Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20150114163201/@comment-24944355-20150125063624

Experience doesn't equal brains if it did the old fogies that run the Republicans would be running the white house instead of that young gun Obama. The same goes for Abbadon he maybe much older & more experienced but that doesn't make him smarter than Huron.

All the "every crusade was successful & not meant to conquer the empire" platitudes are mostly just excuses Abbadon came up with to explain away his failures. None of the black crusades achieved the goals set before they were launched. Every black crusade had some minor successes & after the overall failure of each crusade he would use those & the "each crusade is a step to Terra" excuse to explain away his failures.

As for Huron's achievements he has built a force of chaos marines that matches the numbers of a pre heresy legion, he has conquered worlds, destroyed entire chapters of loyalist astartes & pretty much controls all the space around the Maelstrom. With the single exception of Ahriman, Huron is the most powerful chaos lord in the galaxy that Abbadon doesn't control - in fact Ahriman & Huron are the only chaos lords that that can make Abbadon nervous.