#saw there was a minor xenos leak or something

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Abaddon-tier

Abaddon often gets made fun of in the fandom and, though I do tend to avoid the places this happens most because of other things I don’t like about those places, I’m aware enough of the basics.

But, honestly, I don’t even know why he gets so much flakk in particular, doesn’t seem reasonable to me. Admittedly we gotta look at this from two different angles; pre-Fall of Cadia and post-Fall of Cadia, but either way it baffles me.

If we’re talking pre-Fall of Cadia he’s no worse than all the other big bads of 40k. I mean what does Abaddon stand accused of? Attacking a lot, getting beat then running away? You know who else fits that description? Ghazghkull, Eldrad, the Swarmlord, Nazdreg, Grukk, Mogrok, the Beast(s), all the Daemon Primarchs, all the Phoenix Lords, Illic, Eldorath Starbane, every Farseer from Dawn of War, every Warboss (but Gorgutz) from Dawn of War, Kharn, Fabius Bile, Ahriman, Skarbrand, M’kachen, M’kar, Nkari, Kugath and so many more that I’m not gonna list them all.

If we’re talking even just pre-Fall of Cadia the only villains who can claim to not just attack, lose and run away are Gorgutz conquering Kauruva (which he promptly apparently abandoned including the huge army he must have had stashed away there for reasons), Huron defeating the Space Wolves and Guard in the Hollow Worlds System and Imotekh cause he’s by far the most successful Xenos bad guy.

I should note that Asdrubael doesn’t even get to appear on this list because though he’s never suffered major losses he’s also never did anything of note really either. He’s practically got one major battle to his name and that’s just a raid on a barely known Imperial dock with no-one of important opposing him. If you ask me Asdrubael gets far too much credit from the fandom for a character who basically only ever does one thing “Whoops I got a problem! Better throw an Imperial Spaceship(s) at it”.

But anyway the point is even pre-Fall of Cadia Abaddon is, at worst, on the same level as almost every other Xenos character and Chaos character in the setting so why does he get picked on so much?

Now, if we’re talking post-Fall of Cadia, its even more baffling. Practically every Black Crusade has been altered now that Abaddon’s core aim was actually achieved, and he actually managed to win a decisive victory against a major concentration of Imperial forces (although of course no Space Marines of extreme import were there, since GW apparently couldn’t stomach letting them lost to the setting’s Big Bad even >_>).

Abaddon has shown he’s way above Ghazghkull, the Swarmlord [insert entire list from before] so I have no idea why there’s an ongoing sentiment that he’s a ‘loser’. I mean, don’t get me wrong, he is still a ‘loser’ in a sense that all his 10000 year plans and military build up have achieved astonishingly littled and, even once he took Cadia, he stalled for 100 years immediately and apparently the Imperium’s already moving to retake Cadia so there is that, but even if we keep that in mind it still makes Abaddon among the most successful villains in the setting. It just boggles my mind how much logic must be twisted to think Abaddon, instead of any of the other numerous examples, should be particularly made fun of.

I mean what is the main take away of all this? Simple. Huron is by the far the greatest warlord Chaos has ever known and, honestly, Abaddon and the Daemon Primarchs should go ask him for lessons on how to not lose as soon as Loyalist Marines show up. I mean it was Red Corsairs who helped Kairos take out the whole Terran Crusade (WHO THEY THEN CAPTURED AND DID NOT KILL BECAUSE OIHOIHPOH) and it was Huron who faced a whole invasion of Guardsmen, Inquisition forces and Space Wolves and actually won, repulsing the invasion and just being the military victor. That’s so insanely rare for Chaos, to just hold the ground and win, repulse the enemy, instead of doing the favoured tactic of Daemon Primarchs which is to run away and then throw shade about how they lost but it ‘didn’t mean anything ;_;’

That being said I am down in the dumps over Primarchs. My goodness 40k really is just going to become the Primarch Show. I honestly hate Ynnead. Despite having been excited for Ynnead’s role in the plot for years I have now come to just hate and detest it. Ynnead is a weakling who’s sole purpose is giving the Imperium stuff, Yncarne can’t even beat Ahriman. I just want Khaine to take over, he’ll fail, but he’ll at least try something for the Eldar. Freaking useless Ynnead and Cegorach.