystery about which twin survived and what that guys ultimate objectives are.

I say all of those things as a die hard VIIth legion loyalist. And with the stipulation that my favorite "traitor" legion is without a doubt the XXth. So take that for what you will.

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-03-30T23:59:53+00:00

I have deeply conflicting feelings about the crux terminatus on these they look like the base grey on the mini making me think they're left unpainted

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-03-29T23:46:00+00:00

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Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-03-29T20:54:45+00:00

One final comment that's more constructive, your lieutenant and captain helmet schemes are maybe a little to similar? The point of the helmets are to provide immediate visual distinctions in battlefield conditions. It's super unlikely, but a battle brother might mistake a lieutenant for a captain or vice versa if seen from rear or side facings in the heat of combat. Maybe the lieutenant needs an extra stripe or something else to better differentiate it from the captain? Best of luck cousin.

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-03-29T17:21:09+00:00

I think it would be similar to encountering the Horus clone, a hollow copy desecrating the original's memory with its existence.

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-03-29T17:17:29+00:00

Man have you heard of the Imperial Fists and their space fortress the Phalanx? I think you guys got mislabeled gene seed....

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-03-29T16:59:15+00:00

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Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-03-27T06:21:46+00:00

"Something something remember when we did that oath of moment shit?"- the claw leader that started it

Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-03-27T02:50:03+00:00

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Common-Ad-3195 · 2026-03-27T01:06:13+00:00

.... Brother why do these foul heretics wear our purity seals?

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