I mean, let's be honest. Even the 13th was a massive screw up where he just got lucky when he realized it wasn't a "See you again next week" kind of situation. Dude shat his pants when he saw that Cawl and Trazyn were actually closing the Eye and just yeeted a fortress at the planet out of desperation. Legit it wasn't even a coordinated or planned counterattack from the Imperium that made him do what he did. His whole gameplan was literally screwed over by an alien robot pokemon master just screwing around in the galaxy. He. Got. Lucky. Imo the best way to describe his Black Crusades was him trying to Kanye the galaxy.
Tbf, GW screwed the pooch with making Abaddon the only guy launching Black Crusades all the time. Having someone else launching others from time to time with Abby as a participant/"sponsor" would've been a good idea, as it would show him as cunning and exploiting rivals to get what he wants while preparing for the final big push. But nope. Geedubs often has trouble writing good interesting antagonists.
Abbadon in the siege of terra is one of the best characters. It’s a shame he falls like this. Hopefully going forward his writing is similar to the siege of terra.
At this point, the only reason Failbaddon the Armless is still Warmaster is that GW is lazier than I am. FUCK'S SAKE, MAGNUS'S LITERAL SPLIT PERSONALITY DISORDER WOULD DO BETTER AS WARMASTER!
Same. I got Abaddon and the Black Legion as my first army because I thought he was going to be a badass. However, that was not the case. The codex lies when talking about the greatness of Abaddon when in reality he sucks. “He has the power to unite the traitor legions.” My ass.
heretical opinion: the black templars are on eternal crusade. abaddons not worse than them and theyre not better than the black legion. many imperial crusades with their participation were utterly crushed like high marshal helbrecht on schrödinger vii against phaeron imotekh the stormlord.
