Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Novels/@comment-31.209.203.6-20130121002941/@comment-3258762-20131105220322

Not to mention, as was shown several times, that Lucius was not a good fighter, just a good swordsman. He was defeated in seconds by Garviel Loken when Loken fought dirty and he was almost beaten unconcious by Saul Tarvitz when the latter jumped at him.

Lucius swordsmanship would serve him little against the sheer brutality and tenacity of Khârn, and if he got in a strike, Khârn would barely register it before cleaving Lucius from head to groin with Gorechild.