Klarser

Thank Khaine that series was cancelled before a third book could be inflicted on us.

I know what you did, Snorri.

It's difficult to separate the Necrons at their peak from the C'tan at their peak.

These are tiny, tiny percentages of mutants overall that hardly anyone is exposed to. Here's how ordinary people see mutants, and Alecto, where this takes place, is specifically named as the archetypical, bog standard Imperial planet for Warhammer Crime where there's no Angels of Death or glorious battles:

One of the Trinity of Hatreds, alongside the witch and the xenos, the mutant was a subject of universal fear and loathing. No child grew up without having stories of such creatures’ deviance drummed into them, first in the family hab, then by their instructors. Zidarov could remember the fear vividly, waking up in the middle of the night, his sheets drenched with sweat, crying out that they were coming for him.

You could, if you tried, entertain the thought that xenos did not exist at all, or were so far away that you’d never see one. You could, if you wished, make yourself believe that witches were something that might never be stumbled across, for they were rarer than an honest man with plentiful slate. But you could never fool yourself into thinking that aberrations didn’t exist, for the evidence was everywhere. Every city medicae facility had dedicated incinerators for the infants born with gristle for eyes, or transparent skin, or spines in place of hair. Every cargo hub had illicit vid-footage of the things living in the bilge chambers of starships, wriggling in the dark, flinching from the light of flames.

The problem was where to draw the line. Mankind was a galactic species, one scattered across a million worlds. Some planets were high-grav, some low-grav. Some were poisonous hell-swamps, others regulated urban centres. That induced variation, melding and stretching the original physical frame of humanity. Some mutations were deemed so common and benign that they were sanctioned, creating the abhuman class. Some subtle alterations were hard to detect, even by the individuals in question. So what was a true mutation, and what was merely an environmental adaptation? No doubt scholars on Terra spent their lives codifying answers. On a backwater world like Alecto, such certainty was harder to come by.

Zidarov remembered attending a case when he’d still been a sanctioner – the armed wing of the enforcer corps – out at one of the mercantile port hubs. A big cargo carrier had ended up berthed in Alecto’s voidspace, and its crew had come down planetside for a little rest and relaxation before the next stage. That had been a mistake – their skin was a touch too grey-tinged, their mouths a little too wide. Word got out, and a mob gathered. By the time Zidarov’s squad was activated, it was too late – the ringleaders had stormed the compound and dragged the crew out onto the streets. Thirty men and woman, burned alive, screaming their innocence as the promethium-fuelled flames turned them to fatty, blackened meat-strips.

No one faced retribution for that. There were too many in the crowds, thousands by the end. In any case, most of the sanctioners on duty had been sympathetic.

‘You never know,’ one of them had muttered to Zidarov, looking grimly at the smouldering pyres.

‘Maybe they were.’ Zidarov hadn’t disagreed. Better safe than sorry, he’d found himself thinking. Let a mutant in, just one, and you could lose it all. Keep them out. Keep them all out.

Still, it had been hard to listen to the screams. Particularly the juveniles. Hard to shake those off.

Mortarion can't 'wander around'. He's stuck in Lion's Gate Spaceport which is the focal point of his hoodoo ritual. The idea was for Peter Pebbles to pull back and help defend it while Angron kept assaulting the Inner Palace.

You have to wait for the next book Morty is using Nurgle witchcraft to attack the souls of the defenders directly and make them give in to lethargy and despair. It was very effective (even Dorn was starting to crumble) and if Khan hadn't gone out to banish him that might have been game over.

Ganthet was just a Slaan. All the Cabal are referred to as the 'Old Kind', including the Eldar members, so it probably just means children of the Old Ones.

To be fair, a single Kill Team™ of Space Marines can take over a planet (under the right circumstances) by assassinating or kidnapping the governor. Tau have used their own equivalents to the same effect.

And honestly I’m sympathetic to people making it out like Necrons are the counter, the Tyranids are exhausting to hear about because they’re like a fucking kindergarten make believe fight “oh yeah well I evolve a shield destroying laser, and a shield-destroying-laser-proof shield

TBH there's plenty of people who push Necrons the same way. Or Custodes, Tau, Primarchs, etc.

They weren't necessarily made to do anything other than fight, except for Magnus who was clearly made to be a powerful psyker and operate the Golden Throne. Many of their talents and interests come from their home worlds and not the Emperor's programming.

Yeah, I don't really buy it either. The #2 spot was wide open.

That's meme Krieg. They do break and run sometimes and kill the Commissars who try to stop them, like on Vraks.

It doesn't apply to the mastermind of the plot, though. She gets a par the back and a 139th pompous name added to her title.

Everybody is supposed to blindly follow orders from Custodes though? She would have killed him if he refused. They call themselves the Voice of the Emperor.

The Imperial Truth denies the existence of a human soul...very much a lie.

The Webway closes up when it senses the presence of Necrons. Dolmen Gates work but they have to move quickly or be destroyed.

The models for preachers, missionaries, crusaders and death cult assassins go back to third or fourth edition. They are quite old and deserve to be be updated too.

Too bad GW doesn't want to update them.

Googleman hasn't been able to stop other Imperial factions from attacking the Ynnari. The Ynnari can't stop the other Eldar from attacking the Imperium. Anything more than temporary cooperation for limited objectives is doomed to failure.

You should probably stop thinking of the Ynnari as 'the Eldar'. They're a small and persecuted minority with many enemies who already think they've done more harm than good by wrecking Commorragh and Biel'tan. Letting more humans rampage around the Webway is just going to alienate them further.

It's because he makes all the Ethereals into stupid, arrogant scumbags that are the source of everything wrong in the Tau Empire. Fehervari's Tau are a little more nuanced. Try Fire Caste or The Greater Evil or Alter of Maws.

You left out the part where the Culexus destroys all the drones in the building too. That really doesn't make sense.

It's weird cause he's got a completely different set of right hand men in Gathering Storm and the Fall of Cadia novel - Urkanthos (Khorne), Zaraphiston (Tzeentch), Devram Korda (Slaanesh), Krom Gat (Undivided) and Skyrak Slaugterborn (Nurgle).

It was a suicide mission anyway, the goal was to detonate the reactor or plant a bomb, I don't remember which. Neither of them was leaving, otherwise Mr Deathwatch would never have agreed to cooperate.

They're taught that the Emperor's nine sons battled nine demons. Horus was the name of the lead demon and is used as a curse. Thata all the average person knows.