Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150118044502/@comment-14745711-20150121032803

About Abaddon getting points for being able to unite so many chaos forces. Yes I'll admit that that's a pretty amazing feat, but it close to nothing to do with being a general. Hitler was a pretty good dam speaker too, but he wasn't best leader of military ever now was he? D-day was partially a success due to Hitler's lack of leadership skills in military terms. Just because Abaddon can get lots of people together does not make him a good general. He has yet to make any real progress against the Imperium at all.

Although, speaking in general most of the generals in 40k are not really the greatest tacticians of all time. I mean most necron generals win because they're necrons, not from any particularly brilliant feet of command. Most Imperial guard leaders have little grand scale command ability either besides meat grinder tactics. Not even the Tau are that great, although I'd say they probably are the best in general.

Personally I think if I was leading Abaddon's armies I would have taken Terra by now but whatever.