Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-94.3.72.36-20131224225315/@comment-18016240-20140512113308

Alright, I should've put "At first" in the part about Corax, still, his first moves caught the rulers of his planet/system off guard.

Controlling the population through fear is a textbook move of psychological warfare, Curze at least had a basic understanding of the human psyche.

Still doesn't allow them to keep up the barrage for more than a couple blasts, and only an idiot would charge a gun line- oh wait, we're dealing with primarchs and space marines... but I digress. The mongols (and I'm assuming the Khan's people by extension) didn't only have bows you know, they did have melee weapons too and were quite good at using them. Besides, taking that into account he would've used blackpowder weaponry too if he could get a hold of it, to equal the enemy if nothing else.

No, what I said was that he had half starved slaves with experience in gladiatorial combat, that is far away from "trained fighters" (which I'm assuming you mean soldiers.). Gladiators did their fighting either one on one or in small groups, but had little to no military training. That's not even taking into account logistics like equipment (of which Angron's forces only had what they could scrounge from their enemies) and supplies like food and medicine.