Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-94.3.72.36-20131224225315/@comment-18016240-20140516112839

Gavriel Stern wrote: Hereticalthoughts wrote: Just pointing this out, Angron wasn't insane, stupid, inept, or any of those things. In fact I'd dare to say he was one of the most clear headed Primarchs.

Maybe this is just due to me being a Chaos player, but Angron knew right off the bat that in the Emperor's eyes he and the other primarchs were nothing more than the means to an end, the Emperor didn't particularly care about the needs and desires of any of his sons save Horus and it showed. Take Lorgar's city built in his honor for instance, or the reprimands on Kurze if you want examples. He tolerated them as long as they were useful, then was willing to throw them away once that need had been fulfilled. That might be true, the Emperor was ruthless at times but then to be an emperor one has to be ruthless. However as a chaos player you should be able to understand that what matters the most are results. Other primarchs had fewer resources than Angron yet won wars against better armed and more numerous foes time and time again. He failed therefore he was a failure and inept. Simply as that. this is not a forgiving universe.

Even worse rather than learning from his failure he wallowed in self pity and dragged his whole legion down with him. No wonder his sons want nothing to do with him and have all gone their own way.

Perhaps you're right, and maybe Angron wasn't the best primarch at tactical capabilities, but I can say one thing...

At least he's alive and still does things, which is more than we can say for the loyalist primarchs.