Every Single Black Crusade EXPLAINED By An Australian | Warhammer 40k Lore

TLDR : the argument that "Every black crusade, evening the ones that seemingly failed, were all small effective parts of a larger campaign hue hue" is still BS and I will continue to denounce Abby as a subpar antagonist If only he spent less time cooking or eating out, he would easily have broken Cadia within the first 3 Crusades.. .If only he knew that Using code "POGMAJORKILL120" at strms.net/MajorkillFactor he could save a boatload of money on premade Microwave meals from Factor.

The Black Crusades were an example of how Chaos can never truly win the Galaxy, because the moment they do win a bit of the Galaxy they will turn on each other’s for said territory like what happen to the Dark Imperium. Chaos is a self destructive force that can never truly unite for a common goal because fundamentally all of the Chaos Gods hate each other for being each other opposites, and unlike we mortals who put aside our differences for common goal the Chaos Gods never forget or ignore past insults and grievances.

That piece of lore when Abaddon killed Sigismund was heart-wrenching. For 500 years, Sigismund did hardly anything other than waiting in his ship for Abaddon's return so he could put that traitor to the sword. When he finally came, Abaddon was actually struck by grief when Sigismund told him how much he hated him for what he did. Abaddon tried to explain his actions and told Sigismund that he doesn't want to fight him, but Sigismund's hatred was too strong, so they started exchanging blows. Sigismund impaled Abaddon with his Black Sword, but Abaddon struck back with his claw and basically ripped Sigismund in half. When they were lying next to eachother on the ground, Sigismund actually tried to reach for his sword again, which was still in Abaddon's chest, but Abaddon was like, "Please, dude. This claw killed a primarch. Please just let it go." and Sigismund faded away. This was the only time that Abaddon showed remorse for his actions and the author did that part brilliantly, I have to admit.

I think 40k would benefit from how Warhammer Fantasy did their “Warmaster/Everchosen” where if the guy fails to destroy the world he dies in the attempt . So when Archaon comes and destroys everyone it’s not like he’s failed 50 fucking times before like Abaddon. Abaddon also having 12 extra chromosomes certainly doesn’t help his case either.

"When at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try try, try, try and try again." ~ Abaddon

I started Warhammer a while back now and I liked Abaddon in the old Lore. When reading lore back then Abaddon was the Warmaster of Chaos. The only one who could unite the Waring Factions of Chaos together for a common purpose. (The Fantasy Everchosen but for 40K). He was a succsessor to Horus. What made his Black Crusades so scary was they kept getting bigger. Other Lords of Chaos had their own BCs but Abby had 13. Each Crusade after the last made the Black Legion Stronger and Abby's influence wider. When the Imperium heard rumors that the 13th was mustering in the eye of Terror. Abaddon's crusade had all 9 traitor legions joined his side. Legions of Daemons. Traitor guardsmen regiments in the hundreds. Cults after Cults. Planet Killer Ships. Blackstone Fortresses. The Plauge Fleets. And lastly and worse of all Daemon Primarchs themselves. If the Imperium could barley hold off the 12th. How could Cadia survive the 13th? Then over the years rewrites, multiple authors dipping their toes, bad writing and random codex entries. Abaddon the Warmaster of Chaos and Destroyer of the Imperium just became a jumbled mess and a meme. So not really threatening. Him and Calgar have similar problems. His model is cool though.

Since Abaddon was supposed to be voiced by Takahata101 aka Abridged Alucard in TTS show, that means whenever Abaddon goes for a very enthusiastic walk, he asked the Imperials how is their health plan. Apparently it was great.

If you think about it the 13th black crusade might be helping the imperium preparing for the coming ultimate Tyranid hive fleet

GW writers be like: The Tyranids: A terrifying innumerable force of pure hunger and existential horror, who has the galaxy surrounded who rapidly adapts and evolves in every fight to become more efficient killing machines and can shut down, communication, navigation, psycher powers, and chaos with their shadow in the warp. The Necrons: Ancient soulless immortal android remnants of the oldest civilization in the universe, who killed the creator race and enslaved their own gods with technology so advanced it can easily shut down chaos, who's ancient war reshaped the sea of souls into the realm of chaos. The Tau: A young race that has become a technologically advanced space empire so incredibly quickly that if left unchecked will rule the galaxy and is nearly immune to chaos, who not only pose a technological threat but an ideological one as well. The Orks: the most numerous race in the galaxy who become stronger and more numerous the more you fight them, who can make any form of weapon or vehicle out of useless junk, who's psychic power grows with their numbers who is immune to chaos and every thing they do is hilarious. Chaos: Despite the fact that they're constantly infighting, are inherently disorganization, are often under equipped compared to there imperial counterparts, their corruption is only really effective against two races out of the entire galaxy, most of their greatest champions are losers with the personality of a saturday morning cartoon villain, and other factions with similar aesthetics wear it better, chaos is the most powerful and interesting threat to the galaxy because ... because the authors say so.

GW: "Abaddon... he... he is a big threat, and NOT a failure! You'b better be afraid!"

whenever each Black Crusade gets thwarted Abaddon: "I'mma do it again!"

It is a little annoying. Chaos SM are pretty cool as a concept, and the figures are good. I like the imagery. Demon engines, how cool is that, right? But they just aren't being used as believable villains. In one book, an iron warrior insults another, one attacks the other, at the end they have a handful troopers left - Honsu? recruits the few surviving guys from the other chapter, ending up with perhaps 20 Chaos space marines left in total out of tens of thousands and lost all their titans. It's just stupid. Chaos SM have 'chaos' in their name because they follow the chaos gods, not - supposedly - because they just do random shit. In another, a word bearer apostle spends ALL his forces through a grueling siege to get a McGuffin he can't even use. Good job. Also, constantly backstabs each other for no reason. They basically are villains with no credibility, they are hard to take seriously and you certainly can't get any respect or sympathy for them. That's not good, if they're supposed to be the main baddies. People are supposed to want to play these murder hobos so the ultrasmurfs have someone to shoot at, y'know.

13:58 Abaddon: "I own you! I own your planet! I own this planet! In fact... F*CK THIS PLANET!!!" Celestine: "Sorry, I droned out there for a second. What?" Cadia: gets nuked by Blackstone Fortress Slamdunk

I like how pertrabo doesn’t take part most of the time As if he knows it probably won’t work Edit: actually none of the daemon primarch take part because they supposedly have better things to do

I always wondered what the relationship between Lorgar and Abbadon is like. Lorgar for me is the natural warmaster, as he has the deepest understanding of Chaos and does not need to be the strongest individual fighter, but an inspiring leader. What does he think of the black crusades?

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Not gonna lie, making thrones for your enemies out of the corpses of your own fallen is actually pretty badass and likely something Khorne appreciated.

1. Claims Drach'nyen 2. Topples The Eldrich Needles 3. Destroy the tomb of stain gerstahl 4. Shatters empyric barrier 5.Destroys shrines an temples of dozen of worlds weakening warp seals 6. Topples forge world arkreath 7. Beats blood angels 8. In name of Tzeentch melt metal monoliths 9. Weakens walls of reality 10. Invade Helica Sector weaking Iron Hands 11. Captures weird boys an uses them for a Waaaagh! 12. Captures 2 black stone fortrest 13. Death of Trillions abaddon destroyed Cadia

Meanwhile the Alpha Legion, pulling of the night of 1000 revolts and sending an entire segmentum into anarchy seemingly out of nowhere : GJ Abby, you might not be a disappointment after all

10:13 imagine almost getting yeeted the same way your dad did, seeing it coming and only winning by the skin of your teeth.